The Lausiac History

NOTES ON PALLADIUS

...and a cover original Latin: "operculum"; which women use especially in the summer. See more in our Glossary.

Concerning a certain virgin, and Collythus.

"The holy martyr Collythus who was in that place"] Hervetus Gentian Hervet (1499–1584) was a French scholar who translated many Greek patristic texts into Latin. is mistaken, for he thinks that "the martyr" original Greek: "τὸν μάρτυρα" here refers to a Prefect of the martyrdom original Latin: "Præpositum martyrio". It is, in truth, the martyr himself.

"In the monastery"] In Hervetus's manuscript, it seems the text was "in the shrine of the martyr" original Greek: "ἐν τῷ μαρτυρίῳ". This is correct; for he says afterward: "Having gone out, she went away into the shrine of the martyr." Regarding what a martyrium A "martyrium" is a church, chapel, or shrine built over the grave of a Christian martyr. is, see our Glossary.

"The writing of Clement, the author of the Stromateis, on the prophet Amos"] Clement is nicknamed the "author of the Stromateis" original Greek: "Στρωματεύς" (Stromateus). His most famous work, the Stromata or "Miscellanies," was a collection of diverse observations on Christianity and philosophy. by more recent writers. Thus in Nicephorus, Book 4, Chapter 33: In that same course of time, Clement the priest, who was nicknamed the author of the Stromateis, applied himself to the same study as Pantaenus at Alexandria. Theodorus Metochites, in his History, Book 1: "And after this, Severus [reigned] for 17 years; under whom lived Clement the Stromateus, and Symmachus, and Origen." Some make this man an Alexandrian, others an Athenian. Epiphanius is a witness to this in Against the Secundians, Heresy 32: "Whether those who wrote well, and proved the truth of these things in their own writings, such as Clement—whom some say was an Alexandrian, others an Athenian—but also the holy Irenaeus." To give my own opinion: I judge him to be an Athenian; but that he began to be called an Alexandrian because, as a priest of the Alexandrian church, he began to become famous there for his writings. Eusebius, in his Ecclesiastical History, Book 5, Chapter 11: "During this time, Clement was known at Alexandria for his exercises in the divine scriptures." So also says Cedrenus.