Note 112
From Chapter 21 of the Decline & Fall

The chronological diffficultics which perplex the residence of Athanasius at Rome are strenuously agitated by Valesius (Observat. ad Calcem, tom. ii.; Hist. Eccles. 1. i. c. 1-5) and Tillemont (Mem. Eccles. tom. viii. p. 674, etc.). I have followed the simple hypothesis of Valesius, who allows only one journey after the intrusion of Gregory.

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