But _Cyril_’s Rage was not yet satiated. Tho’ _Orestes_ had the good Luck to escape being murdered, _Hypatia_ must fall a Sacrifice to the Prelate’s Pride and to the Ghost of _Ammonius_. This Lady, as we mentioned above, was profoundly respected by _Orestes_, who much frequented and consulted her; _for which Reason, says _Socrates_, she was not a little traduced among the Mob of the Christian Church; as if she obstructed a Reconciliation between Bishop _Cyril_ and _Orestes_. Wherefore certain hot-brained Men, headed by one _Peter_ a Lecturer, entered into a Conspiracy against her, and watching their Opportunity when she was returning Home from some Place, they dragged her out of her Chair; hurried her to the Church called _Cesar_’s, and stripping her stark naked, they killed her with Tiles. Then they tore her to Pieces, and carrying her Limbs to a_ _Place called _Cinaron_, there they burnt them to Ashes._ Nothing short of this Treatment, not to be parallelled among the most savage Nations against Woman (and against a Woman of such Distinction scarce credible, did not two or more of her Contempories attest it) nothing, I say, but the Blood of _Hypatia_, shed in the most inhuman Manner, could glut the Fury of _Cyril_’s Clergy, for these were the Monsters, that putting off all Humanity, committed this barbarous Murder. _Socrates_, ’tis true, distinctly Names but one Clergyman, _Peter_ the Lecturer; but _Nicephorus_ expressly tells us, that the Zealots, led on by this _Peter_, were _Cyril_’s Clergy, who hated her for the Credit she had with _Orestes_; that they were these, who imputed to her the Misunderstanding between the Governor and their Bishop; and finally, that they butchered her the Time of solemn Fasting; which, added to their sanctifying of their Villany by perpetrating it in a Church, shews the glorious State of Religion in those pure and primitive Times; as some, no less hypocritically than falsely, are pleased to stile them. The Citizens of _Alexandria_, on whom certain Persons would fain lay this Act of popular Heat, as they speak by way of Extenuation, were too great Admirers of _Hypatia_’s Virtue, and too much in the Interest of _Orestes_, to have any Hand in so foul a Business, however prone to Tumults. All the Circumstances accompanying the Fact, clearly prove this; not to repeat the Assault so lately made by the _Nitrian_ Monks on the Governor, whom the People rescued; tho’ I will not answer for all the Mob, especially when the Clergy loo’d them on. CHAP. XX. _Cyril_ the main Instigator of _Hypatia_’s Murder, being envious of the Fame she had acquired by her Learning and Philosophy.