10. EREMITA or ANACHORETA (Ἀναχωρητής, or ASCETA (ὁ Ἀσκητής), or MONACHUS (Μοναχος), the MONK. Palladius in his Historia Lausiaca, 100.21, and, according to the Greek text, as printed in the Biblioth. Patrum (vol. xiii. fol. Paris, 1654) in several passages of 100.20, has recorded some anecdotes, of sufficiently marvellous character, of Marcus, an eminent Egyptian ascetic, who lived to a hundred years, and with whom Palladius had conversed.
This Marcus is noticed also by Sozomen (H. E. 6.29). Palladius, however, does not ascribe to this Marcus any writings; nor should he be confounded, as he is even by Cave and Fabricius, as well as by others, with Marcus, " the much renowned ascetic," (ὁ πολυθρύλλητος ἀσκηρής, Niceph. Callist. H. E. 14.30, 54), the disciple of Chrysostom, and the contemporary of Nilus and Isidore of Pelusium: for this latter Marcus must have been many years younger than the ascetic of Palladius. It is to the disciple of Chrysostom that the works extant, under the name of " Marcus Eremita," are to be ascribed; as appears from the express testimony of Nicephorus Callisti.