This Point being settled, to the great Satisfaction of the _Anomeans_, _Ariminum_, now _Rimini_, on the _Adriatic_ Sea, was thought the most proper Place for the Western Bishops to meet at. But the City of _Nice_, where the General Council was to assemble, having suffered much by the late Earthquake, the Emperor desired the Eastern Bishops might not meet there, but in whatever other Place they should agree among themselves to be the most proper and convenient[873]. This _Theodoret_ ascribes to a particular Providence, that would not suffer the great Council of _Nice_ to be ever confounded with a Conventicle of Heretics[874]. [Sidenote: _and_ Seleucia _in_ Isauria _for those of the East_.] As the Bishops could not agree about the Place, and it was not at all probable they should, the Emperor, by the Advice of a few, who were then with him at _Sirmium_, named the City of _Seleucia_ in _Isauria_[875]. And now that the Place was settled for both Councils, _Constantius_ issued an Order, injoining not only the chief Bishops of each Province, as he had done the Year before, but all, without Exception, to repair to one of the Two[876]; nay, he dispatched Officers into the Provinces, with a strict Charge to see his Order punctually obeyed, and put in Execution[877]. The Bishops therefore set out from all Parts; the public Carriages, Roads, and Houses, were every-where crouded with them; which gave great Offence to the Catechumens, and no small Diversion to the Pagans, who thought it equally strange and ridiculous, that Men, who had been brought up from their Infancy in the Christian Religion, and whose Business it was to instruct others in that Belief, should be constantly hurrying, in their old Age, from one Place to another, to know what they themselves should believe[878]. _Ammianus Marcellinus_ complains, that the necessary Funds for the Maintenance of the public Carriages were quite drained and exhausted, by the roaming about of the Christian Bishops[879]. Their Charges were defrayed by the Emperor, as I have observed above; but the Bishops of _Gaul_ and _Britain_, that they might be the more independent, insisted upon travelling at their own Expence; only Three of the latter, not having wherewithal to support themselves, chose rather to be obliged to the Emperor than burdensome to their Collegues, who generously offered to contribute to their Maintenance, every one according to his Ability[880].