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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Constanti'nus (search)
Constantinus who was an advocate at Constantinople A person of the same name, who is described as an advocate at Constantinople, without any of these official titles, was one of the commissioners appointed to compile the Digest, A. D. 530 (Const. tanta, § 9), and was also one of the commissioners appointed to draw up that new edition of the Code which now forms part of the Corpus Juris. (Const. Cordi, § 2.) Works Edicts Editions In the collection of Edicta Praefectorum Praetorio, first published by Zachariae (Anecdota, Lips. 1843) from a Bodleian manuscript, are three edicts of Constantinus (p. 272). The edicts in this collection belong to the time of Anastasius, Justin, and Justinian. (A. D. 491-565.) Zachariae thinks that the author of these three edicts was the (constantinus who was praef. praet. of the East under Anastasius, as appears from Cod. 8, tit. 48. s. 5, and Cod. 2, tit. 7. s. 22, and that his full name was Asper Alypius Constantinus. (p. 260, nn. 19, 20.) [J.T.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ge'ssius (search)
Ge'ssius （*Ge/ssios:), an eminent physician, called by Stephanus Byzantinus (s. v. *Ge/a) o( perifane/statos i)atrosofi/sths, was a native of Gea, a place near Petra, in Arabia, and lived in the reign of the emperor Zenon, A. D. 474-491. He was a pupil of Domnus, whose reputation he eclipsed, and whose scholars he enticed from him by his superior skill. He was an ambitious man, and acquired both riches and honours; but his reputation as a philosopher, though he wished to be considered such, was not very great. (Damascius ap. Suid s. v. *Ge/sios, and Phot. Bibl. 242. p. 352b. 3, ed. Bekker.) He may perhaps be the physician mentioned by one of the scholiasts on Hippocrates. (Dietz, Schol. in Hippocr. et Gal. vol. ii. p. 343, note.) The little medical work that bears the name of Cassius Iatrosophista has been by some persons attributed to (Gesius, but without sufficient reason. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xiii. p. 170, ed. Vet.) [W.A.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Illus (search)
Illus a leading personage in the troubled reign of the Byzantine emperor Zeno, who reigned A. D. 474-491. His name is variously written *)/Illos (which is the most common form), *)Illo/s, *)/Illous, *(/Illos, and *(Illou=s, and by Latin writers, ILLUS, ELLUS, and HYLLUS. Victor of Tunes in one place calls him Patricius, mistaking his title of Patrician for a proper name. Illus was an Isaurian, but the time and place of his birth are unknown. He is said to have held various offices under the Emperor Leo I. (A. D. 457-474), and to have been an intimate friend of Zeno, apparently before his accession. But we first read of him in Zeno's reign and in hostility to that emperor. Basiliscus, brother of the empress dowager Verina,the widow of Leo,hadexpelled Zeno from Constantinople (A. D. 475) and sent an army in pursuit of him under Illus and his brother Trocondus (whose name is variously written *Tro/kondos, *Trokou=ndos, *Trobou=ndos, *Prokou=ndos, *Pro/mondos, and *Sekoou=ndos, and by
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Saba or Saba Hamartolus or St. Saba (search)
A. D. 573. After the death of this eminent person, Saba withdrew altogether from his monastery into the wilderness near the Jordan; and from thence removed to a cave near "the brook that flows from the fountain of Siloam," where in his forty-fifth year (A. D. 483 or 484) he began to form a community from those who now resorted to him, and founded the "Laura" or monastery, known afterwards as Magna Laura, the inmates of which soon amounted to a hundred and fifty. In his fifty-third year, A. D. 491 or 492 (Cyrill. Scythop. Sabae Vita, 100.19), not his forty-fifth, as Cave affirms, he received ordination as presbyter. He was the founder of some other monastic societies beside that of Magna Laura; and was appointed by the Patriarch of Jerusalem archimandrite of the anchorets of Palestine. But the peace of these solitaries was disturbed by the seditious proceedings of some of them; and by the disputes occasioned by the revival and progress of Origenistic and other opinions [ORIGENES] re
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Seve'rus (search)
ltra opinions had rendered him a dangerous or a disagreeable inmate of his Palestinian monastery and he hoped to find a more cordial welcome or a securer shelter with Nephalius. In this hope he was disappointed : Nephalius embraced the side of Council of Chalcedon, and Severus and others were expelled from the monastery (Evagr. l.c.). Hereupon he fled to Constantinople, to plead his own cause and that of his fellow-sufferers; and in this way became known to the emperor Anastasius, who had (A. D. 491) succeeded Zeno. Severus is charged (Libellus Monachor. l.c.) with exciting troubles in the city of Alexandria, and occasioning the burning of many houses and the slaughter of many citizens, though the city had afforded him a shelter " in his adversity :" but it is difficult to fix the time to which these charges refer. If he was in Alexandria after leaving the monastery in Palestine, and before entering that of Nephalius, the expression " in his adversity " intimates that he had been dive
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Seve'rus or Seve'rus Bar (search)
ltra opinions had rendered him a dangerous or a disagreeable inmate of his Palestinian monastery and he hoped to find a more cordial welcome or a securer shelter with Nephalius. In this hope he was disappointed : Nephalius embraced the side of Council of Chalcedon, and Severus and others were expelled from the monastery (Evagr. l.c.). Hereupon he fled to Constantinople, to plead his own cause and that of his fellow-sufferers; and in this way became known to the emperor Anastasius, who had (A. D. 491) succeeded Zeno. Severus is charged (Libellus Monachor. l.c.) with exciting troubles in the city of Alexandria, and occasioning the burning of many houses and the slaughter of many citizens, though the city had afforded him a shelter " in his adversity :" but it is difficult to fix the time to which these charges refer. If he was in Alexandria after leaving the monastery in Palestine, and before entering that of Nephalius, the expression " in his adversity " intimates that he had been dive
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Zacharias (search)
Zacharias （*Zaxari/as). 1. An ecclesiastical writer, commonly known by the name of ZACHARIAS RHETOR. He was bishop of Melitene, and was the author of an ecclesiastical history embracing the period from A. D. 450 to A. D. 491. In the judgment of the orthodox Evagrius this work was written with a bias in favour of the Nestorians. (Evagrius, 2.2, 3.5, 6, 7, 18; comp. Nicephorus, 16.5, 6, 9, &c.) A Syriac translation, which bears no author's name, is claimed as the translation of the work of Zacharias by Assemann (Bibl. Orient. vol. ii. p. 53, &c.; comp. Le Quien, Oriens Christ i. p. 442
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Zenon (search)
aken prisoners and put to death. During the revolt of Illus, misunderstandings occurred between Theodoric and Zeno. In 487 the Gothic king again took up arms and threatened Constantinople. To save himself and his capital, Zeno gave Theodoric permission to invade Italy, and expel the usurper Odoacer from the country. The terms were gladly accepted by Theodoric, and Zeno lived to see she foundation of a powerful Gothic kingdom in Italy [THEODORICUS the GREAT]. Zeno died in the month of April A. D. 491, after a reign of seventeen years. He left no children, and was succeeded by Anastasius, an officer of the imperial life-guard of the Silentiarii, who married Ariadne, the widow of Zeno. [ANASTASIUS.] Works Henoticon (e(notiko/n） In A. D. 482, Zeno published the famous Henoticon (e(notiko/n), which was signed by all the bishops of the East under his reign, and that of Anastasius. It is preserved by Evagrius (3.13). The various modern writers who comment upon it are given by Fabricius.