Sense I understand _Optatus_ saying, _The Council was held in the House, or Habitation, of_ Fausta _in the_ Lateran. But her being any-ways there excludes _Melchiades_. Their sitting in the Imperial Palace gave a kind of Authority and Sanction to their Decisions; and besides, there might not be room in the House of _Melchiades_, if he had a House, for the Council, and those who were to attend it, they being in all Forty Bishops; so that we need not put _Melchiades_ in Possession of that Palace to account for the Council’s meeting in it, as _Baronius_ has done. ----- Footnote 519: Buch. p. 272. Footnote 520: Euseb. l. 9. c. 9. Footnote 521: Idem l. 10. c. 5. Footnote 522: Idem ib. Footnote 523: Val. in not. ad Euseb. hist. p. 195. Footnote 524: Euseb. ib. Footnote 525: Lact. pers. c. 47, 48. Footnote 526: Idem ib. Footnote 527: Aug. l. 7. c. 2. Opt. l. 1. p. 39. Footnote 528: Aug. collat. Carth. die 3. c. 12. Vales. in not. ad Euseb. hist. p. 191. Footnote 529: Opt. l. 1. p. 41. Aug. Psal. Abced. p. 3. in Petil. c. 18. & contr. epist. Parmen. p. 7. Footnote 530: Aug. coll. Carth. die 3. c. 12. Footnote 531: Aug. in Par. l. 1. c. 3. & Psal. Abced. p. 3. Opt. p. 41. Footnote 532: Opt. ib. Footnote 533: Aug. in Crese. l. 3. c. 26, 27, 29. & coll. die 3. c. 17. die 2. c. 14, &c. Footnote 534: Aug. in Gaud. l. 1. c. 37. ep. 162. & in Psal. 36. p. 119. Footnote 535: Opt. p. 41. Footnote 536: Aug. coll. die 3. c. 14. Footnote 537: Id. ep. 162. Footnote 538: In Joan. evang. tract. 69. p. 12. Footnote 539: Hier. vir. ill. c. 93. Footnote 540: Opt. l. 1. p. 42. Footnote 541: Aug. ep. 162. Footnote 542: Euseb. l. 10. c. 5. Footnote 543: Idem ib. c. 7. & Cod. Theod. 16. t. 2. l. 1. p. 20. Footnote 544: Aug. ep. 68. Vales. in not. ad hist. Euseb. p. 197. Footnote 545: Coll. Carth. in concil. per Steph. Baluz. c. 3. n. 216. 220. p. 578. Footnote 546: Opt. l. 1. p. 44. Footnote 547: Opt. ib. Aug. ep. 166. Footnote 548: Euseb. l. 10. c. 5. Footnote 549: Coll. Carth. p. 149. Footnote 550: Euseb. ib. Footnote 551: Opt. l. 1. p. 44. Footnote 552: Aug. coll. Carth. die 3. c. 17. Opt. ib. Footnote 553: Opt. ib. Footnote 554: Coll. Carth. p. 149. & ep. 162. Opt. ib. Footnote 555: Buch. p. 272. Footnote 556: Aug. in Pet. p. 87. & in Par. c. 5. p. 8. Footnote 557: Bar. ad ann. 312. n. 82. Footnote 558: Id. ib. n. 85. Footnote 559: Opt. l. 1. p. 44. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CONSTANTINE. SYLVESTER, _Thirty-second_ _BISHOP_ _of_ Rome. [Sidenote: Year of Christ 314. _The_ Donatists _complain of the Council of_ Rome.]