ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF PHILOSTORGIUS

Philostorgius (d. 439)

EPITOME

OF THE

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF PHILOSTORGIUS, COMPILED BY

PHOTIUS, PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE.

TRANSLATED

BY EDWARD WALFORD, M. A. LATE SCHOLAR OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD. London: Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden.

MDCCCLV. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF PHILOSTORGIUS BY THE TRANSLATOR. ALL that is known with certainty of Philostorgius is that he was a native of Cappadocia, and was born of humble parentage about the year A. D. 364. It would seem came to Constantinople in his youth to complete his studies; but it is uncertain whether he was educated for the legal or for the ecclesiastical profession. In later life he composed a History of the Church, comprised in twelve books from the beginning of the Arian schism down to the year AD. 425. The work itself is no longer extant; but we have an Epitome of it compiled by Photius, who was appointed to the Patriarchal see of Constantinople, A. D. 853, and under whom the schism between the Eastern and Western churches was formally consummated. We have also a short notice of this work in the Bibliotheca of the same learned writer ( Myriobiblion , Cod. 40). It is to be observed that Photius, although he was the author of the expulsion…

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