178. Such is the fair deduction from two remarkable passages
in Eusebius, l. viii. c. 2, and de Martyr. Palestin. c. 12.
The prudence of the historian has exposed his own character
to censure and suspicion. It was well known that he himself
had been thrown into prison; and it was suggested that he
had purchased his deliverance by some dishonourable
compliance. The reproach was urged in his lifetime, and even
in his presence, at the council of Tyre. See Tillemont,
Memoires Ecclesiastiques, tom. viii. part i. p. 67.