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58 EVAGRIUS. EVALcE;.
KacratevTOs)?yvdoews, in fifty- chapters, and assigned by him, -on the authority of his MS.,'EtaKc6oa IIpowyvwaoK'rfpoBAr/,a'a. These two to Evagrius. Gallandius positively ascribes the
pieces, which are by ancient and modern writ- sermon to Basil of Caesareia. 12.'T~ro/uvw4uaa els
ers noticed as distinct works, are by the writer Hapolutas T'OO Zo Aoovvsros, mentioned by Suidas
himself, in the address to Anatolius just. men- (s. v. Evcypios). Some understand Suidas to mean
tioned, regarded as one work, in six hundred and not "Notes on the Proverbs," but a "work on
fifty chapters. Perhaps the complete work consti- the model of the Proverbs of Solomon," and
tuted the'Iepa, one of the three works of Eva- suppose that the:T-X-Lpa are referred to. Fabrigrius mentioned by Palladius. The fifty chapters cius, however, is inclined to regard it as a comof the rvwrrKOtcds were first translated into Latin mentary. 13. rTIpl Aonyiw'w, and 14.'A'ro)01Eby Gennadius. It is possible that the " paucas Cawra Wepl ITVY jcAyde' ye~po'v'wv, both mentioned
sententiolas valde obscuras," also translated by by Cotelerius (Eccles. l-aec. Mon. vol. iii. pp.547;
Gennadius, were a fragment of the rIpoB3ie/a'a: 552) as extant in MS. 15. Trithemius ascribes
Fabricius thinks that the treatise entitled Capita to Evagrius " a work on the life of the Holy FaGnostica published in Greek and Latin by Suare- thers;" but he either refers to one of his works on
sius, in his edition of the works of St. Nilus, is " the monastic life," or has been misled by passages
the rvworTLKs of Evagrius. 3.'ATljvrpU71Tos (or in Gennadius and Jerome. It is doubtful, however,
AVTPr7U1KCa) dra'rz Oecv ypapz,, crpas'os whether these and several others of his writings'erpdA~oVTas 8aeIovYas. This work was translated extant in MS. and variously entitled, are distinct
by Gennadius. It was divided into eight sections works, or simply compilations or extracts from
corresponding to the eight evil thoughts. Fabri- some of the above. The genuineness of several of
cius and Gallandius consider that the fragment the above works must be regarded as doubtful.
given by Bigotius (as already noticed) is a portion There are many citations from Evagrius in different
or compendium of this work, the scriptural pas- writers, in the Scholia to the works of others, and
sages being omitted. But although that fragment, in the Catenae on different books of Scripture.
a Latin version of which, with some additional Jerome attests that his works were generally read
sentences not found in the Greek, appears in the in the East in their original Greek, and in the West
Biblioth. Patrum (vol. v. p. 902, ed. Paris, 1610, vol. in a Latin version made "by his disciple Rufinus."
iv. p. 925, ed. Cologn. 1618, vol. v. p. 698, ed. Paris, Jerome appears to have been the first to raise
1654, and vol. xxvii. p. 97, ed. Lyon, 1677) treats the cry of heresy against Evagrius. The editors of
of the eight evil thoughts, it belongs, we think, to the Bibliotheca Patrucm (except Gallandius) prefix
the Movaxo's rather than the'AVriPrtlKucds. 4. to the portions of his works which they publish a.'rXtpa 5so, two collections of sentences, pos- prefatory caveat. He is charged with perpetuating
sibly in verse, one addressed to Coenobites or the errors of Origen, and anticipating those of Pemonks, the other to a virgin, or to women devoted lagius. Tillemont vindicates him from these
to a life of virginity. A Latin version of these charges. Some of his opinions, as coincident with
appears in the Appendix to the Codex Regularum those of Origen, were condemned, according to
of Holstenius, 4to., Rome, 1661, and reprinted in Nicephorus Callisti, at the fifth general (second
vol. i. pp. 465-468 of the Augsburg edition of Constantinopolitan) council, A. D. 553. (Socrates,
1759, and in the Biblioth. Patrum, vol. xxvii. pp. Hist. Eccles. iv. 23; Sozomen, Hist. Eccles. vi. 30;
469, 470, ed. Lyon, 1677, and vol. vii. of the edi- Palladius, Hist. Lausiac. c. 86, in the Bibi. Pation of Gallandius. Jerome, who mentions the trum, vol. xiii., ed Paris, 1654; Hieronymus, ad
two parts of these riXrlnpa, appears to refer to a Ctesiphontem adv. Pelagianos, Opera, vol. iv. p.
third part addressed " to her whose name of black- 476, ed. Martianay, Paris, 1693; Greg. Nazianz.
ness attests the darkness of her perfidy," i. e. to Opera, pp. 870-71, ed. Paris, 1630; Gennadius,
Melania Romana; but this work, if Jerome is cor- de Viris Illustr. c. 11; Suidas, s. v. Euadypros and
rect in his mention of it, is now lost. Gennadius MaKadpros; Nicephorus Callisti, Histor. Eccles. xi.
mentions the two parts, not the third: and it is 37, 42, 43; Trithemius, de Scriptor. Eccles. c. 85;
possible that, as Cave'supposes, these, not the Cotelerius, Eccles. Graec. Monum. vol. iii. p.
rl/wamTLCs, may constitute the'Iepid of Palladius. 68, &c., and notes; Tillemont, Mgmoires, vol. x.
5. Tav Kard MovaXc6v 1rpa-yua!rwi q'd afrea, extant p. 368, &c.; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vii p. 434,
in Cotelerius, Eccles. Graec. Mon. vol. iii., and vol. viii. pp. 661, 679, 695, vol. ix. p. 284, &c., vol.
Gallandius, Bibl. Patrum, vol. vii., are noticed in x. p. 10; Gallandius, Biblioth. Patrum, vol. vii.;
the Vitae Patrum of Rosweid, and are perhaps Oudin. Comment. de Scriptor. Eccles. vol. i. p. 883,
referred to by Jerome, who says that Evagrius wrote &c.; Cave, Hist. Lit. vol. i. p. 275, ed. Oxon. 1740-43.)
a book and sentences nepl'A7iaOetas; in which 5. An Evagrius, expressly distinguished by Genwords he may describe the Movaxds and this work nadius from Evagrius of Pontus, wrote a work
TUv Kard MOaXcah, both which are contained in celebrated in its day, called Altercatio inter Theoone MS. used by Cotelerius; 6. A.fragment Els philum Christianum et Simeonem, Judaeum. It is
TJ IIIIII ((lI), or the tetragrammaton and other published by Gallandius. (Gennadius, de Viris
names of God used in the Hebrew Scriptures, Illustribus, c. 50; Gallandius, Biblioth. Patrum,
published by Cotelerius and Gallandius (11. cc.) vol. ix. Proleg. p. xvii. and p. 250, &c.)
7. KeIqdaAad AXy' KaT' daoaovOlav. 8. rIvevpiaTmcal 6. An Evagrius, supposed by some to be
Tyvcnaf Kaard Akparafior. 9. "E'epaL yvcc3,ara. Evagrius of'Pontus, but not so if we may judge
These three pieces are published by Gallandius as from the subject, wrote a treatise described'as Vathe works of Evagrius, whose claim to the author- riarum Considerationum sive de Sermonis Discriminz
ship of them he vindicates. They have been com- Capita quinquaginta quatuor, extant in the MS. in
monly confounded with the works of St. Nilus. the library of the EscuriaL (Fabric. Bibl. Grace.
10.'11. Thle life of the monk Pachrom ar Pahro- vol. vi. pp.'338, 367.) [J. C. M.]
mnius; and A Sermon on the Trinity, both published EVALCES (Ed4hArc1s), is referred to by Atheby Suaresius among the works of St. Nilus, but naeus (xiii. p. 573) as the author of a work on