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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="E"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="eustratius-bio-1" n="eustratius_1"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Eustra'tius</surname></persName></head><p>(<persName xml:lang="grc"><surname full="yes">Εὐστράτιος</surname></persName>), a presbyter of the
      Greek church at Constantinople, is the author of a work <hi rend="ital">on the Condition of
       the Human Soul after Death,</hi> which is still extant. Respecting his life and the time at
      which he lived, nothing is known, except what can be gathered from the work itself. It is
      directed against those who maintainted that the souls ceased to act and operate as soon as
      they quitted the human body. Photius (<hi rend="ital">Bibl. Cod.</hi> 171) knew the work, and
      made some extracts from it, which is a proof that Eustratius must have lived before Photius.
      Further, as Eustratius repeatedly mentions the works of Dionysius Areiopagita he must have
      lived after the publication of those works, which appear to have been circulated about <date when-custom="500">A. D. 500</date>. It is therefore very probable that Eustratits lived at the time
      of Eutychius, patriarch of Constantinople, that is, about A. D. 560, as in fact Eustratius
      himself says in almost as many words. His work was first edited by L. Allatius in his <hi rend="ital">de Occidentalium atque Orientalium perpetua in Dogmate Purgatorii
       consensione,</hi> Rom. 1655, 8vo., pp. 319-581. The style of Eustratius, as Photius remarks,
      is clear, though very different from classic Greek, and his arguments are generally sound.
      (Fabric. <hi rend="ital">Bibl. Graec.</hi> vol. x. p. 725; Cave, <hi rend="ital">Hist.
       Lit.</hi> vol. i. p. 416.) Some other persons of the name of Eustratius are enumerated by
      Fabricius. (<hi rend="ital">Bibl. Graec.</hi> vol. iii. p. 264, note.) </p><byline>[<ref target="author.L.S">L.S</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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