> The pagan teacher, Libanius, from Antioch described Cynegius the &ndash; the Roman prefect from Spain who governed a vast swath of the eastern Mediterranean on behalf of Theodosius (also from Spain)&ndash; leading troops of Roman soldiers and Christian monks on a rampage through the Syrian, Lebanese, Palestinian and Egyptian countrysides against pagan sites. Following the death in 388 of his praetorian prefect, Cynegius, who had vandalized a number of pagan shrines in the middle eastern provinces. <|endoftext|> 