_Orestes_ the Governor, assaulted by the Monks; their Captain racked to Death, but esteemed as a Martyr by _Cyril_.
Now the Revenge which _Cyril_ took of _Orestes_, being the Prelude to poor _Hypatia_’s Tragedy, I chuse to relate it, as I have done other Passages, in the Words of honest _Socrates_. _Certain of the Monks (_says he_) living in the _Nitrian_ Mountains, leaving their Monasteries to the Number of about Five Hundred, flocked to the City, and spied the Governor going Abroad in his Chariot; whereupon approaching, they called him by the Names of _Sacrificer_ and _Heathen_, using many other scandalous Words. The Governor therefore suspecting, that this was a Trick plaid him by _Cyril_, cryed out, that he was a _Christian_, and that he was _baptized_ at Constantinople by Bishop _Atticus_. But the Monks, giving no Heed to what he said, one of them, called _Ammonius_, threw a Stone at _Orestes_, which struck him on the Head; and being all covered with Blood from his Wound, his Guards, a few excepted, fled some one Way some another, hiding themselves in the Croud, lest they should be stoned to Death. In the mean while the People of _Alexandria_ ran to defend their Governor against the Monks, and, putting all the rest to Flight, they apprehend _Ammonius_, and brought him before _Orestes_; who, as the Laws prescribed, publickly put him to the Torture, and racked him till he expired. Not long after he gave an Account of all that was done to the Princes. Nor did _Cyril_ fail to give them a contrary Information.