[Footnote 55: The invitation of Nestorius to the synod of
Chalcedon, is related by Zacharias, bishop of Melitene
(Evagrius, l. ii. c. 2. Asseman. Biblioth. Orient. tom. ii.
p. 55,) and the famous Xenaias or Philoxenus, bishop of
Hierapolis, (Asseman. Bibliot. Orient. tom. ii. p. 40, &c.,)
denied by Evagrius and Asseman, and stoutly maintained by La
Croze, (Thesaur. Epistol. tom. iii. p. 181, &c.) The fact is
not improbable; yet it was the interest of the Monophysites
to spread the invidious report, and Eutychius (tom. ii. p.
12) affirms, that Nestorius died after an exile of seven
years, and consequently ten years before the synod of
Chalcedon.]