52. The cruel persecution of Rome and Antioch is described,
and most probably exaggerated, by Ammianus (xxviii. 1, xxix,
1, 2) and Zosimus (1. iv.[c. 13] p. 216-218). The
philosopher Maximus, with some justice, was involved in the
charge of magic (Eunapius in Vit. Sophist. p. 88, 89, [p.
110, ed. Comm.]); and young Chrysostom, who had accidentally
found one of the proscribed books, gave himself for lost.
(Tillemont, Hist. des Empereurs, tom. v. p. 340).