Note 043 In their clamours against Maurice, the people of Constantinople branded him with the name of Marcionite or Marcionist; a heresy (says Theophylact, l. viii. c. 9).
Did they only cast out a vague reproach — or had the emperor really listened to some obscure teacher of those ancient Gnostics?

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 46