Victor, Polycrates, Theophilus of Cesarea, and Bachillus of Corinth.
ST. Jerome places Victor amongst the Ecclesiastical Writers, because he wrote some little Pieces about the day of the Festival of Easter, which he believed ought not to be celebrated upon any * 1.1 other day but a Sunday. Eusebius mentions but one Roman Synod published in the Name of Victor.
Polycrates Bishop of Ephesus wrote a Letter against the Opinion of Victor, wherein he pretended that we ought to celebrate this Festival upon the 14th day after the appearance of the Moon in March, upon what day of the Week soever it fell. Eusebius cites part of this Letter written in the name of Polycrates, in the 24th Chapter of the Fifth Book of his History, wherein he asserts, that St. Polycarp, and several other Disciples of the Apostles celebrated the Feast of Easter on the same day, as was generally observed in Asia, that is to say, the Fourteenth day after the appearance of the Moon in March upon what day soever it happened. This difference, as we have already observed, raised some divisions amongst the Churches, and exercised the Pens of the most Learned Bishops. The Bishops of Palestine, Narcissus of Jerusalem, Theophilus of Cesarea, Cassris of Tyre, and Clarus of Prolomials, wrote a Letter in the name of the Council, wherein, after they had proved that they derived this custom from the Apostles, they gave Orders to have their Letter solemnly published, and declared, that they celebrated Easter after the same manner as the Church of Alexandria did. Bachyilus Bi∣shop of Corinth wrote also a Letter in the name of the Bishops of Achaid upon the same Subject, and in Eusebius's time the Letters of the Bishops of Pontus of the Province of Osroene were extant. But all these Books are lost, and we have nothing that is ancient upon this Subject, except the Fragments of a Let∣ter of St. Irenaeus, and of that of Polycrates cited by Eusebius, lib. 5. c. 4. All these Letters were writ towards the end of the Reign of Commodus, or the beginning of that of Severus. There goes indeed under the name of Prolycrates, a Book Entituled, The Passion of Blessed Timothy, mentioned by Sigebert, and published by Stapulensis, but 'tis a supposititious Work, and never mentioned by the Ancients.