and Blondel, de Primaute de l'Eglise, p.

1183.] [Footnote 12: Cod.Theod.l.ix.tit.

iv.

Godefroy suspected the secret motives of this law.Comment.tom.iii.p.

9.] The informers, who complied with so liberal an invitation, were sufficiently versed in the arts of courts to select the friends and adherents of Crispus as the guilty persons; nor is there any reason to distrust the veracity of the emperor, who had promised an ample measure of revenge and punishment.