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not to mention a vast number of other details of minor importance, will always be read and used with the deepest interest by lovers of ecclesiastical history.

IV. HISTORY OF SOCRATES’ WORK.

A. Uses made before the First Printed Edition of the Greek Text.

Socrates’ Ecclesiastical History was used, according to the best authorities, by Sozomen in the composition of his parallel history¹. It was certainly used by Liberatus, the Carthaginian deacon, in his Breviarium causæ Nestorianorum et Eutychianorum original: "A Summary of the Cause of the Nestorians and Eutychians", which he brings down to A.D. 555, and by Theodorus Anagnostes (the Lector), who flourished in the reign of Justinian, and whose Ecclesiastical History² is continued to the closing year of Anastasius, A.D. 527. It was also quoted in the second Council of Nicæa, under the name of Rufinus, and also under its author’s name³.

Epiphanius, surnamed Scholasticus, translated the history of Socrates, together with those of Sozomen and Theodoret, under the auspices of Cassiodorus, about the beginning of the sixth century. This translation, under the name of Historia Ecclesiastica Tripartita original: "Tripartite Ecclesiastical History", consists of twelve books.

The earliest dated edition of the Historia Tripartita is that printed at Augsburg by Johannes Schussler in 1472, in folio; but a quarto edition without a date is probably from about the same time. Editions were also printed at Spires by Drach and at Strasbourg by Flach in the fifteenth century. Later on, one was printed at Paris by Regnault about the year 1525. The same work was revised by Beatus Rhenanus and published at Bâle (together with the Latin version of Eusebius by Rufinus) in 1523, 1528, 1535, 1539, and 1568. It was printed later on with an edition of Nicephorus Callisti at Frankfurt on the Main in 1588. It is also found in the new edition of Cassiodorus printed at Rouen by Jo. Garetius in 1679, and in Venice in 1729. It served as a basis for a French translation by Ægidius Gourlinus (Gille Gourlin), published in Paris in 1538, and one in 1568 by Cyaneus; and for a German translation by Caspar Hedio at Strasbourg, 1545.

B. Editions.

There are two independent editions of Socrates’ Ecclesiastical History, each of which has served as a basis for reprints, secondary editions, and translations. These are:

I. Eusebii Pamphili: Hist. Eccl. original: "Ecclesiastical History" Libri X.; ejusdem de Vita Constantini original: "on the Life of Constantine" Libri V.; Socratis Hist. Eccl. Libri VII.; Theodoreti Episc. Cyrenensis Hist. Eccl. Libri V.; Collectaneorum ex Hist. Eccl. original: "Collections from Ecclesiastical History" Theodori Lectoris Libri II.; Hermiæ Sozomeni Hist. Eccl. Libri IX.; Evagrii Hist. Eccl. Libri VI. Lut. Paris. ex off. Rob. Stephani 1544, the day before the Kalends of July June 30, 1544.

a. Upon this edition is based a Latin translation by Wolfgang Musculus, Bâle 1544, 1549, 1557, 1594, and one by J. J. Christophorson, bishop of Chichester, Paris 1571, Cologne 1581, Bâle 1570; with notes by Grynæus and by Henricus Petri 1611; incorporated into the Bibliotheca Patrum original: "Library of the Fathers", ed. Cologne 1618 as Vol. V. and ed. Lyons 1677 as Vol. VII.

b. The Greek text of Stephens and the Latin translation of Christophorson were published together in Geneva, 1612.

c. An English translation of Socrates’ Ecclesiastical History was made by Meredith Hanmer⁴, and is contained in his Ancient Ecclesiastical Histories of the first six hundred years after Christ, written in the Greek tongue by three learned Historiographers, Eusebius, Socrates and Evagrius. London 1577⁵.

¹ So Harnack and Jeep. Cf. also Hartranft in the present vol., p. 22r.
² Theodorus besides his Historia Ecclesiastica, the fragments of which are printed at the end of some of the Editions of Eusebius, etc., compiled an epitome of the histories written previous to his time.
³ Cf. Mansi, Concil. XII. Coll. 1035 and 1042.
⁴ Cf. Antony a Wood, Athenæ Oxonienses, Vol. I. p. 326.
⁵ This work also contains Dorotheus’ Lives of the Prophets, Apostles, and Seventy Disciples, and was reprinted in 1585, 1607, 1619, 1636, 1660, and 1663.