Theophilus
historical figure · 6 works · 16 mentions · 19 anchored passages
Theophilus the bishop · the brother Theophilus
spoken of as
1 expressionTheophilus the Cilician1 mention
Letters (Greek)
nay, he even branded us in public synods, together with Theophilus the Cilician, charging us with bare and undisguised blasphemy, as having sown in the souls of the people doctrines foreign to his own teaching.
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
Byzantine jurist/commentator cited for classifying the partiary legacy.
A partiary legatee is a legatee by partition, which Theophilus calls a fifth form of legacy, and of which Ulpian gives the formula, 24, 25.
Theophilus gives the form of this advertisement:
Some of the details of the proceedings in a missio in possessionem which are omitted by Gaius may be supplied from Theophilus.
Letters
Bishop who sent a vehement message renouncing communion and is addressed directly in letter 245.
To Theophilus the bishop.
Having long ago received the letter from your love, I waited to write back through a trustworthy person, so that the bearer of the letter might fill up whatever should escape the letter.
And the brother Theophilus, worthy of all my reverence and honour, sending one of those with him, made known certain things which he thought it fitting for him to say and proper for us to hear.
The Rights of War and Peace
Author cited for mentioning the altar of Mercy.
There was amoung the Athenians an altar dedicated to Mercy;
—Theophilus, in his Greek institutes, calls the one the natural mode of acquisition, and Aristotle denominates the other the natural way of acquisition by the sword, without regarding any other reason, but the bare fact, from which the right arises.
Against Pantaenetus
The archon whose year dates the Elaphebolion transactions.
When these transactions had been completed in the month of Elaphebolion in the archonship of Theophilus, I at once sailed away for Pontus, but the plaintiff and Evergus remained here.
Orations
A wise man among the Alexandrians who chose silence rather than address them, interpreted as a condemnation of their incurable condition.
Therefore he died having kept silence about your city — that is, having condemned it;
They say that Theophilus, who was a wise man among you, kept silence toward you and would not discourse at all.
In Defence of Lycophron
An advocate summoned by the defendant at the close of his own speech to help present the defence, at the jury's invitation.
Will you please come up, Theophilus, and say what you can in my defence?