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Rh 58 EVAGRIUS. KaTa^iuiBcvros:) yvcicrecos, in fifty chapters, and 'E^aKocria UpoyvwcrTiKa, UpofiKruxara. These two pieces, which are by ancient and modeni writ- ers noticed as distinct works, are by the writer himself, in the address to Anatolius just men- tioned, regarded as one work, in six hundred and fifty chapters. Perhaps the complete work consti- tuted the 'l6p<{, one of the three works of Eva- grius mentioned by Palladius. The fifty chapters of the Vvai(TTiK65 were first translated into Latin by Gennadius. It is possible that the " paucas sententiolas valde obscuras," also translated by Gennadius, were a fragment of the UpofiKruJMra: Fabricius thinks that the treatise entitled Capita Gnostica published in Greek and Latin by Suare- sius, in his edition of the works of St. Nilus, is the Tv(i3<XTiK6s of Evagrius. 3. ''AvTipprjTiKos (or AuTipprjTiKa) diro rwi/ Qdicav ypaipwu, irpos tovs vetpd^ouras 5al/j.ovas. This work was translated by Gennadius. It was divided into eight sections corresponding to the eight evil thoughts. Fabri- cius and Gallandius consider that the fragment given by Bigotius (as already noticed) is a portion or compendium of this work, the scriptural pas- sages being omitted. But although that fragment, a Latin version of which, with some additional sent'^nces not found in the Greek, appears in the liiU'otL Patrum (vol. v. p. 902, ed. Paris, IBl 0, vol. iv. p. 925, ed. Cologn. 1618, vol. v. p. 698, ed. Paris, 1654, and vol. xxvii. p. 97, ed. Lyon, 1677} treats of the eight evil thoughts, it belongs, we think, to the Mofaxo's rather than the "'ApTipprjTiKos. 4. Sr/xrjpa dvo, two collections of sentences, pos- sibly in verse, one addressed to Coenobites or monks, the other to a virgin, or to women devoted to a life of virginity. A Latin version of these appears in the Appendix to the Codex Regularum of Holstenius, 4to., Rome, 1661, and reprinted in vol. i. pp. 465 — 468 of the Augsburg edition of 1759, and in the Biblioih. Patrum^ vol. xxvii. pp. 469, 470, ed. Lyon, 1677, and vol. vii. of the edi- tion of Gallandius. Jerome, who mentions the two parts of these ^rixvp"-, appears to refer to a third part addressed " to her whose name of black- ness attests the darkness of her perfidy," i. e. to Melania Romana ; but this work, if Jerome is co]> rect in his mention of it, is now lost. Gennadius mentions the two parts, not the third : and it is possible that, as Cave supposes, these, not the rvwtrrtKos, may constitute the 'Upd of Palladius. 5. Twv Kara Movaxoiv Trpayfidroov rd afrta, extant in Cotelerius, JSccles. Graec. Mon. vol. iii., and Gallandius, Bibl. Pairum, vol. vii., are noticed in the Vitae Patrum of Rosweid, and are perhaps referred to by Jerome, who says that Evagrius wrote a book and sentences Uepl 'ATraOeias ; in which words he may describe the Movaxos and this work Twv Kord Moj/axooi', both which are contained in one MS. used by Cotelerius. 6. A. fragment Eis TO mm (nin^)i or the tetragrammaton and other names of God used in the Hebrew Scriptures, published by Cotelerius and Gallandius {LI. cc.) 7. KfipdXaia Ky' Kar' aKoXovOlav. 8. TlvevixaTiKai yvufMUi Kurd d(pd6'r]Tou. 9. "Erepat yvcHp-ai. These three pieces are published by Gallandius as the works of Evagrius, whose claim to the author- ship of them he vindicates. They have been com- monly confounded with the works of St. Nilus. 10. 11. The life of the monk Pachrom ar Pahro- mius ; and A Sermon on the Trinity., both published by Suaresius among the works of St. Nilus, but EVALCES. assigned by him, on the authority of his MS., to Evagrius. Gallandius positively ascribes the sermon to Basil of Caesareia. 12. "Tiro/jLvrnnaTa ds Uapoifxias tow '2,ooij.wvtos, mentioned by Suidas (s. V. Evdypioi). Some understand Suidas to mean not "Notes on the Proverbs," but a "work on the model of the Proverbs of Solomon," and suppose that the 'Zrixvpa are referred to. Fabri- cius, however, is inclined to regard it as a com- mentary. 13. llepl Aoyia-fjiMV^ and 14. 'AirocpOey- fxara Trep) r(2u fieydXav yepouruu, both mentioned by Cotelerius (Eccles. Graec. Mon. vol. iii. pp.547, 552) as extant in MS. 15. Trithemius ascribes to Evagrius " a work on the life of the Holy Fa- thers ;" but he either refers to one of his works on " the monastic life," or has been misled by passages in Gennadius and Jerome. It is doubtful, however, whether these and several others of his writings extant in MS. and variously entitled, are distinct works, or simply compilations or extracts from some of the above. The genuineness of several of the above works must be regarded as doubtful. There are many citations from Evagrius in different writers, in the Scholia to the works of others, and in the Catenae on different books of Scripture. Jerome attests that his works were generally read in the East in their original Greek, and in the West in a Latin version made "by his disciple Rufinus." Jerome appears to have been the first to raise the cry of heresy against Evagrius. The editors of the Bibliotheca Patrum (except Gallandius) prefix to the portions of his works which they publish a prefatory caveat. He is charged with perpetuating the errors of Origen, and anticipating those of Pe- lagius. Tillemont vindicates him from these charges. Some of his opinions, as coincident with those of Origen, were condemned, according to Nicephorus Callisti, at the fifth general (second Constantinopolitan) council, A. D. 553. (Socrates, Hist. Eccles. iv. 23 ; Sozomen, Hist. Eccles. vi. 30; Palladius, Hist. Lausiac. c. 86, in the Bibl. Pa- trum^ vol. xiii., ed Paris, 1654 ; Hieronymus, aci Ctesiphontem, adv. Pelagianos, Opera, vol. iv. p. 476, ed. Martianay, Paris, 1693 ; Greg. Nazianz. Opera, pp. 870-71, ed. Paris, 1630 ; Gennadius, de Viris Illustr. c. 1 1 ; Suidas, s. v. Evdypios and MaKapios ; Nicephorus Callisti, Histor. Eccles. xi. 37, 42, 43; Trithemius, deScriptor. Eccles. c. 85 ; Cotelerius, Eecles. Graec. Monnm. vol. iii. p. 68, &c., and notes ; Tillemont, Memoires, vol. x. p. 368, &c. ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. p. 434, vol. viii. pp. 661, 679, 695, vol. ix. p. 284, &c., vol. X. p. 10; Gallandius, Biblioih. Patrum, vol. vii.; Oudin. Comment, de Scriptor. Eccles. vol. i. p. 883, &c. ; Cave, Hist. Lit. vol. i. p. 275, ed. Oxon. 1 740-43.) 5. An Evagrius, expressly distinguished by Gen- nadius from Evagrius of Pontus, wrote a work celebrated in its day, called Altercatio inter Tlieo- philum Chrisiianum et Simeonem Judaeum. It is published by Gallandius. (Gennadius, de Viris Illustribus, c. 50 ; Gallandius, Biblioth. Patrum^ vol. ix. Proleg. p. xvii. and p. 250, &c.) 6. An Evagrius, supposed by some to be Evagrius of Pontus, but not so if we may judge from the subject, wrote a treatise described as Va- riarum Considerationum sive de Sermonis Discrimitie Capita quinquaginta quatuor, extant in the MS. in the library of the Escurial. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. pp. 338, 367.) [J. C. M.] EVALCES (Ei5aAK7?s), Is referred to by Athe- naeus (xiii. p. 573) as the author of a work oa