Antonius (monk)

Antonius (Ancient Greek: Ἀντώνιος) was a Greek monk, and a disciple of the Syriac ascetic saint Simeon Stylites. He lived around the year 460 AD.

Antonius wrote a life of his master Simeon, whom he knew closely. It was written in Greek, and the theologian Leo Allatius claims that he saw a Greek manuscript of it;[1] but the only edition which we know to have been published is a Latin translation in Bolland's Act. Sanctor. i. p. 264.[2][3] Theologian Gerardus Vossius, who knew only the Latin translation, was doubtful whether he should consider Antonius as a Latin or a Greek historian.[4]

Notes
  1. Leo Allatius, Diatr. de Script. Sim. p. 8
  2. Bolland Act. Sanctor. i. p. 264
  3. Cave, Script. Eccles. Hist. Lit. ii. p. 145
  4. Gerardus Vossius, De Hist. Lat. p. 231

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William (1870). "Antonius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 217.


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