[Footnote 23: See the youth and promotion of Cyril, in
Socrates, (l. vii. c. 7) and Renaudot, (Hist. Patriarchs.
Alexandrin. p. 106, 108.) The Abbe Renaudot drew his
materials from the Arabic history of Severus, bishop of
Hermopolis Magma, or Ashmunein, in the xth century, who can
never be trusted, unless our assent is extorted by the
internal evidence of facts.]