Eutichius Patriarch of Alexandria.
EUtichius the Egyptian, of the Country call'd Said in Egypt, born in the year 876, by Pro∣fession a Physician, and Patriarch of Alexandria from the Year 933 to the Year 940, * 1.1 composed several Treatises in Arabick. Those which have been Transmitted to our times, are a Treatise of Physick, a Dispute between an Heretick and a Christian, an History of Sicily from the time of the taking of that Island by the Sarazens, and Annals from the be∣ginning of the World down to the Year 937, containing several remarkable Transactions both of Ecclesiastical and Prophane History, and which he has intituled a Methodical Dis∣position, or Composition of precious things, or the Substance, or Marrow of History. Selden in the Year 1642 printed at London, a Fragment of his Treatise concerning the Election and Ordination of the first Patriarchs of Alexandria, which Eutichius asserts had been done till Alexander's Time, by twelve Presbyters of that Church, who chose one among themselves for Patriarch, and laid their hands upon him. He likewise there maintains that there was not a Bishop in all Egypt till the time of Demetrius. This very Treatise has since that been pub∣lished entire by Selden, and printed in the Year 1658 at London, in two Volumes in 40 both in Arabick and in Latin. 'Tis full of Fables and very Vulgar Stories.