![]() ![]() ![]() Evagrius gives a melancholy catalogue of his own subsequent losses through it. 542), he was near dying from a pestilential disorder which then first visited the Byzantine empire, and which continued at intervals for above half a century, if not more, to cause a fearful mortality. He was sent to school before or when he was four years old, for he was a schoolboy when he was taken by his parents to the neighbouring city of Apameia to see the exhibition of "the life-giving wood of the Cross," during the alarm caused by the capture of Antioch by Chosroes or Khosru I., king of Persia, A. The birth of Evagrius is fixed by data furnished in his own writings in or about A. ![]() 1.1, 16.31) twice cites him as ὁ ἐπιφανής, "the illustrious " but this is probably an error, either in the transcription of Nicephorus or in that of his authorities. ![]() 29), according to the present text, that he was of a celebrated city ( πόλεως δὲ ἐπιφανοῦς) of Coele-Syria but the text is probably corrupt. He was a native of Epiphaneia on the Orontes, in the province of Syria Secunda, as we gather from the title of his Ecclesiastical History, where he is called Ἐπιφανεύς. Of EPIPHANEIA, known also as EVAGRIUS SCHOLASTICUS and EX-PRAEFECTUS. ![]()
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