Encolpius
Works
Life of Alexander Severus
Encolpius is named by Lampridius as the author of a life of the emperor Alexander Severus, with whom he lived upon terms of intimacy. (Lamprid. Alex. Sev. 17, 48.)
Elyots Forged Version
A book published by Thomas Elyot, a man celebrated for his learning in the reign of Henry VIII., under the title " The Image of Governance (Imago Imperii) compiled of the Actes and Sentences notable of the most noble emperor Alexwander Severus, translated from the Greek of Eucolpius (Encolpius) into English," Lond. 1540, 1541, 1544, 1549, 4to., 1556, 1594, 8vo., is a fabrication.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.