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Thalassius

2. A monk, lived in the deserts of Libya, about A. D. 662.

Works

Four Hecatontades

There are extant four hecatontades of Thalassius addressed to the presbyter Paulus, and entitled Περὶ ἀγαπῆς καὶ ἐγκρατείας καὶ τῆς κατὰ νοῦν πολιτείας, De caritate, vitae continentia et mentis regimine.

Editions

These are printed in all the Bibliothecae Patrum.

Further Information

Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. pp. 113, 114.

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.