The other book, which I have referred to above, is entitled _Preface
of the Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine to the Continuation of the
History of Eusebius Pamphili_. It begins as follows: Others who
have applied themselves to writing and have determined to hand
down to posterity a record of historical events, and so on. The
author states that he was encouraged to write the work by his uncle
Cyril,[475] bishop of Jerusalem. I have read elsewhere that this
Cyril and Gelasius translated the history of Rufinus[476] the Roman
into Greek, but did not compose any history of their own. It is
evident that this Gelasius was older than the other, if he flourished
in the time of Cyril of Jerusalem. He also certainly differs from
him in the greater eloquence of his language, although both are
inferior to the author of the treatise _Against the Anomoeans_, also
called bishop of Palestine. For the latter Gelasius, by his diction,
learning, and logical methods, his use of which, however, is somewhat
inept, leaves the other two far behind, whose style appears to be
much inferior. I have not yet been able to learn whether any of
these is the author of the work referred to, or who compiled it and
supplemented it by his own additions.