Eustathius
historical figure · 2 works · 15 mentions · 25 anchored passages
Eustathius, Bishop of Sebasteia · brother Eustathius the co-deacon · chief physician · the beloved Eustathius · the fellow deacon · the most reverend bishop Eustathius · the philosopher · your unsurpassable godliness
spoken of as
4 expressionsEustathius of Sebasteia2 mentions
Letters (Greek)
And now, as I write this, this same body has set off for Sebasteia, to join Eustathius and with him to overthrow the affairs of the Nicopolitans.
Eustathius the co-deacon1 mention
Letters (Greek)
And now, had not my sins stood in my way — first our most reverend and beloved brother Eustathius the co-deacon, falling into a grievous sickness, kept me waiting two whole months, watching day by day for his recovery;
Eustathius, the court physician1 mention
Letters (Greek)
To Eustathius, the court physician
in the texts
Letters
The philosopher addressed in Letter 1, whom Basil sought across many countries.
To Eustathius the philosopher
and when at last, with countless toils, I had reached Syria, I found I could not be with the philosopher, for he had departed for Egypt.
I had already given up in the face of the assaults of what men call fortune, which has always thrown some obstacle in the way of my joining you; and now, in a way I find marvellous, you have recalled and consoled me by your letter. For indeed I had by now begun to turn the thought over within myself, wondering whether what most people are forever repeating might not be true: that there is some nec …
The Rights of War and Peace
Commentator on Homer cited for the etymology of the Greek word for promise/engagement.
Eustathius in his notes on the second book of the Iliad, assigns a similar origin to the word ὑποσΧεσεως or engagement.