Loci Communes is a compilation of sententiae or moral sentences written by Greek monk Antonius Melissa (c. 11th century). It is similar to another Loci communes,Luke Timothy Johnson, William S. Kurz, (2002), The future of Catholic biblical scholarship: a constructive conversation, page 42 by an anonymous author and misattributed to Maximus Confessor. Both works contain extracts from the early Church Fathers, and also contain quotations from earlier Jewish and pagan authors. The two works have often been printed together, and have often been printed at the end of the editions of Stobaeus.Diego Baldi, Conrad Gesner, i Loci Communes dello pseudo Massimo Confessore e la Melissa del monaco Antonio, in Bibliothecae.it 3.1 (2014), pp. 19-61
Nothing is known about the author. The surname traditionally applied to Antonius, Melissa ("the Bee"), seems to have been, in fact, the original title of his compilation.Ezra Abbot, (2008), The Authorship of the Fourth Gospel: And Other Critical Essays, page 300
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