_Antioch_, all Hopes of an Accommodation cut off, and no room left for the Measures concerted and agreed to by the Council, immediately quitted the City, without communicating with either Party. This was condemning the Conduct of _Lucifer_; which he could not brook; and therefore, full of Resentment, he renounced the Communion of _Eusebius_, with whom he had hitherto lived in the greatest Intimacy, and suffered together with him a most painful Exile for the common Cause[1047]. [Sidenote: _St._ Basil _Bishop of_ Cæsarea _applies to_ Damasus.] _Basil_ Bishop of _Cæsarea_ in _Cappadocia_, one of the great Lights of the Church, left nothing unattempted, which he apprehended could any-ways contribute to the reuniting of the Orthodox among themselves, and putting an End to the present Schism. But, despairing at last of Success, and finding the Prelates in the East all warmly engaged in the Dispute, some in favour of _Meletius_, and some of _Paulinus_, he resolved to apply to the Bishop of _Rome_, who had not yet declared for either of the Competitors, his Thoughts being wholly employed in securing his Dignity against a Competitor at Home. He writ therefore to _Damasus_, intreating him to dispatch Deputies into the East, who, in Concert with the Prelates there, inclined to an Accommodation, might settle the proper Means of accomplishing so desirable a Work, and uniting in Charity those, who were already united in Faith. He added, that it was from his Zeal alone they expected Relief, from that Zeal which he had made so eminently appear on other Occasions; that _Dionysius_, one of his Predecessors, had afforded them a seasonable Assistance, when their Wants were less pressing, and their Condition not so deplorable; and therefore that there was no room left to doubt of his readily conforming to so glorious an Example[1048]. With this Letter, and another from the Bishops in the East, soliciting the Advice, Assistance, and Mediation of their Collegues in the West, _Dorotheus_, Deacon of the Church of _Antioch_, was dispatched into _Italy_: whence he returned in the Beginning of the following Year 372. with an Answer from the Bishops of _Illyricum_, _Italy_, and _Gaul_[1049]. [Sidenote: _The haughty Conduct of_ Damasus _resented by St._ Basil.] But _Damasus_ did not condescend to return an Answer to _Basil_, or take the least Notice of his Letter; which haughty Conduct he justly resented, and in pretty sharp Terms, taxing _Damasus_, in one of his Letters[1050], with a Spirit of Pride and Vanity, which made him overlook other Bishops as below his Attention, and expect to be accosted by them with the meanest Flattery. But his thus disregarding the Request and Intreaties of the Bishop of _Cæsarea_, was not owing to his Pride alone. He was so little acquainted with the State of the Churches in the East, and what passed there, that he looked upon _Eusebius_ Bishop of _Samosata_, and _Meletius_, with whom _Basil_ lived in great Intimacy, as rank _Arians_,