[27] [Footnote 248: Except the omission of a prayer for the emperor, the charges against Arsenius were of different nature: he was accused of having allowed the sultan of Iconium to bathe in vessels signed with the cross, and to have admitted him to the church, though unbaptized, during the service.

It was pleaded, in favor of Arsenius, among other proofs of the sultan's Christianity, that he had offered to eat ham.

Pachymer, l.iv.c.4, p.265.It was after his exile that he was involved in a charge of conspiracy .-- M.] [Footnote 25: Pachymer relates the exile of Arsenius, (l.iv.c.

1--16:) he was one of the commissaries who visited him in the desert island.
The last testament of the unforgiving patriarch is still extant, (Dupin, Bibliotheque Ecclesiastique, tom.x.p.

95.)] [Footnote 259: Pachymer calls him Germanus .-- M.] [Footnote 26: Pachymer (l.vii.c.