Forbidden writer given external stimulus

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The successors of Severus, while they lurked in convents or villages, while they sheltered their proscribed heads in the caverns of hermits, or the tents of the Saracens, still asserted, as they now assert, their indefeasible right to the title, the rank, and the prerogatives of patriarch of Antioch: under the milder yoke of the infidels, they reside about a league from Merdin, in the pleasant monastery of Zapharan, which they have embellished with cells, aqueducts, and plantations.

After a residence at Antioch of four years, the hand of Theodosius subscribed an edict, ^53 which ranked him with Simon the magician, proscribed his opinions and followers, condemned his writings to the flames, and banished his person first to Petra, in Arabia, and at length to Oasis, one of the islands of the Libyan desert.

Take into account, moreover, the enterprises which are directly destroyed, root and branch, by revolutionary executions, enforced against the manufacturers and traders of Lyons, Marseilles and Bordeaux, proscribed in a mass,[34] guillotined, imprisoned, or put to flight, their factories stopped, their storehouses put under sequestration, with their stocks of brandy, soap, silk, muslins, leather, paper, serges, cloth, canvas, cordage and the rest.

Their zeal was insensibly provoked by the insulting triumph of a proscribed sect.

Their religious meetings, whether public or secret, by day or by night, in cities or in the country, were equally proscribed by the edicts of Theodosius.

The Triumvirs proscribed eighteen of the most flourishing colonies of Italy.

The Mosaic law had severely proscribed all representations of the Deity.

By a second edict, he proscribed the existence as well as the use of religious pictures.

Under this administrative network, the meshes of which they encounter everywhere, the proscribed deputies can do naught else but hide in caves or escape by sea.

Some of the proscribed attempt to exculpate themselves, but they are not allowed to be heard.

Exasperated by the decree of the 6th which proscribed all the abettors of the insurrection, the city drives out, on the 19th, the representatives Baudot and Ysabeau.

There are thirty deputies to be proscribed and their names are whispered about.

Each of the proscribed has a gang of followers, and suddenly the whole gang are obliged to do a volte face.

Moreover, from the fact of their superior condition, they have contracted familiarities and formed connections with the proscribed class.

The foundations of Terror were all laid by the seventy-three in confinement before they were imprisoned, and by the sixteen who were proscribed before their proscription.