Achillas, 190 _Acts of Pilate, The_, anti-Christian pamphlet, 145, 146 Adrianople, battle of, 128, 158 Ælianus, Proconsul of Africa, 172, 173 Alemanni defeated by Crispus, 124 Alexander, a Phrygian, leads revolt in Africa, 76 Alexander of Alexandria, holds Arius in high esteem, 190; becomes involved in controversy with Arius, 192 _ff._; summons provincial synod, 195; denounces Arians, 201 _ff._; attacks Eusebius of Nicomedia, 203; at Council of Nicæa, 214; influenced by Athanasius, 215; prayer for the truth in regard to Arius, 274, 298; death, 286; refuses to admit Arius to communion, 298 Amandus, Admiral, defeated by Crispus, 129 Ambrose, St., exhortations to avoid marriage, 348; influenced by Virgil, 353. Ammianus Marcellinus, quoted, 345 Anastasia, half-sister to Constantine, 120 Anastasis, Church of, dedicated,3 11 Ancyra, Council of, canons, 153 Annibalianus, son-in-law of Constantine, 309 Antony, Saint, 147, 297 Anulinus, proconsul of Africa, letter from Constantine to, 167, 168 Apollo, statue of, 270, 271 Arcadius, rebuilds walls of Constantinople, 266 Arch of Constantine, 91 Arian controversy, 189 _ff._, 223 _ff._; Canon Bright on, 194; Gibbon on, 194 Arianism, origin, 189 _ff._; leading tenet, 193 _ff._, 198, 223, 224; Canon Bright on, 194; class to which it appealed, 197 _ff._; claims, 198 _ff._; formal condemnation of, 229 Arians, edicts against, 286; and Constantia, 289; paramount at Imperial Court, 290; plot against Athanasius, 290 “Ariomaniacs,” 206 Aristaces repeats Nicene Creed to his father, 285 Arius, a power in Alexandria, 190; character, 190, 191; preaching strange doctrine, 191; starts controversy, 192 _ff._; denounces Alexander, 193; defends his doctrine before synod, 195 _ff._; excommunicated, 196, 231, 236; finds champion in Eusebius of Nicomedia, 200 _ff._; synod of Bithynian bishops sympathises with, 202 _ff._; _Thalia_, 204 _ff._, 222, 231; Constantine intervenes between Alexander and, 207 _ff._; at Council of Nicæa, 214, 221, 231, 236; and Eusebian party, 229 _ff._; recalled from exile, 287, 288; Constantine’s attack on, 288; pronounced a true Catholic by Council of Tyre, 295; returns to Alexandria, 297; questioned as to his faith, by Constantine, 297; seeks admission to Church at Constantinople, 298, 299; death, 299, 300 Arles, Council of, 173-176; canons of, 177, 178, 351 Armenia, recovered for Rome, 6; Saint Gregory in, 27 Arsenius, legend of withered hand, 293 Athanasians and baptism of Constantine, 315