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

250 GEORGIUS. GEORGIUS.,
at Rome, and also to meet Frederick Barbarossa, peror; by tampering with some of the bishops, ob.
but he was detained six months by sickness at tained his purpose; and George, after being rapidly
Brindisi or Otranto, and the council was closed hurried through the successive stages of monk,
before his recovery. He was therefore recalled by reader, deacon, and priest, was consecrated paManuel. Baronius gives a Latin version of several triarch (April, A. D. 1283), and took the name of
of George's letters. (Baron. Annal. Eccles. adAznos Gregory. The Arsenians, however, refused to re1176, 1178, 1179, 1180, 1188; Allatius, ibid. p. turn to the church, unless upon the testimony of
38, &c.; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. ii. p. 217; Oudin, heaven itself; and it was arranged at a synod or
Comment de Script. Eccles. vol.- ii. col. 1536.) conference at Adramyttium, apparently just after
17. Of CORCYRa, or CORFU, the younger, was the consecration of Gregory, that they and the
the author of several works, especially of one party now predominant in the church (called Joagainst the Minorite Friars, and of another on the sephites from the late patriarch) should each preuse of leavened bread in the eucharist. Allatius pare a book in support of their respective views,
and Cave confound this George of Corfu with the and that the two volumes should be submitted to
preceding, but Oudin has shown that they must be the ordeal of fire. Both books, as might be exdistinguished, and fixes the date of the younger pected, were consumed; and the Arsenians regardabout A. D. 1236. Allatius, in some of his works, ing this as a token that heaven was against them,
has quoted passages from George of Corfu on the submitted, and were at once led by the emperor in
procession of the Holy Spirit, and on the fire of person, through a violent snow storm, to. receive the
purgatory, but we have no means of ascertaining to communion from the hands of the patriarch Grewhich of the two these passages belong. (Allatius gory. They soon, however, repented of their suband Cave, 11. cc.; Oudin, 1. c. and vol. iii. col. 1 10.) mission, and Gregory having excommunicated the
18. CURTESIUS (Koupre' i) or SCHOLARIUS, was refractory, the whole party broke off from the
author of some tracts on grammatical subjects ex- church again. This division was followed by
tant in MS. It is doubtful if he is the same as troubles arising out of the controversy on the proGeorgius Scholarius, afterwards Gennadius, patri- cession of the Holy Spirit, aggravated by the
arch of Constantinople. CGENNA.DIUS, No. 2.] The harshness used tinder Gregory's influence towards
subject of the works ascribed to him would lead the ex-patriarch, Joannes or John Beccus or Vecto the opinion that he is not. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. cus, a distinguished advocate of the doctrine of the
vol.. vi. p. 342.) Latin church; and a book, which Gregory had
19. Of CYPRUS, the elder, patriarch of Constan- been ordered to prepare on the subject, and to the
tinople from A. D. 678 to 683. He held for a time sentiments of which he had procured the approval
the sentiments of the Monothelites, but afterwards, of, the emperor and several of the superior clergy,
at the council of Constantinople (A. D. 680), re- excited such animadversion and opposition, that,
nounced them. He was anathematized after his either in disgust or by constraint, he resigned the
death at the iconoclastic council of Constantinople office of patriarch, A.D. 1289, and retired to a
under Constantine Copronymus, A. D. 753 or 754. monastery. He died in the course of the following
(Theophan. Clsronog. vol. i. pp. 544, 554, 660, ed. year, as many supposed, from grief and mortificaBonn; Allatius, Ibid. p. 14; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. tion. (Pachymer, De Mich. Palaeol. v. 12, De
xi. p. 151,). Andron. Palaeol. i. 8, 14-22, 34-37, ii. 1-11;
20. Of CYPRUS, the younger, afterwards GRE- Niceph. Greg. Hist. Rom. v. 2, vi. 1-4.)
GORIUS, has been said by some to have been of The published works of George of Cyprus are as
Latin parents, but this is shown by Rubeis, editor follows:-1. ~'EIcOeors oi Tr41uov rIOs rieTEws KaTdC
of the life of George, to be an error. He held the -ro BdKccOU, Eapositio Fidel adversus Beccum (seu
office of protapostolarius at Constantinople at the JTeccunm). This was the work which led to his
time of the accession of Andronicus Palaeologus the troubles and consequent abdication. 2.'OuoAo-yia,
elder [ANDRONICUS II.] (A. D. 1282). He was a Confessio Fidei, delivered in consequence of the
man of learning and eloquence, and the reviver, ac- outcry against the preceding work. 3.'A7roAoayice
cording to Nicephorus Gregoras, of the long-dis- vrpos ReTv Ktcaard s'o 74/'OU, /A4/t.tv oXvpav'rdT, Reused Attic dialect. During the reign of Michael sponsio validissima ad Ex.positionis Censuram. 4.:
Palaeologus, father of Andronicus, he had been rrditKlcov: this- is a letter to the emperor Androfavourable to the union of the Greek and Latin nicus, complaining of the wrong done to him.
churches, which Michael had much at heart; and These four pieces are given in Banduri's Imnperizns
supplied the emperor with arguments with which Orientale, pp. 942-961, ed. Paris. 5.'EycC4ulov
to press the patriarch of Constantinople (Joseph) e's Tr-)v ~OdaAaoaav, Encomiumn Manis. Published
and the other opponents of the union; but on the by Bonaventura Vulcanius, with a poem of Paulus
accession of Andronicus, who was opposed to the Silentiarius, 8vo., Leyden, 1591. These twopieces
union, it is probable that George altered his views; were published both in a separate volume, and with
for on the death of the patriarch Joseph, Andro- the i.sp1 Kootv, De Mundo, of Aristotle. The E2nicus determined that George, though as yet a lay- corniuzm Maris has been since reprinted. 6. Proman, should be appointed to the office. The Greek verbia, in alphabetical order, subjoined to the edition
church was at this time torn by dissension. Beside of the Proverbia of Michael Apostolius by Pantinus,
the dispute about the procession of the Holy Spirit, 8vo., Leyden, 1619. 7. Adyos eyo TV, liytov Cead
there had been an extensive schism occasioned by the ueyaXo/dap'Tvpa ical TrpoW7reaoppov r wp-yov, Oratio
deposition of Arsenius, patriarch of Constantinople in lhonorema Sancti Georgii _l'fagni M4iartyris ac Vic[ARSENIUS, No. 1] early in the reign of Michael toris. This encomium on St. George of Cappadocia,
(A. D. 1266). The emperor was anxious to heal [GEoRGIus, No. 7. above,] is printed in the Acta
these dissensions, and possibly thought a layman Sanctorumen, April, Vol. III. A Latin version is
more likely to assist him in so doing than a pro- given in the body of the volume, pp. 123-131, and
fessed theologian; and George was recommended the Greek original in the Appendix, pp. xxv —
to the office by his literary reputation. The em-. xxxiv. 8. Seztentiae, 8vo., Col., 1536. This is