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- ↑ Diekamp ascribes the work to the period between the years 685 and 726, and though nothing can be said with certainty concerning the author, a slight probability points to Anastasius of Sinai as its compiler.
- ↑ Migne, Patrologia Graeca , CLIII, 1089-92.
- ↑ "Fragmenta Vornicänischer Kirchenväter aus den Sacra Parallela", Leipzig, 1899.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Florilegia". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company.