 When, after long search, his place of retreat was discovered, he not only refused to return to court and act as adviser to his former pupil, now Roman Emperor, Arcadius, but he would not even be his almoner to the poor and the monasteries of the neighbourhood.He invariably denied himself to visitors, no matter what their rank and condition and left to his disciples the care of entertaining them.A biography of Arsenius was written by Theodore the Studite.