History of monks

Title(s):
  • History of monks
  • Vitae patrum Aegypto monachorum
    (Vitae patrum Aegypto monachorum, Lives of the monks in Egypt)
Author:
Period covered:
4th c.?
Language:
Latin
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Form (translation)
  • Biography (collective)
Remarks:
This may be another version of the Historia monachorum in Aegypto. Petronius was the son of the famous Petronius Probus (cos 371).
Edition - Translation:
Fragments:
  • Gennadius, On illustrious men 42
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