Historia Lausiaca

Palladius, Helenopolitanus, Historia Lausiaca, edited by Butler, E. C., Cambridge (U.K.), 1904: 3–169.

♦‎‎ (reprinted Hildesheim 1967) ♦‎ 363/4–before 431; monk, bishop of Helenopolis in Bithynia and later of Aspuna in Galatia; A collection of anecdotes on monastic life in Palestine and Egypt, once known as Paradisus Heraclidis, written in 419–420 and dedicated to Lausus, chamberlain of Theodosius II. A longer recension – a fusion of Historia Lausiaca and Rufinus’ Historia monachorum (Ruf., Hist. mon., q.v.) – was composed ca. 470: PG 34, cols. 995–1278; Vitae Patrum VIII, PL 73, cols. 1085–1234.