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, etc., ed.Vallarsi), bul not as his. ThePrologua or Prcefalio ad Nectarium are omitted, and the texl differs very widely from thai given in the Cologne edi- tion of Bede | L612, fol. iv. 1 17. etc.), in which the work is given as Bede's, w ithout any intimati >f its doubt- ful authorship. Cave, Oudin, and Vallarsi agree in as- cribing the work to Philip, though Vallarsi is not so decided in liis opinion as the other two. Sei Gen- nadius, /. c. ; Cave, Hist. Lift, ad ann. MO, i, 134; Oudin, />, Scriptor. Eccles. voL i. coL llh">: Vallarsi, Opera llii mn. vol. iii. col. 825, etc.; vol. xi. coL 565, 566; Fa- bricius, Biblioth. M,,l. ,i liij'nu. Lull,,, v. 295, ed. Hat h. — Smith, hiri. ofGr. and Rom. Biotj. iii. 290.
Philip hi Side (o Ei&rijCi '"' " ^iSirnt; or u am 2/i r]\ i. a Christian writer of the lirsi half of the 5th century, was born probably in the latter pari oi the tth century. Be was a native of Side, in Pamphylia, and according to his own account in the f ragmen I published by Dpdwell (see below I, when Rhodon, ^\ i t< > succeeded Didymus in charge of the catechetical school of Al- exandria, transferred that school to Side, Philip be-
cami e of his pupils. If we suppose Didymus to have
retained the charge of the school till his death, A.l>. 396, .-M the advanced age of eighty-six, the removal oi
the school cannot have taken place lono,- hel'ore the close of the century, ami we may infer thai Philip's birth could scarcely have been earlier than A.I). 380. He was a kinsman of Troilus of Side, the rhetorician, who was tutor to Socrates the ecclesiastical historian, and was indi ed so eminent thai Philip regarded his relation- ship to him as a subjecl of exultation (Socrates, Hist. Eccles. vii. 27). Having entered the Church, he was ordained deacon, and had much intercourse with ('hry- sostom; in the titles of some MSS. he is styled his Syn- eellus. or personal attendant, which makes ii probable that lie was. from the early part of his ecclesiastical career, connected with the Church at Constantinople. Liberatus i Breviar. c. 7) says he was ordained deacon by ( lir> sostom ; bul Socrates, when speaking of his in- timacy with thai eminent man. dors not say he was or- dained by him. Philip devoted himself to literary pur- suits, and collected a large library, lie cultivated the Asiatic or diffuse style of composil ion. and became a
voluminous writer. At what period of his life his
different work, were produced is not known. His Ec- clesiastical History was. as we shall see. written after his disappointment in obtaining the patriarchate; bul ;ts his being a candidate for that high office seems to imply some previous celebrity, ii may he inferred that his work or works in reply to the emperor Julian's at- tacks on Christianity were written at an earlier period.
<)u the death of Aniens, patriarch of Constantinople, A.!>. 125, Philip, then a presbyter, apparently of the great Church of Constantinople, and Proclus, another presbyter, ware proposed, each by his own partisans, as candidates for the vacant see ; but the whole people were
bent u] the election of Sisinnius, also a presbyter,
though not of Constantinople, hut of a Church in Elsea, one of the suburbs (Socrates, Hist. Eccles.vii, 26). The statement of So. rales as to the unanimity of the popular w i-i. l< ads to the inference that the supporters of Philip
and Proclus were at g the clergy. Sisinnius was the
| candidate; and Philip, mortified at his defeat, made in hi- Eci lesiastical History such severe strictures on the electi f his more fortunate rival that Socrates
could not venture to transcribe his remarks: and has ex-
pressed hi- strong disapproval ofhis headstrong temper. <)n the death of Sisinnius (A.D. 128 i the sup| s oi
Philip wire again desirous of his appointment, hut the emperor, to prevent disturbances, determined that no
ecclesiastic oft onstantinople should succeed to the va- cancy ; and the ill-fated heresiarch Nestorius, from An- tioch, was consequently chosen. After the deposition of Nestorius at the Council of Ephesus i LD. 131), Philip was a third lime candidate for the patriarchate, hut was again unsuccessful. Nothing is known of him after this. It has been conjectured that he was dead
before the next vacancy in the patriarchate, A.D. 134,
when his old competitor Proclus was chosen. < 'erlainly there i- no notice that Philip was again a candidate;
hut the prompt decision of the emperor Theodosiua in favor presented all com) ii-i it ion. so that no in- ference can he drawn from Philip's quiescence.
Philip wrote. Malta volumma contra Imperatorem Jii/iiiiiiiin Apostatam (Liberatus, I'm rim-, c. 7: comp. Socrat. //. /.'. \ ii. 27 l. It is not clear from the , xpres- sion of Liberatus, which we have given as the title, whether Philip wrote many works, or, as i- more likely, one work in many parts, in reply to Julian: 'lorupia X.pwTiaviKt], //istmiii Christiana. The work was very Large, consisting of thirty-six Bif3\oi or BifiXia, Libri, each subdivided int.. twenty-four ropot or ,\..-. /. L e. sections. This voluminous work seems to have com- prehended both sacred and ecclesiastical history, begin- ning from the creation, and coming down to Philip's own day, as appears by his record of the election id' Sisinnius. already noticed. It appears to have been finished not very long after that event. Theophanes places its completion in A.M. 5922, Alex. sera \.1>. 130; Which, according to him. was the year before tin- death of Sisinnius. That the work was completed before the death of Sisinnius is probable from the apparent silence of Philip tis to his subsequent disappointments in ob- taining the patriarchate: hut as Sisinnius, according to a more exact chronology, died A. Ik 128, we may con- clude that the work was finished in or before thai year, and. consequently, that the date assigned by Theophanes is nither too late. The style was verbose and weari- some, neither polished nor agreeable; and the matter such as to display ostentatiously the knowledge of the writer rather than to conduce to the improvement of the reader. It was. in fact, crammed with matter of every kind, relevant ami irrelevant : questions of geom- etry, astronomy, arithmetic, and music; descriptions of islands, mountains, and trees, rendered it cumbersome and unreadable. Chronological arrangement was disre- garded. The Work is lost, with the exception o| three