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== A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography <ref name="term_15293" /> ==
<p> a reputed bishop OF VERONA, and alleged author of ninety-three sermomns, which were published in 1508 by [[Jacob]] de Lenco and [[Albert]] Castellan under the title, S. Zenoni Episc. Vetronens. Sermones, after a very ancient manuscript found fifty years before in the episcopal library of [[Verona]] by Guarinus. These sermons were previously wholly unknown, and [[Zeno]] himself lived only in a few miracle-legends. He was represented with a fish attached to his angle or episcopal staff, because he had, while angling, delivered a drowning man from the clutches of the devil. [[Eleven]] of the sermons are certainly not by the author of the general mass. The age of the collection is variously estimated; Vogel, in Herzog (following Dorner), dating them back perhaps to the beginning of the latter half of the 3d century, Barbnius to A.D. 200, others to A.D. 450-500. It would seem that they emanated from the mind of a bishop who was endowed with earnestness and dignity of character as well as theological learning, and who presided over an established Church and a regularly organized clergy. See Fessler, Institut. Patrolog. (Oenipont, 1851), 1:73 sq.; Wetzer u. Welte, KirchenLexikon, s.v.; Jazdzewski, Zeno, Veroinensis Episc. (Ratisbon, 1862); Dorner, Enwicklungsgesch d. Lehre von d. Person Christi, 2d ed. 1:754 sq.; Herzog, Real-Encyklop. s.v. </p>
<p> <b> [[Zeno]] (16), </b> emperor of the East a.d. 474–491, is famous in church history for the publication of the HENOTICON and for his active part in the prolonged disputes about [[Timotheus]] Aelurus, Timotheus Salofaciolus, Peter Mongus, and Peter the Fuller. [[Pope]] SIMPLICIUS and ACACIUS used him very effectually against their opponents. For a full analysis of the letters of popes [[Simplicius]] and [[Felix]] III. to him see Ceillier, t. x. pp. 410–420. </p> <p> [G.T.S.] </p>
          
          
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_81719" /> ==
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_66755" /> ==
<p> Greek philosopher, the founder of Stoic philosophy, born at Citium, in Cyprus, son of a merchant and bred to merchandise, but losing all in a shipwreck gave himself up to the study of philosophy; went to Athens, and after posing as a cynic at length opened a school of his own in the Stoa, where he taught to extreme old age a gospel called Stoicism, which, at the decline of the heathen world, proved the stay of many a noble soul that but for it would have died without sign, although it is thus "Sartor," in the way of apostrophe, underrates it: "Small is it that thou canst trample the Earth with its injuries under thy feet, as old Greek Zeno trained thee; thou canst love the Earth while it injures thee, and even because it injures thee; for this a [[Greater]] than Zeno was needed, and he too was sent" (342-270 B.C.). See The [[Stoics]] . </p>
<p> a Greek philosopher, was born at Elea, in Southern Italy, about B.C. 490. He was a pupil of Carmenides, and lived at Elea all his life, with the exception of occasional visits to Athens, where he had many of the wealthy citizens for his disciples. He is said to have engaged in a conspiracy against Nearchus, the tyrant of Elea, who captured him and put him to death by cruel torture. For an account of his philosophy, (See [[Eleatic School]]). </p>
       
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_81724" /> ==
<p> Greek philosopher of the [[Eleatic School]] ( <i> q. v </i> .), and who flourished in 500 B.C.; was the founder of the dialectic so successfully adopted by Socrates, which argues for a particular truth by demonstration of the absurdity that would follow from its denial, a process of argument known as the <i> reductio ad absurdum </i> . </p>
          
          
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A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography [1]

Zeno (16), emperor of the East a.d. 474–491, is famous in church history for the publication of the HENOTICON and for his active part in the prolonged disputes about Timotheus Aelurus, Timotheus Salofaciolus, Peter Mongus, and Peter the Fuller. Pope SIMPLICIUS and ACACIUS used him very effectually against their opponents. For a full analysis of the letters of popes Simplicius and Felix III. to him see Ceillier, t. x. pp. 410–420.

[G.T.S.]

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]

a Greek philosopher, was born at Elea, in Southern Italy, about B.C. 490. He was a pupil of Carmenides, and lived at Elea all his life, with the exception of occasional visits to Athens, where he had many of the wealthy citizens for his disciples. He is said to have engaged in a conspiracy against Nearchus, the tyrant of Elea, who captured him and put him to death by cruel torture. For an account of his philosophy, (See Eleatic School).

The Nuttall Encyclopedia [3]

Greek philosopher of the Eleatic School ( q. v .), and who flourished in 500 B.C.; was the founder of the dialectic so successfully adopted by Socrates, which argues for a particular truth by demonstration of the absurdity that would follow from its denial, a process of argument known as the reductio ad absurdum .

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