each other, and to unite in their mutual Defence against him, as a common Enemy. _Jovian_, who succeeded him, proved no less favourable to the Orthodox, than _Constantius_ had been to the _Arians_. Many therefore of the latter, and among the rest _Acacius_, who was at the Head of the _Pure Arians_, to gain the Favour of the Emperor, publicly renounced the Doctrine of _Arius_, and embraced that of _Nice_. _Jovian_, after a short Reign of Seven Months and Twenty Days, was succeeded by _Valentinian_, who continued to countenance the Orthodox, as his Predecessor had done, though he did not use the _Arians_ with that Rigour which some Zealots expected from a Confessor, which Title he had deserved under _Julian_. However, as he professed the Orthodox Faith, that Party universally prevailed; insomuch that, in a very short time, no Traces of _Arianism_ were left in the West, except at _Milan_, under the _Arian_ Bishop _Auxentius_, and in a few Cities of _Illyricum_, where it was kept up by _Ursacius_, _Valens_, _Germinius_, and their Disciples, till the following Century, when it was every-where re-established there by the _Goths_. [Sidenote: _By whom_ Arianism _was banished out of the West_.] _Baronius_ ascribes to _Liberius_ the banishing of _Arianism_ out of the West, and the establishing of the Orthodox Faith in its room; but that Glory was owing, according to _Ruffinus_, to _Hilarius_ of _Poitiers_, and _Eusebius_ of _Vercelli_, who, like the Two great Luminaries of the Universe, to use his Words, enlightened with their Rays _Illyricum_, _Gaul_, and _Italy_, dispelling every-where the Darkness of Heresy[966]. He minutely describes the great Success that attended them, with the Difficulties and Obstructions they met with in so pious and commendable an Undertaking[967]. But, as for _Liberius_, he does not so much as mention him. And truly, from the Year 357. in which he fell, to his admitting the _Macedonians_ to his Communion in 366. which was the last of his Life, the only thing I find recorded of him in the Antients, is his writing a Letter to the Catholic Bishops of _Italy_, wherein he exhorts them to atone for their past Conduct by renouncing the Errors of the _Arians_, and receiving anew the Symbol of _Nice_. He adds, that as this is the only Atonement, which it has been thought proper to require of them, they ought to exert their Zeal against the Authors of the Fault they committed, in proportion to the Grief they must feel for committing it[968]. This Letter has been transmitted to us among the Fragments of _Hilarius_. [Sidenote: _Neither_ Vincentius _of_ Capua, _nor_ Liberius, _assisted at the Council of_ Rimini.] It is hard to guess what could induce _Baronius_ to write so confidently as he does, that _Vincentius_ of _Capua_ assisted at the Council of _Rimini_ with the Character of the Pope’s Legate[969]. In what antient Author did he find the least Intimation or distant Hint of such a Legation? _Vincentius_ of