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- ↑ Evagrius Scholasticus (1846), Book 5, Chapter 18 (XVIII)
- ↑ Smith, The Rev'd Professor Robert Payne (trans), "The Third Part of the Ecclesiastical History of John Bishop of Ephesus", Oxford, 1860, p. 213.
- ↑ Smith, The Rev'd Professor Robert Payne (trans), "The Third Part of the Ecclesiastical History of John Bishop of Ephesus", Oxford, 1860, p. 214.
- ↑ Smith, The Rev'd Professor Robert Payne (trans), "The Third Part of the Ecclesiastical History of John Bishop of Ephesus", Oxford, 1860, pp. 226-227.
