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37 Rhodo, the disciple of Tatian PL 23, 651
Rhodo, a native of Asia, instructed in the Scriptures at Rome by Tatian whom we mentioned above, published many things especially a work Against Marcion in which he tells how the Marcionites differ from one another as well as from the church and says that the aged Apelles, another heretic, was once engaged in a discussion with him, and that he, Rhodo, held Apelles up to ridicule because he declared that he did not know the God whom he worshipped. He mentioned in the same book, which he wrote to Callistion, that he had been a pupil of Tatian at Rome. He also composed elegant treatises On the six days of creation and a notable work against the Phrygians. He flourished in the reigns of Commodus and Severus.
877 Rhodon, genere Asianus, a Tatiano, de quo supra diximus, Romae in Scripturis eruditus, edidit plurima: praecipuumque adversus Marcionem opus, in quo refert, quomodo ipsi quoque inter se Marcionitae discrepent; et Apellem senem alium haereticum a se quondam fuisse conventum, et risui habitum, eo quod Deum, quem coleret, ignorare se diceret. Meminit in eodem libro, quem scripsit ad Callistionem, Tatiani se Romae fuisse auditorem. Sed et in Hexaemeron elegantes tractatus composuit, et adversum Phrygas insigne opus; temporibusque Commodi et Severi floruit.
878 Ῥόδων, Ἀσιανὸς, παρὰ Τατιανῷ τῷ ἀναφερομένῳ, ἐν ταῖς θείαις Γραφαῖς παιδευθεὶς, ἐξέδωκε μὲν πάμπολλα, ἐξαίρετον δὲ κατὰ Μαρκίωνος σύνταγμα, ἐν ᾧ ἐξηγεῖται, ὅπως καὶ αὐτοὶ εἰς ἑαυτοὺς Μαρκιωνισταὶ διαφωνοῦσι, καὶ τὸν Ἀπελλὴν τὸν γέροντα ὁμοίως αἱρετικὸν, συντετυχηκέναι αὐτοῖς, καὶ καταγέλαστον γεγενῆσθαι, εἰρηκότα ὅτι τὸν θεὸν ὃν σέβει, ἀγνοεῖ. Μέμνηται ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ βίβλῳ, ἣν ἔγραψε πρὸς Καλλιστίωνα, Τατιανοῦ γεγενῆσθαι ἐν τῇ Ῥώμῃ ἀκροατὴς, καὶ εἰς τὴν ἑξαήμερον δὲ κομψὰς ὁμιλίας συνέταξε, καὶ κατὰ τῶν Φρυγῶν ἐπίσημον ἔργον, ἀνθήσας ἐπὶ τῶν χρόνων Κομόδου καὶ Σεβήρου.