Jerome. Lives of Illustrious Men 121
121 Priscillianus the bishop PL 23, 711
Priscillianus, bishop of Abila, belonged to the party of Hydatius and Ithacius, and was put to death at Trèves by the tyrant Maximus. He published many short writings, some of which have reached us. He is still accused by some, of being tainted with Gnosticism, that is, with the heresy of Basilides or Mark, of whom Irenæus writes, while his defenders maintain that he was not at all of this way of thinking.
947 Priscillianus, Abilae episcopus, qui factione Hidacii et Ithacii Treveris a Maximo tyranno caesus est, edidit multa opuscula, de quibus ad nos aliqua pervenerunt. Hic usque hodie a nonnullis Gnosticae, id est Basilidis et Marci, de quibus Irenaeus scripsit, haereseos accusatur, defendentibus aliis, non ita eum sensisse, ut arguitur.
948 Πρισκιλλιανὸς, Ἀβίλης Ἐπίσκοπος, ὅστις συσκευῇ Ὑδατίου καὶ Ἰθακίου, εἰς Τρίβεριν παρὰ Μαξίμου τοῦ τυράννου ἐσφάγη, ἐξέδωκε πολλὰ συντάγματα, ἀφ' ὧν τινα εἰς ἡμᾶς παρεληλύθασιν. Οὗτος ἄχρι τήμερον παρά τινῶν τὴν Γνωστικὴν αἵρεσιν, τουτέστιν Βασιλείδου καὶ Μαρκίωνος, περὶ ὧν Εἰρηναῖος συνέγραψεν, ὡς αἱρετικὸς κατηγορεῖται, ἐκδικούντων τινῶν, οὐχ οὕτως αὐτὸν νενοηκέναι ὡς εὐθύνεται.