(Hist. Eccl. 1.14) by the authority of St. Paul's
Epistle to the Corinthians. (Socr. Hist. Eccl. 4.23.) They lived together
thus for 18 years, when at her wish, for greater perfection, they parted, and he retired to
Scetis and Mt. Nitria, to the south of Lake Mareotis, where he lived 22 years, visiting his
sister-wife twice in the year. (Ibid. and Pallad. Hist. Laus. 100.7;
Ruffin. Vit. Patr. 100.29.) He died before St. Antony (from whom there is
an epistle to him, S. Athan. Opp. vol. i. pt. 2, p. 959, ed. Bened.), i.
e. before Vit. S. Antonii à S.
Athanas. § 60), and as St. Athanasius's history of St. Antony preserves the order of
time, he died perhaps about
There are seventeen or nineteen
Lambec. l.c. Cod. 155, No. 2.