ARIUS ("Apews)  , a name celebrated in ecclesiastical history, not so much on account of the personality of its bearer as of the " Arian " controversy which he provoked . Our knowledge of Arius is scanty, and nothing certain is known of his birth or of his early training . Epiphanius of Salamis, in his well-known treatise against eighty heresies (Hier. lxix . 3), calls him a Libyan by birth, and if the statement of Sozomen, a church historian of the 5th century, is to be trusted, he was, as a member of the Alexandrian church, connected with the Meletian schism (see 30000=2 1.1_3-'8'391 • • • (3, 425, 93p9-)• =10000 -1-Iii-14i-l- • • .