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[78] But the emperor only said to him: “What is your hurry?” 1 Then in the last days of his reign the devil tempted him, wishing him to follow the Eunomian sect; 2 but the people of the faith checked him and even cried out to him in the church: “You shall not hurl your puny lance against the Trinity.” Not long afterwards Anastasius was taken ill and confined to his bed in the city of Constantinople, and ended his last day.

1 Thus implying that Justinus would succeed him.

2 The followers of Eunomius, a native of Cappadocia (died about 392). He became Bishop of Cyzicus, and was an extreme Arian.

Ammianus Marcellinus. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1935-1940.

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