Silvanus
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
the blessed Silvanus
in the texts
Letters
A figure visited jointly by Basil and Eustathius, cited as a witness.
And when we visited the blessed Silvanus at the same time, did not the road hold our words about these things?
Diodorus, as a nursling of the blessed Silvanus, we received from the beginning;
To his most beloved and most reverent brethren, his fellow-presbyters Acacius, Aetius, Paul, and Silvanus, and to the deacons Silvinus and Lucius, and to the rest of the monastic brethren, Basil the bishop.
On the Nature of the Gods
God of the woods, invoked as a comparison for the beauty of the sailors' song.
and the same man, when the youths are seen and the sailors' song is heard, says, 'Like swift and eager dolphins snorting with their snouts' — and much else besides — that the song is borne to his ears like to the melody of Silvanus —