a famous historian, born at Epiphania, about the year 536. He practised the profession of an advocate, from which he was called Scholasticus, which name was then given to the pleaders at the bar. He was also tribune and keeper of the prefect's dispatches. He wrote an ecclesiastical history, which begins where Socrates and Theodore ended theirs; and other works, for which he was rewarded by the emperors Tiberius and Mauricius. M. de Valois published at Paris a good edition of Evagrius's ecclesiastical history, in folio; and it was republished at Cambridge in 1620, in folio, by William Reading, with additional notes of various authors.