adverse to his views and interests (cf. Socr. op. cit. i. 8; ii. 15). Socrates shews how Sabinus tries to disparage the fathers of Nicaea in the face of the contrary evidence of Eusebius, and makes no mention whatever of Macedonius, lest he should have to describe his evil deeds. Baronius (ad ann. 325, xxxix., ad ann. 344, iii. etc.) speaks strongly of Sabinus’s unscrupulous handling of history, calls him “homo mendacissimus,” and suggests that Sozomen gives a garbled account of the election of Athanasius,