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141:Caesarea
129:Melitene
82:Paulinus
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54:Meletios
18:Meletian
1091:Acacius
883:Vitalis
871:Cyril I
865:Timaeus
828:Babylas
729:Evodius
712:Peter I
698:Of the
631:361–381
426::
353:Flavian
324:Ambrose
303:Triumph
289:Gratian
226:prosopa
217:Euzoeus
149:essence
145:Homoean
137:Acacius
73:Homoian
1109:Julian
1067:John I
834:Fabius
420:
277:Valens
261:Julian
251:. The
1117:(476)
1085:Basil
945:(359)
903:(330)
634:with
367:Notes
775:Eros
686:List
334:and
204:and
165:same
157:like
115:and
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688:of
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497:14)
435:".
151:or
131:in
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844:c.
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716:c.
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399:^
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