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323 AD (search for this): entry sozomenus-hermeias-salamanes-bio-1
e episcopate of Proclus of Constantinople"), he must have written after the death of that prelate in A. D. 446 ; but we think the words do not necessarily lead to that conclusion. Work The only work of Sozomen which has come down to our time is his *)Ekklhsiastikh\ i(storia, Historia Ecclesiastica. His first design was to comprehend in this work the whole period from the ascension of Christ; but considering that the earlier period, to the overthrow of Licinius by Constantine the Great, A. D. 323, had been already treated of by other writers, among whom he enumerates Clemens (apparently meaning the Pseudo-Clemens, author of the Recognitiones or the Clementina), Hegesippus, Africanus, and Eusebius, he contracted his plan so far as related to that period, and comprehended it in a separate work, a compendium in two books, which is now lost (H. E. lib. 1.1). His longer history is in nine books, but is imperfect; for though he proposed to bring it down to the seventeenth consulship of t
423 AD (search for this): entry sozomenus-hermeias-salamanes-bio-1
ar as related to that period, and comprehended it in a separate work, a compendium in two books, which is now lost (H. E. lib. 1.1). His longer history is in nine books, but is imperfect; for though he proposed to bring it down to the seventeenth consulship of the younger Theodosius, A. D. 439, the year in which the history of Socrates ends (comp. Oratio ad Imp. Theodos. mentioned just below), the work, as now extant, comes down only a little later than the decease of the emperor Honorius, A. D. 423. Whether it was ever finished according to the author's design, or whether some portion of it has been lost, cannot now be ascertained. It breaks off at the end of a sentence, but in the middle of a chapter; for, while the title of the last chapter promises an account of the discovery of the relics of the prophet Zacharias (or Zachariah) and of the Proto-Martyr Stephen, the chapter itself gives an account only of the former. The work was divided by the author into nine books, and has prefi
439 AD (search for this): entry sozomenus-hermeias-salamanes-bio-1
ted of by other writers, among whom he enumerates Clemens (apparently meaning the Pseudo-Clemens, author of the Recognitiones or the Clementina), Hegesippus, Africanus, and Eusebius, he contracted his plan so far as related to that period, and comprehended it in a separate work, a compendium in two books, which is now lost (H. E. lib. 1.1). His longer history is in nine books, but is imperfect; for though he proposed to bring it down to the seventeenth consulship of the younger Theodosius, A. D. 439, the year in which the history of Socrates ends (comp. Oratio ad Imp. Theodos. mentioned just below), the work, as now extant, comes down only a little later than the decease of the emperor Honorius, A. D. 423. Whether it was ever finished according to the author's design, or whether some portion of it has been lost, cannot now be ascertained. It breaks off at the end of a sentence, but in the middle of a chapter; for, while the title of the last chapter promises an account of the discover
446 AD (search for this): entry sozomenus-hermeias-salamanes-bio-1
y (lib. 2. c.3). Of his subsequent life nothing appears to be known. As he mentions, in the prefatory epistle to his history, an incident which probably occurred in A. D. 443, he must have survived that year; and Ceillier thinks that, from the manner in which he speaks of Proclus of Constantinople (lib. 9. c.2, ad fin., *Pro/klou e)pitropeu/ontos th\n *Kwnstantinoupo/lews e)kklhsi/an, "in the episcopate of Proclus of Constantinople"), he must have written after the death of that prelate in A. D. 446 ; but we think the words do not necessarily lead to that conclusion. Work The only work of Sozomen which has come down to our time is his *)Ekklhsiastikh\ i(storia, Historia Ecclesiastica. His first design was to comprehend in this work the whole period from the ascension of Christ; but considering that the earlier period, to the overthrow of Licinius by Constantine the Great, A. D. 323, had been already treated of by other writers, among whom he enumerates Clemens (apparently meaning
443 AD (search for this): entry sozomenus-hermeias-salamanes-bio-1
laminius, in which Nicephorus has given his name. According to Valesius, whom Cave follows, Sozomen studied civil law at Berytus; but we have not been able to trace any reference to this circumstance in Sozomen's history : he practised at the bar at Constantinople, and was still engaged in his profession when he wrote his history (lib. 2. c.3). Of his subsequent life nothing appears to be known. As he mentions, in the prefatory epistle to his history, an incident which probably occurred in A. D. 443, he must have survived that year; and Ceillier thinks that, from the manner in which he speaks of Proclus of Constantinople (lib. 9. c.2, ad fin., *Pro/klou e)pitropeu/ontos th\n *Kwnstantinoupo/lews e)kklhsi/an, "in the episcopate of Proclus of Constantinople"), he must have written after the death of that prelate in A. D. 446 ; but we think the words do not necessarily lead to that conclusion. Work The only work of Sozomen which has come down to our time is his *)Ekklhsiastikh\ i(stor
415 AD (search for this): entry sozomenus-hermeias-salamanes-bio-1
s either of the prophet Zacharias, which Sozomen has actually related, or of the proto-martyr Stephen, which Sozomen proposed to relate in his last extant chapter. What Marcellinus does mention as an incident of the seventeenth consulship of Theodosius, is the translation of the latter relics from Jerusalem to Constantinople, by the empress Eudocia, the wife of Theodosius (Marcellin. Chron.). The discovery, or asserted discovery of the relics, was quite a different event, and took place in A. D. 415 [LUCIANUS, No. 3], long before their removal. Assessment Sozomen is admitted to excel Socrates in style. This was the judgment of Photius, which is confirmed by later critics : but these contend for the superiority of Socrates in soundness of judgment. Valesius says, "In writing history, Sozomen adopted a style neither tame nor turgid, but of a medium character; which style, indeed, is most suitable for a writer on ecclesiastical affairs. And indeed Photius, in his Bibliotheca, prefers