Memorandum
.—
On other Letters ascribed to
Athanasius.
The above Collection of Letters is complete upon
the principle stated in the Introduction (
supr.,
p. 495). But
one or two fragments have been excluded which may be specified
here.
(1.) Fragment of a letter ‘to
Eupsychius;’ probably the Nicene Father referred to
Ep.
Æg.
8, (cf. D.C.B. ii. 299 (4)). The Greek is given by Montf.
in Ath.
Opp.
1. p. 1293 (Latin,
ib.
p. 1287). It was
cited in
Conc. Nic.
II.
Act vi.
, but although it has affinities
with
Orat.
ii. 8 (‘high-priestly
dress
’), it
has the appearance of a polemical argument against Monophysitism.
(Migne xxvi. 1245.)
(2.) ‘To Epiphanius’ (Migne xxvi.
1257). Against certain, who contentiously follow the Jews in
celebrating Easter. (From ‘
Chron. Pasch.
pag. 4
postremæ editionis.’)
(3.) Fragments of an ‘Epistola ad
Antiochenos’ (not our ‘Tomus,’
supr.,
p. 483):
also a polemic against Monophysitism, and almost Nestorian in doctrine:
‘Jesus Christus…non est Ipse’ [i.e. ante sæcula
et in sæcula,
Heb. xiii.
8
], and ‘duas
personas’ asserted of Christ. From Facundus, who says the letter
was written against the Apollinarians, and who gives it on the
authority of Peter, Ath.’s successor (Migne xxvi. 1259).
(4.) ‘Ad Eusebium, Lucinianum, et
socios.’ (In Migne xxvi. 1325
sq.,
from Mai,
Script.
Vet.
11. 583
sq.
) A minute fragment. Cf.
supr.,
Letter
55, notes 1, 7.
(5.) Spurious letters (in Migne xxviii.) to
Jovian, to Castor (2), to a ‘bishop of the Persians,’ and
to and from popes Liberius, Marcus, Julius and Felix (made up out of
late and spurious decretals, &c., &c.).