[48] [Footnote 43: Orosius (l.vii.c.

37) is shocked at the impiety of the Romans, who attacked, on Easter Sunday, such pious Christians.

Yet, at the same time, public prayers were offered at the shrine of St.Thomas of Edessa, for the destruction of the Arian robber.

See Tillemont (Hist des Emp.tom.v.p.

529) who quotes a homily, which has been erroneously ascribed to St.Chrysostom.] [Footnote 44: The vestiges of Pollentia are twenty-five miles to the south-east of Turin.