ADRIANO. - Greek exegete, author of an “Introduction to Holy Scripture,” already mentioned by Cassiodorus in the De institutione divinarum litterarum (I, chap. 10: PL 70, 1122) and praised by Photius (Biblioth., Cod. 2: PG 103, 45). From the context of the work, transmitted to us in abbreviated form, it is learned that the author was a monk and priest, Syrian by birth although writing in Greek, and belonged to the Antiochene exegetical school. A. appears to have died between 440 and 450, and to have corresponded with Nilus (Epist., II, 60; III, 118, 266: PG 79, 225, 437, 516). The critical edition of the “Introduction” was prepared by F. Gössling, Berlin 1887 (cf. also PG 98, 1273-1312).
Cassiodorus seems to have known a Latin translation of A. (cf. P. Courcelle, Les Lettres grecques en Occident, Paris 1943, p. 336, n. 3).