| Accordingly, I made my investigation without anxiety, certain that what the Manichees said was untrue. |
| His episcopate was marked by his continual opposition to the heresies of the Pelagians, Donatists, and Manichees. |
| However, by 384 Augustine was unsatisfied and he broke away from the Manichees to open the New Academy, a school of rhetoric, in which he became the official orator of Milan. |
