Palladius

Palladius fl. 4th cent. AD, Roman author. He was a specialist on agriculture and possessed estates in both Italy and Sardinia. Palladius wrote a 14-volume treatise on farming that was well known in the Middle Ages. Most of the work is in prose and gives detailed instructions for a typical year on an average farm. The 14th book, on growing trees, is in elegiac verse. Although authorship of a 15th book, also in verse, is uncertain, it is sometimes attributed to Palladius.

Palladius (c.365–425). Historian of Christian monasticism. His Lausiac History (c.419) is of great importance for the history of early monasticism in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor.

Palladius (c.364–420/30), historian of early monasticism. He spent several years with the monks of Egypt, and was a pupil of Evagrius Ponticus. In 400 he became Bp. of Helenopolis in Bithynia. His Lausiac History, though at times credulous, is the most valuable single writing that survives for the history of early monasticism. He was also probably the author of a ‘Dialogue’ on the life of St Chrysostom.