16.5.15
THE SAME AUGUSTI TO TRIFOLIUS, PRAETORIAN PREFECT.
All members of diverse and perfidious sects, who are driven by the insanity of a miserable conspiracy against God, shall not be allowed to have an assembly anywhere, to participate in discussions, to hold secret meetings, to erect impudently the altars of a neferious treachery by the offices of an impious hand, and to present the false appearance of mysterious, to the outrage of true religion. In order that this regulation may obtain its appropriate effectiveness, Your Sublimity shall appoint as watchmen certain very faithful persons who shall be able both to restrain the aforesaid persons and to arrest them and bring them before the courts. The offenders, according to the previous sanctions, shall pay the severest penalty both to God and to the laws.
GIVEN ON THE EIGHTEENTH DAY BEFORE THE KALENDS OF JULY AT STOBI IN THE YEAR OF THE SECOND CONSULSHIP OF OUR THEODOSIUS AUGUSTUS AND THE CONSULSHIP OF THE MOST NOBLE CYNEGIUS (= 14 June 388)
(trans. Pharr 1952: 453)