Hesychius
bishop of Salona in Dalmatia, who flourished about the beginning of the fifth century, maintained a friendly intercourse with St. Augustin and St. Chrysostom, as we gather from their works; a letter has been preserved addressed to him by Pope Zosimus in A. D. 418.
Works
Letter
The only epistle written by Hesychius himself now extant will be found among the correspondence of St. Augustin, and is numbered CXCVIII. in the Benedictine edition.
Further Information
Augustin, De Civ. Dei, 20.5, Ep. cxcvii, cxcviii, cxcix. vol. ii. ed. Bened.; Schönemann, Bibl. Patrum Lat. vol. 2.14; Bähr, in his Geschichte der Römischen Litterat. suppl. band. II. abtheil. § 141, by some mistake apparently names this prelate Hegesippus instead of Hesychius.
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.