Note 101 — III. THE COUNCIL OF NICÆA.
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Οὐπω τοσουτον ἐκμεμετρηκας βιον, Ὁσος διηλθε θυσιων ἐμοι χρονος.
Baronius labors hard to break the force of this assertion, but his arguments seem to me successfully controverted by Calixtus. (De Conjug. Cleric. Ed. 1783, pp. 261-74.) The chapter devoted to this question by Zaccaria (Storia Polem. Lib. I. cap. vii.) is an example of desperate special pleading.