A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

698 CHRISTODORUS.
MSS. of which are scattered in the principal libraries of this country (Bodleian) and the continent,
treat on various grammatical matters; his treatise
on the Greek accent, the MS. of which is in the
Vatican library, seems to deserve particular attention. Several treatises on theological matters,
which are extant in MS. are likewise attributed to
him. But as Choeroboscus is generally quoted by
the earlier writers as Georgius Grammaticus, or
Georgius Diaconus-he was a priest-he might
sometimes have been confounded with some other
grammarian or theologian of that name. (Fabric.
Bibl. Graec. vi. pp. 338-341; Leo Allatius, De
Georgiis, pp. 318-321.) [W. P.]
CHOMATIA'NUS, DEME'TRIUS, a GraecoRoman jurist and canonist, who probably lived in
the early part of the 13th century. He was
chartophylax and afterwards archbishop of Bulgaria, and wrote Quaestiones relating to ecclesiastical law, now in manuscript at Munich. (Heimbach, de Basil.. Orig. p. 86.) This work is cited
by Cujas. (Observ. v. c. 4.) Freherus, in the
Chronologia in the first volume of the Jus GraecoRomanum of Leunclavius, under the year 913,
enumerates him among the commentators upon the
Basilica, but that he was so is denied by Bocking.
(Institutionem, i. p. 108, n. 48.) It should be
added, that Bocking (1. c.), apparently with good
reason, in like manner refuses the character of
scholiast on the Basilica to Bestes and Joannes
Briennius [BRIENNIUS], though they are named
as scholiasts in almost every modern work on
Graeco-Roman law. [J. T. G.]
CHONDOMA'RIUS. [CHNODOiARIUS.]
CHONIATES. [NICETAS.]
CHORI'CIUS (Xopticos), a rhetorician and sophist of Gaza, the pupil of Procopius of Gaza, and
afterwards of another sophist of the same place,
flourished in the reign of Justinian, about A. D.
520. His orations formed, in the time of Photius,
a collection under the title of LeAEEat i Kal vrdOets
6Aywv Sidpopoo. They were on very various subjects, but chiefly panegyrical. Photius makes particular mention of a funeral oration for the rhetorician's teacher. (Cod. 160; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. ix.
p. 760, x. p. 719, ed. Harles.) Twenty-one of Choricius's orations exist in MS., of which two have
been printed by Fabricius with a Latin version by
J. C. Wolf (Bibl. Graec. viii. p. 841, old ed.) and
a third by Villoison. (Anec. ii. pp. 21, 52.) [P.S.]
CHOSROES, king of Parthia. [ARSACES xxv.]
CHOSROES, king of Persia. [SASSANIDAE.]
CHRESTUS (Xp]o'ros), of Byzantium, a distinguished scholar of Herodes Atticus, lived in the
second century of the Christian aera, and taught
rhetoric at Athens, where he had sometimes as
many as a hundred auditors. Among the distinguished men who were his pupils, Philostratus
enumerates Hippodromus, Philiscus, Nicomedes,
Aristaenetus, and Callaeschrus. Chrestus was
given to wine. (Philostr. Vit. Soph. ii. 11.)
CHRISTODO'RUS (Xpo-rdSwpos), a Greek
poet of Coptus in Egypt, was the son of Paniscus,
and flourished in the reign of Anastasius I., A. D.
491-518. He is classed by Suidas as an epic
poet (dTrroio's). 1. There is still extant a poem
of 416 hexameter verses, in which he describes the
statues in the public gymnasium of Zeuxippus.
This gymnasium was built by Septimius Severus
at Byzantium, and was burnt down A. D. 532.
The poem of Christodorus is entitled "EKcpaeois

CHROMATIUS.
"rTv d-yaXlUTdrw 7r Eiv s rd ifLo'iov I 'o yVUidevoW v Tr
e'rriKaovuEdvov 7TO ZUievbinrov. It is printed in
the Antiq. Constantinop. of Anselmus Banduri,
Par. 1711, Venet. 1729, and in the Greek Anthology. (Brunck, Anal. ii. p.456; Jacobs, iii. p. 161.)
He also wrote-2. 'IorauvptK, a poem, in six books,
on the taking of Isauria by Anastasius. 3. Three
books of Epigrams, of which two epigrams remain.
(Anthol. Graec. 1. c.) 4. Four books of Letters. 5.
ITdrpta, epic poems on the history and antiquities of
various places, among which were Constantinople,
Thessalonica, Nacle near Heliopolis, Miletus, Tralles, Aphrodisias, and perhaps others. Suidas and
Eudocia mention another person of the same name
a native of Thebes, who wrote 'IEeVTiCaK 3t' Edirv
and eOavtara Trv d'yiwv dvcay)Vpwv (where Kiister
proposes to read 1i.apTrdpw) Koo' cea KaAaeitavou.
(Suidas, s. v. Xpto-rodwpos and Zevsm5rros; Eudocia,
p. 436; Fabricius, Bibl. Graec. iv. p. 468; Jacobs,
Anth. Graec. xiii. p. 871.) [P. S.]
CHRISTO'PHORUS (Xpto'ro(f4pos), patriarch
of ALEXANDRIA, about A. D. 836, wrote an exhortation to asceticism under the title Ti dLo/OUT'at
d /lioss oTo Kal els TroTO TErdAOS Kara(a'Tpe(rp t.
There are citations from this work in Allatius, ad
Eustath. Antioch. p. 254, and Cotelerius, JMonum.
1Sta. in Bibl. Caesar. There are MSS. of the
work at Vienna, Paris, Rome, Milan, and Oxford.
It was printed in Greek and Latin, with notes, by
F. Morellus, Par. 1608, who mistook it for the
work of Theophilus of Alexandria: Oeopihou
'AXesavppias A&hyos, Triv d6olOVTora davOpw7ros.
(Fabricius, Bibl. Graec. vii. p. 109.) There is
also a synodic epistle to the emperor Theophilus
Iconomachus, by Christophorus of Alexandria, Job
of Antioch, and Basil of Jerusalem, and 1455 other
bishops and clergy, on images, entitled 'ErctTroAh)
7rpds 7ov BaotXAEa ~e6(pLov repl riPv dyiLwv Kcal
a'OrTEv EsIcdVWv, which is mentioned by Constantinus Porphyrogenitus in his Narratio de Imag.
Edess. p. 90, and by the author of a MS. Narratio
de Imag. B. Virg. ap. Lambec. viii. p. 334. The
work exists in MS. in the Codex Baroccianus, 148.
It was published, in Greek and Latin, first by
Combefisius in his Manipul. Rerum. Constant. Par.
1664, 4to., pp. 110-145, and afterwards by
Michael le Quien in his edition of Damascenus,
Par. 1712, i. p. 629. (Nessel, Catal. Bibl. Vindobon, pt. v. p. 129; Cave, Hist. Litt. sub anno;
Fabricius, Bibl. Graec. viii. p. 84, ix. p. 717, xi.
p. 594.) [P. S.]
CHRISTO'PHORUS the CAESAR, son of Constantine V. Copronymus. There is an edict
against image-worship issued by him and his
brother Nicephorus, A. D. 775, in the Imperial.
Decret. de Cult. nIag. of Goldastus, Franc. 1608,
4to., No. 8, p. 75. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. xii. p.
740.) For what is known of the life of Christophorus, see NICEPHORUS. [P. S.]
CHRISTO'PHORUS, PATRI'CIUS, a native
of Mytilene, whose time is unknown, wrote in
Iambic verse a IMenologium, or history of the
saints, arranged according to the saints' days in
each month. The MS. was formerly in the Palatine Library, but is now in the Vatican, Cod. 383,
No. 7. There are also MSS. of the whole or part
of the work at Venice, Moscow, and Paris. It is
cited more than once in the Glossarium of Meursius.
(Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. ii. Diss. pp. 5, 6; Fabric.
Bibl. Graec. xi. p. 594.) [P. S.]
CHROMA'TIUS, a Latin writer and bishop af