A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

14. Of SUEDRA, in Pamphylia. Prefixed to the Anooratus of Epiphanius of Salamiis or Constantia [EPIPHANIUS], is a Letter of Palladius to that father. It is headed Ἐπιστολὴ γραφεῖσα παρὰ Παλλαδίου τῆς αὐτῆς τπόλεως Σουέδρων πολιτευομένου καὶ ἀποσταλεῖσα πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν ἅγιον Ἐπιφάνιον αἰτήσαντος καὶ αὐτοῦ περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν, Palladii ejusdem Suedrorum urbis civis ad Sanctum Epiphanium Epistola, qua idem ab eo postulat, i. e. in which he seconds the request made by certain Presbyters of Suedra (whose letter precedes that of Palladius) that Epiphanius would answer certain questions respecting the Trinity of which the Ancoratus contains the solution. (Epiphanius, Opera, vol. ii. p. 3. ed. Petav. fol. Paris, 1622; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. x. p. 114.)

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