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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Glyce'rius (search)
Glyce'rius one of the phantom emperors of the latest period of the western empire. Before his accession he held the office of Comes domesticorum, and is described by Theophanes as a)nh\r ou)k a)do/kimos ("a man of good reputation"). After the death of the emperor Olybrius and the patrician Ricimer, Glycerius was instigated to assume the empire by Gundibatus or Gundobald the Burgundian, Ricimer's nephew. His elevation took place at Ravenna in March, A. D. 473. His reign was too short, and the records of it are too obscure, for us to form any trustworthy judgment of his character. He showed great respect for Epiphanius, bishop of Ticinum or Pavia, at whose intercession he pardoned some individuals who had incurred his displeasure by some injury or insult offered to his mother. When Widemir, the Ostro-Goth, invaded Italy, Glycerius sent him several presents, and induced him to quit Italy and to march into Gaul, and incorporate his army with the Visi-Goths, who were already settled in th
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Malchus (search)
hetorician or sophist at Constantinople, and the statement that he was a native of that city may have arisen from that circumstance. Works History of Byzantium According to Suidas and Eudocia, he wrote a history extending from the reign of Constantine to that of Anastasius; but the work in seven books, of which Photius has given an account (Bibl. cod. 78), and to which he gives the title *Buzantai+ka/, comprehended only the period from the final sickness of the Eastern emperor Leo I. (A. D. 473 or 474), to the death of Nepos, emperor of the West (A. D. 480). It has been supposed that this was an extract from the work mentioned by Suidas, or a mutilated copy: that it was incomplete is attested by Photitis himself, who says that the commencement of the first of the seven books showed that the author had already written some previous portions, and that the close of the seventh book showed his intention of carrying it further, if his life was spared. Some eminent critics, among whom
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Petroco'rius (search)
461 to 491, and whom he calls his patron. It was at the desire of Perpetuus that he put into verse the life of St. Martin of Tours; and in an epistle addressed to that prelate, he humbly tells him, with an amusing reference to the history of Balaam, that, in giving him confidence to speak, he had repeated the miracle of opening the mouth of the ass. He afterwards supplied, at the desire of the bishop, some verses to be inscribed on the walls of the new church which Perpetuus finished about A. D. 473 (or according to Oudin, A. D. 482), and to which the body of St. Martin was transferred. He sent with them some verses De Visitatione Nepotuli sui, on occasion of the cure, supposed to be miraculous, which his grandson and the young lady to whom he was married or betrothed, had experienced through the efficacy of a document, apparently the account of the miracles of St. Martin, written by the hand of the bishop. We gather that this poem was written when the author was old, from the circums