A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

bishop of Agen, in Southwestern Gaul, about the middle of the fourth century.

He was an eager champion of orthodoxy, but at the council of Ariminum, in A. D. 359, was entrapped, along with Servatio, a Belgian bishop, by the artifices of the prefect Taurus, into signing an Arian confession of faith, which, upon discovering the fraud, he openly and indignantly abjured. He subsequently took an active part in the council of Valence, held in A. D. 374, and, as we learn from Jerome, lived to a great age.

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