8. Of ST. SABA. In the imperial library at Vienna is a Greek version of the works or part of the works of Isaac the Syrian, bishop of Nineveh, who lived, according to Assenmani (Biblioth. Orient. vol. iii. pars i. p. 104, note 3), about the close of the sixth century, but according to Nicephorus the editor of Isaac's Ascetica (Praef. p. vi.) in the first half of that century.
[J.C.M]A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
Smith, William
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890