Jerome, Illustrious Men 98
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Context
Among his many works, St. Jerome wrote a catalog of renowned thinkers of
the Roman world during the first years after his move from Rome to Bethlehem. In mostly
brief sketches he describes the intellectual achievements, particularly writings, of 135
men, many leaders in the early Church. He portrays five figures from Caesarea Maritima,
including in this passage on Pamphilus, who lived during the late 3rd to beginning of the
4th century.
Text
Acacius, quem, quia
luscus erat, μονόφθαλμον nuncupabant, Caesariensis ecclesiae in
Palaestina episcopus, elaboravit in Ecclesiasten decem et septem volumina, et συμμίκτων
ζητημάτων sex, et multos praeterea diversosque tractatus. In tantum autem sub Constantio
imperatore claruit, ut in Liberii locum Romae Felicem episcopum constitueret.
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Textual Note
Ed. Bernoulli 1895Translation
Acacius, whom they
used to call the One-Eyed because he was blind in one eye, was bishop of the Church of
Caesarea in Palestine. He wrote On Ecclesiastes in
17 volumes and Miscellaneous Questions in six, as well as many treatises on
various subjects. He was so influential during the reign of the emperor Constantius that he
made Felix bishop of Rome in place of Liberius.
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Translation Note
Adapted from Schaff 1892 and Halton 1999Works Cited
- 1 Jerome, Hieronymus und Gennadius: De viris inlustribus, ed. Carl Albrecht Bernoulli, repr. Frankfurt: Minerva, 1968, Sammlung ausgewählter kirchen- und dogmengeschichtlicher Quellenschriften 11 (Freiburg & Leipzig: J. C. B. Mohr and P. Siebeck, 1895), section: 98.
- 2 Jerome, Lives of Illustrious Men, in Theodoret, Jerome, Gennadius and Rufinus: Historical Writings, ed. Henry Wace and Philip Schaff, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. 2nd Series 3 (New York: Christian Literature Publishing, 1892), 359–84, p: 380.
Additional Bibliography
- Jerome, Saint Jerome: On Illustrious Men, trans. Thomas P. Halton, The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1999), p: 130-131.
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Eliana Yonan et al., “Jerome, Illustrious Men 98,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published June 30, 2023, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/140.
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