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On the Eight Thoughts

De octo spiritibus malitiae

Written about 385 to 399, probably in Kellia, Beheira, Egypt. The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

Sayings on the eight evil thoughts, from gluttony to pride.

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How we know the date and place

Date written probable

Written in his years in the Egyptian desert, 383 to 399; no closer date is sure (Guillaumont; Sinkewicz, Evagrius of Pontus: The Greek Ascetic Corpus, 2003)

Place written probable

Evagrius lived at Kellia from about 385 to his death in 399, and wrote there (Palladius, Lausiac History 38; Sinkewicz 2003)