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Status: Already answered

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This is a proposed connection between two domains, generated by a language model. It is not an article and not evidence: it sits below the evidence/publication boundary. A quantitative prediction and a named kill-dataset are attached (when registered) so the claim stays falsifiable rather than merely evocative.

Claim (verbatim)

After the condemnation of Evagrius of Pontus (553), many of his Greek works survived only under false names, notably Nilus of Ancyra, while Syriac and Armenian manuscripts went on copying the same works under Evagrius's own name. The claim: pseudepigraphy is jurisdiction-shaped and datable — re-attribution happened only where the condemning authority could inspect libraries, and it happened fast, within about two generations of the anathema, visible as a switch in attributions across dated witnesses; beyond Chalcedonian reach the name never changed. The mechanism is risk management by librarians, not confusion: keeping the text was worth a relabel where inspectors came, and worth nothing where they did not. If it holds, attribution patterns become a quantitative map of ecclesiastical enforcement power, measurable work by work and century by century.

Prediction clause (verbatim)

Primary clause (verdict follows it): in Pinakes, at least 70% of Greek witnesses of the core condemned Evagrian corpus carry non-Evagrian attributions, while in vHMML Syriac records at least 70% of witnesses of the same works name Evagrius. Secondary: no Greek witness datable before 553 carries the false attribution.

Kill-dataset (verbatim)

Pinakes attribution fields per witness (in-house) plus vHMML Reading Room Syriac manuscript records (in-house).

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Provenance

Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5

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Novelty / leakage triage

already answered in the literature

This is the standard account of the Evagrian corpus since the Guillaumonts: after the 553 condemnation the Greek tradition transmits Evagrius pseudonymously (chiefly as Nilus) while the Syriac and Armenian traditions — outside the condemning authority's reach, 'unaffected by the decisions of the 553 Council' — kept copying under his own name. Only the 70% thresholds are un-run; the jurisdiction-shaped connection itself is published.

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