Note 023
From Chapter 27 of the Decline & Fall

Sozomen, 1. vii. c. 6. Theodoret, 1. v. c. 16. Tillemont is displeased (Mem. Eccles. tom. vi. p. 627, 628) with the terms of "rustic bishop," "obscure city." Yet I must take leave to think that both Amphilochius and Iconium were objects of inconsiderable magnitude in the Roman empire.

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