Read Socrates’s[83] _Ecclesiastical History_, a continuation of that
of Eusebius. Beginning with the reign of Constantine, it goes down to
the time of Theodosius the Younger.[84]
The writer, who had attended the lectures of Ammonius and Helladius
the Alexandrine grammarians,[85] even when a boy had been instructed
in “grammar” by heathen tutors, who had been banished from their
native country for sedition and carried on their profession at
Constantinople. The work contains the events of 140 years, and
the entire history is included in seven books. There is nothing
remarkable in the author’s style, and he is not very accurate in
matters of doctrine.