TITO di BOSTRA. – Died before 378, author of a work in 4 books against the Manichaeans, preserved complete in Syriac and in part in Greek. The refutation has a philosophical character in the first two books. Fragments of his homilies on the Gospel of Luke, preserved in the catenae, are extant.
BIBL.: edition of the Greek text by P. A. de Lagarde, Berlin 1859; the Syriac text was published by the same author, ibid., 1859. The Greek text is contained in a manuscript in Genoa, V. Brinkmann, in Sitzungsberichte Berlin. Akad., 1894, p. 486. On the fragments of the homilies on St Luke V. Sickenberger, T. V. B., Studien zu dessen Lukashomelien (Texte und Untersuch. z. alchr. Literatur, 21, 1), Leipzig 1901. Erik Peterson