Ariston
5. Of Pella in Palestine, lived in the time of the emperor Hadrian or shortly after.
Works
His date is inferred from his writing a work on the insurrection of the Jews, which broke out in the reign of this emperor. (
Euseb. Hist. Eccl. 4.6; Niceph. Callist.
Hist. Eccl. 3.24.)
He also wrote a work entitled
διάλεξις Παπίσκου καὶ Ἰάσονος, that is, a dialogue between Papiscus, a Jew, and Jason, a Jewish Christian, in which the former became convinced of the truth of the Christian religion. (Origen.
c. Cels. iv. p. 199; Hieronym.
Epist. ad Galat. 3.13.)
Editions
It was translated at an early time into Latin by one Celsus, but, with the exception of a few fragments, it is now lost.
The introduction written to it by the translator is still extant, and is printed in the Oxford edition of the " Opuscula" of Cyprian (p. 30) and
elsewhere.
Further Information
Hubmann,
l.c. p. 105.
