4. A presbyter of the church of Rome, who lived about A. D. 310. He
was at a later time elected bishop of the gentiles, which probably means, that he received a
commission as a missionary to some heathen people, and the power of superintending the
churches that might be planted among them. (Phot. Bibl.
48.)
Works
Disputation with Proclus
While he was yet at Rome he engaged in the celebrated disputation with Proclus, the
champion of the Montanist heresy, and he subsequently published the whole transaction in the
form of a dialogue. (Euseb. Hist. Eccl. 2.25, 3.23, 6.20.)
Against the Montanist Heresy
He also wrote a work against the heresy of Artemon.
ΛαβύρινθοςHe also was a third work, called Λαβύρινθος, appears
likewise to have been directed against Artemon. (Euseb.
Hist. Eccl. 5.28; comp. Theodoret. H. E. 4.21.)
Περὶ τῆς παντὸς οὐσίαςCaius is further called by Photius the author of a work Περὶ
τῆς παντὸς οὐσίας, which some consider to be the same as the work Περὶ τοῦ παντός, which is still extant, and is usually
ascribed to Hippolytus. He denied the Epistle to the Hebrews to be the work of St. Paul, and
accordingly counted only 13 genuine epistles of that apostle.
Further Information
Cave, Hist. Lit. i. p. 65; Fabricius, Bibl.
Graec. x. p. 693, &c.