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GLYCAS. GLYCERIUS. 277
of the plebs, B. c. 67. When one of his colleagues, Byzantines, and appeared at Paris 1660, fol.; it
C. Cornelius [C. CORNELIUS], brought forward a was reprinted at Venice 1729, fol. The best edition
rogation which the senate disliked, Globulus laid is by I. Bekker, in the Bonn collection of the
his tribunitian interdict on its reading by the clerk. Byzantines, 1836, 8vo.
(Ascon. in Cic. pro Cornel. p. 57, ed. Orelli.) But Besides this historical work, Glycas wrote a
he appeared as evidence in defence of Cornelius, great number of letters, mostly on theological subwhen impeached for disregarding the interdict. jects; some of them have been published, under
(Ascon. p. 61.) Globulus was praetor of Asia the title of "Epistolae sive Dissertationes decem
Minor in B. e. 65-64, since he was the immediate et Graece et Latine, interprete J. Lamio, cum
predecessor of L. Flaccus (Sall. Cat. 45; Cic. pro Notis," in the first vol. of J. Lamius, Deliciae EruaFlacc. 3) in that province. (Cic.pro Flacc. 32; Schol. ditorum. (Dissertatio de Aetate et Scriptis Al.1
Bob. pro Facc. pp. 233, 245, Orelli.) [W. B. D.] Glyeae, in Oudin, Commentarias de Scriptoribus
GLOS. [GAos.] Ecclesiasticis, vol. iii. p. 2522; Vita Glycae, in
GLUS (raoxs), an Egyptian, was son of Tamos, Lamius, Deliciae Eruditorum; Hamberger, Zuverthe admiral of Cyrus the younger. When Menon, lissige Arachric7lten von gelehrten Maiinnern, vol. iv.
the Thessalian, had persuaded his troops to show p. 729, &c.; Cave, Hist. Lit. vol.' ii. p. 206, &c.;
their zeal for Cyrus, by crossing the Euphrates Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 199.) [W. P.]
before the rest of the Greeks, Glus was sent by the GLY'CERA (rAvKlpa), " the sweet one," a
prince to convey to them his thanks and promises favourite name of hetairae. The most celebrated
of reward. After the battle of Cunaxa he was one hetairae of this name are, 1. The daughter of Thaof those who announced to the Greeks the death of lassis and the mistress of Harpalus. (Athen. xiii.
Cyrus, and he is mentioned again by Xenophon as pp. 586, 595, 605, &c.) [HARPALUS.] 2. Of Siwatching their movements, when, in the course of cyon, and the mistress of Pausias. [PAUSIAs.] 3. A
their retreat, they were crossing the bridge over favourite of Horace. (Hor. Carm. i. 19. 30. iii. 19.29.)
the Tigris. (Xen. Anab. i. 4. ~ 16, 5. ~ 7, ii. 1. ~ 3, GLYCE'RIUS, one of the phantom emperors
4. ~ 24.) [E. E.] of the latest period of the western empire. Before
GLYCAS, MICHAEL (MXam)XA rxvKas), a his accession he held the office of Comes domestiByzantine historian, was a native either of Con- corum, and is described by Theophanes as datp
stantinople or Sicily, whence he is often called odK d8&K/LJos (" aman of good reputation "). After
" Siculus." There are great doubts with regard to the death of the emperor Olybrius and the patrician
the time when he lived. Oudin, Hamberger, and Ricimer, Glycerius was instigated to assume the
others, are of opinion that he was a contemporary empire by Gundibatus or Gundobald the Burgunof the last emperors of Constantinople, as may be dian, Ricimer's nephew. His elevation took place
concluded from letters of his being extant in MS. at Ravenna in March, A. D. 473. His reign was
which are addressed to the last Constantine, who too short, and the records of it are too obscure, for
perished in the storm of Constantinople by the us to form any trustworthy judgment of his chaTurks in 1453: but it is doubtful whether those racter. He showed great respect for Epiphanius,
letters are really written by him. Walch, Fabri- bishop of Ticinum or Pavia, at whose intercession
cius, Vossius, and Cave, on the contrary, believe he pardoned some individuals who had incurred
that Glycas lived in the twelfth century. However his displeasure by some injury or insult offered to
this may be, it is certain that he lived after 1118, his mother. When Widemir, the Ostro-Goth,
because his Annals go down to that-year. Glycas invaded Italy, Glycerius sent him several presents,
was probably an ecclesiastic: he possessed anl ex- and induced him to quit Italy and to march into
tensive amount of knowledge, and he was ac- Gaul, and incorporate his army with the Visiquainted with several languages. His style is Goths, who were already settled in that province.
generally clear and concise, and he is justly placed This event, which is recorded by Jornandes, is, by
among the better Byzantine historians.; The An- Tillemont, but without any apparent reason, placed
nals (lihAos XpovuKc) mentioned above are his before the accession of Glycerius. The eastern
principal work. They are divided into four parts. emperor Leo I., the Thracian, does not appear to
The first part treats of the creation of the world: have acknowledged Glycerius; and, by his direcit is a physico-theological treatise; the second part tion, Julius Nepos was proclaimed emperor at
is historical, and contains the period from the Ravenna, either in the latter part of 473 or the
Creation to Christ; the third goes from Christ to beginning of 474. Nepos marched against GlyConstantine the Great; and the fourth from cerius, and took him prisoner at Portus (the
Constantine the Great to the death of the em- harbour of Rome at the mouth of the Tiber), and
peror Alexis I. Comnenus, in 1118. It was first compelled him to become a priest. He was appublished in a Latin translation, by Leunclavius, pointed then, or soon afterward, to the bishoprick
together with a continuation of the Annals down of Salona in Dalmatia.
to the capture of Constantinople, by the editor, The subsequent history of Glycerius is involved
Basel, 1572, 8vo. The first part of the work was in some doubt. The Chronicon of Marcellinus comfirst published in Greek, with a Latin translation, prehends the notice of his deposition, ordination to
by Meursius, under the title of "Theodori Metochi- the priesthood, and death in one paragraph, as if they
tae HistoriaeRomanae a Julio Caesare ad Constan- had all happened in the same year. But accordtinum Magnum,"Lugdun. 1 618, 8vo.; and it is also ing to Malchus, he was concerned in the death of
given in the 7th vol. of Meursius' works: Meursius the emperor Nepos, who, after being driven from
erroneously attributed it to Theodorus Metochita, Italy by the patrician Orestes, preserved the imThe whole of the Greek text was first published by perial title, and apparently a fragment of the emLabbe, who took great care in collecting MSS., and pire, at Salona, and was killed (A. D. 480) by his
added valuable notes, as well as the translation of own followers, Viator and Ovida or Odiva, of
Leunclavius, which he revised in manyplaces. This whom the second was conquered and killed the
edition forms part of the Paris collection of the year after by Odoacer. A Glycerius appears among
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