6. ELIAS, called, from the, ecclesiastical office which he held, ECDICUS (Ἔκδικος), or "the Defender," was the author of a Greek work on the Ascetic life, extant in MS. in the Imperial Library at Vienna, and in the King's Library at Paris. The work is said to be entitled . A Latin version of a part is given in the vol. xxii. p. 756, &c. ed. Lyons, 1677. In the catalogue of the King's Library at Paris is a Greek MS. containing, among other things, a Florilegium, or selection, said to be by "Helias, Presbyter et Defensor." (Montfaucon, Bibliotheca Bibliothecarum, p. 548; Catal. Codd. MStorum Biblioth. Regiae, vol. ii. NOS. CCCLXIL. 6, DCCCLVIII. 21, Paris, 1740; Cave, Hist. Lit. vol. ii. Dissert. i. p. 7; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 615.)