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Updated: June 21, 2025
Modestus, he explained, in a letter of his, which was read to Domitian, had used the following expression, "Regulus, the biggest rascal that walks upon two feet :" and what Modestus had written was the simple truth, beyond all manner of controversy. Here, about, our conversation came to an end, for I did not wish to proceed further, being desirous to keep matters open until Mauricus returns.
Charlemagne conquered Hungary in the year 800, and obliged the inhabitants to profess Christianity, when Modestus likewise preached to the Venedi, at the source of the Save and Drave. In 833, Ansgarius preached in Denmark, Gaudibert in Sweden, and about 861, Methodius and Cyril, in Bohemia.
Let Modestus then enjoy his freedom and his legacy as fully as if Sabina had observed all the requisite forms, as indeed they effectually do who make a judicious choice of their heirs. Farewell. To CORNELIUS MINICIANUS HAVE you heard I suppose, not yet, for the news has but just arrived that Valerius Licinianus has become a professor in Sicily?
Valens, in the meantime, had decided that the whole empire must be Arian and was trying to obtain his end by force. Arian prelates arrived in Caesarea, and Modestus, Prefect of the Pretorian Guard, informed the Archbishop that he must admit them to communion under pain of banishment. St. Basil, having resisted the order, was brought up before the Prefect's tribunal.
YOUR letter informs me that Sabina, who appointed you and me her heirs, though she has nowhere expressly directed that Modestus shall have his freedom, yet has left him a legacy in the following words, "I give, &c. To Modestus, whom I have ordered to have his freedom": upon which you desire my opinion.
Besides, he remembered that he once mortally attacked me in the Court of the Centumviri. I was a witness on behalf of Arionilla, the wife of Timon, at the request of Rusticus Arulenus, and Regulus was conducting the prosecution. We on our side were relying for part of the defence on a decision of Metius Modestus, an excellent man who had been banished by Domitian and was at that moment in exile.
"I do not now enquire, said he, "your opinion of Modestus in general, I only ask your opinion of his loyalty." "Since you will have my opinion then," I rejoined, "I think it illegal even to ask a question concerning a person who stands convicted."
Now then for Regulus. "Pray," says he, "what is your opinion of Modestus?" You see what a risk I should have run had I answered that I had a high opinion of him, how I should have disgraced myself on the other hand if I had replied that I had a bad opinion of him. But some guardian power, I am persuaded, must have stood by me to assist me in this emergency.
"Why will you not accept the Emperor's religion?" asked the latter. "Do you think it is a small thing to be of our communion?" "Although you are Prefects and powerful people," answered the Archbishop, "you are not to be more respected than God." "Do you not know that I have power to drive you into exile, even to take your life?" cried Modestus in a rage.
Such a wholesale slaughter of innocent ecclesiastics would be almost certain to cause a rising; the thing must be done secretly. Summoning the doomed men to appear before him, Modestus informed them that the Emperor had sentenced them to banishment.
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