THE patristic author who makes most extensive use of collected gnomai /logoi is Evagrius Ponticus  Given his close ties with Rufinus, it is not surprising that Evagrius revered the genre of gnomic sentences, editing collections that imitate and directly borrow from the Sentences of Sextus which Rufinus praised, as well as those of Pythagoras, and Clitarchus.  Even in the ascetical treatises for which he is best known chains of gnomic sentences are frequent.  While the overwhelming bulk of his extensive literary output consists of scholia on the books of Psalms, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes,  his writings also include collections of gnomic sentences, the majority of which appear to have originated in his scholia, and were later rearranged in thematic clusters as gnomai often explicating an unstated biblical text the knowledgeable reader was expected to intuit.