separated himself from their Communion; which was no more than every Bishop had Power to do. _Victor_ being thus baffled in his Attempt, his Successors took care not to revive the Controversy; so that the _Asiatics_ peaceably followed their antient Practice till the Council of _Nice_, which, out of Complaisance to _Constantine the Great_, ordered the Solemnity of _Easter_ to be kept every-where on the same Day, after the Custom of _Rome_[284]. This Dispute happened, not in the Reign of _Commodus_, as we read in the _Synodicon_[285], but in the Fourth Year of the Reign of _Severus_, as St. _Jerom_ informs us[286], of Christ 196. [Sidenote: Victor _dies_.] _Victor_, of whom we find nothing else in the Antients worthy of Notice, died Five Years after[287], that is, in the Ninth of the Emperor _Severus_, and in the End of 201. or the Beginning of 202. of Christ, having governed the Church Ten Years. He is named, by St. _Jerom_, the first among the Ecclesiastical Authors that wrote in _Latin_[288]. [Sidenote: _His Works._] He published a Piece, on the Controversy about the Celebration of _Easter_, and some other Books on religious Subjects, which were still extant in St. _Jerom_’s Time[289]. [Sidenote: _Pieces falsly ascribed to him._] As for the Two Decretals that are ascribed to him, and the Two Letters to _Desiderius_ and _Paracoda_, both Bishops of _Vienne_, they are universally rejected[290]. [Sidenote: _He is sainted._] The Church of _Rome_ has placed _Victor_ among her Saints; and truly, his Attempt, however unsuccessful, to promote the Power and extend the Jurisdiction of that See, deserved no less a Reward. ----- Footnote 261: Vide Euseb. l. 5. c. 28. Footnote 262: Epiph. hær. 54. c. 1. Euseb. l. v. c. 28. Footnote 263: Euseb. ib. Footnote 264: Idem ib. Footnote 265: Tert. in Prax. c. 1. Footnote 266: Bar. ad ann. 173. n. 4. Footnote 267: Bell. de sum. Pont. l. 4. c. 8. Footnote 268: Euseb. l. 5. c. 23. 25. Socrat. l. 5. c. 21. Epiph. hær. 70. c. 10. Footnote 269: Euseb. l. 5. c. 24. Footnote 270: Idem ib. Footnote 271: Idem. ib. c. 20. Footnote 272: Concil. per Labb. t. 1. p. 150. Footnote 273: Euseb. l. 5. c. 22. et 24. Footnote 274: Hier. vir. ill. c. 45. Footnote 275: Euseb. l. 5. c. 24. Footnote 276: Idem ib. Footnote 277: Idem ib. Footnote 278: Idem ib. Hier. vir. ill. c. 45. Footnote 279: Euseb. l. 5. c. 24. Socrat. l. 5. c. 22. Footnote 280: Euseb. ib. Footnote 281: Euseb. ib. et Socrat. l. 5. c. 22. Footnote 282: Euseb. ib. Hier. vir. ill. c. 35. Phot. c. 120. Cypr. ep. 75. Anast. p. 445. Footnote 283: Bar. ad ann. 198. n. 10. Footnote 284: Euseb. vit. Const. l. 3. c. 18. Soz. l. 1. c. 16. Concil. l. 3. c. 18, 19. p. 492. Footnote 285: Concil. Labb. t. 1. p. 601. Footnote 286: Hier. vir. ill. c. 43. et chron. Footnote 287: Euseb. l. 5. c. 28. Hier. chron. Footnote 288: Hier. de vir. ill. c. 34. 40. Footnote 289: