other · 440 · Constantinople
He was a layman of Constantinople, trained as a lawyer, and he behaves like one: he quotes documents in full rather than summarising them, names his sources, revises his first edition when he finds Athanasius' own writings, and says outright that he would rather be blamed for a plain style than for the invented speeches the classical historians went in for. He is also interested in things the ecclesiastical historians usually skip — the calendar quarrels, local customs, the fact that churches do the same thing differently in different cities and that this is not a scandal. This project vendors him as npnf2-02 and cites socrates-he on page after page, and his own page had no events and no attestation at all.
To continue Eusebius, who stopped at 324, and to correct Rufinus, whom he had used before he found better material.
Seven books from 305 to 439, and the plainest of the three continuations.