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324 HAGIOTHEODORITA. HAGNON.
of Claudian's poems (Epigr. xxviii. ed Burman, references -being accommodated to the existing state
xxx. in some other ed.) bears the inscription De of the law. After the formation of the glossa orT/seodoro et Hadriano. dinaria, new annotations were added, and, as in
"- "Mallius indulget somno noctesque diesque: * the manuscripts, the glossa ordinaria was a marInsomnis Pharius sacra profana rapit. ginal commentary on the text, so the new annoOmnibus hoc, Italae gentes, exposcite votis, tations were written on the extreme margin that,
Mallius ut vigilet, dormiat ut Pharius." was left. In the West, the glossa ordinaria on the
Corpus Juris Civilis was formed, and received adIf this inscription can be trusted to, we may ditions in a very similar manner.
gather that Hadrian was an Egyptian. Whether Specimens of the last kind of annotation exist in
the Epigram was first written, and was the offence the ~manuscripts of the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, and
which the Deprecatio was intended to expiate, or 60th books of the Basilica. They appear for the
whether it was a fresh outbreak of poetical spite on most part to have been written by Hagiotheodorita,
the failure of the Deprecatio, is not ascertained. and to have been added by one of his disciples.
Symmachus, in his Epistolae, mentions an Ha- (Basil. ed. Fabrot. vol. vii. p. 121, 658.) These
drianus whom he calls "illustris," probably the annotations are not given entire in the portions of
praefect. (Cod. Theod. and Claudian, II. cc; Sym- the Basilica published by Cujas, nor in the edition.
mach. Epist. vi. 35, ed. Geneva, A. D. 1587, or vi. of Fabrotus.
34, ed. Paris, 1604; Gothofred, Prosop. Cod. Fabricius (Bibl. r. vol. xii. p. 483), Heimbach
M7beod; Tillemont, Hist. des Emp. vol. v.) [J.C.M.] (De Basil. Orig. p. 83), and Pohl (ad Suares.
HAEMON (A'4lwv). 1. A son of Pelasgus and Notit. Basil. p. 139, n. (y)), identify the comment -
father of Thessalus. The ancient name of Thessaly, ator on the Basilica with Nicolaus Hagiotheodorita,
viz. Haemonia, or Aemonia, was believed to' have metropolitan of Athens, who lived under Manuel
been derived from him. (Schol. ad Apollon. Rhod. Comnenus in the time of Lucas, patriarch of Coniii. 1090; Plin. H. N. iv. 14.) stantinople. (Balsamo, ad Photii Nomocan. tit. 13..
2. A son of Lycaon, and the reputed founder of c. 2.) A letter, written in Greek by a friend of.
Haemonia in Arcadia. (Paus. viii. 44. ~ 2; Apol- Nicolaus Hagiotheodorita, lamenting his, death, was
lod. iii. 8. ~ 1.) copied by Wolfius from a Bodleian manuscript, and
3. A son of Creon of Thebes, perished, according was first published by Fabricius. (Bibl. Gr. vol.:
to some accounts, by the sphinx. (Apollod. iii. 5. xii. p. 483.) According to the worse than doubtful;
~ 8; Schol. ad Eurip. Phoen. 1760.) But, accord- testimony of Nic. Comnenus Papadopoli, the meing to other traditions, he survived the war of the tropolitan of Athens composed a synopsis of the
Seven against Thebes, and he.is said to have been Novells (Praenot. Mystag. p. 372), and illustrated
in love with Antigone, and to have made away with scholia the Novells of Leo the philosopher.
with himself on hearing that she was condemned by (1b. p. 393.)
his father to be entombed alive. (Soph. Antig. Zachariae is disposed to consider the commentator
627, &c.; Eurip. Phoen. 757, 1587; Hygin. Fab. on the Basilica as the same person with Michael:72.) In the Iliad (iv. 394) Maeon is called a son Hagiotheodorita, who, in A. D. 1166, was logotheta:
of Haemon. [L. S.] dromi under Manuel Comnenus. (Leunclavius,
HAEMUS ( Algos). 1. A son of Boreas and J. G. R. vol. i. p. 167, vol. ii. p. 192.) [J. T. G.]
Oreithyia, was married to Rhodope, by whom he HAGNO ('Ayvd), an Arcadian nymph, who is
became the father of Hebrus. As he and his wife said to have brought up Zeus. On Mount Lycaeus
presumed to assume the names of Zeus and Hera, in Arcadia there was a well sacred to and named
both were metamorphosed into mountains. (Serv. after her. When the country was suffering from
ad Virg. Aen. i. 321; Ov. Met. vi. 87; Steph. drought, the priest of Zeus Lycaeus, after having
Byz. s. vv.) offered up prayers and sacrifices, touched the sur2. A son of Ares, and an ally of the Trojans in face of the well with the branch of an oak tree,
the war with the Greeks. (Tzetz. Antehom. 273; whereupon clouds were formed immediately which
Philostr. Her. xv. 16.) [L. S.] refreshed the country with rain. The nymph Hagno.
HAGIOPOLI'TA, GEORGIUS. [GrEORGIUS, was represented at Megalopolis carrying in one
literary, No. 26.] hand a pitcher and in the other a patera. (Paus.'
HAGIOTHEODORITA, a commentator on the viii. 38. ~ 3, 31. ~ 2, 47. ~ 2.) [L. S.]
Basilica. The earliest scholia that were appended HAGNON (7Ayyvv, sometimes written A?to -this -work were, in the opinion of Zachariae vov), son of Nicias, was the Athenian founder of
(Hist.: Jur. Gr. Rom. Delin. ~ 38), extracts se- Amphipolis, on the Strymon. A previous attempt
lected in the reign of Constantinus Porphyrogenitus had been crushed twenty-nine years before, by a
from the ancient translations of the' Corpus Juris, defeat in Drabescus. Hagnon succeeded in driving
and from the old commentators on the compilations out the Edonians, and established his.colony seof Justinian. Mortreueil, however (Histoirp. du curely, giving the name Amphipolis to what had
lDroit Byzantin, vol. ii. p. 123), thinks that'these hitherto been called "the Nine Ways." (Thuc. iv,
extracts were themselves part -of the primitive 102.) The date is fixed to the archonship of Euofficial text, and were analogous to the interpretatio thymenes, B. C. 437, by Diodorus (xii. 32), and the
of the Breviarium Alaricianum Additions seem Scholiast on Aeschines (p. 755, Reiske), and in this
to have been made to the early scholia in the tenth the account of Thucydides agrees. There were buildand eleventh centuries, from the writings of later ings erected in his honour as founder. But when
jurists. ~ In the twelfth century a kind of glossa the Athenian part of the colonists had been ejected,
ordinaria was formed, compiled from the previous and the town had revolted, and by the victory won
scholia. Thus the gloss was made up from the over Cleon by Brasidas, B. c. 422, had had its in-'works of writers who were for the most part ante- dependence secured, the Amphipolitans destroyed
eedent in date to the composition of the Basilica, every memorial of the kind, and gave the name of
Their language being sometimes altered, and their founder, and paid the founder's honours to Brasi