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MEMPHIS (Ancient city) EGYPT
Arsenius, a Greek monk (Cave calls him Patricius Romanus), who lived towards the end of the
fourth century of our era, was distinguished for his knowledge of Greek and Roman
literature. The emperor Theodosius the Great invited him to his court, and entrusted
to him the education of his sons Arcadius and Honorius, whose father Arsenius
was called. At the age of forty, he left the court and went to Egypt, where he
commenced his monastic life at Scetis in the desert of the Thebais. There he spent
forty years, and then migrated to Troe, a place near Memphis, where he passed
the remainder of his life, with the exception of three years, which he spent at
Canopus. He died at Troe at the age of ninety-five. There exists by him a short
work containing instructions and admonitions for monks, which is written in a
truly monastic spirit. It was published with a Latin translation by Combefisius
in his Auctarium Novissinum Biblioth. Patr., Paris, 1672. We also possess forty-four
of his remarkable sayings (apophthegmata), which had been collected by his ascetic
friends, and which are printed in Cotelerius' Monumenta (Cave, Hist. Lit. ii.;
Fabr. Bibl. Graec. xi.).
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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