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Headword: *meqo/dios
Adler number: mu,432
Translated headword: Methodios, Methodius
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Bishop of Olympus or of Patara in Lycia, and later of Tyre. He assembled volumes of splendid and well-composed discourse against Porphyry;[1] also a Symposium of twelve virgins, and an excellent discourse On the Resurrection against Origen,[2] and another against the same On the Pythonissa, and On Freewill. He also wrote commentaries on Genesis and on the Song of Songs, and many other things which are frequently read. Around the end of the persecution under Decius and Valerian[3] he was crowned with martyrdom at Chalcis in the east.[4]
Greek Original:
*meqo/dios, *)olu/mpou *luki/as h)/toi *pata/rwn, kai\ meta\ tau=ta *tu/rou e)pi/skopos, lamprou= kai\ sugkeime/nou lo/gou kata\ *porfuri/ou sune/tace teu/xh: kai\ *sumpo/sion de/ka parqe/nwn, kai\ peri\ *)anasta/sews lo/gon a)/riston kata\ *)wrige/nous, kai\ e(/teron kata\ tou= au)tou= peri\ *puqoni/sshs, kai\ peri\ au)tecousi/ou. e)/graye de\ kai\ ei)s th\n *ge/nesin kai\ ei)s ta\ *)/a|smata tw=n a)|sma/twn u(pomnh/mata: kai\ e(/tera polla\ xu/dhn a)naginwsko/mena. o(\s peri\ ta\ teleutai=a tou= diwgmou= e)pi\ *deki/ou kai\ *balerianou= e)n *xalki/di th=s a)natolh=s marturi/w| e)ste/fqh.
Notes:
Jerome, De viris illustribus 83 (web address 1). Catholic Encyclopedia entry at web address 2; see also W. Kinzig in OCD(4) s.v.
[1] Porphyry: pi 2098.
[2] For Origen, see omega 182.
[3] Mid C3.
[4] The qualifier distinguishes this Chalkis [Myth, Place], in Syria, from e.g. the Aegean Chalkis (on the island of Euboea).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; Christianity; chronology; ethics; food; gender and sexuality; geography; history; philosophy; religion; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 December 2003@00:51:26.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (supplemented opening phrase of translation; augmented notes and keywords; typo) on 7 December 2003@04:49:56.
Catharine Roth (added another link) on 7 December 2003@16:36:09.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 3 October 2005@07:41:37.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords) on 14 May 2013@06:26:38.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, deleted a link) on 15 May 2013@01:32:47.
David Whitehead on 9 August 2014@08:16:27.
Catharine Roth (deleted link) on 9 August 2014@16:25:56.

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