334 APPENDIX. 



contempt.* Ov ^s7 Iv rocTg xcJ/^aj?, Oj h7 Iv rix.7g ^cipociq. 



Non in vicis, aut villis, aut'\ moclica civitate: No 

 bishops there,:}: lest they grow contemptible ; so 

 run the canons of the ancient church, both Greek 

 and Latin. And therefore the twelfth Council of 

 Toledo § unmitred one Convildus, formerly an ab- 

 bot in a little village, and dissolved the bishopric, 

 which II Bamba, the Gothic king, had violently 

 procured to be erected there ; and that by autho- 

 rity of this rule of the church, and the very Kar^ 

 TToXiy of my text,^ which they actually plead in 

 the front of their decree, to justify their proceed- 

 ings. 



Amongst these so many cities in Crete, Gortyna 

 was then the civil metropolis, as Solinus,** who 

 lived in that age, informs us, and in the next age, 

 we are sure, the ecclesiastical metropolis too ; 

 there being still extant,|t in the Church Story, 

 the inscription of an epistle that plainly infers it. 

 For Dionysius, that renowned bishop of Corinth, 

 who flourished about the middle of the second 

 century, and stands so highly commended in 

 Eusebius for his Catholic Epistles (seven of them 

 being there mentioned) to several churches and 



* Concil. Laodic. Sardic. Tolet. 12. f q. d. Non in oppido. 



X Ne rilescat nomen Episcopi. § Ann. 716. || Or Veamba. 



% Imprimis ex Epistola Pauli Tito Discipulo, ut Episcopos per 

 civitates constituere debeat, praecepitj &c. Concil. Merlin, torn. i. 

 p. 135. b. 



** Cap. 17. Centum constipati Urbibus quarum principatus est 

 penes Gorty. 



ft Euseb. 1. 4. cap. xy. 



