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Panarion

Panarion

Written about 374 to 377, probably in Constantia (Salamis), near Famagusta, Cyprus. The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

A "medicine chest" against eighty heresies.

Treatise · first written in Greek · a major work

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How we know the date and place
Date written probable
He gives the year 374 or 375 at the start (Proem 2.2.3); finished by 378 (Williams 1987)
Place written probable
Epiphanius was bishop of Constantia (Salamis) in Cyprus from about 367 (Williams, The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, 1987)