On Illustrious Men

98. Acacius the bishop

ed Liberius, bishop of the city of Rome, to go into exile for the faith,5 then broke his word and induced him to subscribe to heresy.6 notes 1. Fortunatianus of Aquileia (d. 361) was a native of Sicca Veneria, in Numidia. 2. Emperor, 337–361. 3. CPL 104; CCL 9, 365–70; PLS 1, 239. In ep. 10, a sort of prose genethliacon to Paul, his centenarian friend in Concordia, Jerome, after much warm-hearted flattery, shamelessly requests payment for his praise in the form of books: “To be explicit I ask for the Commentaries of Fortunatianus .l.l.”; see ACW 33, 51 and 202 n. 11. Jerome may be referring to Fortunatianus ’s (now lost) Comm. on Matthew in the Preface to his translation of Origen’s Homilies on Luke; cf. Lienhard, FOTC 94, 3 n. 2. See also Paul Meyvaert , “An unknown source for Jerome and Chromatius. Some new fragments of Fortunatianus of Aquileia?” in Scire litteras, FS B. Bischoff, ABAW, N.F. 99 (Munich, 1988), 277–89. 4. On “sections,” cf. Q 2, 101, on Ammonius, and Q 3, 335, on Eusebius of Caesarea. 5. Chron., a.d. 349. On Pope Liberius see HLL 8, 5, 510–16. 6. Chron., a.d. 349 (ed. Helm, 237b), trans. Donalson, 45: “Liberius, overcome by the weariness of exile, and subscribing to a heretical depravity , had entered Rome like a conqueror.” references Q 4, 572 — CCL 9, 365–370 — DSp 7, 2162 — EECh 1, 328, B. Studer — EECh 1, 328, U. Dionisi — HLL 8, 5, 419–21 — Kelly, Jerome, 62 XCVIII. ACACIUS THE BISHOP cacius,1 whom, because he was blind in one eye they nicknamed “the one-eyed,” bishop of the church of Caesarea in Palestine,2 composed seventeen volumes On Ecclesiastes,3 and six, Summivktwn zhthmavtwn, On Miscellaneous Questions,4 and many treatises besides on various subjects.5 130 ST. JEROME ...