Note 004
From Chapter 25 of the Decline & Fall

The word celestial faintly expresses the impious and extravagant flattery of the emperor to the archbishop, Ancient Greek
(See the original epistle in Athanasius, tom. ii. p. 33.) Gregory Nazianzen (Orat. xxi. p. 392) celebrates the friendship of Jovian and Athanasius. The primate's journey was advised by the Egyptian monks (Tillemont, Mem. Eccles. tom. viii. p. 221).

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