Eusebius Book 4, Section 28

4.28.1

ΧΧVIII. καὶ Μουσανοῦ δέ, ὃν ἐν τοῖς φθάσασιν κατελέξαμεν , φέρεταί τις ἐπιστρεπτικώτατος λόγος, πρός τινας αὐτῷ γραφεὶς ἀδελφοὺς ἀποκλίναντας ἐπὶ τὴν τῶν λεγομένων Ἐγκρατιτῶν αἵρεσιν, ἄρτι τότε φύειν ἀρχομένην ξένην τε καὶ φθοριμαίαν ψευδοδοξίαν εἰσάγουσαν τῷ βίῳ·

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XXVIII. And of Musanus, whom we have mentioned in a previous passage, there is extant a certain very eloquent discourse, written by him to some brethren who had fallen away to the heresy of the so-called Encratites, which was then just beginning to arise and to introduce into life its strange and destructive false doctrine.