EUSTATHIUS

eustathius, of antioch, sometimes styled "the great" (fl. 325), was a native of side in pamphylia. about 320 he was bishop of beroea, and he was patriarch of antioch before the council of nicaea in 325. in that assembly he distinguished himself by his zeal against the arians, though the _allocutio ad imperatorem_ with which he has been credited is hardly genuine. his anti-arian polemic against eusebius of caesarea made him unpopular among his fellow-bishops in the east, and a synod convened at antioch in 330 passed a sentence of deposition, which was confirmed by the emperor. he was banished to trajanopolis in thrace, where he died, probably about 337, though possibly not till 360. the only complete work by eustathius now extant is the _de engastrimytho contra origenem_ (ed. by a. jahn in _texte und untersuchungen_, ii. 4). other fragments are enumerated by f. loofs in herzog-hauck's _realencyklopaedie_.