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1116 MOSCHOPULUS. MOSCHUS.
ticus." VWe believe that it is in most cases vain to in Agapetum, given by Fabricius, Bibl. G;aec. vol.
attempt to assign them to one or the other, and xii. p. 306, ed. vet. vol. viii. p. 41, ed. Harles.:
therefore give in one list the whole of those 12.'E7rroru-? vea ypapleasIKcs. The first book of
which have been printed. 1. Scholia ad Homeri this was published by F. N. Titze, 8vo. Leipzig and
Iliados Librum I. et II., published by Jo. Scher- Prague, 1822; it is a work of interest as treating of
pezeelius, 8vo. Harderwyk (in Guelderland), 1702, the ancient Greek pronunciation of the diphthongs.
and re-issued, with a new title-page and an ad- The perfect work is probably contained in MS., in
ditional preface, at Utrecht, 1719. In the title- the library of St. Mark, at Venice. Many other
page Moschopulus is termed Byzantinus, but works of the Moschopuli are extant in MS. Titze
whether on MS. authority is not clear: in the prefixed to this work the valuable Diatribe de Mowork itself, at the head of the Scholia, they are schopulis already quoted. He thinks that Moschodescribed as'Euavhov71Aou ToO MoeoX7roXhov TeXVO- pulus of Crete wrote a large work on grammar, en7ioyla cKal dva'7rvarvL rY, Xe'ewv. They are chiefly titled'Epw'craT'a, Erotenmata Grammatica, of which
or wholly grammatical. A Paraphrasis of Homer many of those extant under his name, in MS. or in
by Moschopulus, different from these scholia, is print, are fragments or detached portions. One of
said to be extant in the Vatican library (Fabric. the Moschopuli wrote a little treatise, De Quadratis
Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 401; but comp. Scherpezeelius, Magicis, on the mathematical puzzle of arranging
Praef. in Moschopuli Scholia in Homeraum). 2. numbers, so that the sum of them, whether added
Tog 0rowCroo Kal XoyWTa'T'ov K UpOVp MayoUv horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, shall be the
Toe Mo1rXo7roXov adveliov'oe Kpr'rVIs?g?yr77s same. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. pp. 401, 407,
cO' ep-pyw Kal,lpopwev'Haltoouv, Sapientissimi vol. ii. pp. 67, 259, vol. vi. pp. 190, 298, 319, 322
Doctissimique Manuelis Moschopuli Cretensis Pa- -324, vol. viii. p. 41, vol. ix. p. 416,.and the
truelis Interpretatio Operunm et Dierum Hesiodi. authors cited in the body of the article.) [J. C. M.]
These scholia are included wholly or in part in the MOSCHUS (MJodXos). 1. A grammarian and
editions of Hesiod, 4to. Venice, 1537, and Basel, bucolic poet, a native of Syracuse. He lived
1544, and in the edition of Heinsius, 4to. Leyden, about the close of the third century B. C., and, ac1603. 3. Scholia in Euripidis Tragoedias, employed cording to Suidas (s. v. Mo'oXos), was acquainted
by Arsenius, archbishop of Monembasia, in his with Aristarchus. He calls himself a pupil of
collection of Scholia in SeptemEuripidis Tragoedias, Bion, in the Idyl in which he bewails the death
8vo. Ven. 1534. Scholia on the Odae of Pindar of the latter [BION]. But it is difficult to say
(Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 67), and perhaps on whether he means more than that he imitated Bion.
the Ajax Flagellifer and Electra of Sophocles (see Of his personal history we know nothing further.
Scherpezeel. ibid.), by Moschopulus, are extant in Of his compositions we have extant four idyls.
MS. 4. Grammaticae Artis Graecae AM/ethodus; 1. "Epcs pacnrer'?s. 2. Edpwc7r. 3.'E'IrT'die0os
consisting of three parts, i. Erotemata s. Quae- Blweos. 4. Me'ydpa. The last of these is written
stiones; ii. Canones; iii. Declinationes s. Declina- in the Ionic dialect, with but few Dorisms. Betionis Paradigmata. This work was first printed sides these larger pieces, there are three small
with the Erotenuata of Demetrius Chalcondylas, fragments and an epigram extant. The idyls of
4to. about A. D. 1493, but the copies have no note Moschus were at first intermixed with those of
either of time or place; nor has the work of Mo- Theocritus, and one or two of those ascribed to
schopulus any general title; that which we have Theocritus have been, though without sufficient
prefixed is from the edition of Walder, 8vo. Basel, reason, supposed to be the productions of Moschus,.1540. 5. Tcy &,OlOdT'rw'ArTI'cO ouAvXXeo'y, Vocum as, for example, the 20th and 28th. Eudocia (p.
Atticarum Collectio. The words are professedly 408) ascribes to Theocritus the third of the Idyls
collected from the EK'oves, Icones s. Imagines, of of Moschus. But they have since been carefully
Philostratus, and from the poets. This sylloge was separated, on the authority of MSS. and quotagiven at the end of the Dictionariuma Graecum pub- tions in Stobaeus. To judge from the pieces
lished by Aldus, fol. Venice, 1524, and was printed which are extant, Moschus was capable of writing
again, with the similar works of Thomas Magister with elegance and liveliness; but he is inferior to
and Phrynicus, 8vo. Paris, 1532. A MS. of this Bion, and comes still farther behind Theocritus.
work, as already observed, expressly ascribes it to His style labours under an excess of polish and
the nephew. 6. lIepr T'rc oroya'orwv Kai pA7,ud'scv ornament. The idyls of Moschus have been usually
OvvdTatacs, De Constructione Nominum et Verborum; edited with those of Bion. The editions are too
and 7. nepI 7rpoo-rc8wv, De Accentibus, both in- many to be enumerated; for the best the reader
eluded in the little volume of grammatical treatises is referred to BION. The poems of Moschus have
published by Aldus and Asulanus, Venice, 1525. been frequently translated and imitated in English,
The De Accentibua was reprinted with the work of German, French, Italian, Hungarian, and Russian.
Varennius on the same subject, 12mo. Paris, 1544, (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 805, &c.)
and again in 1559. 8. IIepl 7pauAzaTL1KC's'yv/U- 2. See MOCHUS.
auieas, De Grammatica Exercitatione, formerly 3. A writer on mechanics, mentioned by Atheascribed to Basil, the Greek father, and printed in naeus (xiv. p. 634, b).
several of the older editions of his works. This 4. A grammarian, apparently, the author of a
work is ascribed to Moschopulus by Crusius ( Turco- work entitled'EtIy7airs'Po3eaKv ASe'eowv, men-,
Graec. p. 44), and is substantially coincident with tioned by Athenaeus (xi. p. 485, e). [C. P. M.]
the work mentioned next. 9. rIepl oXE6ov s. De MOSCHUS, JOANNES, or, as Photius calls,Ratione examinandae Orationis Libellus, 4to. Paris, him, JOANNES the son of MosCHUs, surnamed
1545, and reprinted at Vienna, 1773. 10. De EmKparas, or, what appears to be a corruption of
Vocumn Passionibus, first published by G. H. Schaef- that, Eviratus, was first a monk in the monastery
fer, in the appendix to his edition of Gregorius of St. Theodosius at JeruPalem, afterwards lived
Corinthius De Dialectis, 8vo. Leipzig, 1811 (pp. among the anchorites in the desert on the banks of
675-681, conf. not. in pag. 908). 11. Excerpta the, Jordan, and subsequently filled the office of