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.]

^[4965] [τοῦ τότε ἐπισκόπου, “the then bishop.” Text of Routh.]

^[4966] There is another reading—named (κληθῆναι) instead of chosen or elected (κληρωθῆναι).

III. (In Eusebius, as above)

^[4967] [Thus early, primitive canons are recognised as in force.]

^[4968] [Here we have an early foreshadowing of the schoolmen, whose rise was predicted by St. Bernard in his protest against Abelard. See Bernard, Opp., tom. i. p. 410, et alibi.]

^[4969] The connected form here is the hypothetical, as e.g., “If it is day, it is light.” The disjoined is the disjunctive, as e.g., “It is either day or night.” The words admit another rendering, viz., “Whether it, when connected or disjoined, will make the form of a syllogism.”

^[4970] There is a play in the original on the word geometry.

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