Note 077
From Chapter 36 of the Decline & Fall

Papa Hilarius . . . apud beatum Petrum Apostolum, palam ne id fieret, clara voce constrinxit, in tantum ut non ea facienda cum interpositione juramenti idem promitteret Imperator. Gelasius Epistol. ad Andronicum, apud Baron. A.D. 467, No. 3.

The cardinal observes, with some complacency, that it was much easier to plant heresies at Constantinople than at Rome.

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