The [ Exoukontion ]

 A TITLE of the Arians, from [ ex ouk onton ], out of nothing, one of their original positions concerning the Son. Theodoret says that they were also called Exacionitæ, from the name of their place of meeting, Hær. iv. 3, and Du Cange confirms it so far as to show that there was a place or quarter of Constantinople called Exocionium or Exacionium. Some have thought that Exucontians and Exocionites are perhaps the same word corrupted. At the same time, since the Arians of Constantinople were of the violent sort who were called by various names, AnomSans, Aetians, Eunomians, Acacians, as well as pure Arians, it is not improbable that, in order to distinguish them from the more moderate heretics, they were also called in Constantinople from Exocionium, the district of the great metropolis to which they belonged.