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Eunomios
Adler number: epsilon,3598
Translated headword: Eunomios, Eunomius [of Cyzicus]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This man was appointed bishop to Cyzicus in the reign of the emperor Valens.[1] This man "became secretary to
Aetius[2] who was nicknamed the Atheist. Keeping company with him he emulated his sophistical style. He did not perceive that he was playing with clever expressions and making sophisms for himself. Puffed up by this he fell into blasphemy, imitating the teaching of Arius. In many respects he fought against the teachings of the truth, although he was poorly educated in sacred letters and could not even understand them, yet was copious in expression and kept continually repeating the same things without being able to attain the goal which he set himself. This is demonstrated by the 7 volumes on which he labored in vain concerning the
Epistles to the Romans, for spending many treatises on them he was not able to catch the purpose of the
Epistle.[3] His other treatises also rival them, containing a poverty of ideas in abundance of words."
Eunomios: houtos eis Kuzikon proballetai episkopos epi Oualentos tou basileôs. hupographeus de houtos gegonen Aetiou, tou epiklêthentos Atheou. sunôn de autôi ton ekeinou sophistikon tropon ezêlôse, lexeidiois te scholazôn kai poiôn heautôi sophismata ouk êisthaneto. ek toutôn tuphôtheis eis blasphêmian exepese to Areiou dogma zêlôn, kata polla de tois tês alêtheias dogmasi polemôn, oligomathôs men echôn pros ta hiera grammata kai mêde sunienai auta dunamenos, poluchous de tên lexin kai ta auta peristrephôn aei kai mê dunamenos perigenesthai tou protethentos skopou: hôs deiknuousin hoi z# tomoi, hous emataioponêsen eis tas pros Rhômaious epistolas. pollous gar logous es autas analôsas tês epistolês ton skopon helein ou dedunêtai. ephamilloi de autou kai hoi alloi logoi tunchanousin, en polulexiai echontes noêmatôn euteleian.
Notes:
The entry follows Socrates,
Historia Ecclesiastica 4.7 (but see n. 3 below), with a version of its final phrase placed first and the chronological fix to the reign of Valens added.
Eunomius was a leader of the Arian party in the 4th century, asserting that only the Father could be called Ungenerated. They regarded the Son as unlike the Father, whence they were known as Anomoeans. Eunomius was the subject of attacks by Gregory of Nazianzus (
gamma 450), Basil of
Caesarea (
beta 150), Gregory of Nyssa (
gamma 451; see translation at web address 1), and other Church Fathers. Recent publications by Richard Vaggione attempt to allow Eunomius to speak for himself (see bibliography). For encyclopedia entries on Eunomius and the Eunomians, see web addresses 2 and 3.
[1] 364-378. But Philostorgius places the beginning of Eunomius' episcopate during the reign of Constantius: see Vaggione (who brought this fact to my attention),
Eunomius of Cyzicus and the Nicene Revolution, pp. 292-4.
[2]
alpha 571.
[3] The confusion between plural and singular here, and again in
pi 2019 (q.v.), is the Suda's own; Socrates had (rightly) used the singular throughout this sentence.
Eunomius, The Extant Works, edited and translated by Richard Paul Vaggione. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1987
Richard Vaggione, Eunomius of Cyzicus and the Nicene Revolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
Keywords: biography; Christianity; chronology; ethics; geography; historiography; history; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 12 March 2002@18:17:35.
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