τί ὁμοιοῦται ὁ Βίος οὗτος καὶ εἰς ποῖον τέλος
καταστρέφειHe wrote an exhortation to asceticism under the title
τί
ὁμοιοῦται ὁ Βίος οὗτος καὶ εἰς ποῖον τέλος καταστρέφει There are
citations from this work in Allatius,
ad Eustath. Antioch. p. 254, and
Cotelerius,
Monum. MSta. in Bibl. Caesar. There are MSS. of the work at
Vienna, Paris, Rome, Milan, and Oxford.
Editions
It was printed in Greek and Latin, with notes, by F. Morellus, Par. 1608, who
mistook it for the work of Theophilus of Alexandria: Θεοφίλου
Ἀλεξανδρείας λόγος, τίνι ὁμοιοῦται ἄνθρωπος (Fabricius, Bibl. Graec. vii. p. 109.)
Epistle to Theophilus
There is also a synodic epistle to the emperor Theophilus Iconomachus, by Christophorus of
Alexandria, Job of Antioch, and Basil of Jerusalem, and 1455 other bishops and clergy, on
images, entitled
Ἐπιστολὴ πρὸς τὸν Βασιλέα Θεόφιλον περὶ
τῶν ἁψίων καὶ σεπτῶν εἰκόνων, which is mentioned by Constantinus
Porphyrogenitus in his
Narratio de Imaag. Edess. p. 90, and by
the author of a MS.
Narratio de Imag. B. Virg. ap. Lambec. viii. p.
334.
The work exists in MS. in the Codex Baroccianus, 148.
Editions
It was published, in Greek and Latin, first by Combefisius in his Manipul. Rerum. Constant. Par. 1664, 4to., pp. 110-145, and
afterwards by Michael le Quien in his edition of Damascenus, Par. 1712, i. p.
629.