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The epoch is described by the 4th century historian Ammianus Marcelllinus in the following terms:

"The highways were covered with galloping bishops"

The "fleeing" business on a number of fronts was "from" the "early Christian Bishops of the 4th century". The "our generation" and the Greek/Coptic texts appears to indicate that it was the Hellenistic academic civilisation itself that was fleeing the christian revolution.