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234 GELASIUS. GELLIAS.
tween the two works, and between their respective author of the'work was further than he had dewriters, comparing the style of one with that of scribed himself in the preface, but says that there
the other. And the preface to the Continuation had been two, if not three, bishops of Caesareia of
quoted by Photius distinctly asserts the author to the name. (Phot. Bibl. Codd. 15, 88, 89; Labbe,
have been the nephew of Cyril. The Continuation Concilia, vol. ii. col. 103-286; Fabric. Bibl. Gr.
is not extant. Fabricius, without giving his au- vol. ix. p. 291, &c., vol. xii. p. 581, &c.; Cave,
thority, places the death of Gelasius in A. D. 394. Hist. Litt. vol. i. p. 454, ed. Ox. 1740-43; BaroThe following writings of a Gelasius of Caesareia nius, Annal. ad Ann. 496, cap. v. &c.; Pagi, Criare mentioned; but it is not clear to which of the tice in Baron.) [J. C. M.]
Gelasii they belong. GE'LIMER (resluep), last king of the Vandals
1. An Exposition of the Creed, cited by Leontius, (A. D. 530-534), son of Gelaris, grandson of
Adv. Nestorium, lib. i., not far from the end. Genzo, and great-grandson of Genseric, who, by
2. Trs seanrov'Kuds'E7rl)avelas nlavYiyvp~, or the imprisonment and subsequent murder of HilEis Ta''ETrLdvLa Ayos, Aos, Iomily for the Epi- deric, the reigning sovereign, usurped the throne of
phanjy, twice cited by Theodoret (Eranist. Dial. Carthage, A.D. 530. (Procop. Bell. Vand. i. 9.)
i. iii.), who classes the writer among " the ancients Justinian, who had formed an alliance with Hilof Palestine." 3. A work of which Labbe has deric, in consequence of the protection afforded by
cited a fragment in his Conspectus Operum Damas- him to the Catholics in Africa, commenced a war
ceni; and which is described as Practica oToiXel- upon Gelimer, under the command of Belisarius,
waLs secundum Ecclesiam. (Phot. Bibl. Codd. which, after the two battles of Carthage and Bulla,
88, 89; Theodoret. Opera, vol. iv. pp. 46, 251, ended in the overthrow of the Vandal kingdom
ed. Schulze; Leontius, Adv. Nest. apud Bibl. in Africa, A. D. 534 (Ibid. i. 10, ii. 9); thus fulPatrum, vol. ix. p. 684, ed Lyon, 1677; Fabric. filling a current prophecy, of which the first half
Bibl. Gr. vol. ix. p. 290, &c.) had been accomplished in the defeat of Bonifacius
3. Of Cyvzcvs, was the son of a presbyter of by Genseric [GENSER1C]: "G. shall conquer B.,
the church of Cyzicus, and it was while at home in and then B. shall conquer G." (Ibid. i. 21.)
his father's house that he met with an old volume His brother, Zano, was killed at Bulla. (Ibid. ii.
written on parchment, containing a full account of 3.) He himself fled to Mount Pappua (ii. 4),
what was said and done at the first council of Nice. was taken after a severe siege (ii. 7), carried to
From this record he derived considerable aid in Constantinople, compelled to perform obeisance to
arguing with the Eutychians during their ascen- Justinian, and then, though precluded by his
dancy under the usurper Basiliscus, A. D. 475- Arianism from the Patrician order, was treated
477; and this induced him to collect further in- kindly, and passed the rest of his life in an estate
formation respecting the Council, from Joannes, which was allowed to him in Galatia. (ii. 9.)
Eusebius of Caesareia, Rufinus, and others. He His general character resembled the mingled
embodied the information thus collected in a work cunning and cruelty which marked the princes of
termed by Photius InpaCKTKv Tis r IpwT7rrs Zuv66ouv the Vandal tribes. But it can hardly be accident
eo T'rptL'r-uoLs; The Acts of the First Cozuncil, in that has preserved so many traits of an almost
t7ree parts; but, as Photius remarks, it is as much romantic strain of thought and feeling. Such is
entitled to the name of History as of Acts. The his interview with his brother at Bulla, when they
work is extant in the different editions of the Con- embraced each other in tears, with clasped hands,
cilia; but it has been suspected that the third and without speaking a word (ii. 25). Such, when
part, or book, has been mutilated or corrupted by on Mount Pappua, is his request to the besieging
the earliest editors, in order to get rid of the testi- general for a loaf, as not having seen bread for
mony which (judging from the abstract of Photius) many days; a sponge to wipe his inflamed eyes,
it afforded, that Constantine was not baptized at and a harp, to sing a dirge composed by himself on
Rome by Pope Sylvester. The first book compre. his own miseries (ii. 6); or, again, his determinahends the history of Constantine to his victory tion to surrender at the moving sight of the two
over Licinius. The second comprehends the history children fighting in the extremity of hunger for a
of the Council; and contains some discussions be- cake (ii. 7). Such (if we adopt the interpretation
tween certain "philosophers," advocates of " the of his friends) was the hysterical laugh in which,
impious Arius and the blasphemies invented by on his capture, he indulged at this sudden reverse
him," and the -"holy bishops" of the opposite of human fortune (ii. 7.), and his reiterated exE
party; which discussions Cave believes to be pure clamation, without tear or sigh, as he walked in
inventions either of Gelasius or of the author of the Belisarius' triumphal procession, " Vanity of
ancient manuscript which formed the basis of his vanities —all is vanity." (ii. 9. Comp. Gibbon,
work. The third book, as we now have it, con- c. 41.) [A. P. S.]
tains only a few letters of the emperor Constan- GE'LLIAS (reiaas), a citizen of Agrigentum,
tine. Baronius ascribes to Gelasius of Cyzicus a celebrated for his great wealth and magnificent
treatise against the Eutychians and Nestorians, style of living, as well as for his unbounded hospiof which he supposes the work De Duabus Naturis, tality. He flourished just before the destruction ol
which is commonly regarded as the original Latin Agrigentum by the Carthaginians under Hannibal,
work, and passes under the name of Pope Gelasius the son of Giscon (B. c. 406). On that occasion he
I., to be only a version. Baronius does not appear fled for refuge to the temple of Athena; but when
to have many'supporters in this supposition. It he saw that no sanctuary could afford protection
may be observed that one manuscript used by against the impiety of the enemy, he set fire to the
-Photius of the History of the Nicene Council was temple and perished in the flames. (Diod. xiii. 83.
anonymous, but in another the work was in- 90; Athen. i. p. 4, a; Val. Max. iv. 8.) The nam(
scribed "By Gelasius, bishop of Caesareia in is written Tellias in most of the MSS. of AthePalestine." This inscription probably originated naeus, and the error (if it be one) must be of ancien'
in a mistake. Photius could not find out who the date, as the name is thus quoted both by Suida,'