The ecclesiastical historian Socrates Scholasticus ( b. 380 ) attributes the observance of Easter by the church to the perpetuation of its custom, " just as many other customs have been established ," stating that neither Jesus nor his Apostles enjoined the keeping of this or any other festival.

In the 5th century, the Christian historian Socrates Scholasticus described Eusebius as writing for “ rhetorical finish ” and for the “ praises of the Emperor ” rather than the “ accurate statement of facts .” The methods of Eusebius were criticised by Edward Gibbon in the 18th century.

As the historian Socrates Scholasticus said, at the opening of his history that was designed as a continuation of Eusebius, " Also in writing the life of Constantine, this same author has but slightly treated of matters regarding Arius, being more intent on the rhetorical finish of his composition and the praises of the emperor, than on an accurate statement of facts.

The Christian historian Socrates Scholasticus was of the opinion that Julian believed himself to be Alexander the Great " in another body " via transmigration of souls, " in accordance with the teachings of Pythagoras and Plato ".

Pope Celestine strongly opposed the Novatians in Rome ; as Socrates Scholasticus writes, " this Celestinus took away the churches from the Novatians at Rome also, and obliged Rusticula their bishop to hold his meetings secretly in private houses.

In the 4th century, Socrates Scholasticus ( Church History, Book V ) stated:

In the 5th century, Sozomen ( Ecclesiastical History, Book VII ), referencing Socrates Scholasticus, added to this description:

** Historia Ecclesiastica by Socrates Scholasticus

Socrates Scholasticus gives Ulfilas a minor role, and instead attributes the mass conversion to the Gothic chieftain Fritigern, who adopted Arianism out of gratitude for the military support of the Arian emperor.

* Socrates Scholasticus, Byzantine Church historian

* Socrates Scholasticus, church historian ( approximate date )

The Church History of Theodoret, which begins with the rise of Arianism and closes with the death of Theodore in 429, falls far behind those of Socrates Scholasticus and Sozomen.

With his title of " royal typographer " Estienne made the Paris establishment famous by his numerous editions of grammatical works and other school-books ( among them many of Melanchthon's ), and of classical and Patristic authors, as Dio Cassius, Cicero, Sallust, Julius Caesar, Justin, Socrates Scholasticus, and Sozomen.

Socrates of Constantinople, also known as Socrates Scholasticus, not to be confused with the Classical Greek philosopher Socrates, was a Greek Christian church historian, a contemporary of Sozomen and Theodoret, who used his work ; he was born at Constantinople c. 380: the date of his death is unknown.

Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen, and Zosimus refer to conflicts between Fritigern and Athanaric.

* Socrates Scholasticus Historia Ecclesiastica V. 8 ; V. 11

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Socrates Scholasticus, Sozomen, and Zosimus refer to conflicts between Fritigern and Athanaric.

* Socrates Scholasticus account of Licinius ' end

Socrates Scholasticus gives an interesting account in his Historia Ecclesiastica of Valentinian's marriages, that has inspired some to call this emperor polygamous.

Socrates Scholasticus, Church Historian ( born c. 380 ):

Consequently his commentary on the Epistle to the Romans, mentioned by the historian, Socrates Scholasticus and his epistles, mentioned by Philostorgius and Photius, are no longer extant.

* 470 BC: The philosopher Socrates is born.

Hippias was born at Elis in the mid 5th-century BCE ( c. 460 BCE ) and was thus a younger contemporary of Protagoras and Socrates.

Socrates, born in Athens in the 5th century BCE, marks a watershed in Ancient Greek philosophy.

The philosophic movements that were to dominate the intellectual life of the Roman empire were thus born in this febrile period following Socrates ' activity and either directly or indirectly influenced by him.

Socrates Scholasticus ( born c. 380 ), in his Ecclesiastical History, gives a full description of the discovery that was repeated later by Sozomen and by Theodoret.

During this period, Socrates was born in Greece, Zoroaster in Iran, Lao ‑ Tse and Confucious in China and Mahavira and Buddha in India.

Euclid was born in Megara, but in Athens he became a follower of Socrates.

According to the account, Socrates was born a Christian in Samarqand and went to Greece to serve Iskandar Dhūl-Qarnayn ( Iskandar Rūmi ).

Socrates says: " Now if it be true that the living come from the dead, then our souls must exist in the other world, for if not, how could they have been born again ?".

* Socrates of Constantinople ( born c. 380 ), also known as Socrates Scholasticus, a Byzantine church historian

* Socrates B. Villegas ( born 1960 ), a Roman Catholic archbishop in the Philippines

It is written in the format of a Socratic dialogue in which Scipio Africanus Minor ( who had died a few decades before Cicero was born, several centuries after Socrates ' death ) takes the role of a wise old man — an obligatory part for the genre.

To explain how Socrates comes to be born ( since he did not exist before he was born ) Aristotle says that it is ‘ matter ’ ( hyle ) that underlies the change.

In the introduction, Socrates muses about the perfect society, described in Plato's Republic ( c. 380 BC ), and wonders if he and his guests might recollect a story which exemplifies such a society.

The beginning of his episcopacy was remarkable for a prodigy by which is related by Socrates, Philostorgius, the chronicle of Alexandria, & c. St. Cyril, an eye-witness wrote immediately to the emperor Constantius, an exact account of this miraculous phenomenon: and his letter is quoted as a voucher for it by Sozomen, Theophanes, Eutychius, John of Nice, Glycas, and others.

Larissa was indeed the birthplace of Meno, who thus became, along with Xenophon and a few others, one of the generals leading several thousands Greeks from various places, in the ill-fated expedition of 401 ( retold in Xenophon's Anabasis ) meant to help Cyrus the Younger, son of Darius II, king of Persia, overthrow his elder brother Artaxerxes II and take over the throne of Persia ( Meno is featured in Plato's dialogue bearing his name, in which Socrates uses the example of " the way to Larissa " to help explain Meno the difference between true opinion and science ( Meno, 97a – c ) ; this " way to Larissa " might well be on the part of Socrates an attempt to call to Meno's mind a " way home ", understood as the way toward one's true and " eternal " home reached only at death, that each man is supposed to seek in his life ).

According to Xenophon, Socrates ( c. 469-399 B. C.

Xenophon (, Xenophōn ; c. 430 – 354 BC ), son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, also known as Xenophon of Athens, was a Greek historian, soldier, mercenary, philosopher and a contemporary and admirer of Socrates.

Moreover, the term ' dialectic ' owes much of its prestige to its role in the philosophies of Socrates and Plato, in the Greek Classical period ( 4 – 5 c. BCE ).

* February 15 – Socrates, Greek philosopher ( b. c. 470 BC )

* Cephalus, son of Lysanias from Syracuse ( 5th c. BC ), a wealthy metic and elderly arms manufacturer living in Athens who engages in dialogue with Socrates in Plato's Republic.

* Xenophon, Greek historian, soldier, mercenary and an admirer of Socrates ( b. c. 427 BC )

* Xenophon, Greek historian, soldier, mercenary and an admirer of Socrates ( b. c. 431 BC )

Antisthenes (; c. 445 BCE – c. 365 BCE ) was a Greek philosopher and a pupil of Socrates.

Wondering why everyone seems sober, Alcibiades is informed of the night's agreement ( 213e, c ); after saying his drunken ramblings should not be placed next to the sober orations of the rest, and that he hopes no one believed a word Socrates said, Alcibiades proposes to offer an encomium to Socrates ( 214c-e ).

Cebes of Thebes ( c. 430 – 350 BCE ) was an Ancient Greek philosopher from Thebes remembered as a disciple of Socrates.

Sozomen ( died c. 450 ), in his Ecclesiastical History, gives essentially the same version as Socrates.

Euclid of Megara Dressing as a Woman to Hear Socrates Teach in Athens, by Domenico Marolì, c. 1650