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3 many unpublished works a Chronicon is enu- an eye-witness; and the poem was probably written
-rated; but there is difficulty in distinguishing not long after the events he records. 2. I1t3A.eos
tween the C0hronica of the various Georges. A'ACap~os, or'ACap~lcd, Bellum Avaricum, or Avamily or tract by Athanasius On the Presentation rica; more fully, Els Ti)V zeVyOsVor'nV APe,,ov Trv
Christ in the'emple is in some MSS. ascribed Iap~ap;vs Kcali els Trlv aCu)TeV dcoxtav 4T'roL KOerlrs
George of Nicomedeia. (Allatius, Ibid. pp. 9- Troi yervoyvou IroAxsyou eis'T oE'TxOE rsT Kv'aorcV-,; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. viii. p. 459, vol. x. ivovrAdhes ~eTatv'ACdpwv Ka!'cv rloeATco, DeJ
214; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. ii. p. 63.) invasione facta a btarbaris ac de firustrato eorumn
37. PACHYMERES. [PACHYMERES.] consilio, sive eapositio belli quod gestum est ad
38. PANEUPHEMUS. LGEORGIUs EPARCHUS, moenia Constantinopoleos inter Abares et Cives. This. 23.] poem consists of one book of 541 trimeter iambic
l9. PARDUS. [PARDUS.] verses, and describes the attack of the Avars on
40. PATRICIUS [of MYTILENE, NO. 35.] Constantinople, and their repulse and retreat (A. D.
41. PERIPATETICUS, or ANEPONYMUS, or GRE- 626), while Heraclius was absent, and a Persian
)RIUS ANEPONYMUS. Fabricius speaks of two army occupied Chalcedon, opposite Constantinople.
)rks as having been published by Jo. Voegelinus, 3.'AKdOLaTOS "TypvoS, Hymnus Acathistus, was
o. Augsburg A. D. 1600. One is described as composed on occasion of the victory over the Avars,
bitome Organi Aristotelici, Gr. Lat., by Gregorius commemorated in No. 2. It is ascribed to George
ieponymus (i. e. without a surname); the other by his editor Quercius on internal evidence, which
Conmpendium Philosophiae, Gr. Lat., by Georgius cannot, however, be regarded as conclusive. 4. E's
leponymus. The two are probably one and the, Tip dirip' ov Xp1a0sov'v OEeu?f.Rv dvarraTaa,
ne work (comp. Fabr. Bibl. Gr. vol. iii. pp. 220, In Sanctam Jesu CUhristi, Dei Nostri, Resurrectionem.'4), and may probably be identified with a work This poem consists of 129 trimeter iambic verses,
ticed by Allatius (Diatrib. de Geory. apud Fabr. in which George exhorts Flavius Constantine, the
i. Gr. vol. xii. p. 120) as extant in MS., and son of Heraclius, to emulate the example of his
scribed by him as Georgii Monachi Epitome father. It was probably written about A. D. 627.'ilosophiae. It appears that a Latin version of 5. EZs'HpdcAhe1ov'ri 3ao'Atfa, De Heraclio Ime same work by Laurentius Valla was published peratore, commonly cited by the title'HpacKAlds
8vo. at Basel, A. D.1542; in which the original Heraclias, or-'HpaKAid6os'AKpoda'es 66cw, Herais ascribed to Nicephorus Blemmyda. (Fabric. cliadis Libri Duo. It has the second title, iTro srls
bl. Gr. vol. xi. p. 630.) Ti-2V Teklac rT6'rsv Xop-pdov BaoAews lespav;'42. PHORBENUS. [PHORBENUS.] sive de Extremo Chosroae Persarunu Regis Ea-cidio.
43. PHRANZA, or PHRANZES. [PHRANZA.] But this title does not correctly describe it, for it
44. PISIDA (the PISIDrAN). The name of this takes a hasty survey of the transactions and ex-iter occurs in the genitive case, in which it is ploits of Heraclius at home and abroad, and only
inmonly found, under the various forms, HIiCL- slightly touches on the final overthrow of Chosroes.
U. HIlhOV, n1ro8slov, raov9ov, H fIo0718, frcrlisovs It was perhaps written when the intelligence of
abovrs: in Latin it is written Pisides and Pisida. that monarch's death first reached Constantinople,
e was, as his name indicates, a Pisidian by birth, about the end of A. D. 628, and before the return'd flourished in the time of the emperor Heraclius of Heraclius. 6.'Etacepou 7-'rot Kootovpyia,
rho reigned from A. D. 610 to 641), and of the Opus Sex Dierum seu llundi Opificium. This poem
triarch Sergius (who occupied the see of Con- consists of 1910 trimeter iambic verses in the!ntinople from A. D. 610 to 639). In the MSS. of edition of Quercius, who restored some lines omitted
3 works he is described as a deacon, and XapTo- by previous editors. It has been supposed that
Aa&, Chartophylax, " record keeper," or ~Zevopu'- this work has come down to us in a mutilated con~, Sceuophylax," keeper of the sacred vessels," of dition, for Suidas speaks of it as consisting of 3000
Great Church (that of St. Sophia) at Constan- verses. But it is possible that the text of Suidas is,ople. By Nicephorus Callisti he is termed corrupt, and that'we should read els fri 8taXlrIa,
tefendarius" ('Pepevudpeos), a designation not instead of'TporXtXia. The poem has no appearuivalent, as some have supposed, to Chartophy- ance of incompleteness. The Hexaimeron conc, but describing a different office. We have no tains a prayer as if by the patriarch Sergius,
ians of determining if he held all these offices for Heraclius and his children. The poem was
lether or in succession, or if any of the titles are probably written about A. D. 629. 7. Els'rav puacorrectly given. He appears to have accompanied'razop Biov, De Vanitate Vitae. This poem consists
e emperor Heraclius in his first expedition of 262 iambic verses, but has no internal mark of
ainst the Persians, and to have enjoyed the the time when it was written. 8. Kar' 2evrpou,
your both of that emperor and of Sergius, but Contra Severum, or Kaard vWoeffos Xev'4pov'AvIthing further is known of him. TrLoXetas, Contra Imperium Severum Aatiochiae,
The works of George the Pisidian are as follows: This poem consists of 731 iambic verses. A pas-1. Els TsO KCa' Drprv'pE a'EKarpan'erav'HpaKGAheou sage of Nicephorus Callisti (Hist. Eccl. xviii. 48)
v BcaaAews, dcKpocerses 1'peTs, De Expeditione has been understood as declaring that George
eraclii Imperatotis contra Persas Libri tres. wrote a poem against Johannes Philoponus, and it
flis work is mentioned by Suidas, and is pro- has been supposed that Philoponus is aimed at in
Ibly the earliest of the extant works of this this poemunder the name of Severus, while others
riter. The three books are written in trimeter have supposed that Nicephorus refers to the Hex*mbics, and contain 1098 verses. They describe aimeron, and that PhilopInus is attacked in that
e first expedition of Heraclius, whose valour and poem under the name of Proclus. But the words
ety are immoderately praised, against the Per- of Nicephorus do not require us to understand
ins, A. D. 622, when he attacked the frontier of that George wrote against Philoponus at all. This
ersia, in the neighbourhood of the Taurus. The poem against Severus contains the passage to which,scriptions of the author lead'us to regard him as Nicephorus refers, and in which the Monophysite,