Footnotes 2 Probably to Elias. 1 Of the same date as the preceding. Probably to Elias. Ed suppose the reference to be here to Annesi.
Letters viii. and li.
The gold collected for the equipment of troops. The provinces of the East, with the exception of Osroene and Isauria, contributed gold instead of actual equipment. Placed in the year 372. It is the contention of Tillemont that this cannot apply to the great Athanasius, to whom Meletius is not likely to have refused communion, but is more probably to be referred to some other unknown Athanasius. Bas . xxii.