EUGIPPIUS.
EUgippius or Egippius, Abbot of Villa Lucullana in the Country of Naples, wrote to Paschasius the Deacon, a Book concerning the Life of St. Severinus. He compos'd also a Rule for the Mona∣stery of this Saint, which he left him at his death. This is what Isidore of Sevil says of him. Pro∣bably this is the same Eugippius of whom Cassiodorus gives the following Testimony in his Book of Divine Learning, ch. 23. You must read the Works of the blessed Priest Eugippius which we have seen. This man was not very learned, but he was fill'd with the knowledge of the Holy Scripture. He dedicated to his Mother Proba, a Collection taken out of the Works of St. Austin, wherein he made Extracts of this Fa∣ther's Sentiments and Thoughts, whereof he compos'd one Book only, divided into 338 Chapters. 'Tis cer∣tain that this Book is very useful, since he has collected with great exactness into one Book, what can hard∣ly be found in a whole Library. Sigebert of Gemblours does also mention this Work; but he says that this Eugippius, who is the Author of it, liv'd it the time of Pelagius the Second, and of the Empe∣ror Tiberius Constantine, i. e. about the end of the fifth Age. This made some Authors think, that he is different from the Author of the Life of St. Severinus, whom Isidore of Sevil places under the Empire of Anastasius, and under the Consulship of Importunus in 511. But it is easie to perceive that it is an Error of Sigebertus, since the Author of the Collection of the Thoughts of St. Austin was more ancient then Cassiodorus, and his Book was compos'd when Cassiodorus wrote his Book of Divine Learning. 'Tis very probable therefore that it is the same, and that there is no difference between him to whom St. Fulgentius, and him to whom Ferrandus wrote, as Trithemius has observ'd.
The Life of St. Severinus was publish'd in part by Bollandus, and is publish'd entire among the Works of Velserus. The Collection of Passages out of St. Austin was printed at Basil in 1542, and at Venice in 1543.