With these Letters the Legates set out from _Rome_, attended by the above-mentioned Prelates _Demetrius_, _Cyriacus_, _Eulysius_, and _Palladius_; and, sailing for _Greece_, put in at _Athens_, with a Design to pursue their Voyage to _Thessalonica_, having Letters from _Innocent_ to _Anysius_ Bishop of that City. But at _Athens_ they were, to their great Surprize, stopt and detained by a Military Tribune, who let them know, that they must not touch at _Thessalonica_; and at the same time appointed a Centurion as a Guard over them, strictly injoining him not to suffer them, under any Pretence whatsoever, to approach that City. Soon after the Tribune parted them, and, putting them on board Two Vessels, ordered the Mariners to convey them strait to _Constantinople_. _Anysius_ communicated with _Chrysostom_, as I have observed above; and it was, without all doubt, on this Consideration that the Legates were not allowed to set foot in his Diocese. [Sidenote: _The hard Usage they met with on their Journey_,] They arrived at _Constantinople_ the Third Day after they had left _Athens_, but starved with Hunger; for the Tribune had neither supplied them with Provisions when they embarked, nor allowed them Time to supply themselves; so that they had tasted no Kind of Victuals during the Three Days they were at Sea. [Sidenote: _and at_ Constantinople.] On their Arrival at _Constantinople_, they were not suffered to come ashore there, but ordered to a Castle on the _Thracian_ Coast called _Athyra_, where they were all closely confined, the Legates in one common Room, and the other Bishops in so many separate Cells. As the People of _Constantinople_ were most zealously attached to _Chrysostom_, the Emperor apprehended, and with a great deal of Reason, that their entering the City, and conversing publicly there, might be attended with uncommon Disturbances and Commotions; and therefore thought it adviseable to keep them at a Distance, and under Confinement. They had not been long thus confined, when they were ordered, they knew not by whom, to deliver the Letters they had brought. But neither by this Person, whoever he was, nor by several others, who were successively sent on the same Errand, could they be prevailed upon to part with them, alleging, that Letters from an Emperor ought to be delivered to none but an Emperor.