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ASTERIIIS

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 792 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ASTERIIIS  ,

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bishop of
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Amasia, in
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Pontus, c . 400 . He was partly contemporary with the
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emperor
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Julian (d . 363) and lived to a
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great
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age . His fame rests chiefly on his Homilies, which were much esteemed in the Eastern
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Church . Most of these have been lost, but twenty-one are given in full by
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Migne (
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Patrol .
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Ser . Gr. xl . 164-477), and there are fragments of others in
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Photius (
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Cod . 271) . Asterius was a
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man of much culture, and his
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works are a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the
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history of
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preaching .

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