Erminos

Erminos (Greek Herminos) is an obscure figure known chiefly as a recipient of letters from Isidore of Pelusium, the early-fifth-century ascetic and priest who lived near Pelusium in the eastern Nile Delta and left a vast corpus of roughly two thousand letters of spiritual and exegetical counsel. He is addressed with the rank of comes (count), suggesting an imperial official of some standing in Roman Egypt around the first half of the fifth century, but no biography, career, or precise dates are independently attested for him. He is not otherwise documented outside this correspondence; what can be said about him is inferred from the eight letters Isidore directed to him and from the social world those letters reflect.