Jerome. Lives of Illustrious Men 98

St Jerome (AD 345–420) · De viris illustribus · PL 23, 598–720

98 Acacius the bishop PL 23, 699

Acacius, who, because he was blind in one eye, they nicknamed “the one-eyed,” bishop of the church of Cæsarea in Palestine, wrote seventeen volumes On Ecclesiastes and six of Miscellaneous questions, and many treatises besides on various subjects. He was so influential in the reign of the emperor Constantius that he made Felix bishop of Rome in the place of Liberius.

Acacius, quem, quia luscus erat, μονόφθαλμον nuncupabant, Caesariensis Ecclesiae in Palaestina episcopus, elaboravit in Ecclesiasten decem et septem volumina, et συμμίκτων ζητημάτων sex, et multos praeterea diversosque tractatus. In tantum autem sub Constantio imperatore claruit, ut in Liberii locum Romae Felicem episcopum constitueret.

Ἀκάκιος, ὅντινα ἐπειδὴ ἑνὶ ὀφθαλμῷ πηρὸς ἦν, μονόφθαλμον ἐκάλεσαν, τῆς ἐν Παλαιστίνῃ Καισαρείας ἐπίσκοπος, συτέταξε εἰς Ἐκκλησιαστὴν βιβλία δέκα καὶ ἑπτὰ, καὶ συμμίκτων ζητημάτων ἓξ, καὶ πολλὰς διαφόρους ὁμιλίας. Εἰς τοσοῦτον δὲ ἐπὶ Κωνσταντίου βασιλέως διέπρεψεν, ὥστε εἰς τόπον Λιβερίου Φήλικα ἐπίσκοπον Ῥώμης χειροτονῆσαι.

Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (eds.), New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890-1900. Public domain: English translation first published 1885-1900 (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series). Latin: Migne, Patrologia Latina (1844-1855), public domain; transcription from Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich).