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LXXVIII. PHILEAS THE BISHOP hileas, from the egyptian city called Thmuis,1 a man of noble family and not inconsiderable means, after becoming bishop, composed a most elegant book, In Praise of Martyrs,2 and, after a debate against the judge who compelled him to offer sacrifice,3 he was beheaded for Christ by the same instigator of persecution in Egypt4 as was Lucian in Nicomedia.5 notes 1. Eus., h.e. 8.9.7–8; Thmuis, a town in lower Egypt. 2. CPG 1671; h.e. 8.10.2–10, a letter to the Thmuites. 3. h.e. 8.10.11–12; 8.13.7. 4. He died c. 307. See The Acts of Phileas Bishop of Thmuis including Fragments of the Greek Psalter, P. Chester Beatty XV (With a New Edition of P. Bodmer XX, and Halkin’s Latin Acta), ed. with intro., trans., and comm. by A. Pietersma (Geneva, 1983). 5. For Lucian in Nicomedia, see h.e. 8.13.2. references Q 2, 117 — CPG 1, 1671–1672 — EEC 22 , 908, E. Ferguson — EECh 2, 680, V. Saxer — BHL 6799 LXXIX. ARNOBIUS THE RHETORICIAN rnobius,1 in the reign of the emperor Diocletian ,2 taught rhetoric with great success in Sicca, Africa, and wrote volumes Against the Pagans3 which enjoy wide circulation. notes 1. The first entry under a.d. 327 in Jerome’s Continuation of Eusebius’s Chronicle (ed. Helm, 231g), trans. Donalson, 39, reads: “Arnobius was con110 ST. JEROME ...

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