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446 -HESYCHIUS. HESYCHIIUS.
dead body he surreptitiously conveyed from the the year following, A. D. 415. He gives him no
isle of Crete, where. he died, to the Holy Land. higher title when recording his death, A. M. 5926,
(Hieron. Vita S. Hilarionis, passim; Opera, vol. Alex. era,=A. D. 434. Photius, who has described
iv. pars ii. col. 74, &c. ed. Benedict; Sozom. some of his works, also calls him "Hesychius,
H. E. iii. 14; Fabr. Bibl. Gr. vol. vii. p. 552.] presbyter of Jerusalem," but without mentioning
3. AEGYPTIUS. An Egyptian bishop, who suf- the time when he lived. Yet, notwithstanding
fered martyrdom in the persecution under Diocletian these tolerably clear intimations, Miraeus (Auctaand his successors in the East, perhaps about A. D. rium de Scriptor. Eccles. No. clxxv.), Possevinus
310 or 311. It is not clear whether he was ex- (Apparatus Sacer, vol. i. p. 739, ed. Col. 1608),
ecuted at Alexandria or elsewhere. Hody and Cave, and Thorschmidt (Comment. de Hesychio
others regard him as identical with the Hesychius Milesio), consider Hesychius the writer to be idenwho revised the Septuagint, and whose revision was tical with the Isysius or Isacius ('Io'LKros), bishop or
commonly used in Egypt and the adjacent churches. patriarch of Jerusalem, to whom pope Gregory the
Fabricius, who thinks this identity probable, is also Great wrote an epistle (Epistol. xi. 40.; Opera,
disposed to regard the martyr Hesychius as the vol. ii. col. 1133, ed. Benedict.), and whose death
same person as Hesychius of Alexandria, the author occurred, according to the Alexandrian or Paschal
of the Lexicon; but Thorschmidius regards the au- chronicle, in A. D. 609. (Citron. Pasch. p. 382, ed.
thor of the Lexicon as a distinct person. [HESY- Paris, vol. i. p. 699, ed. Bonn.) But the absence of
cHivs of Alexandria, below.] (Euseb. H. E. viii. any higher designation than presbyter in Photius
13; Hieronym. Praef. in Paralipom. and Praefat. and Theophanes forbid the supposition that their
in Quatuor Evang.; Opera, vol. i. col. 1023, 1429, Hesychius ever attained episcopal rank; and the
ed. Benedictin; Hody, De Biblior. Textibus Ori- want of any distinguishing epithet leads us to conginal., fol. Oxford, 1705, p. 303; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. clude that there was no other Hesychius of Jerusavol. vii. 547; Thorschmidius, De Hesych. Miles. lem who had acquired distinction as a writer. The
Illa.str. Christian. Colnmentat. sect. i. apud Orellium, account of Hesychius in the Greek Menology is
Hesyclii Opusc.) probably correct in its general outline. According
4. Of ALEXANDRIA. See below. to it, he was born and educated at Jerusalem,
5. Of APAMEIA, called, in the older editions of where, by meditating on the Scriptures, he acPorphyry's life of Plotinus, JUSTINUS ('Iouvcr7os) quired a deep acquaintance with divine things.
HEsYCHIUS, but in Creuzer's edition of Plotinus, He afterwards left Jerusalem, and followed a moto which the life by Porphyry is prefixed, Us- nastic life "in the deserts" (it is not stated in
TILLIANUS (Ol6A-ttamavs) HESYCHIUS, was the what desert, but it was probably in Palestine),
adopted son of Amelius, one of the later Platonists gathering from the holy fathers there, with beein the latter half of the third century. [AMELIUS.] like industry, the flowers of virtue. He was
Amelius gave or bequeathed to him a hundred books ordained presbyter, against his will, by the patriof commentaries, in which he had collected or re- arch of Jerusalem, and spent the rest of his life in
corded the instructions of the philosopher Nume- that city, or in other places where the Lord Jesus
nius. (Porphyr. Vit. Plotini, c. 3, apud Creuzer. Christ had suffered. Trithemius, who calls him
Opera Plotini, 3 vols. 4to. Oxford, 1835; Fabric. Esytius (De Scriptor. Eccles. No. lxxxii), and SixB3ibt. Gr. vol. iii. p. 180, vol. vii. p. 152.) tus of Sena (Bibl. Sancta, lib. iv. p. 245, ed. Col.
6. Of CONSTANTINOPLE, a writer of unknown 1586), say, but we know not on what authority,
date, who wrote Els XaNKoOv odrLv Ad7yo0L'. Pho- that he was a disciple of Gregory Nazianzen,
tius, from whom alone we learn any thing of this which is hardly probable.
writer, says that, " so far as could be judged from His principal writings are, 1. In Leviticum Libr i
this piece, he appeared to be orthodox." Probably septens. A Latin version of this was published
he was the Hesychius, one of the clergy of Con- fol. Basel, 1527, and 8vo. Paris, 1581, and is restantinople, who raised in that city the cry of printed in the Bibliotheca Patrum (vol. xii. p. 52,
heresy against Eulomius, apparently about A.D. &C., ed. Lyon. 1677). The authorship and original
360. [EUNOMIUS.] Thorschmidius thinks that language of this work have been much disputed.
he was perhaps the author of the Ecclesiastical In some passages the writer evidently speaks asHistory, known by one or two citations, and ge- one to whom the Latin tongue was vernacular;
nerally regarded as a work of Hesychius of'Jeru- and in some of the MSS. he is called Isychius,
salem. CHESYcHIus HIEROSOLYMITANUS, No. 7.] presbyter of Salona, not tobe confounded with the
(Phot. Bibl. Cod. 51; Philostorg. H. E. vi. 1; Hesychius the correspondent of Augustin (AugusFabric. Bibl. Gr..vol. vii. p. 547.) tin, Ep. 197, 198, 199; Opera, vol. ii. col. 737, &c.,
7. HIEROSOLYMITANUS, or of JERUSALEM, an ed. Benedict. 1679, and vol. ii. p. 1106, ed. Paris,
early Christian writer of considerable repute in 1836), whom Augustin addresses as his "coepiscohis day, many of whose writings are extant. pus;" but Tillemont thinks that the original was in
The date of his life and his official rank in Greek, and that there are internal indications that
the church have been much disputed. Cyril of the writer lived at Jerusalem; and Cave suggests
Scythopolis, in his life of St. Euthymius (BlosT ro that the passages in which the writer speaks as a
dytov cra'ps juch'v EvtOvulov, Cotel. Eccles. Graec. Latin are the interpolations of the translator, whom
Monumn. vol. iv. p. 31), speaks of Hesychius, he supposes to have been Hesychius of Salona. The
".presbyter and teacher of the church,"- as being work is cited as the work of Hesychius of Jerusalem
with Juvenal patriarch of Jerusalem, when he de- by Latin writers of the ninth century. The Latin
dicated the church of the " Laura," or monastery version is ancient, though subsequent to the time
of Euthymius, A. D. 428 or 429. Theophanes re- when the Latin version of the Scriptures by
cords the irpogoAi), advancement (i.e. ordination?) Jerome came into general use in the church. Conof Hesychius, " the presbyter of Jerusalem," A. M. siderable pains are taken in the work to confute
5906, Alex. era (=A.D. 414); and notices him again. the opinions of Nestorius, and, as is thought by
as eminent for learning ([vOest?ars saaKaNaitrs) many, of Eutyches. Now, as the heresy of the