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Notitia de S. Anatolio Alexandrino, Laodicensi in Syria episcopo

Editors' preface

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ANNO DOMINI CCLX-CCLXX.

SANCTUS ANATOLIUS

ALEXANDRINUS

LAODICENSIS IN SYRIA EPISCOPUS.

THE YEARS OF THE LORD 260–270.

SAINT ANATOLIUS

OF ALEXANDRIA

BISHOP OF LAODICEA IN SYRIA.

NOTITIA

(GALLAND., Bibliotheca veterum Patrum III, Proleg., p. xxxvii.)

ACCOUNT

(Galland, Library of the Ancient Fathers III, Prolegomena, p. xxxvii.)

I. Anatolius, domo Alexandrinus, quo tempore floruit. Quantus vir. Omni scientiarum genere excultus. Patria relicta, in Syriam pergit. Consecratur episcopus. Anno 270 Ecclesiae Laodicenae regendae praeficitur.

I. Anatolius, a native of Alexandria; at what time he flourished. How great a man he was. Accomplished in every kind of learning. Having left his homeland, he goes into Syria. He is consecrated bishop. In the year 270 he is set over the government of the Church of Laodicea.

II. Externis sacrisque litteris in primis imbutus, illustria doctrinae suae monumenta reliquit. Celebratur prae caeteris ejus Canon Paschalis.

II. Steeped above all in secular and sacred letters, he left illustrious monuments of his learning. His Paschal Canon is celebrated before the rest.

III. Canonis Anatoliani antiqua versio. Ejus auctor inquiritur. Rufino asseritur. Hinc ejusdem Canonis veritas confirmatur. Versio Rufiniana integra hic exhibetur, Graecis Eusebianis intextis. Additus commentarius doctissimi Aegidii Bucherii.

III. The ancient version of Anatolius's Canon. Its author is sought. It is assigned to Rufinus. Hence the genuineness of the same Canon is confirmed. Rufinus's version is presented here entire, with the Greek from Eusebius woven in. The commentary of the most learned Gilles Boucher is added.

I. Probo et Caro imperantibus, teste Hieronymo, floruit Anatolius, domo Alexandrinus, Laodicenus episcopus : cujus eximias laudes persequitur his verbis Eusebius : « Hic tum in liberalibus disciplinis tum in philosophia principem inter doctissimos nostri temporis viros locum sine controversia tenuit, τὰ πρῶτα τῶν μάλιστα καθ' ἡμᾶς δοκιμωτάτων ἀπενηνεγμένος. » Qua de causa ab Alexandrinis suis rogatus est, ut Aristotelicae successionis scholam illic institueret, instar successionis Platonicae, cujus celeberrima schola jampridem Athenis fuerat constituta. Plurimae quoque res ab eo praeclare gestae referuntur : adeo ut apud omnes magnam sui nominis famam, atque inter civitatis suae proceres praecipuam honoris praerogativam omnium consensu fuerit adeptus.

I. When Probus and Carus were emperors, as Jerome witnesses, flourished Anatolius, a native of Alexandria, bishop of Laodicea: whose distinguished praises Eusebius recounts in these words: "Both in liberal disciplines and in philosophy he held without controversy the foremost place among the most learned men of our time, having carried off the first prizes among those most esteemed in our day." For which cause he was asked by his fellow-citizens of Alexandria to establish there a school of the Aristotelian succession, after the likeness of the Platonic succession, whose most celebrated school had long since been established at Athens. Very many things also nobly done by him are related: so much so that among all he gained a great renown for his name, and by the consent of all the chief prerogative of honour among the leading men of his city.

Relicta deinde Alexandria, post solutam Bruchii obsidionem, in Syriam migravit : ubi Theotecnus, inquit idem Eusebius, Caesareae Palaestinae episcopus primus illi manus imposuit, eumque episcopum ordinavit, successorem Ecclesiae suae despondens. Verum Antiochiam evocatus ad synodum Pauli Samosateni causa coactam, dum per urbem Laodiceam iter faceret, a fratribus illius loci, mortuo tunc Eusebio, detentus est : bonus, quod aiunt, boni viri successor : διάδοχος ἀγαθὸς, φασὶν, ἀγαθοῦ, καθίσταται. Supremum autem diem obiit Eusebius ejus decessor anno 270, quo adversus Samosatenum

Having afterwards left Alexandria, after the siege of the Bruchium was raised, he migrated into Syria: where Theotecnus, says the same Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, first laid hands upon him, and ordained him bishop, designating him successor to his own Church. But having been summoned to Antioch to the synod assembled on account of Paul of Samosata, as he was making his journey through the city of Laodicea, he was detained by the brethren of that place, Eusebius being then dead: a good successor, as the saying goes, of a good man: a good successor, they say, of a good man is appointed. Now his predecessor Eusebius departed this life in the year 270, in which against the Samosatene

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Hieron., De viris illustr. c. 73.

Jerome, On Illustrious Men, ch. 73.

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Euseb., Hist. eccl. lib. VII, c. 32.

Eusebius, Church History, book VII, ch. 32.

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Id. ibid.

The same, in the same place.

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habita est posterior synodus Antiochena. Quandiu vero sederit in cathedra Laodicensi Anatolius, haud liquet.

the later Antiochian synod was held. How long, however, Anatolius sat in the chair of Laodicea is not clear.

II. Non admodum multos composuisse libros Anatolium discimus ex episcopo Caesariensi : Οὐ μὲν ἐσπουδάσθη πλεῖστα τῷ Ἀνατολίῳ συγγράμματα : qui tamen, postquam ejus Canones paschales et decem libros Institutionum arithmeticarum memoravit, multa quoque alia suae in sacris litteris diligentiae atque doctrinae monumenta ipsum nobis reliquisse tradit : καὶ καταλέλοιπεν ὁ αὐτὸς... ἄλλα δείγματα τῆς περὶ τὰ θεῖα σχολῆς τε αὐτοῦ καὶ πολυπειρίας.

II. That Anatolius did not compose very many books we learn from the bishop of Caesarea: Οὐ μὲν ἐσπουδάσθη πλεῖστα τῷ Ἀνατολίῳ συγγράμματα: who nevertheless, after he has mentioned his Paschal Canons and ten books of Arithmetical Institutes, relates that he left us also many other monuments of his diligence and learning in the sacred letters: καὶ καταλέλοιπεν ὁ αὐτὸς... ἄλλα δείγματα τῆς περὶ τὰ θεῖα σχολῆς τε αὐτοῦ καὶ πολυπειρίας.

Et exstant quidem hodieque inter θεολογούμενα τῆς ἀριθμητικῆς Graece edita Parisiis 1543, quaedam excerpta ex libris Anatolii Institutionum arithmeticarum, ut monuit Valesius ad Eusebium ; eaque recenset Fabricius, qui et nonnulla ἐκ τῶν Ἀνατολίου διάφορα, ex Peiresciano codice ab Holstenio descripta, Graece vulgavit.

And indeed there are extant even today among the θεολογούμενα τῆς ἀριθμητικῆς published in Greek at Paris in 1543, certain excerpts from the books of Anatolius's Arithmetical Institutes, as Valesius noted on Eusebius; and Fabricius reviews them, who also published in Greek some ἐκ τῶν Ἀνατολίου διάφορα, copied out by Holstenius from the Peiresc codex.

Scripsit praeterea Anatolius, ut modo innuimus, volumen De paschate ; ex quo, inquit Hieronymus, ejus ingenii magnitudinem intelligere possumus. Praeclarum hujusce operis fragmentum nobis servavit Eusebius ; qui et ipse in eo auctoris eloquentiam simul et multiplicem ejus eruditionem, ὁμοῦ τό τε λόγιον καὶ πολυμαθὲς, admiratnr.

Anatolius wrote moreover, as we just now hinted, a volume On Easter; from which, says Jerome, we can understand the greatness of his genius. A noble fragment of this work Eusebius has preserved for us; who himself also admires therein the eloquence of the author together with his manifold erudition, ὁμοῦ τό τε λόγιον καὶ πολυμαθὲς.

III. Antiquam versionem Latinam Canonis paschalis

III. The ancient Latin version of the Paschal Canon

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Id. ibid

The same, in the same place.

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Fabric., Bibl. Gr. tom. II, p. 274.

Fabricius, Bibliotheca Graeca, vol. II, p. 274.

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Hieron., l. c.

Jerome, in the place cited.

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Euseb., l. c.

Eusebius, in the place cited.

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Anatoliani primus edidit ac doctissimo commentario illustravit ad calcem Victorii Aquitani, Aegidius Bucherius. Rufino passim tribuitur illius Canonis versio, Eusebianae ejus historiae for⟨t⟩asse adjungenda, ut conjicit cl. Fontaninius. Novimus enim, Rufinum Eusebii Caesariensis Historiam Latine quidem vertisse, sed etiam interpolasse. Quod in primis videre est in iis quae litteris tradidit de sancto Gregorio Thaumaturgo : ubi praeter nonnulla praeclara ejus gesta a Gregorio Nysseno enarrata, celebrem praeterea ipsius Fidei expositionem intexuit. Alium quoque locum interpolatum adducit Jacobus Usserius, ut laudatus Fontaninius advertit. Cum itaque Canonis Anatoliani longum excerptum in sua Historia retulisset Eusebius, integrum illud Latine reddiderit Rufinus. Neque nos demum hac de re dubitare sinunt omnino, quae habet idem Rufinus in sua Eusebianae Historiae versione, ad Anatolii Canonem pertinentia. Si enim ea conferantur cum iis quae apud veterem interpretem Bucherianum Graeco textui respondent, omnia plane Rufiniana esse perhibentur : ut proinde merito

of Anatolius was first published, and illustrated with a most learned commentary, by Aegidius Bucherius, at the end of Victorius of Aquitaine. To Rufinus is commonly attributed the version of that Canon, perhaps to be subjoined to his Eusebian History, as the illustrious Fontanini conjectures. For we know that Rufinus translated the History of Eusebius of Caesarea into Latin indeed, but also interpolated it. Which may especially be seen in the things which he committed to writing concerning Saint Gregory Thaumaturgus: where besides some noble deeds of his related by Gregory of Nyssa, he wove in moreover his celebrated Exposition of Faith. Another interpolated passage also is adduced by James Ussher, as the aforesaid Fontanini observes. Since therefore Eusebius had reported a long excerpt of the Canon of Anatolius in his History, Rufinus may have rendered it entire in Latin. Nor finally do the things which the same Rufinus has in his version of the Eusebian History pertaining to the Canon of Anatolius suffer us at all to doubt concerning this matter. For if they be compared with those things which in the ancient Bucherian translator correspond to the Greek text, all are clearly shown to be Rufinian: so that accordingly with good

arguendum videatur, reliqua pariter quae praecedunt et quae subsequuntur, ab eadem Rufini manu e Graeco in Latinum fuisse translata. Quod quidem mirari subit, Bucherium, Caveum, Fontaninium in primis, aliosque viros eruditos praeteriisse.

reason it seems to be argued that the remaining parts likewise which precede and which follow were translated from Greek into Latin by the same hand of Rufinus. Which indeed one cannot help wondering to have escaped Bucherius, Cave, Fontanini especially, and other learned men.

Atque hinc etiam illud emolumenti accedit, quod ex Eusebiano excerpto Rufinianae versionis comprobetur integritas : et ex ea rursum Canonis Anatoliani αὐθεντία confirmetur ; quam tamen nulla codicum mss. auctoritate, nullis veterum testimoniis adductis, nullaque ratione reddita, quin et invito Eusebio atque obnitente Rufino, elevare ausus est Dupinius. Ut illud hic omittamus, eumdem Anatolii Canonem passim laudari a Beda iis in locis, quae inferius a Bucherio excitata videas.

And hence also this advantage accrues, that from the Eusebian excerpt the integrity of the Rufinian version is proved: and from it again the authenticity of the Canon of Anatolius is confirmed; which nevertheless without any authority of manuscript codices, without any testimonies of the ancients adduced, and without any reason given, nay even against the witness of Eusebius and the opposition of Rufinus, Dupin dared to disparage. To pass over here the fact that the same Canon of Anatolius is everywhere cited by Bede in those passages which you may see adduced below by Bucherius.

Hunc itaque sancti Patris nostri genuinum fetum exhibemus ex accurata unica Bucherii editione, adjectis Graecis Eusebianis cum Latina interpretatione notisque Valesii. Ad haec accedit Commentarius ejusdem Bucherii, quo Canon Anatolianus maxime illustratur.

This genuine offspring of our holy Father we therefore exhibit from the accurate single edition of Bucherius, with the Greek excerpts of Eusebius added together with the Latin translation and notes of Valesius. To these is added the Commentary of the same Bucherius, whereby the Canon of Anatolius is greatly illustrated.

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Bucher., De doctr. temp., p. 439-449.

Bucherius, De doctrina temporum, pp. 439–449.

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Fontan., Hist. litter. Aquil. lib. V, c. 15, § 1, p. 380.

Fontanini, Historia litteraria Aquileiensis, book V, ch. 15, § 1, p. 380.

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Rufin., Hist. eccl. Euseb. lib. VII, c. 25.

Rufinus, Church History of Eusebius, book VII, ch. 25.

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Usser., Synt. de LXX Interp., c. V, p. 50.

Ussher, Syntagma de Septuaginta interpretibus, ch. V, p. 50.

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Rufin., Hist. eccl. Euseb. lib. VII, c. 28.

Rufinus, Church History of Eusebius, book VII, ch. 28.

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Vid. infr. col. 221.

See below, col. 221.

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Lunae VII. Forte lunae XIV. BUCHER.

Of the moon 7. Perhaps of the moon 14. BUCHERIUS.

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