On Illustrious Men

113. Euzoius the bishop

LThK 6, 709–10, O. Perler — LThK 23 , 1370, S. Heid — NCE 5, 576–78, A. A. Stephenson — TRE 8, 261–66, E. J. Yarnold CXIII. EUZOIUS THE BISHOP uzoius1 as a young man was educated at Caesarea at the school of the rhetor Thespesius,2 and had Gregory of Nazianzus, a bishop,3 as a fellow student. He later became bishop of the same city of Caesarea, after great endeavors to preserve the holdings of the library of Origen and Pamphilus4 which had greatly deteriorated. Finally he was excommunicated from the church in the reign of the emperor Theodosius.5 2. Diverse and numerous works of his6 are in circulation and it is very easy to get to know them. notes 1. Euzoius was a moderate Arian who baptized Constantius on his deathbed. 2. For the rhetor Thespesius, cf. “Thespesius 2,” PLRE 1, 910. 3. See F. W. Norris, Faith Gives Fullness to Reasoning: The Five Theological Orations of Gregory of Nazianzen (Leiden, 1991), 3 and n. 18. Gregory wrote Epitaph 4 for Thespesius. 4. bibliotheca: Courcelle, LLW, 104; H. Y. Gamble, Books, 154–60 (DVI 113, not 112!); and on the phrase in membranis instaurare, Gamble, op. cit., 159, where it is explained as a conversion from papyrus to parchment; cf. Barnes, C. and E., 347 n. 21. 5. For his earlier associations with Arius, see Barnes, C. and E., 229, 238. 6. Cf. Q 3, 348: “all [his works] have disappeared, and even their titles are unknown.” Jerome had easy access to his works in the library of Caesarea . references Q 3, 348 — EECh 1, 305, M. Simonetti — Kelly, Jerome, 135 ON ILLUSTRIOUS MEN 147 ...