But lest they tear us, as lovers of Victorius, for having attacked him rashly, let them read the book of that most learned and most holy man, namely Victor bishop of Capua, On the Pasch — which was thought it ought to be celebrated on the fifteenth before the Kalends of May, in the thirteenth indiction, when Basilius was for the ninth time proconsul — and they will find at what worth their master was esteemed by the prudent and catholic doctors of the Church. The beginning of his book is: 'When the venerable solemnity of Pascha was anxiously inquired of us, on which day above all it should fall in the present thirteenth indiction of the year, and we said, according to the established rule of the venerable Fathers, that the resurrection of the Lord must without doubt be celebrated on the eighth before the Kalends of May;'
to some our answer seemed by no means reasonable, on the ground that a certain Victorius, in the paschal cycle which he published, had fixed the day of the Lord's resurrection — though he had designated it as the very one which we openly profess must be celebrated.' And further on in the work: 'But now, I say, the order of things demands that I clearly disclose the errors of the cycles which Victorius published, since he does not know how to define the lawful paschal day, so that, when in past times he is shown to have erred in this manner, in present and future times he may both lack authority and lose the occasion for wicked persuasion.'