, named the Scholastic, a native of Italy, and an eminent Greek and
, named the Scholastic, a native of Italy,
and an eminent Greek and Latin scholar, was born about
the year 510. At the request of Cassiodorus he translated
into the Latin language the ecclesiastical histories of Socrates, Sozomen, and Theodcret, a version more entitled
to commendation for its fidelity than its elegance. Cassiodorus was also indebted to Epiphanius for the improved
version of the “Codex encyclicus,
” or collection of synodal letters of the year 458, addressed to the emperor
Leo, in defence of the council of Chalcedon. His histories of Socrates were first printed at Angsburgh, 1472, fol.
and were often reprinted afterwards at Basil and Paris, 1523,
1528, 1533, &c. &c.