Philotheos Historia

Philotheos Historia (φιλόθεος ἱστορία, Godloving history), the name given by Theodoret, the wellknown commentator, bishop of Cyrus, to his lives of thirty ascetics or Eastern monks. "Their virtues," he confesses, "cannot be adequately described," and he relates the most astounding prodigies of them. The tract is in the third folio of Sirmond's edition of his works. SEE PHILOTHEIA.