Jerome, Illustrious Men 113
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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 this passage on Euzoius, who lived during the 4th century.
Text
Euzoius, apud
Thespesium rhetorem, cum Gregorio Nazianzeno episcopo adolescens
Caesareae eruditus est, et eiusdem postea urbis episcopus, plurimo
labore, corruptam iam bibliothecam Origenis et Pamphili in membranis instaurare conatus est.
Ad extremum sub Theodosio principe ecclesia pulsus est. Feruntur eius varii multiplicesque
tractatus, quos nosse perfacile est.
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Textual Note
Ed. Bernoulli 1895Translation
Euzoius as a young
man was educated at Caesarea at the school of Thespesius, together with bishop Gregory of
Nazianzus. Later, when he was bishop of the same city, he tried with great effort to restore
on parchment pages the Library of Origen and Pamphilus, which had already deteriorated. In
the end, during the reign of the emperor Theodosius, he was expelled from the Church. Many
varied treatises of his are in circulation, and one may very easily become acquainted with
them.
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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: 113.
- 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: 382.
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: 147.
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Eliana Yonan et al., “Jerome, Illustrious Men 113,” in Caesarea Maritima: A Collection of Testimonia, entry published June 30, 2023, https://caesarea-maritima.org/testimonia/142.
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