The Lausiac History
Palladius of Galatia · 420 · Before the division · public-domain-translation
9 claims in this dataset rest on this source.
People it attests
- Melania the Elder 1 claim
- Melania the Younger 1 claim
- Palladius of Galatia 1 claim
Events it narrates
How the record stands on them
- Paul of Thebes traditional — Butler, Texts and Studies VI.1, pp. 231-232 — the note on Jerome's Vita Pauli
What else rests on it
2 institutions
The eyewitness catalogue of the Egyptian and Palestinian ascetics, written for the chamberlain Lausus. It is the principal source for both Melanias and for much of the desert generation, and for Nitria and Kellia. Read in two editions: W. K. Lowther Clarke's English (SPCK, 1918) and Cuthbert Butler's Texts and Studies VI.1, the prolegomena (Cambridge, 1898), both public domain by imprint date.