"[Eleusius] and Marathonius: they were one from Cyzicus and the other from Constantinople, not approaching such a level in speaking ability that something great and brilliant from it could move crowds, but in austerity of life and moulding of their habits to moderation, of such ability that they too drew crowds around them which were not at all small, collecting populous monasteries of both men and women; and not least they attracted to themselves a crowd of many others of those who considered plain living and hardy training in daily life the most self-sufficient evidence of piety."