The name of a movement from villages or cities to the country, when taxation and other aspects of social life became unbearable in antiquity, especially in Roman Egypt, and people abandoned their legal home for extended periods of time, to withdraw from the reach of official power. Let’s go anachoretic, up to the country! But…. we are already up in the countryside! Ok, let’s go catachoretic, down to the country where a multitude will reconstitute another life of learning, work, and devotion.