The auncient ecclesiasticall histories of the first six hundred yeares after Christ, wrytten in the Greeke tongue by three learned historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates, and Euagrius. Eusebius Pamphilus Bishop of Cæsarea in Palæstina vvrote 10 bookes. Socrates Scholasticus of Constantinople vvrote 7 bookes. Euagrius Scholasticus of Antioch vvrote 6 bookes. VVhereunto is annexed Dorotheus Bishop of Tyrus, of the liues of the prophetes, apostles and 70 disciples. All which authors are faithfully translated out of the Greeke tongue by Meredith Hanmer, Maister of Arte and student in diuinitie. Last of all herein is contayned a profitable chronographie collected by the sayd translator, the title whereof is to be seene in the ende of this volume, with a copious index of the principall matters throughout all the histories

CAP. VIII.

Howe Zeno the deposed Emperour recouered againe the royall scepter.

ZEno (as it is reported) seing in a vision the holy, valiaunt, and renowmed martyr Thecla, not onely prouoking, but also promising him to be restored againe vnto the Emperiall robes, led his army towardes Constantinople. And hauinge allured with giftes such as besieged him, he thrust Basiliscus (who had raygned two yeares) beside the scepter, tooke him out of the san∣ctuary he had fledd vnto, and deliuered him vnto the hand of the enemy. For which cause Zeno de∣dicated at Seleucia in Isauria a goodly temple gorgeously buylded vnto y^• renowmed martyr The∣cla, & bewtified it with many Princely monuments which were preserued vnto this our age. But as for Basiliscus he sent him away to suffer at Cappadocia, where together with wife and children he was put to death in an Inne called Acouson. Immediatly after, Zeno made a lawe where he ab∣rogated the decrees of Basiliscus the tyrant comprised in the letters he had generally wrytten vnto all men: banished Peter syrnamed Cnapheus out of Antioch and Paulus Bishop of Ephesus.