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THERE were also other then at this period who emitted the bright
rays of the philosophy of solitary life. In the Chalcidian desert
Avitus, Marcianus and Abraames, and more besides whom I cannot
easily enumerate, strove in their bodies of sense to live a life
superior to sense. In the district of Apamea, Agapetus, Simeon,
Paulus and others reaped the fruits of the highest wisdom.
In the district of the Zeugmatenses were Publius and Paulus. In
the Cyrestian the famous Acepsemas had been shut up in a cell for
sixty years without being either seen or spoken to. The admirable
Zeumatius, though bereft of sight, used to go about confirming the
sheep, and fighting with the wolves; so they burnt his cell, but the
right faithful general Trajanus got another built for him, and paid
him besides other attentions. In the neighbourhood of Antioch,
Marianus, Eusebius, Ammianus, Palladius, Simeon, Abraames,
and others, preserved the divine image unimpaired; but of all these
the lives have been recorded by us. But the mountain which is in the
neighbourhood of the great city was decked like a meadow, for in it
shone Petrus, the Galatian, his namesake the Egyptian, Romanus
Severus, Zeno, Moses, and Malchus, and many others of whom the
world is ignorant, but who are known to God.
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