On this account a council of bishops was convoked at Milan; many were deceived. But Dionysius, Eusebius, Paulinus, Rhodanius, and Lucifer, proclaiming that there was fraud in the affair, and asserting that the subscription against Athanasius was being contrived for no other reason than to destroy the faith, were thrust into exile. To these Hilary also was joined, while the rest either were ignorant of the deceit or did not believe it.