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

2.56 GEORGIUS. GEORGIUS.
pereat et eorum ingrata merces" (" My labours are bodied a translation of a considerable part of the
lost, let the thankless recompense of them perish rhetorical works of Hermogenes. 5. De Octo Partoo "): but the similarity of the story to an anec- tibus Orationis eia Prisciano Comnpendium, 4to. Midote of Theodore Gaza destroys, or at least much lan, 1472. The same work appears to have been
impairs its credibility. George's son, Andreas printed in 1537 in 8vo. at Augsburg, under the
Trapezuntius, in his prefatory address to Pope title of De Octo Partibus Orationis Compendiume,
Sixtus IV., prefixed to George's translation of the omitting eax Prisciano; though some of our authoAlmagest of Ptolemy, declares that his life was rities hesitate about identifying the two works.
shortened by the malignity of " his powerful 6. De Artificio Ciceronianae Orationis pro Q. Lienemy;" but who this enemy was Andreas does gario (sometimes described as Expositio in Oranot mention. It could hardly have been Theodore tionem Ciceronis pro Q. Ligario); printed with the
Gaza, the rival of George, for he died A. D. 1478, commentaries of some other writers on some of the
while George himself did not die until A. D. 1485 orations of Cicero, fol. Venice, 147.7, and several
or 1486, at the age of about 90. He was buried times reprinted. 7. Conmmentarius in Philippica
near his residence, in the Church of the Virgin Ciceronis, 4to. Venice. The year of publication is
Mary, formerly the Temple of Minerva at Rome, not known. These two works have been reprinted
where was a monumental inscription in the floor of in some collections of commentaries on Cicero's orathe church; but it had been so worn by the feet of tions. 8. Dialectica, 4to. Strasburg, 1509. Twelve
the persons frequenting the church, that even in editions of this little work were published between
Allatius's time nothing was visible but the traces 1509 and 1536. The work entitled Compendiumn
of the name. Dialectices ex Aristotele, by George of Trebizond,
George of Trebizond left a son, Andreas or An- published without note of time or place, is prodrew, who, during his father's lifetime, wrote in bably the same work. 9. Comnparationes Phlilosohis defence against Theodore Gaza; but he was a phorum Platonis et Aristotelis, 8vo. Venice, 1523;
person of no talent or eminence. A daughter of We are not aware that the work was printed beAndrew was married to the Roman poet Faustus fore this date, but it must have been circulated inl
Magdalena, who was killed at the sacking of Rome some form, as it was the work which drew upon
by the troops of Charles V., A. D. 1527. Faustus, George the anger of Cardinal Bessarion, who pubwho was a friend of Leo X., used to speak much lished a reply to it under the title Adversus Calumnof his wife's grandfather. niatorem Platonis, Libri Quinque, fol. Rome, 1469.
The character of George is unfavourably repre- In this reply he criticises George's translation of
sented by his biographers Allatius and Boerner, the Plato's treatise De Legibus, which has never been
latter of whom describes him as deceitful, vain, and printed. 10. De Antisciis in quorum Rationemn
envious. The disputes in which he was involved Fata sua rejk't. 11. Cur Astrologorum Judicia
with the principal scholars with whom he had any plerumquefalluntur. These two works were printed
thing to do confirm these unfavourable representa- with Omar De LNativitatibus, 8vo. Venice, 1525. 12.
tions. Ewpositio in illud "Si eum rolo manere donec
The works of George of Trebizond are nume- veniam," 8vo. Basil. 1543; and reprinted in both
rous, consisting partly of original works, a few in editions of the Orthodoxograp/ha (Basil. 1555 and
Greek, the rest in Latin; partly of translations 1569) and in the Bibliotheca Patrum, vol. vi. ed.
from Greek into Latin; many of them, however, Paris, 1576. In this exposition of a passage (c.
remain in MS. We notice only those that have xxi. 22) in the Gospel of John, George contended
been printed; arranging them in classes, and giving that the evangelist was still living on the earth.
the works in each'class chronologically, according 13. In Claudii Ptolenaei Centum Sententias (or
to the date of their earliest known publication. Centiloquium) Commentarius, with a reprint of Nos.
I. ORIGINAL WORKS. I. IN GREEK. 1. riprs 10 and 11, and with the treatise of Joannes Pon-rapv 4n/jAJia'ov fal argEra'Taov BatcAea'Pwgiaiwv tanus, Quatenus credendum sit Astrologis, 8vo. Co-'Iwdvrlvv Ve lIaXcaoAofJyov, Epistola ad excelsissi- logne, 1544. 14. Acta Beati Andreae Chii; printed
mum sacratissimumque Regem Romanorum Joannem in the De Probatis Sanctorum Vitis of Surius, Maii;
Palaeologum. Subjoined. by Pontanus, together 29. p. 324, fol. Cologne, 1618, and in the Actawith a Latin version, to his Latin versions of Theo- Sanctorum of Bollandus, Maii, tom. vii. p. 184, &c.
phylact Simocatta and Phranza, 4to. Ingolstadt, II. TRANSLATIONS. 15. Eusebius Pamnphili de
1604. 2. npods'Iacivvmlv'rd KoveoKAeso, WrEpl Praeparatione Evangelica a Georaio Trapezenatio
ris icwropdes'uOrs'To0'AWyfov rnveu'Tor,s Ad Joan- traductus, fel. Venice, 1470. In this version the
nem Cuboclesium de Processione Spiritus Sancti. whole of the fifteenth book is omitted; yet it ob3. nepl Tris 4Esrop6eue TOOs rov'A-yuouv HvEeVuaos, tained great reputation, as was shown by its being
Kal 7ar-&f Tis "a 4-&yiaS KaOoAlcis'EtacxlArlas, rors reprinted nine or ten times during the fifteenth cene Kp~4rp, tus, oo' pads IepoeogdXots -re ieae lepevoL, tury. 16. Joannes C]klysostomus super Afatthaeum,
De Processione Spiritus Sancti, et de Una Sancta Fol. Cologne, 1487. There is an edition without
Catholica Ecclesia, Divinis Hominibus, qui in Creta note of time or place, but which, from the character
Insula sunt, Hieromonaclis et Sacerdotibus. Both of the type, is supposed to be printed by Mentelius
of these were published with a Latin version in the of Strasburg, whose other works bear date from
Graecia Orlhodoxa of Allatius, vol. i. pp. 469- 1473 to 1476. This translation is not wholly ori582. Rome, 1652. II. IN LATIN. 4. Rhetorica, Libri ginal; in some of the homilies it is only the ancient
V., fol. Venice, 1470. This date is fixed by the chief version of Anianus revised. 17. Rhetoricorum
bibliographical authorities, but is not given in the Aristotelis ad Theodecten Libri Tres. A version of
work. The RBletorica has been often reprinted. this work of Aristotle, which some of our authoriValentine Curio, in the preface to his edition, 4to. ties state to be by George of Trebizond, but which
Basil, 1522, states that the work was left by the does not bear his name in the title, was published
author in so imperfect a state that its revision had in fol., Leipsic, 1503, and Venice, 1515; but his
cost the editor much labour. He adds that it em- version was certainly printed, at Paris, 8vo. 1530,