Caius

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Introductory Notice to Caius, Presbyter of Rome.

^[4950] The ingenious conjecture of Wordsworth, who surmises that καὶ ἐθνῶν ἐπίσκοπον, in Photius, should be read καὶ ἑωθινῶν. Hippolytus, p. 30. Another conjecture is ᾽Αθηνῶν. For the originals of these Fragments and learned notes, see Routh, Reliquæ Sacræ, ii. p. 127.

^[4951] Eusebius quotes him in several places (book ii. cap. xxv., book iii. capp. xxviii. and xxxi.), and cites him in proof that St. Peter suffered on the Vatican, and St. Paul on the Via Ostiensis. See Lardner, Credib., vol. ii. pp. 394, 410.

^[4952] Hist. Eccl., ii. 25, vi. 20.

^[4953] ἐκκλησιαστικὸς ἀνήρ.

^[4954] Hist. Eccl., vi. 20.

^[4955] Cod. 48.

I.—From a Dialogue or Disputation Against Proclus.

^[4956] A defender of the sect of the Cataphrygians.

I. (Preserved in Eusebius’ Eccles. Hist., ii. 25.)

^[4957] So Jerome, in the Epistle to Marcellus, says: “There, too, is a holy church; there are the trophies of the apostles and martyrs.”

^[4958] The mss. and the Chronicon of Georgius Syncellus read Vasican, Βασικανόν. The reference is to the Vatican as the traditional burial place of Peter, and to the Ostian Road as that of Paul.

II. (In the same, iii. 28.)

^[4959] [Vol. i. pp. 351–352, 416.]

III. (In the same, iii. 31.)

^[4960] This extract is taken from the Disputation of Caius, but the words are those of Proclus, as is shown by the citation in Eusebius.

II.—Against the Heresy of Artemon.

^[4961] Two fragments of an anonymous work ascribed by some to Caius. Artemon and his followers maintained that Christ was mere (ψιλόν) man.

I. (In Eusebius’ Eccl. Hist., v. 28.)

^[4962] [Elucidation, I.]

^[4963] [See cap. xxiii. p. 114, supra, and Euseb., iii. cap. 28.]

II. (In Eusebius, as above.)

^[4964] This may, perhaps, be the Cæcilius Natalis who appears in the Octavius of Minucius Felix, as maintaining the cause of paganism against Octavius Januarius, and becoming a convert to the truth through the discussion. Name, time, and profession at least suit. [A painful conjecture, and quite gratuitous. See the Octavius, cap. xvi. note 6, p. 181, vol. iv., this series.]

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