Antonius (monk)

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Antonius ({{langx|grc|Ἀντώνιος}}) was a Greek monk, and a disciple of the Syriac ascetic saint Simeon Stylites. He lived around the year 460 AD.

Antonius wrote a life of his master Simeon, whom he knew closely. It was written in Greek, and the theologian Leo Allatius claims that he saw a Greek manuscript of it;Leo Allatius, Diatr. de Script. Sim. p. 8 but the only edition which we know to have been published is a Latin translation in Bolland's Act. Sanctor. i. p. 264.Bolland Act. Sanctor. i. p. 264Cave, Script. Eccles. Hist. Lit. ii. p. 145 Theologian Gerardus Vossius, who knew only the Latin translation, was doubtful whether he should consider Antonius as a Latin or a Greek historian.Gerardus Vossius, De Hist. Lat. p. 231