Eutychius
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- For the patriarch of Constantinople by the same name, see Patriarch Eutychius of Constantinople
Eutychius (876-940) was a Melchite patriarch of Alexandria, originally named Sa'id ibn Batriq. He is most widely known as the author of a history of the world from Adam to 938 (Nazm al-Gawahir (Chaplet of Pearls) in Arabic, translated Eutychii Historia universalis in Latin or the Annales). It was a source for Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.