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306 GREGORIANUS. GREGORIUS.
with a Latin translation and an index, which, the Collatio Juris Rom. et Mos. xv. 3, and xv. 4,
however, contains only the first eleven books. where we find Gregorianus Libro VII. and GreWolf was persuaded to undertake the task by gorianus Libro V. The ellipsis of codex after the
Dernschwam, a German scholar, who had travelled word Theodosianus is not unusual, and the scholiast
in the East, where he obtained a MS. of the work. on the Basilica, lib. ii. tit. 2. s. 35 (vol. i. p. 704,
Wolf obtained another MS. in Germany, and was ed. Heimbach), speaks of Tas ev r4'Ep/5oweviavo Kal
enabled to publish the work by the liberality of rpn-yopLav &LasaTd5es, However, the interpretatio
the celebrated patron of learning and arts, Count of Cod. Theod. i. tit. 4. s. un. has the following
Anthony Fugger. He published this work, to- passage: —" Ex his omnibus Juis Consultoribus,
gether with the Paralipomena of Nicetas, and the ex Gregoriano, Hermogeniano, Gaio, Papiniano et
Turkish history of Laonicus Chalcocondylas, with Paulo, quae necessaria causis praesentium temporum
a Latin translation by Konrad Clauser. The same videbantur, elegimus." In this place codice cannot
edition was reprinted in the Historiae Byzantinae fairly be subaudited, and therefore, so far as the
Descriptores Tres, Geneva, 1615, fol. The MSS. authority of the Westgothic interpreter goes, the
perused by Wolf had many considerable lacunae, longer name Gregorianus must be preferred to
or passages that could not be deciphered. The Gregorius. (Zimmern. R.R. G. vol. i. ~ 46. n. 35.)
corresponding text was afterwards found in other Burchardi (Lehrbuch des Rom. Rechls, vol. i. p. 233,
MSS by Petavius, who published them, together Stuttgart. 1841), nevertheless, prefers the shorter
with the Breviarium of Nicephorus the Patriarch, form, Gregorius, and thinks that the compiler of
Paris, 1616, 8vo. The Paris edition was edited the codex may have been the Gregorins to whom
by Boivin, two volumes, 1702, fol. The first vol. was addressed, in A. D. 290, a rescript of the em-.
is a carefully revised reprint of Wolf's edition, peror Diocletian (Cod. Just. i. tit. 22. s. 1), and
containing the first eleven books; the second vol. may also have been identical with the Gregorius
contains the following thirteen books, with a Latin who was praefectus praetorio under Constantine in
translation by the editor, except books 23 and 24, A. D. 336 and 337. (Cod. Theod. 3. tit. 1. s. 2,
which were translated by Claudius Copperonerius; Cod. Theod. 2. tit. 1. s. 3, Cod. Just. 5. tit. 27. s. 1,
it contains also the excellent notes of Du Cange to Nov. 89. c. 15.) This hypothesis is consistent with
the first seventeen books. Boivin deserves great the date at which the Gregorianus Codex may be
credit for this edition. He intended to add a supposed to have been compiled, for the latest conthird volume; containing the remaining fourteen stitution it contains is one of Diocletian and Maxbooks, and a fourth volume with commentaries, iminian of the year A. D. 295.
&c., but neither of them was' published. The In the ninth volume of Savigny's Zeitschrifl,
Venice edition, 1729, fQl., is a careless reprint of p. 235-300, Klenze published, for the first time,
the Paris edition. The Bonn edition, by Schopen, from a manuscript of the Breviarium Alaricianum.
1829-30, 2 vols. 8vo., is a careful and revised re- at Berlin, a work consisting of about fifty legal
print of the Paris edition. It is to be regretted fragments, which he supposed to be entitled Inthat the learned editor of this edition has not stitutio Greyoriani. Its author and purpose are
thought it advisable to publish the remaining four- unknown. It contains extracts not only from the
teen books also, the materials of which he would Gregorian Code, but from the Theodosian Code,
have found in very excellent condition in Paris. from the Sententiae of Paulus, and from theResponsa
The other printed works of Gregoras are- of Papinian. It is later in date than the Breviasium.
Oratio in Obitum Theodosri Metoclitae (Gr. Lat.), in Klenze thought that it was an independent Lex
Tlieodori Metociltae (that is, Michael Glycas [GLY- Romana, intended to be the law of the Romani in
CAS]) HistoriC Romana5 ed. Job. Meursius, Ley- some Germanic kingdom, but this opinion seems to
den, 1618, 8vo.; Comnnzentarii sire Scholia in Sy- have been successfully controverted by G. HIalnel
nesium De Insomniis, in the Paris edition of Syne- in Richter's Krit, Jahrb. fiis- Deutsche Recldswiss.
sius, 1553, fol.; Vita Sancti Codrati et Sociorum p. 587-603, Lips. 1838. B/cking, Institutionen,
Marlyrum, interprete Reinoldo Dehnio, in the vol. i. p. 93, n. 17. [J. T. G.]
second vol. of Acta Sanctoruns; Paschalium Cop- GREGO'RIUS (rpsrylpios). Historical.
rectum, TA 6lop~OwOev 7raoXdAXtoJ Ptro NztiK/?pou 1. Praefectus Praetorio, apparently in Italy,
piAodc0pou Troe rpnyopas, repl o0 Kaal d "Apyupos Cv having Africa: also subject to him, near the close of
Tw pesisr p veOoo'i bhaaavaels, in Petavius, Ura- the reign of Constantine the Great, A. D. 336 and
nologium, and in the third volume of the same 337. The heresiarch Donatus wrote to him a
author's Doctrina Temporum, the celebrated, work most insolent letter, calling him " the stain of the
mentioned above; Epistola ad Theodulum lViona- senate," " the disgrace of the prefects," and similar
chum, in Normann's edition of Theodulus, Upsala, names; to which abuse Gregory replied " with
1693, 4to. (Dissert. de Nicephqro Greqora, in the patience of a bishop." (Optatus, -De Sehismate
Oudin, Commentarii de Script, Eccles., vol. iii. p. Donatist, iii. 3. ed. Dupin; Cod. ThLeodos. 11. tit. 1.
768, &c.; Boivin, Vita Nic. Greg., in the Paris s. 3; 3. tit. 1. s. 2, with the note of Gothofredus;
and Bonn editions of Gregoras, Hist. Byz.; Cave, Gothofred. Prosopog. God. T/seodos.)
Htist. Lit., Appendix, p. 45.; Fabric. Bibl. Graee. 2. Praefectus Annonae under Gratian, A. D. 377.
vol. vii. p. 633, &c.; Hankius, De Byxz. Rer. Gothofred is disposed to identify him with the
Script. p. 579, &c.) [W. P.] Gregory to whom Symmachus wrote-several of his
GREGORIA'NUS, the compiler of the Grego- letters, and who had borne the office of quaestor.
rianus Codex. (Dict. of Ant. s.v. Codex Gregoria- (Cod. Theod.. 14., tit. 3. s. 15; Gothofred. Pronas.) Nothing is known of him, and even his name sopog, Cod. Theodos.; Tillemont, Hist. des Emp.
is uncertain, for the title Corpus Gregoriani, which vol. v. p. 147.)
appears in some manuscripts of the remains of his 3. Praefectus Praetorio Galliarum under Gracode, and in the Consultatio veteris Icti, may be tian, A. D. 383. His; prefecture extended over
written short, in place of Corpus Gregoriani Codicis. all the provinces (Gaul, Spain, and Britain) which
The word codex may also perhaps be supplied in remained under the immediate government of