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in Cappadocia, of which town he was bishop, flourished as an ecclesiastical writer. The period in which he lived, however, is quite uncertain. Photius has noticed two of his works: 1. Εἰς τὴν κτίσιν λόγος (Sernto de Creatione), and, 2. Εἰς τὸν Λάζαρον (De Lazaro), and gives extracts from both these works (Photius, Cod. 272). See also Cave, Hist. Liter. 1:551; Fabricius, Bibl. Graeca, 8:324; 10:268, 771. Smith, Dict. of Greek and Roman Biog. vol. 2, s.v.