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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Basi'lius or Basil the Great or St. Basil (search)
Basi'lius or Basil the Great or St. Basil 2. Bishop of CAESAREIA in Cappadocia, commonly called Basil the Great, was born A. D. 329, of a noble Christian family which had long been settled at Caesareia, and some members of which had suffered in the Maximinian persecution. His father, also named Basil, was an eminent advocate and teacher of rhetoric at Caesareia: his mother's name was Emmelia. He was brought up in the principles of the Christian faith partly by his parents, but chiefly by his grandmother, Macrina, who resided at Neocaesareia in Pontus, and had been a hearer of Gregory Thaumaturgus, bishop of that city. His education was continued at Caesareia in Cappadocia, and then at Constantinople. Here, according to some accounts, or, according to others, at Antioch, he studied under Libanius. The statements of ancient writers on this matter are confused; but we learn from a correspondence between Libanius and Basil, that they were acquainted when Basil was a young man. The genuin
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Eusta'thius (search)
f the council of Nicaea he is said to have been the first who addressed the emperor in a panegyric. (Theodoret, 1.7 ) Eustathius was a zealous defender of the Catholic faith, and a bitter enemy of the Arians, who therefore did everything to deprive him of his position and influence. A synod of Arian prelates was convened at Antioch, at which such heavy, though unfounded, charges were brought against him, that he was deposed, and the emperor sent him into exile to Trajanopolis in Thrace, in A. D. 329 or 330. (Socrat. 1.24; Sozomen, 2.19; Theodoret, 1.21; Philostorg. 2.7.) A long time after, his innocence and the calumnies of his enemies became known through a woman who had been bribed to bear false witness against him, and who, on her death-bed, confessed her crime; but it was too late, for Eustathius had already died in his exile. He is praised by the ecclesiastical writers as one of the worthiest and holiest men. (Athanas. Ep. ad Solit p. 629; Sozomen. 2.19.) Eustathius was the a
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Flavia'nus (search)
e earlier part of the fourth century. His parentsdied when he was young; but he resisted the temptations arising from rank, wealth, and early freedom from parental control, and devoted himself to study and ascetic exercises, not carrying the latter, however, to such excess as to injure his constitution. He was remarkable for the early sedateness of his character, so that Chrysostom doubts if he could ever be said to have been a young man. On the deposition of Eustathius, bishop of Antioch, A. D. 329 or 330, or perhaps 331, by the Arian party [EUSTATHIUS, No. 1], Flavian is said to have followed him into exile. But this is somewhat doubtful, from the silence of Chrysostom, and from the fact that, though the bishops who succeeded Eustathius were of Arian or Eusebian sentiments, Flavian did not secede from the communion of the church, as the more zealous supporters of Eustathius did. Yet Flavian was a strenuous supporter of orthodoxy, and his opposition, with that of his coadjutor Diodor
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Geo'rgius (search)
ve subsequently been a presbyter at Arethusa in Syria; and after that he succeeded Theodotus in the bishopric of Laodiceia, in the same province. Athanasius says that he named himself bishop; but it is difficult to understand what the charge means, except that perhaps George solicited the office, instead of affecting any coyness in accepting it. He was aided in obtaining it by his Arian friends, and must have been in possession of the bishopric before the meeting of the council of Antioch (A. D. 329 or 330), at which Eustathius of Antioch was deposed [EUSTATHIUS, No. 1] ; for he was present at the council. His account of the proceedings there was one of the authorities used by Socrates and Sozonten; though Socrates says that some of his statements were inconsistent with each other. He afforded shelter about the same time to Eusebius of Emesa or Emisa [EUSEBIUS of EMIAS], when driven from his see, and succeeded in procuring his restoration. In A. D. 335 he was present at the council of
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Grego'rius Nazianze'nus the elder, was bishop of Nazianzus in Cappadocia for about forty-five years, A. D. 329-374, and father of the celebrated Gregory Nazianzen. He was a person of rank, and he held the highest magistracies in Nazianzus without increasing his fortune. In religion, he was originally a hypsistarian, a sect who derived their name from their acknowledgment of one supreme God (u(/yistos), and whose religion seems, from what little is known of it, to have been a sort of compound omiraculous dream, and by the teaching of certain bishops, who passed through Nazianzus, on their way to the council of Nicaea, A. D. 325. His baptism was marked by omens, which were soon fulfilled in his elevation to the see of Nazianzus, about A. D. 329. He governed well, and resisted Arianism. His eldest son, Gregory, was born after he became bishop. In 360 he was entrapped by the Arians, through his desire for peace, into the signature of the confession of Ariminum, an act which caused the