Florent. p. 999. Bolland. Feb. 22. p. 282. Footnote 1338: Aguilera santi di Palermo. Footnote 1339: Paul. ep. 1. Footnote 1340: Hier. ep. 16. & in Ruf. l. 3. c. 6, & 7. Footnote 1341: Paul. ep. 9. Footnote 1342: Hier. ep. 101. Footnote 1343: Ex Ruf. l. 2. Footnote 1344: Vid. Hier. ep. 99. Footnote 1345: Pallad. hist. Lausiac. in Bibl. Patr. c. 118. Footnote 1346: Hier. ad Ctes. l. 2. Footnote 1347: Hier. in Ruf. l. 3. c. 6, 7. Footnote 1348: Paul. ep. 16. Footnote 1349: Vid. Boll. prop. p. 59. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ARCADIUS, ANASTASIUS, HONORIUS. _Thirty-eighth_ BISHOP _of_ Rome. [Sidenote: Year of Christ 398. Anastasius _writes to_ Paulinus.] _Syricius_ was succeeded by _Anastasius_[1350], after a Vacancy of Twenty Days, according to some; and, according to others, of near Two Months. He was no sooner chosen, than he writ a kind and obliging Letter to _Paulinus_, then at _Nola_ in _Campania_, and an other in his Commendation to the Bishops of that Province[1351]. This he is supposed to have done, in order to efface the bad Impression, which the Treatment _Paulinus_ had met with in the Time of _Syricius_, might have given him against that See, and the _Roman_ Clergy. [Sidenote: _What occasioned the Quarrel between_ Jerom _and_ Ruffinus.] It was in the Time of _Anastasius_, and soon after his Election, that the famous Dispute arose between _Jerom_ and _Ruffinus_, which was afterwards carried on with a Warmth on both Sides quite unbecoming Men of their Profession. Of this Quarrel, and the Part _Anastasius_ acted on that Occasion, the Writers of those Times give us the following Account. _Ruffinus_, a Presbyter of _Aquileia_, and a great Admirer of _Origen_, having accompanied _Melania_, whom he had attended Twenty-five Years at _Jerusalem_, on her Return to _Rome_ in the Time of _Syricius_, was received there with extraordinary Marks of Esteem by the _Roman_ Clergy, and _Syricius_ himself, as I have observed elsewhere[1352]. [Sidenote: Ruffinus _translates_ Origen_’s_Periarchon.] Encouraged by the Reception he met with, he continued a whole Year at _Rome_; and during that Time published, but without putting his Name to it, a _Latin_ Translation of _Origen_’s _Periarchon_, or _Treatise of Principles_, having first removed the Prejudice which some might entertain against that Writer, by the Translation of an Apology, which the Martyr _Pamphylus_ had composed in his Vindication, while he was in Prison. To this Apology he added a Piece of his own, shewing that most of the Errors ascribed to _Origen_ had been maliciously inserted into his Works by his Enemies after his Death[1353]. In the Preface to the _Periarchon_ itself he also declared, that, in Imitation of a learned Brother, meaning _Jerom_, who had translated above Seventy of _Origen_’s Books,