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substance of their remarks and criticisms. The lation of the nine discourses of St. Basil on the
-number of authors whose works he quotes, is prodi- Creation. He was an African by birth, flourished
gious (see the list of them in Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. about the middle of the fifth century, and was the
i. p. 457, &c.); but although we may admit that he brother of the Syncletica Diaconissa, so lauded by
had not read all of them, and that he quoted some Sedulius.
at second-hand, yet there seems to be no sufficient This version, which bears the title Novem S.
reason for believing that he was not personally ac- Basilii Sermones in principium Geneseos, is given in
quainted with the greatest of the ancient critics, the edition of St. Basil, published at Paris by Garsuch as Aristophanes of Byzantium, Aristarchus, nier, fol. 1721, vol. i. pp. 631-676. [W. R.J'Zenodotus and others, whose works were accessible EUSTA'THIUS ROMA'NUS, a celebrated
to him in the great libraries of Constantinople. If, Graeco-Roman jurist, of the noble family of the
on the other hand, we look upon the work as a. Maleini, was honoured with the rank of Patricius,
-commentaryv, and estimate it by the standard of and filled various. high offices at Constantinople.
what a good commentary should be, we find it ex- He was first a puisne judge (A7,tr KPILpS) under
tremely deficient in plan and method; the author, Romanus junior (Basil. vii. p. 677, schol.), and
however, cannot be blamed for these deficiencies, as continued to fill the same office under Nicephorus
his title does not lead us to expect a regular com- Phocas (reigned A. D. 963-969), then was made
mentary. His remarks are, further, exceedingly Quaestor, and was afterwards made Magister Officidiffuse, and frequently interrupted by all kinds of orum under Basileius Bulgaroctonus (reigned 975digressions; the many etymological and grammati- 1025). Basileius Porphyrogenitus, in a novell incal fancies which we meet with in his work are serted in the collection of Leunclavius (J. G. R. ii.
such as we might expect. There is very little in p. 173), speaks of the uninterrupted prosperity of
the commentary that is original, or that can be re- his family for 100 or 120 years. (Zachariae, Hist.
garded as the.opinion of Eustathius himself. He Jur. Gr. Rom. Delin. p. 58; Heimbach, de Basil.
incorporated in it everything which served to illus- Orig. p. 79.)
trate his author, whether it referred to the language He is quoted by the four appellations, " Eustaor grammar, or to mythology, history, and geo- thius," "Patricius," "Romanus,"and "Magister."
graphy. The first edition of it was published at Harmenopulus, in the Prolegomena to his HexabibRome, 1542-1550, in 4 vols. fol., of which an in- Ion (~ 20 ), mentions his obligations to the Romazica
accurate reprint appeared at Basle in 1559-60. The of Magister, who was evidently a judge as well as
Florence edition by A. Potitus (1730, 3 vols. fol.), an interpreter of law, for Harmenopulus frequently
contains only the commentary to the first five books cites his decisions and decrees: Hanrenopulus also
of the Iliad with a Latin translation. A tolerably several times cites Patricius, and, wherever such a
correct reprint of the Roman edition was published citation occurs, there is always a marginal reference
at Leipzig in two sections; the first, containing the in manuscripts to the Biblion Romaicum, which apcommentary on the Odyssey in 2 vols. 4to., appeared pears to be the same as the Romaica of Magistcr.
in 1825-26, and the second, or the commentary on In Harmenopulus (4. tit. 12. ~ 10), is a passage
the Iliad, in 3 vols. 4to. was edited by G. Stalbaum, cited'from Patricius, with a marginal reference to
1827-29. Useful extracts from the commentary of the Biblion Romaicunz, and the same passage is atEustathius are contained in several editions of the tributed in a scholium on the Basilica (60. tit. 37,
Homeric poems. 2. A commentary on Dionysius vol. vii. p. 678) to Romanus. This work of MaPeriegetes, dedicated to Joannes Ducas, the son of gister was divided into titles, and the titles liepl
Andronicus Camaterus, is on the whole of the same rvva1KaLv, Ilepl KAkOpovoc[as and rIepl AlaeO7rciv,
kind and of the same diffuseness as the commentary are cited in the Hexabiblon (5. tit. 9. ~~ 11, 12, 13).
on Homer. Its great value consists in the nume- Mortreuil (Histoire du Droit Byzantin, ii. p. 503,
rous extracts from earlier writers to illustrate the Paris, 1844,) identifies the Biblion Romaicuam with
geography of Dionysius. It was first printed in R. the Practica of Eustathius. The ~ZYtelcos,uaTa, or
Stephens's edition of Dionysius (Paris, 1547, 4to.), observations of Magister, are also mentioned in the
and afterwards also in that of H. Stephens (Paris, I1exabiblon (3, tit. 3. ~ 111).
1577, 4to., and 1697, 8vo.), in Hudson's Geograph. Sometimes, when Magister is cited in HannenolMinor. vol. iv., and lastly, in Bernhardy's edition of pulus, there is a marginal reference to the MCKPdV
Dionysius. (Leipzig, 1828, 8vo.). 3. A comment- mcaTa raTlXe ov, and in Basil. vii. p. 22, mention is
ary on Pindar, which however seems to be lost, at made of the rOaIXEo0'ro0 Mato'ropos; but the work
least no MS. of it has yet come to light. The in- which now exists in manuscript, and passes under
troduction to it, however, is still extant, and was the name of the MtpodV KCaTai'TolXEoV, or Synopsis
first edited by Tafel in his Eaustathii Thessalonicensis Mlinor, has been usually attributed to Docimus, or
Opuscula, Frankfurt, 1832, 4to., from which it was Docimius, and is of a later date than Eustathinis.
reprinted separately by Schneidewin, Enustalhi pro- (Reiz. Inlex Nom. Prop. in Harmnenop. s. vv. Maoemiaum commentariorum Pindaricorum, Ghttingen, gister; Patricius, MtKcpO, in alkeerlan. Tiles. Suppl.
1837, 8vo. The other works of Eustathius which pp. 389-400; Zachariae; Hist. Jzr. GCr. 1om.
were published for the first time by Tafel in the Delin. ~ 47.)
Opuscula just mentioned, are chiefly of a thee- The names of Eustathius and Romanus occur
logical nature; there is, however, among them one several times in the Scholia on the Basilica, e. g.
(p. 267, &c.) which is of great historical interest, Basil. iv. p. 489, iii. p. 340. 56. 480,.vii. 678. 694.
viz. the account of the taking of Thessalonica by the The'T7r4ux',i77 a of Eustathius is cited Basil. iii. p.
Normans in A.D. 1185. 116. It is a tract of the date A. D. 1025, de Duobaus
The name Eustathius is one of very common oc- Consobrinis qui Dzuas Consolirinas duateralt, and is
currence during the Byzantine period, and a list of printed in the collection of Leunclavius (J. G. R. i.
all the known Eustathii is given by Fabricius. (Bibl. p. 414). Heimbach (Anecdota, i. p. lxvi.) mentions
Grac. vol. ix. p 149, &c.) [L. S.] a manuscript ill the Vatican at Rolne (cod. 226, fol.
EUSTA'THIUS, the author of a Latin trans- 294-300) under the title'Tr'rJv7yAa Eo-r'a0Olvu