This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ...first against Alaric, and afterwards again Theodoric, but upon both occasions was honourably acquitted. He took an active share in the deliberations of several councils of the church, and gain-t peculiar celebrity by his strenuous exertions for the suppression of the Semipelagian doctrine. which had been promulgated about a century brfore by Cassianua, and had spread widely in southern Gaul. A life of Caesarius, which however must be considered rather in the light of a panegyric than of a solicr biography, was eompc'! by his friend and pupil, Cyprian, bishop of Toub Caesarius is the author of two treatises, one entitied Hegula ad Monachos, and another Hei/u/a ad Virgin?, which, together with three Ecrhortutiones and some opuscula, will he found in the 8th volume of the Bibliotheca Patmm, Leyden, 1677; and were printed in a separate volume, with the notes of Meynardus, at Poitiers (Petavium), 1621, 8vo. His chief works, however, consist of sermons or homilies. Forty of these were published by Cognatus, at Basle, 1558, 4to., and 1569, fob, and are included in the Monumenta SS. Patrum Urthodoxographa of Grynaeus, Cologne, 1618, fol. p. 1861; a collection of forty-six, together with some smaller tracts, are in the 8th volume of the Bibliotheca Patrum referred to above; and the 11th volume of the Bibliotheca Patrum of Galland (Venice, 1776) contains fourteen more, first brought to light by Baluze (Paris, 1699, 8vo.); but, besides these, upwards of a hundred out of the 317 discourses falsely attributed to Augustin are commonly assigned to Caesarius. ( VUa S. Caesarii, Episc Aretaiensis, a Cypriano ejus Discipido, et Messiano Presb. et Stephuno Diac. conscripta duoIm libris, in the Vila SS. of Surius, 27 August p. 284. See also Ditsertatio de...