A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.

EPIPHANIUS SCHOLASTICUS.

CAssiodorus made this Man, whom he thought very Eloquent, translate the Ecclesiastical Histories * 1.1 of Socrates, Sozomen and Theodores, That eloquent Greece, says he, may not insult over us and boast that they have anything which we have not. This Version is faithful enough, but it favours very much of ••he Barbarism of the Age in which this Translator wrote.

[He translated also the Commentaries of Didymus upon Solomon's Proverbs, and the seven Cano∣nical Epistles, and the Commentaries of Epipha••ius the Cyprian upon Canticles, and perhaps many other Books. But all these Versions are lost. Only the Version which he made at the desire of Cas∣siodorus, of the Condex Encyclious, or a Collection of Synodical Epistles to Leo the Emperor in De∣fence of the Council of Chalcedon, is extant, Conc. Tome 4. p. 891. and has been publish'd more cor∣rect by Baluzius, in his new Collection of Councils, Paris 1683. fol. Cave Hist. Lit. 387.]

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• * 1.1

  Epiphani∣us Schola∣stieus.