a presbyter of Marseilles, who flourished at the close of the fifth century, is known to us as the author of a work De Viris Illustribus, containing one hundred short lives of ecclesiastical writers from A. D. 392 to about A. D. 495, thus forming a continuation of the tract by Jerome which bears the same title. The last notice, devoted to the compiler himself. embraces all that is known with regard to his history and compositions:
Ego Gennadius, Massiliae presbyter, scripsi adversus omnes haereses libros octo, et adversus Nestorium libros sex, adversus Pelagium libros tires, et tractatus de mille annis et de Apocalypsi beati Johannis, et hoc opus, et epistolam de fide mea misi ad beatum Gelasium, urbis Romae episcopum.Gelasius died A. D. 496.[W.R]