Palladius owns (p. 30 [c.8, p. 75]) that if the people
of Constantinople had found Theophilus, they would certainly
have thrown him into the sea. Socrates mentions (1. vi. c.
17) a battle between the mob and the sailors of Alexandria,
in which many wounds were given, and some lives were lost.
The massacre of the monks is observed only by the Pagan
Zosimus (1. v. [c. 23] p. 324), who acknowledges that
Chrysostom had a singular talent to lead the illiterate multitude,