Jerome, Illustrious Men 98
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Caesarea Maritima is indirectly attested at Jerome, Illustrious Men 98. This passage was written ca. 392-393 C.E. possibly in Bethlehem. 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.

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.

[Ed. Bernoulli 1895]

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.

[Adapted from Schaff 1892 and Halton 1999]

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[...] 130-131

[Jerome, Letter 119.6

Jerome, Letter 34.1

Socrates Scholasticus, Church History 2.4]

[Rome]

[Constantius II, emperor

Felix, bishop of Rome

Liberius, bishop of Rome]

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