HELIODORUS of PHOENICIA, biſhop of Trica. Heliodorus in Theſſaly, better known by the romance he compoſed in his youth, entitled Æthiopics, and relating the amours of Theagenes and Chariclea. Some ſay he was depoſed by a ſynod, becauſe he would not conſent to the ſuppreſſing of that romance: the fablc has a moral tendency, and particularly inculcates the virtue of chaſtity. As it was the firſt of this ſpecies of writing, he is ſtyled the Father of Romances. He was alſo a good Latin poet. He lived in the 4th century.