But these Severities served only to increase the Evil which they were employed to cure. The Bodies of _Priscillian_ and of those who had suffered with him, were conveyed by their Friends and Adherents into _Spain_, and there interred with great Pomp and Solemnity;[Sidenote: _Many embrace their Doctrine._] their Names were added to those of other Saints and Martyrs, their Firmness and Constancy extolled, and their Doctrine embraced by such Numbers of Proselytes, that it spread in a short time over all the Provinces between the _Pyrenees_ and the Ocean[1256]. _Symphosius_, Metropolitan of _Galicia_, whom, after the Death of _Priscillian_, they looked upon as the chief Man and Head of their Sect, took care to fill all the vacant Sees in that Province with Bishops of his own Communion. _Dictinius_, whom he raised among the rest to that Dignity, is supposed by St. _Austin_[1257] to have been the Author of a Book, famous in those Times, styled _Libra_, or, the _Pound_[N25]. [Sidenote: _Two of their leading Men renounce their Errors_;] However, both he and _Symphosius_ were afterwards convinced of their Errors; and, desiring thereupon to be reconciled with the Church, they undertook a Journey to _Milan_, in order to engage St. _Ambrose_, Bishop of that City, in their Favour. He received them with the greatest Marks of Kindness and Affection; and being satisfied with the Terms of Reconciliation, which they themselves proposed, and promised to observe, he writ in their Behalf to the Bishops of _Spain_, who, at his Request, admitted them to their Communion[1258][N26]. ----- Footnote N25: It was so called because it contained Twelve Questions, as the _Roman_ Pound did Twelve Ounces. In that Piece the Author endeavoured to prove, from the Practice of the Patriarchs, of the Prophets, Apostles, Angels, and of _Christ_ himself, that a Lye could be no Crime, when uttered to conceal our Religion[N25.1]. Footnote N25.1: Id. ib. c. 2, & 18. Footnote N26: