Eusebius Book 7, Section 26

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XXVI. Ἐπὶ ταύταις τοῦ Διονυσίου φέρονται καὶ ἄλλαι πλείους ἐπιστολαί, ὥσπερ αἱ κατὰ Σαβελλίου πρὸς Ἄμμωνα τῆς κατὰ Βερνίκην ἐκκλησίας ἐπίσκοπον καὶ ἡ πρὸς Τελεσφόρον καὶ ἡ πρὸς Εὐφράνορα καὶ πάλιν Ἄμμωνα καὶ Εὔπορον· συντάττει δὲ περὶ τῆς αὐτῆς ὑποθέσεως καὶ ἄλλα τέσσαρα συγγράμματα, ἃ τῷ κατὰ Ῥώμην ὁμωνύμῳ Διονυσίῳ προσφωνεῖ. καὶ πλείους δὲ παρὰ ταύτας εἰσὶν αὐτοῦ παρ’ ἡμῖν ἐπιστολαὶ καὶ δὴ καὶ πολυεπεῖς λόγοι ἐν ἐπιστολῆς χαρακτῆρι γραφέντες, ὡς οἱ περὶ φύσεως, Τιμοθέῳ τῷ παιδὶ προσπεφωνημένοι, καὶ ὁ περὶ πειρασμῶν, ὃν καὶ αὐτὸν Εὐφράνορι ἀνατέθεικεν. ἐπὶ τούτοις καὶ Βασιλείδῃ τῶν κατὰ τὴν Πεντάπολιν παροικιῶν ἐπισκότῳ γράφων, φησὶν ἑαυτὸν εἰς τὴν ἀρχὴν ἐξήγησιν πεποιῆσθαι τοῦ Ἐκκλησιαστοῦ, διαφόρους δ’ ἡμῖν [τε] καὶ πρὸς τοῦτον καταλέλοιπεν ἐπιστολάς.

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XXVI. In addition to these letters of Dionysius there are extant also many others, as for example those against Sabellius to Ammon, bishop of the church at Bernice, and that to Telesphorus, and that to Euphranor and Ammon again and Euporus. And he composed on the same subject also four other treatises, which he addressed to his namesake at Rome, Dionysius. And we have many letters of his besides these, and moreover lengthy books written in epistolary form, such as those on Nature, addressed to Timothy his boy, and that on Temptations, which also he dedicated to Euphranor. In addition to these, in writing also to Basilides, bishop of the communities in the Pentapolis, he says that he himself had written an exposition of the beginning of Ecclesiastes; and he has left behind for our benefit various other letters addressed to this person.

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Τοσαῦτα ὁ Διονύσιος· ἀλλὰ γὰρ ἤδη μετὰ τὴν τούτων ιστορίαν φέρε, καὶ τὴν καθ’ ἡμᾶς τοῖς μετέπειτα γνωρίζειν γενεὰν ὁποία τις ἦν, παραδῶμεν.

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So much for Dionysius. But now, after recording these things, let us hand down for the information of posterity the character of our own generation.