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assuming the title of emperor crossed over into reference to Fabric. Bibl. Gr.; the index to which
Bulgaria to assert his claim. He refused the offers enumerates more than a hundred persons of this
of the emperor Constantine, and routed his army, name.
but fell in the moment of victory by a wound from 1. ACROPOLITA. [ACROPOLITA.]
an unknown hand, A. D. 1042 or 1043. (Zonaras, 2. Of ALEXANDRIA. [See No. 7.]
xvii. 12; Cedren. Cornpend. vol. ii. pp. 494, 500, 3. Of ALEXANDRIA, the writer of a life of
512, 514, 520-523, 541, 545-549, ed. Bonn.; Chrysostom, which has been several times printed
Joan Scylitza Curopalates, Historia, p. 720, ed. (sometimes with a Latin version by Godfrey TilBonn.) mann), in editions of the works of Chrysostom.
] 6. NOSTONGUS (NoOr'dyyoS), a Byzantine no- Photius gives an account of the work, but says he
*bleman, to whom the emperor Theodore Lascaris could state nothing certain respecting the author.
II. (1255 —1258) had intended to give his daugh- He is styled Bishop of Alexandria, and it is the
ter in marriage; an alliance the prospect of which opinion of those who have examined into the
tended to make him, during the minority of Joannes matter that he lived after the commencement of
Lascaris, the son of Theodore, insufferably arrogant. the seventh century. A George was Catholic
(Georg. Pachymer, De Michael Palaeol. i. 21, vol. bishop or patriarch of Alexandria from A. D.
i. p. 65, ed. Paris.) 616 to 630, and as no other patriarch appears
17. PALAEOLOGUS. [PALAEOLOGUS.] under that name between A. D. 600 and the time of
1 8. PEGANES, military chief of the thema Ob- Photius, he was probably the writer. The life of
sequium, was the chief supporter of Symbatius, Chrysostom occupies above a hundred folio pages,
rival of Basil the Macedonian [BASILIUS I. MA- in Savile's edit. of Chrysostom (vol. viii. pp. 157,
CEDO], in the revolt to which he was led by his 265). It abounds in useless and fabulous matter.
jealousy of Basil's elevation to the rank of Augus- The writer in his preface professes to have drawn
tus by the reigning emperor Michael III, A. D. 866. his account from the writings of Palladius and
Symbatius and George ravaged the open country Socrates, and from the oral statements of faithful
about Constantinople, and while they reviled Basil, priests and pious laymen. Oudin ascribes to this
and denied his claim to the throne, spoke with great writer the compilation of the Chronicon Paschale,
respect of Michael. Being deserted by their troops, but without foundation. (Georgius, Vita Chrys.;
they fled, and George sought refuge in Cotyaeium, Phot. Bibl. Cod. 96.; Fabric. Bibl. Gir. vol. vii. p.451,
one of the cities of his government, where he was vol. viii. p. 457, vol. x. pp. 210, 707; Allatius, Diasoon after taken by the emperor's troops: he was trib. de Georg. apud Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. xii. p. 16
scourged, blinded, and either exiled or detained in Cave, Hist. Lit. vol. i. p. 577, ed. Ox. 1740-43.)
custody in his own house. On the accession of 4. AMYRUTZA, or AMYRUTZES, a native of TraBasil as sole emperor, he was restored to his former pezus or Trebizond. He was high in favour at
honours. (Theophan. Continuat. Clhronog. lib. v. Constantinople with the emperor Johannes or
de Basilio Macedone, c. 19; Symeon Mag. de John II. Palaeologus, and was one of those whom
A lichaele et Theodora, c. 44; Georg. Monach. de the emperor consulted about his attendance at the
AIichaele et Theodore, c. 31.) council of Florence, A. D. 1439. George afterwards
19. PROB.ATA (IIpogavdr) was sent as ambas- returned to Trebizond, and wats high in favour with
sador by the emperor Michael IV., the Paphlago- David; the last emperor of Trebizond, at whose
nian, to the Saracen Emir of Sicily (A. D. 1035), court he seems to have borne the offices of Logoto treat of peace. In 1040, in the same reign, he theta and Protovestiarius. His intellectual attaincommanded an army against the Servians. (Cedren. ments obtained for him the title of "the philosoComspend. vol. ii. p. 513, 526.) pher." On the capture of Trebizond by the Turks
20. SYRus (:vpoS) was sent by the emperor (A. D. 1461), he obtained the favour of the sultan,.
Justinian 1I., with a few ships and 300 soldiers, Mohammed II., partly by his handsome person
against the town of Chersonae, in the Cherson- and his skill in the use of the javelin, but chiefly
nesus Taurica, the inhabitants of which were in a through a marriage connection with a Turkish
state of insurrection. George, with his party, was pacha. Mohammed often conversed with him on
admitted into the town, and there he was killed by philosophy and religion, and gave him some conthe townsmen, with Joannes, one of his chief siderable posts in the seraglio at Constantinople.
officers, and the rest of his troops taken prisoners, He embraced the Mohammedan religion, together
A. D. 711. (Theophan. Cz0ronog. vol. i. p. 580, ed. with his children; and his death, which occurred
Bonn.) suddenly, while he was playing at dice, is repreBeside personages belonging to the Byzantine sented by some Christian writers as the punishempire, there were many Georges in the states ment of his apostasy; from which we may perhaps
which were formed out of it during its decay, or at infer that it followed that event after no great inits fall. The name occurs in the notices of the terval.
Servian, or Bulgarian, or Albanian provinces and He wrote in Greek, apparently in the early part
chieftains. The most eminent was George Cas- of his life,, at any-rate before his renunciation of
triota, better known by the epithet Scanderbeg, Christianity, a work the title of which is rendered
who lived about the time of the final capture of into Latin by our authorities, " Ad Demetrium
Constantinople (A. D. 1453). Among the Com- Nazplii Ducema de iis quae contieruznt in Synodo
neni of Trebizond [CoMNENUs] there was one Florentina." In this he opposed the projected
emperor George (A. D. 1266 to 1280); and there union of the Greek and Latin churches. Allatius
were several Georges members of the imperial mentions this work in his De Consensu utriusque
family. [J. C. M.] Ecclesiae, and quotes from it. Two other works,
GEO'RGIUS (re6pyLos),literary and ecclesias- of which the titles are thus given, Dialogus de
tical. The following list contains only the prin- Fide in Christo cum Rege Turcarum, and Episcipal writers of that name. Those whose works Iola ad Bessarion Cardinalemn, are or were extant
are lost, or exist only in MS., may be found by a in MS. (Gery, Appendix to Cave's Iuist. Litt,
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