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FLAVIAN, and several other Bishops, who wrote the Letters or Records about the Affair of Eu••yches.
IF we would place in the number of Ecclesiastical Authors those Bishops who have written Letters, or presented petitione in the Councils, we might reckon Flavian, who was Patri∣arch * 1.1 of Constantinople f••om the year 446. to 449. among them. He hath written three Let∣ters against Eu••yches, of which the two 〈◊〉〈◊〉 [I••sc••ibed to P. Leo] are ••ecited in the Acts of the Council of Ephesus, and the first hath been printed by M. Cotelerius in his 1st. Tome of the Monuments of the Greek Church. We might also put in Anatolius, Flavian's Successor, who hath one Letter to to Emperor Leo, among the Acts of the Councils, and another to Pope Leo among the L••••ter•• of this last. Eusebius, Bishop of Dorilaeum; the principal Accu∣ser of Eutyches, would obtain his place upon the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of two Petitions, which he pre∣sented against him to the Synods of Constantinople and Chaloedon, or upon the Account of the Letter he wrote to Marcian. We must also place here ••••hanasius, Priest of Alexandria, and Ischyrion, and Theodorus Deacon of that Church, who presented Petitions against Dioscorus. Photius, Bishop of Tyre, may also be placed here, upon the account of a Petition, which he presented to the Council for the maintaining the Rights of his Bishoprick. Agapetus, Lucian, Theotimus, Vitalis, and some others, who wrote to the Emperor Leo, the Letters set down at the end of the Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, p. 904. unless they are omitted a 1.2. Here also we may enter 〈◊〉〈◊〉 a Priest of Edessa, whose Letter to Maris the Persian, made so great a noise, We might also mention Eutyches the Monk, Head of that Party, and Bassianus Bishop of E••asa [afterward of Ephesus] upon the account of the Petitions which they presented in their ow•• defence. But those; who have composed such sort of Works as these, do not de∣serve the name of Authors, and we shall speak enough of them, in relating the History of the Councils. We shall also find there two Letters of Acacius Bishop of Constantinople, the one to Simplicius, the other to Petrus Fullo, and there we shall speak of the Letter of this last, which we have not, as well as of the Letter of Petrus Mongus to Acacius.