Acacius of Caesarea, the One-eyed (Gk. ''ho monophthalmos'') the pupil and successor in the see of Caesarea of Eusebius of Caesarea A.D. 340, whose life he wrote. (Socrates Scholasticus, ''Hist. Ecc.'' 2.4.) He was able, learned, and unscrupulous. At first a Semi-Arian like his master, he founded afterwards the Homoean party and was condemned by the Semi-Arians at Seleucia, A.D. 359. (Socrates, ''Hist. Eccl.'' 2.39-40; Sozomen, ''Hist. Ecc.'' 4.22-23.) He subsequently became the associate of Aetius, the author of the ''Anomoeon'', then deserted him at the command of Constantius II, and, under the Catholic Jovian, subscribed the Homoousion or Nicene Creed. He died A.D. 366. He wrote seventeen Books on ''Eccesiastes'' and six of Miscellanies. (St. Jerome, ''Vir.'' 3.98.) St. Epiphanius of Salamis has preserved a fragment of his work against Marcellus (''ad. Haer.'' 72), and nothing else of his is extant, though Sozomen speaks of many valuable works written by him. (''Hist. Eccl.'' 3.2.) ==References== *[http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0013.html Acacius (3)] from Smith's ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'' (1867), from which this article was originally derived Ancient Roman Christianity Roman era historians
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Acacius of Caesarea, the One-eyed (Gk. ''ho monophthalmos'') the pupil and successor in the see of Caesarea of Eusebius of Caesarea A.D. 340, whose life he wrote. (Socrates Scholasticus, ''Hist. Ecc.'' 2.4.) He was able, learned, and unscrupulous. At first a Semi-Arian like his master, he founded afterwards the Homoean party and was condemned by the Semi-Arians at Seleucia, A.D. 359. (Socrates, ''Hist. Eccl.'' 2.39-40; Sozomen, ''Hist. Ecc.'' 4.22-23.) He subsequently became the associate of Aetius, the author of the ''Anomoeon'', then deserted him at the command of Constantius II, and, under the Catholic Jovian, subscribed the Homoousion or Nicene Creed. He died A.D. 366. He wrote seventeen Books on ''Eccesiastes'' and six of Miscellanies. (St. Jerome, ''Vir.'' 3.98.) St. Epiphanius of Salamis has preserved a fragment of his work against Marcellus (''ad. Haer.'' 72), and nothing else of his is extant, though Sozomen speaks of many valuable works written by him. (''Hist. Eccl.'' 3.2.) ==References== *[http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0013.html Acacius (3)] from Smith's ''Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology'' (1867), from which this article was originally derived Ancient Roman Christianity Roman era historians
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