Symeon PIUS
24. PIUS, VENERABILIS or STUDITA. Symeon, denominated by his admirers ὁ εὐλαβής, " the Pious," or, as Combéfis renders it, " the Venerable," was a monk of the monastery of Studium at Constantinople, in the latter half of the tenth century. His younger namesake, Symeon of St. Mamas [No. 16], was his disciple, and held him in such reverence as to pay to his memory honours which were deemed unauthorized and excessive, and involved the younger Symeon in difficulties with his ecclesiastical superiors.
Works
Λόγος ἀσκητικὸς τολυμερὴς ἠθικὸς κεφαλαιώδης, Oratio de vitae asceticae officiis summatim scripta
Symeon the Pious is regarded as the author of a short treatise on the duties of an ascetic life, Λόγος ἀσκητικὸς τολυμερὴς ἠθικὸς κεφαλαιώδης, Oratio de vitae asceticae officiis summatim scripta,.
Editions
A version in modern or Romaic Greek, by Dionysius Zagoraeus, is published with his version of the works of Symeon of St. Mamas. 4to. Venice, 1790.
Further Information
See the biographical notices of Symeon of St. Mamas, in the Auctarium Novissimum of Combéfis and in the version of Zagoraeus, already referred to [No. 16].
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.