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Epiphanius Scholasticus was a
sixth-century translator of
Greek works into
Latin.
Little is known of his life, aside from his works. It seems he bore the name Scholasticus "not so much because of any devotion to literature or theology, but in the sense that that word frequently had in the middle ages, meaning a chaplain, amanuensis, or general assistant of any dignitary of the church."
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Under the direction of
Cassiodorus, in about
510, he compiled the
Historiae Ecclesiasticae Tripartitae Epitome, or the
Historia Tripartita ("Tripartite History"), a standard manual of church history through the Middle Ages. Epiphanius undertook the translations into Latin of the Greek church histories of
Socrates Scholasticus,
Sozomen and
Theodoret, written in the previous century.
Epiphanius also translated the commentaries of
Didymus on the
Proverbs of Solomon and on the seven
general epistles, as well as the commentaries of
Epiphanius of Salamis upon
Canticles. His
Codex Encyclicus, compiled at the urging of Cassiodorus, collects and translates letters addressed by different synods to the Emperor
Leo I in defence of the decrees of the
Council of Chalcedon against the
Monophysite Timotheus Aelurus. The list was drawn up in
458 by the order of Leo I, although Epiphanius made several additions to it.
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