Jerome. Lives of Illustrious Men 75
75 Pamphilus the presbyter PL 23, 683
Pamphilus the presbyter, patron of Eusebius bishop of Cæsarea, was so inflamed with love of sacred literature, that he transcribed the greater part of the works of Origen with his own hand and these are still preserved in the library at Cæsarea. I have twenty-five volumes of Commentaries of Origen, written in his hand, On the twelve prophets which I hug and guard with such joy, that I deem myself to have the wealth of Croesus. And if it is such joy to have one epistle of a martyr how much more to have so many thousand lines which seem to me to be traced in his blood. He wrote an Apology for Origen before Eusebius had written his and was put to death at Cæsarea in Palestine in the persecution of Maximinus.
Pamphilus presbyter, Eusebii Caesariensis episcopi necessarius, tanto Bibliothecae divinae amore flagravit, ut maximam partem Origenis voluminum sua manu descripserit, quae usque hodie in Caesariensi bibliotheca habentur. Sed et in duodecim Prophetas viginti quinque ἐξηγήσεων Origenis volumina, manu ejus exarata reperi, quae tanto amplector et servo gaudio, ut Croesi opes habere me credam. Si enim laetitia est, unam epistolam habere Martyris, quanto magis tot millia versuum, quae mihi videtur sui sanguinis signasse vestigiis! Scripsit, antequam Eusebius Caesariensis scriberet, Apologeticum pro Origene, et passus est Caesareae Palaestinae sub persecutione Maximini.
Πάμφιλος πρεσβύτερος, Εὐσεβίου Καισαρείας ἐπισκόπου ἀναγκαῖος φίλος, οὕτω κατεσχέθη φίλτρῳ τῆς θείας Βιβλιοθήκης, ὥστε αὐτὸν μέγιστον μέρος τῶν Ὠριγένους συνταγμάτων ἰδίᾳ χειρὶ καταγράψαι, ἅπερ ἄχρι τοῦ παρόντος ἐν τῇ Καισαρείας βιβλιοθήκῃ τυγχάνει, καὶ εἰς τοὺς δώδεκα Προφήτας πέντε καὶ εἴκοσιν ἐξηγήσεων Ὠριγένους τεύχη, τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ εὗρον γραφέντα, ἅτινα τοσαύτῃ περιπτύσσομαι καὶ φυλάττω χαρᾷ, ὡς τὸν Κροίσου πλοῦτον ἔχειν με πιστεύειν. Εἰ γὰρ μεγίστης ἐστὶ χαρμοσύνης μίαν ἐπιστολὴν μάρτυρος ἔχειν, πόσῳ μᾶλλον τοσαύτας χιλιάδας στίχων, δι' ὧν, ὡς ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ, τὰ ἴχνη τοῦ οἰκείου καταλέλοιπε πάθους. Ἔγραψε δὲ πρὸ τοῦ Εὐσέβιον συγγράψαι ἀπολογητικὸν ὑπὲρ Ὠριγένους, καὶ ἔπαθεν ἐν Καισαρείᾳ τῆς Παλαιστίνης ἐν τῷ Μαξιμίνου διωγμῷ.