Orosius celebrates their disinterested resolution:
Sicut a majoribus nostris compertum habemus, omnes ubique propemodum ... officium quam fidem deserere maluerunt, vii. 30.
Proaeresius, a Christian sophist, refused to accept the partial favour of the emperor. Hieronym. in Chron. p. 185, edit. Scaliger [tom. viii. p. 805, ed. Vallars.]. Eunapius in Proaeresio, p. 126 [p. 160, ed. Comm.].