Acacius of Caesarea

Acacius of Caesarea, the One-eyed (Gk. ho monophthalmos) the pupil and successor in the see of Caesarea of Eusebius A.D. 340, whose life he wrote. (Socrates, Hist. Ecc. 2.4.) He was able, learned, and unscrupulous. At first a Semi-Arian like his master, he founded afterwards the Homoean party and was condemned by the Semi-Arians at Seleucia, A.D. 359. (Socrates, Hist. Eccl. 2.39-40; Sozomen, Hist. Ecc. 4.22-23.) He subsequently became the associate of Aetius, the author of the Anomoeon, then deserted him at the command of Constantius, and, under the Catholic Jovian, subscribed the Homoousion or Creed of Nicaea. He died A.D. 366. He wrote seventeen Books on Eccesiastes and six of Miscellanies. (St. Jerome, Vir. 3.98.) St. Epiphanius of Salamis has preserved a fragment of his work against Marcellus (ad. Haer. 72), and nothing else of his is extant, though Sozomen speaks of many valuable works written by him. (Hist. Eccl. 3.2.)

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• Acacius (3) from Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1867), from which this article was originally derived