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Nic Ephorus

8. MONACHUS, a doubtful person, lived about 1100, according to P. Possinus.

Works

Περὶ φυλακῆς καρδιάς, De Custodia Cordis

One Nicephorus, a monk, is the author of Περὶ φυλακῆς καρδιάς, De Custodia Cordis, a very interesting and valuable essay.

Editions

Possinus published this, in Greek and Latin, in his Thesaurus Asceticus, Paris, 1648, 4to.

Further Information

Cave, Hist. Lit. ad an. 1101; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. p. 679.

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.