disputed · Printed in Migne (PG 40) among Evagrius's works. Its authenticity is not secure.
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)
Language
Greek
Genre
treatise
Reference system
chapter (Migne's numbering, about 11 chapters; numerals partly lost in the scan)
SBL abbreviation
Rat. mon.Not yet checked
Clavis
CPG 2442 (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, after the Sayings; Migne ascribes the work to Evagrius; its authenticity is not secure (it is also transmitted under Nilus). (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)