Nature of the succession in the Caesarean throne, and then in the Byzantine, 61 Personal changes in the Popes and eastern emperors, 62 Gennadius succeeds Anatolius, and Acacius succeeds Gennadius in the see of Constantinople, 64 Acacius resists the Encyclikon of Basiliscus, 65 Letter of Pope Simplicius to the emperor Zeno, 66 Advancement of Acacius by Zeno, 69 Acacius induces Zeno to publish a formulary of doctrine, 70 John Talaia, elected patriarch of Alexandria, appeals for support to Pope Simplicius, 70 Pope Felix sends an embassy to the emperor, 71 His letter to Zeno, 72 His letter to Acacius, 73 His legates arrested, imprisoned, robbed, and seduced, 74 Pope Felix synodically deposes Acacius, 75 Enumerates his misdeeds in the sentence, 76 Synodal decrees in Italy signed by the Pope alone, 78 Letter of Pope Felix to Zeno setting forth the condemnation of Acacius, 79 The condition of the Pope when he thus wrote, 81 How Acacius received the Pope's condemnation, 83 The position which Acacius thereupon took up, 84 The greatness of the bishop of Constantinople identified with the greatness of his city, 84 The humiliations of Rome witnessed by Acacius, 86 How the Pope, under these humiliations, spoke to Acacius and to the emperor, 88 The Pope on the one side, Acacius on the other, represent an absolute contradiction, 89 Eudoxius and Valens matched by Acacius and Zeno, 92 Death of Acacius, and estimate of him by three contemporaries, 93 Fravita, succeeding Acacius, seeks the Pope's recognition, 93 Letters of the emperor and Fravita to the Pope, and his answers, 94 The position taken by Acacius not maintained by Zeno and Fravita, 96 Nor by Euphemius, who succeeds Fravita, 96 Euphemius suspects and resists the new emperor Anastasius, 97 Condition of the Empire and the Church at the accession of Pope Gelasius in 492, 98 The "libellus synodicus" on the emperor Anastasius, 100