authentic · Printed in Migne (PG 40) among Evagrius's works. The ascription to Evagrius is generally accepted; the Migne text differs from the modern critical text (Guillaumont, cited only).
Standing
Not honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by the Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant traditions. Evagrius was in communion with the church of his own lifetime (a monk of Nitria and Kellia, ordained deacon by Gregory of Nazianzus); his Origenist writings were condemned in 553, after his death, and he is not honoured as a saint in the Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant calendars, so he has no tradition's endorsement but is not outside the church of his own time.
Date
ca. 380-399 (approximate) · Written in the Egyptian desert (Nitria and Kellia) during the author's monastic years, after about 383.
Written at
Kellia, Egypt (probable)
Addressed to
Anatolius
Language
Greek
Genre
treatise
Reference system
section (eight thoughts in order: gluttony, fornication, avarice, sorrow, anger, acedia, vainglory, pride, then Migne's closing chapters; numerals lost in the scan, so some sections sit inside the preceding ref)
SBL abbreviation
Cog.Not yet checked
Clavis
CPG 2451 (not yet checked)
Text from
J.-P. Migne, ed., Patrologia Graeca 40 (Paris, 1863), cols. 1213-1286 (Evagrius Ponticus); text from the archive.org OCR of the printed volume. PG 40; the same text is also printed in PG 79 under Nilus (not staged twice). (Printed edition in the public domain; OCR transcription of public-domain page images)
Critical editions
Evagre le Pontique, Traité pratique ou Le moine, ed. A. and C. Guillaumont, SC 170-171 (Paris: Cerf, 1971) (cited only) (cited, not reproduced)