81. Jerom himself is forced to allow, crudelissimae
interfectiones diversi sexus perpetratae (in Chron p. 186
[tom. viii. p. 809, ed. Vallars.]). But an original libel
or petition of two presbyters of the adverse party has
unaccountably escaped. They affirm that the doors of the
basilica were burnt, and that the roof was untiled; that
Damasus marched at the head of his own clergy, gravediggers,
charioteers, and hired gladiators; that none of his party
were killed, but that one hundred and sixty dead bodies were
found. This petition is published by the P. Sirmond, in the
first volume of his works.