J.-P. Migne, Patrologiae cursus completus, Series Graeca, tomus III: titulus

Complete Course of Patrology, or Universal, Entire, Uniform, Convenient, Economical Library of All the Holy Fathers, Doctors, and Ecclesiastical Writers, whether of the Latins or of the Greeks, who flourished from the Apostolic Age to the age of Innocent III (year 1216) for the Latins and to the times of Photius (year 863) for the Greeks:

A chronological reprinting of all the monuments of Catholic tradition that have existed through the first twelve centuries of the Church and more, most diligently corrected according to the most accurate editions collated with one another and with several manuscript codices; continually illustrated with dissertations, commentaries, and variant readings; augmented by all the works discovered after the most ample editions completed in the last three centuries; furnished with particular analytical indexes following each volume or author of any importance; adorned with chapters duly arranged within the text itself, and also with titles distinguishing the upper margin of each page and signifying the subject matter; amplified with works both doubtful and apocryphal, yet possessing some authority in relation to ecclesiastical tradition; enriched with innumerable indexes, and especially with two immense and general ones, namely one of Subjects, upon consulting which whatever not only such and such a Father, but every single one of the Fathers without any exception has written upon any theme may be seen at a single glance, and the other of Sacred Scripture, from which it is easy for the reader to discover which Fathers, and in which places of their works, have commented upon the individual verses of the individual books of Scripture, from the first of Genesis to the last of the Apocalypse.

A most accurate edition, and easily to be preferred to all others, if one weighs the clearness of the type, the quality of the paper, the integrity of the text, the perfection of the correction, both the variety and the number of the reprinted works, the very convenient format of the volumes constantly uniform with itself throughout the whole course of the Patrology, the smallness of the price, and especially this single, methodical, and chronological collection of six hundred fragments and minor works hitherto scattered here and there, but now for the first time united in our Library from printed works and manuscripts belonging to all ages, places, languages, and formats.

Greek Series,

in which appear the Fathers, Doctors, and Writers of the Greek Church from St Barnabas to Photius,

edited by J.-P. Migne, editor of the Universal Library of the Clergy, or of the Complete Courses in the Individual Branches of Ecclesiastical Science.

The Patrology, after the likeness of the Church herself, is divided into two parts, namely one Latin and the other Graeco-Latin; the Latin, now wholly completed, consists of two hundred and twenty volumes, and sells for one thousand one hundred francs. The Greek has been committed to print in a twofold edition. The first comprises the Greek text with a collateral Latin version, and will perhaps exceed the number of one hundred volumes. The second exhibits the Latin version alone, and will therefore be kept within about fifty volumes. Each Graeco-Latin volume is purchased for eight francs only, and each purely Latin volume for five francs; in either case, however, in order that the buyer may enjoy the benefit of this price, it will be necessary that he acquire the entire Greek or Latin collection; otherwise varying prices will match the size and difficulties of each volume.

Volume III of the Greek Patrology.

St Dionysius the Areopagite.

Printed and sold at the house of J.-P. Migne, Editor, in the street called d'Amboise, near the gate of Paris commonly named d'Enfer, or Petit-Montrouge. 1857