n“Edicts of Theodosius against the heretics, A.D. 380-394...Theodosius...decreed that...by the death of the offender; and the same capital punishment was inflicted on the Audians, or Quartodecimans, who should dare to perpetrate the atrocious crime of celebrating on an improper day the festival” -
Gibbon E. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume III, Chapter
XXVII. ca. 1776-1788.