Appendix of Ten Documents on the Donatist Controversy 1

I. Proceedings before Zenophilus. Here begin the proceedings by which it is established that Silvanus was a traitor, who with the others ordained Maiorinus, whom Donatus succeeded. In the consulship of Constantine the Greatest, Augustus, and Constantine the younger, most noble Caesar, on the Ides of December. At Thamugadi, Victor the grammarian having been brought in and set before the court, the deacon Nundinarius also being present, Zenophilus, a man of senatorial rank, consular governor, said: "What is your name?" He answered: "Victor." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "What is your condition?" Victor said: "I am a professor of Roman letters, a Latin grammarian." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "What is your rank?" Victor said: "My father was a decurion of the people of Constantina, my grandfather a soldier; he had served in the imperial retinue; for our origin comes down from Moorish blood." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "Mindful of your good faith and honor, state simply what was the cause of the dissension among the Christians." Victor said: "I do not know the origin of the dissension; I am one of the Christian people. Indeed, when I was at Carthage, and bishop Secundus had at last come to Carthage, they are said to have found that bishop Caecilian had been installed improperly by some persons or other; they installed another against him. From that time a dissension began there at Carthage, and so I cannot fully know the origin of the dissension, since our city has always had one church, and if it has had a dissension, we know nothing at all of it." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "Do you communicate with Silvanus?" Victor answered: "With him." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "Why, then, did you leave the one whose innocence has been cleared?" And he added: "It is asserted besides that you know another thing most certainly, that Silvanus is a traitor; confess about this." Victor answered: "I do not know this." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to the deacon Nundinarius: "Victor denies that he knows that Silvanus is a traitor." The deacon Nundinarius said: "He knows himself, for he handed over books." Victor answered: "I had fled this storm, and if I lie, may I perish. When we suffered the onset of the sudden persecution, we fled to the hill of Bellona. I was sitting with Mars the deacon and Victor the presbyter. When all the books were demanded of this Mars, he denied that he had them. Then Victor gave the names of all the lectors. They came to my house while I was away. The magistrates went up and my books were taken away. When I came, I found my books taken away." The deacon Nundinarius said: "So you answered in the record that you gave the books. Why are these things denied which can be brought out?" Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Victor: "Confess simply, so that you are not questioned more strictly." The deacon Nundinarius said: "Let the proceedings be read." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "Let them be read." And Nundinarius handed them over, and the clerk read: "In the eighth consulship of Diocletian and the seventh of Maximian, on the fourteenth day before the Kalends of June, from the proceedings of Munatius Felix, perpetual flamen, curator of the colony of the people of Cirta. When they had come to the house in which the Christians used to meet, Felix, perpetual flamen, curator, said to bishop Paul: 'Bring out the scriptures of the law and anything else you have here, as has been commanded, so that you may obey the order.' Bishop Paul said: 'The lectors have the scriptures. But what we have here, we give.' Felix, perpetual flamen, curator, said to bishop Paul: 'Point out the lectors, or send to them.' Bishop Paul said: 'You all know them.' Felix, perpetual flamen, curator of the city, said: 'We do not know them.' Bishop Paul said: 'The public office knows them, that is, Edusius and Junius, the clerks.' Felix, perpetual flamen, curator of the city, said: 'With the matter of the lectors reserved, whom the office will point out, you give what you have.' With bishop Paul seated, and Montanus, Victor of Deusatelium and Memorius, presbyters, with Mars and Helius, deacons, standing by, and Marcuclius, Catullinus, Silvanus and Carosus, subdeacons, and Januarius, Meraclus, Fructuosus, Miggin, Saturninus, Victor and the other grave-diggers, with Victor son of Aufidius writing a short list on the other side, thus: two golden chalices; likewise six silver chalices; six silver jugs; a silver kettle; seven silver lamps; two candlesticks; seven short bronze candelabra with their lamps; likewise eleven bronze lamps with their chains; eighty-two women's tunics; thirty-eight veils; sixteen men's tunics; thirteen pairs of men's shoes; forty-seven pairs of women's shoes; nineteen peasant belts. Felix, perpetual flamen, curator of the city, said to Marcuclius, Silvanus and Carosus, the grave-diggers: 'Bring out what you have.' Silvanus and Carosus said: 'What was here, we have thrown out all of it.' Felix, perpetual flamen, curator of the city, said to Marcuclius, Silvanus and Carosus: 'Your answer is fixed in the record.' After the cupboards in the libraries were found empty, Silvanus there brought out a silver box and a silver lamp, saying that he had found them behind a jar. Victor son of Aufidius said to Silvanus: 'You would have been a dead man if you had not found them.' Felix, perpetual flamen, curator of the city, said to Silvanus: 'Look more carefully, in case anything remains here.' Silvanus said: 'Nothing remains; we have thrown out all of it.' And when the dining room was opened, four casks and six jars were found there. Felix, perpetual flamen, curator of the city, said: 'Bring out the scriptures you have, so that we may obey the precepts and order of the emperors.' Catullinus brought out one very large book. Felix, perpetual flamen, curator of the city, said to Marcuclius and Silvanus: 'Why have you given only one book? Bring out the scriptures you have.' Catullinus and Marcuclius said: 'We have no more, because we are subdeacons; but the lectors have the books.' Felix, perpetual flamen, curator of the city, said to Marcuclius and Catullinus: 'Point out the lectors!' Marcuclius and Catullinus said: 'We do not know where they live.' Felix, perpetual flamen, curator of the city, said to Catullinus and Marcuclius: 'If you do not know where they live, tell their names.' Catullinus and Marcuclius said: 'We are not betrayers. Here we are; order us to be killed.' Felix, perpetual flamen, curator of the city, said: 'Let them be taken into custody.' And when they had come to the house of Eugenius, Felix, perpetual flamen, curator of the city, said to Eugenius: 'Bring out the scriptures you have, so that you may obey the precept.' And he brought out four books. Felix, perpetual flamen, curator of the city, said to Silvanus and Carosus: 'Point out the other lectors.' Silvanus and Carosus said: 'The bishop has already said that Edusius and Junius, the clerks, know them all; let them point out their houses to you.' Edusius and Junius, the clerks, said: 'We will point them out, sir.' And when they had come to the house of Felix the tailor, he brought out five books; and when they had come to the house of Victorinus, he brought out eight books; and when they had come to the house of Projectus, he brought out five large books and two small; and when they had come to the house of the grammarian, Felix, perpetual flamen, curator, said to Victor the grammarian: 'Bring out the scriptures you have, so that you may obey the precept.' Victor the grammarian offered two books and four quires. Felix, perpetual flamen, curator of the city, said to Victor: 'Bring out the scriptures; you have more.' Victor the grammarian said: 'If I had had more, I would have given them.' And when they had come to the house of Euticius of Caesarea, Felix, perpetual flamen, curator of the city, said to Euticius: 'Bring out the scriptures you have, so that you may obey the precept.' Euticius said: 'I do not have any.' Felix, perpetual flamen, curator of the city, said to Euticius: 'Your declaration is fixed in the record.' And when they had come to the house of Coddeo, his wife brought out six books. Felix, perpetual flamen, curator of the city, said: 'Look, in case you have more; bring them out.' The woman answered: 'I have none.' Felix, perpetual flamen, curator of the city, said to Bos, the public slave: 'Go in and look, in case she has more.' The public slave said: 'I have looked and not found any.' Felix, perpetual flamen, curator of the city, said to Victorinus, Silvanus and Carosus: 'If anything has been done short of this, the danger falls on you.'" When these had been read, Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Victor: "Confess simply!" Victor answered: "I was not present." The deacon Nundinarius said: "We have read letters of the bishops written by Fortis." And the deacon Nundinarius reads: "Christ and his angels are witness that those with whom you have communicated handed over, that is, Silvanus of Cirta is a traitor and a thief of the goods of the poor, which all you bishops, presbyters, deacons and elders know, regarding the four hundred folles of Lucilla, a woman of senatorial rank, for which you conspired so that Maiorinus might be made bishop; and from this the schism came about. For Victor the fuller too, in your presence and the people's, gave twenty folles so that he might be made a presbyter, as Christ and his angels know." And a copy of a letter was read: "Bishop Purpurius to his fellow bishop Silvanus, greeting in the Lord. Our son the deacon Nundinarius has come to me and asked that I should send this letter of entreaty from me to you, most holy one, so that, if it can be done, there may be peace between you and him. For I do not want this to happen, that anyone should know what is going on between us. If you will, by your writing, I alone will come there to the matter in person and cut off this dissension between you. For he handed me with his own hand a memorandum of what was done, for which reason he was stoned at your command. It is not right that a father should chastise a son against the truth; and I know that what is written in the memorandum handed to me is true. Seek a remedy, how that malice can be extinguished there before a flame arises which cannot afterward be extinguished without spiritual blood. Call your fellow clergy and the elders of the people, men of the church, and let them inquire carefully what these dissensions are, so that what is done may be done according to the precepts of the faith. You shall not turn aside to the right or to the left; but do not willingly lend your ear to evil advisers, who do not want peace. You are all killing us ..." and in another hand: "Farewell." Likewise a copy of a letter: "Bishop Purpurius to the clergy and elders of the people of Cirta, eternal greeting in the Lord! Moses calls to the whole senate of the sons of Israel and told them what the Lord commanded to be done. Nothing was done without the counsel of the elders. So you too, dearest ones, whom I know to have all heavenly and spiritual wisdom, learn with all your strength what this dissension is, and bring it to peace. For the deacon Nundinarius says that nothing is hidden from us about the source of this dissension between our dearest Silvanus and himself. For he handed me a memorandum in which everything is written. He said that it is not hidden from you either. I know that it is not .... Seek a good remedy, how this matter may be extinguished without danger to your souls, lest suddenly, when you show partiality, you come into judgment. Judge a just judgment between the parties according to your gravity and justice. Beware for us, lest you turn aside to the right or to the left: it is the cause of God, who searches the thoughts of each. Work at it; let no one know what this conspiracy is. Yours are the things contained in the memorandum. It is not good; for the Lord says: 'By your mouth you will be condemned, and by your mouth you will be justified.'" Likewise another was read: "To Silvanus, dearest brother, Fortis, eternal greeting in the Lord! Our son the deacon Nundinarius has come to me and reported what has happened between you and him, through the intervention of the malicious one, who wishes to turn the souls of the just from the way of truth. When I heard this, I was faint in mind that such a dissension had come between you. For that a priest of God should come to this ... which is not expedient for us, let it not happen. Now therefore ask him that, as far as possible, the peace of the Lord Savior Christ may be with him, that we may not come to the public and be condemned by the Gentiles. For it is written: 'See that while you bite one another you are not consumed by one another.' So I ask the Lord that this stumbling block of ours be removed from our midst, so that the cause of God may be celebrated with thanksgiving, as the Lord says: 'My peace I give you, my peace I leave you.' What peace can there be where there is dissension, where there are rivalries? For when I had been separated by a soldier ... and had come to that with such an injury, I commended my soul to God and forgave you, because God sees the minds of men, and of those by whom ... I was brought by you to them. But God set us free and we serve with you. So, just as it was forgiven us, you too be reconciled to peace, so that in the name of Christ we may celebrate peace with joy. Let no one know." "To the brothers and sons, the clergy and elders, Fortis, eternal greeting in the Lord! My son Nundinarius, your deacon, has come to me and reported what has been done against you; and surely it ought to have been settled by us, so that it should not have come to this, that, having suffered such madness, they should have been stoned for the truth, which both you and we know, as you have reported to us. And it is written: 'Is there no wise man among you who can judge between brothers? But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers,' as when you are not taking us to court. Has it come to this, that we give the Gentiles such an example, that those who believed in God through us should themselves curse us when we come before the public? So, lest it come to this, you who are spiritual, see to it that no one knows, so that we may celebrate Easter in peace, and urge them to be reconciled to peace and that there be no dissension, lest, when it has come into public, you too begin to be in danger, if this happens, and afterward lay it to our charge. You will give very many [greetings?]: you, Donatus the presbyter, owner, and each of you, Valerius and Victor, who know all the proceedings, see to it that there is peace with you." Likewise another was read: "Eternal greeting in the Lord! Your son Nundinarius has come to us, not only to me but also to our brother Fortis, and bringing a grave complaint. I wonder that in your gravity you have acted thus with your son, whom you nourished and ordained. For if a building of earth is built, is not something heavenly added, which is built by the hand of a priest? But you should not wonder, since Scripture says: 'I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and reject the prudence of the prudent'; and again it says: 'Men loved darkness rather than light,' as you too do. Let it suffice us to know everything. On this our brother Fortis too has written to you; now I would ask of your charity, most kind brother, that you fulfil the saying of the prophet Isaiah: 'Drive out malice from your minds, and come, let us dispute, says the Lord'; and again: 'Cast out the evil from among you.' So you too do: subdue and turn back the sedition of those who did not want there to be peace between you and your son. But let your son Nundinarius celebrate Easter in peace with you, so that the matter does not come into public, being besides already known to all of us. I would ask you, most kind brother, to fulfil the petition of my humble self. Let no one know." Likewise another was read: "To brother Fortis, Sabinus, eternal greeting in the Lord! What charity is, I am particularly sure, as are all colleagues; yet according to the will of God, who said, 'Some I love above my soul,' I am sure that you have cherished Silvanus. So I did not hesitate to send this writing to you, because I had your letter written to him delivered for the sake of Nundinarius; and for one who acts briskly, the cause of God always proceeds with vigor. Do not put forward an excuse; for occupation presses us in these days and urges us without delay about these things until before the most solemn day of Easter, so that through you a most rich peace may come about, that we may be found worthy coheirs of Christ, who said, 'My peace I give you, my peace I leave you'; and again I ask you to do ..." and in another hand: "I wish you good health in the Lord, and that you be mindful of us. Farewell; but I ask you, let no one know." When these had been read, Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "From the proceedings and letters that have been read, it is established that Silvanus is a traitor." And he said to Victor: "Confess simply whether you know that he handed over anything." Victor said: "He handed over, but not in my presence." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "What office did Silvanus then hold in the clergy?" Victor answered: "The persecution arose under bishop Paul, and Silvanus was a subdeacon." The deacon Nundinarius answered: "When it came to the point," he said, "that he should be made bishop, the people answered: 'Let another be made; hear us, God.'" Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Victor: "Was it said by the people, 'Silvanus is a traitor'?" Victor said: "I myself struggled against his being bishop." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Victor: "So you knew he was a traitor? Confess about this." Victor answered: "He was a traitor." The deacon Nundinarius said: "You elders were shouting: 'Hear us, God, we want our fellow citizen; that man is a traitor.'" Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Victor: "So you shouted with the people that Silvanus was a traitor and ought not to be made bishop?" Victor said: "I shouted, both I and the people. For we were asking for our fellow citizen, a man of integrity." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "For what reason did you think he did not deserve it?" Victor said: "We were asking for a man of integrity and our fellow citizen; for I knew that we would come to this, into the emperors' business, when the matter is entrusted to such men." Likewise, Victor son of Samsuricus and Saturninus, grave-diggers, having been brought in and set before the court, Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "What is your name?" He answered: "Saturninus." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "What is your condition?" Saturninus answered: "Grave-digger." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "Do you know that Silvanus is a traitor?" Saturninus said: "I know that he handed over a silver lamp." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Saturninus: "What else?" Saturninus answered: "I know nothing else, except that he brought it out from behind a jar." And when Saturninus had been removed, Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to the one standing by: "What is your name?" He answered: "Victor son of Samsuricus." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "What is your condition?" Victor said: "I am a craftsman." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "Who handed over the silver tablet?" Victor answered: "I did not see; what I know, I say." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Victor: "Although it has already been established from the answers of those questioned above, yet confess whether Silvanus is a traitor." Victor said: "... when he let it go so that we should be taken to Carthage, I heard from the mouth of the bishop himself: 'A silver lamp and a silver box were given me, and these I handed over.'" Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Victor son of Samsuricus: "From whom did you hear it?" Victor said: "From bishop Silvanus." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Victor: "You heard from him himself that he had handed over?" Victor said: "I heard from him himself that he had handed them over with his own hands." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "Where did you hear it?" Victor said: "In the basilica." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "At Constantina?" Victor said: "There he began to address the people, saying: 'About what do they say I am a traitor, about a lamp and a box?'" Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Nundinarius: "What else do you think should be asked of these?" Nundinarius said: "About the casks of the treasury, who took them." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Nundinarius: "What casks?" Nundinarius said: "They were in the temple of Serapis, and bishop Purpurius took them; the vinegar they held was taken by bishop Silvanus, Dontius the presbyter and Lucianus." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Nundinarius: "Do those who stand by know that this was done?" Nundinarius answered: "They know." The deacon Saturninus said: "Our elders used to say that they were taken away." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "By whom are they said to have been taken away?" Saturninus said: "By bishop Purpurius, and the vinegar by Silvanus and Dontius and Superius, presbyters, and Lucianus the deacon." Nundinarius said: "Did Victor give twenty folles and was made a presbyter?" Saturninus said [so]. And as he was speaking, Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Saturninus: "To whom did he give it?" Saturninus said: "To bishop Silvanus." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Saturninus: "So, to be made a presbyter, he gave bishop Silvanus twenty folles as a fee?" Saturninus said: "He gave it." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Saturninus: "Was it placed before Silvanus?" Saturninus said: "Before the chair of the bishops." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Nundinarius: "By whom was the money taken?" Nundinarius said: "The bishops themselves divided it among themselves." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Nundinarius: "Do you wish Donatus to be produced?" Nundinarius said: "By all means let him come, about whom the people shouted two days after the peace: 'Hear us, God, we want our fellow citizen.'" Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Nundinarius: "Did the people certainly shout this?" He answered: "They shouted." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Saturninus: "Did they shout that Silvanus was a traitor?" Saturninus said: "Certainly." Nundinarius said: "When he was made bishop, we did not communicate with him, because he was said to be a traitor." Saturninus said: "What he says is true." Nundinarius said: "I saw that Mutus the arena-fighter carried him on his neck." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Saturninus: "Was it done so?" Saturninus said: "So." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "Is everything Nundinarius says true, that Silvanus was made bishop by arena-fighters?" Saturninus said: "True." Nundinarius said: "There were prostitutes there." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Saturninus: "Did the arena-fighters carry him?" Saturninus said: "They carried him, and the people; for the citizens were shut in the cemetery of the martyrs." The deacon Nundinarius said: "Was the people of God there?" Saturninus said: "It was shut in the great house." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "Is everything Nundinarius says certainly true?" Saturninus said: "True." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "What do you say?" Victor said: "All is true, sir." Nundinarius said: "Bishop Purpurius took a hundred folles." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Nundinarius: "Whom do you think should be questioned about the four hundred folles?" Nundinarius said: "Let the deacon Lucianus be produced, for he knows everything." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Nundinarius: "Do these know?" Nundinarius said: "They do not know." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "Let Lucianus be produced." Nundinarius said: "These know that four hundred folles were received, but since the bishops divided them, they do not know." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Nundinarius and Victor: "Do you know that folles were received from Lucilla?" Saturninus and Victor said: "We know." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "Did the poor not receive them?" They said: "No one received anything." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Saturninus and Victor: "Was nothing taken from the shrine of Serapis?" Saturninus and Victor said: "Purpurius took the casks, and bishop Silvanus and Dontius and Superius, presbyters, and Lucianus the deacon took the vinegar." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "From the answer of Victor the grammarian and Victor son of Samsuricus and Saturninus it has become clear that everything Nundinarius alleged is true. Let them be removed and go out." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "Whom else do you think should be questioned?" Nundinarius said: "Castus the deacon, so that he may say whether he is not a traitor; he himself ordained him." And Castus the deacon having been brought in and set before the court, Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "What is your name?" He answered: "Castus." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Castus: "What is your condition?" Castus said: "I have no rank." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Castus: "Although now, through Victor the grammarian as well as through Victor son of Samsuricus and Saturninus, the things Nundinarius charges have come to confession, yet you too confess whether Silvanus is a traitor." Castus answered: "He used to say that he found the lamp behind a jar." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Castus: "Confess also about the casks taken from the shrine of Serapis and the vinegar." Castus answered: "Bishop Purpurius took the casks." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "The vinegar, who?" Castus answered that bishop Silvanus and Dontius and Superius, presbyters, took the vinegar from there. Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Castus: "Confess how many folles Victor gave to be made a presbyter." Castus said: "He offered a little bag, sir, and what it held I do not know." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Castus: "To whom was the little bag given?" Castus said: "He took it there in the great house." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Castus: "Was the money not divided to the people?" Castus answered: "It was not given, nor did I see it." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Castus: "Of the folles Lucilla gave, did the common people receive nothing?" Castus said: "I did not see anyone receive." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Castus: "Where, then, did they go?" Castus said: "I do not know." Nundinarius said: "Surely you either heard or saw, whether it was said to the poor, 'Lucilla gives to us too from her property'?" Castus said: "I did not see anyone receive." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "Castus's confession is plain, that he did not know that the folles Lucilla gave were divided to the people; and so let him be removed." Likewise, Crescentianus the subdeacon having been brought in and set before the court, Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "What is your name?" He answered: "Crescentianus." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Crescentianus: "Confess simply, like the others, whether you know Silvanus to be a traitor." Crescentianus said: "The elders who were clergy reported each thing themselves." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Crescentianus: "What did they report?" Crescentianus said: "They reported that he was a traitor." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Crescentianus: "They called him a traitor?" And he added: "Who said so?" Crescentianus said: "Those who lived with him among the people said that he had once handed over." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Crescentianus: "Did they say it of Silvanus?" Crescentianus said: "Certainly." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Crescentianus: "When he was made bishop, were you present?" Crescentianus said: "I was present with the people, shut in the great house." The deacon Nundinarius said: "Country people and arena-fighters made him bishop." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Crescentianus: "Did Mutus the arena-fighter certainly lift him up?" He said: "Plainly." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Crescentianus: "Do you know that casks were taken from the shrine of Serapis?" Crescentianus said: "Many said that bishop Purpurius himself took the casks, and that the vinegar had come to our old man Silvanus; and the sons of Aelio said so." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Crescentianus: "What did you hear?" Crescentianus said: "That the vinegar was taken by the old man Silvanus and Dontius and Superius, presbyters, and Lucianus the deacon." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Crescentianus: "Of the four hundred folles Lucilla gave, did the people receive anything?" Crescentianus said: "No one received anything from them, I do not know, nor who paid them out." Nundinarius said: "Did the old women never receive anything from them?" Crescentianus said: "Nothing." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "Surely, whenever any such thing is given, all the common people receive from it publicly?" Crescentianus said: "I did not hear or see that he gave any." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Crescentianus: "So nothing of the four hundred folles was given to the people?" Crescentianus said: "Nothing; surely some little portion would have come to us." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "Where, then, were they taken?" Crescentianus said: "I do not know; no one received anything." Nundinarius said: "How many folles did Victor give to be made a presbyter?" Crescentianus said: "I saw baskets brought with money." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Crescentianus: "To whom were the baskets given?" Crescentianus said: "To bishop Silvanus." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "Were they given to Silvanus?" Crescentianus said: "To Silvanus." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "Was nothing given to the people?" He answered: "Nothing; it would have been necessary that we too receive something, if they were distributed, as is usual." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said to Nundinarius: "What else do you think should be asked of Crescentianus?" Nundinarius said: "That is it." Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "Since Crescentianus the subdeacon has confessed simply about everything, let him be removed." Likewise, Januarius the subdeacon having been brought in and set before the court, Zenophilus, v.c., consular, said: "What is your name?" He answered ...