{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/201/2010007.htm","path":"chr/ecf/201/2010007.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/201/2010007.htm","text":"Acacius, the pupil and successor of Eusebius in the bishopric of C\u00e6sarea, wrote a life of the latter (Socr. H. E. II. 4) which is unfortunately lost. He was a man of ability (Sozomen H. E. III. 2, IV. 23) and had exceptional opportunities for producing a full and accurate account of Eusebius\u2019 life; the disappearance of his work is therefore deeply to be regretted.\nNumerous notices of Eusebius are found in the works of Socrates, Sozomen, Theodoret, Athanasius, Jerome, and other writers of his own and subsequent ages, to many of which references will be made in the following pages. A collection of these notices, made by Valesius, is found in English translation on p. 57 sq. of this volume. The chief source for a knowledge of Eusebius\u2019 life and character is to be found in his own works. These will be discussed below, on p. 26 sq. Of the numerous modern works which treat at greater or less length of the life of Eusebius I shall mention here only those which I have found most valuable.\nValesius: De vita scriptisque Eusebii Diatribe (in his edition of Eusebius\u2019 Historia Eccles.; English version in Cruse\u2019s translation of the same work).\nCave: Lives of the Fathers, II. 95\u2013144 (ed. H. Cary, Oxf. 1840).\nTillemont: Hist. Eccles. VII. pp. 39\u201375 (compare also his account of the Arians in vol. VI.).\nStroth: Leben und Schriften des Eusebius (in his German translation of the Hist. Eccles.).\nCloss: Leben und Schriften des Eusebius (in his translation of the same work).\nDanz: De Eusebio C\u00e6sariensi, Histori\u00e6 Eccles. Scriptore, ejusque fide historica recte \u00e6stimanda, Cap. II.: de rebus ad Eusebii vitam pertinentibus (pp. 33\u201375).\nStein: Eusebius Bischof von C\u00e6sarea. Nach seinem Leben, seinen Schriften, und seinem dogmatischen Charakter dargestellt (W\u00fcrzburg, 1859; full and valuable).\nBright, in the introduction to his edition of Burton\u2019s text of the Hist. Eccles. (excellent).\nLightfoot (Bishop of Durham): Eusebius of C\u00e6sarea, in Smith and Wace\u2019s Dictionary of Christian Biography, vol. II. pp. 308\u2013348. Lightfoot\u2019s article is a magnificent monument of patristic scholarship and contains the best and most exhaustive treatment of the life and writings of Eusebius that has been written.\nThe student may be referred finally to all the larger histories of the Church (e.g. Schaff, vol. III. 871 sqq. and 1034 sq.), which contain more or less extended accounts of Eusebius.","title":"Nicene and Ante-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol I: The Church History of Eusebius.: Section 1","type":"page"}