Note 068
From Chapter 47 of the Decline & Fall

Photius (or rather Eulogius of Alexandria) confesses, in a fine passage, the specious color of this double charge against Pope Leo and his synod of Chalcedon (Bibliot. cod. ccxxv. p. 768.). He waged a double war against the enemies of the church, and wounded either foe with the darts of his adversary—
Ancient Greek.
Against Nestorius he seemed to introduce the Ancient Greek of the Monophysites; against Eutyches he appeared to countenance Ancient Greek the Nestorians. The apologist claims a charitable interpretation for the saints: if the same had been extended to the heretics, the sound of the controversy would have been lost in the air.

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