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JOANNES.. JOANNES. 587
11. AN TIOCHENUS (3). [See No. 105.] ofthe body. John did so; and the Melitians being
12. ANTIOCHENUS (4). [See No. 108.] supported in. their attacks on the orthodox party
13. ANTIOCHENUS (5). [MALALAS.] by the Arians, the schism became as violent as
14. ANTIOCHENUS (6). The Excerpta ex Col- ever. Athanasius, now patriarch of Alexandria,
*lectaneis Constantini Augusti Poophyrogeniti, repl and leader of the orthodox party [ATHANASIUS],
Cape7 Kca Ktcatuar, De Virtate et Vitio, edited by was the great object of attack: and John and his
Valesius, 4to. Paris, 1634, and frequently cited as followers sought to throw on him the odium of
-the Excepta Peiresciana, contain extracts from the originating the disturbances and of persecuting his
-'Itr'opla Xpovl, v dird'AGdM, Historia Chrono- opponents; and especially they charged him with
grapiica ab Adamo, of a writer called Joannes of the murder of Arsenius, a Melitian bishop, whom
Antioch, of whom nothing is known beyond what they had secreted in order to give colour to the
may be gathered from the work. The last extract charge..[ATHANASIUS.] Athanasius on his part
relates to the emperor Phocas, whose character is appealed to the emperor, Constantine the Great,
described in the past tense, i a'rTbs 4wKcas rhlVrip- charging John and his followers with unsoundness
Xev aUoir7rss, " This same Phocas was blood- in the faith, with a desire to alter the decrees of
thirsty:" from which it appears that the work was the Nicene council, and with raising tumults and
written after-the death of Phocas, A. D. 610, and insulting the orthodox; he also objected to them,
before the time of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, in as being irregularly ordained. He refuted their
the tenth century. Cave places Joannes of Antioch charges, especially the charge of murder, ascerin A. D. 620. He is not to be confounded with taining that Arsenius was alive, and obliged them
Joannes Malalas, from whom he is in the Excerpta to remain quiet. John professed to repent of his
expressly distinguished. (Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. iii. disorderly proceedings, and to be reconciled to
p. 44, vol. viii. p. 7; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. i. p. 577.) Athanasius; and returned with his party into the
15. ANTIOCHENUS (7). A discourse, Adyos, on communion of the orthodox church: but the reconthe gift of monasteries and their possessions to lay ciliation was not sincere or lasting: troubles broke
persons is given in the Ecclesiae Graecae Monu- out again, and a fresh separation took place; John.menta of Cotelerius (vol. i. p. 159, &c.). It is in and his followers either being ejected from comthe title described as the work toe dyiTrd7rOV Kali munion by the Athanasian party, or their return
uatKap-rc'drrovu'rcap'apXou'AvrToXeias tucpeou'Iw- opposed. The council of Tyre (A. D. 335), inwhich
avVou TroU;v Tri'O)Eqa vlac dKrfCoavrSos, Sane- the opponents of Athanasius were triumphant, ortissimi et beatissimi patriarchae Antiochiae, domini dered them to be re-admitted; but the emperor
Joaneis qui in Oxa ins la aliq ando monachusfuit. deeming John to be a contentious man, or, at least,
From internal evidence, Cotelerius deduces that thinking that his presence was incompatible with the
this patriarch Joannes lived about the middle peace of the Egyptian church, banished him (A. D.
of the twelfth century. The island of Oxia, in 336) just after he had banished Athanasius into
which, before his elevation to the patriarchate, he Gaul. The place of his exile, and his subsequent
pursued a monastic life, is in the Propontis. -There fate, are not known. (Sozomen, H. E. ii. 21, 22,
is (or was) extant in MS., in the imperial library 25, 31; Athanasius, Apol. contra Arianos, c. 65at Vienna, a work described as Eclogae Asceticae, 67, 70, 71; Tillemont, Mimoires, vol. vi. passim,
-containing extracts from the Fathers and other ec- vol. viii. passim.)
clesiastical authorities. The inscription subjoined 17. ARGYROPULUS ('Apyvpo7roVAos), one of the:to this work, r'Aor s ijS 8Aov'rod T0alMcaIpiw7drov learned Greeks whose flight into Western Europe
ira7pidpXo%'AVTOeXetaS up KovPL'IOdvvYOu oU6 Iv contribated so powerfully to the revival of learning.'.'OOgcI,, Finis libri beatissimi patriarchae Anti- Joannes Argyropulus (or Argyropylus, or Argyro-.ochiae domini Joannis qei in Oxia fuit, has led polus, or Argyropilus, or Argyrophilus, for the
Cotelerius (Ibid. p. 747) with reason to ascribe it name is variously written) was born at Constanto the same writer. From this conclusion Cave tinople of a noble family, and was a presbyter of
dissents, and contends that the Ecloyae Asceticae that city, on the capture of which: (A. D. 1453) he
~is the work of an earlier Joannes, patriarch of An- is said by Fabricius and Cave to have fled into
tioch, who lived, according to William of Tyre (vi. Italy; but there is every reason to believe that his
23), Ordericus Vitalis (lib. x.), and others, about removal was antecedent to that event. Nicolaus
*the close of the eleventh century; but the mention Comnenus Papadopoli (Hist. Gymnas. Patavini).of the island Oxia leads us to identify the writers states that he was twice in Italy; that he was sent
*with each other; and Cave's argument that the the first time when above forty years old, by Carhltest writer from whom any part of the Eclogae is dinal Bessarion, and studied Latin at Padua, and
taken is Michael Psellus, who flourished about that his second removal was after the capture of,A. D. 1050, is insufficient for his purpose. Cotelerius Constantinople. What truth there is in this stateascribes some other works and citations to this ment it is difficult to say: he was at least twice in
Joannes. (Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. ii. pp. 159, 225; Italy, probably three, and perhaps even four times.;
Cotelerius, II. cc.) but that he was forty years of age at his first visit
16. ARCHAPH,'Apxdp, an Egyptian schisma- is quite irreconcileable with other statements. A
tic, contemporary with Athanasius. Melitius, an passage cited by Tiraboschi (Storia della Left.
Egyptian bishop, and author of a schism among the Italiana, vol. vi. p. 198) makes it likely that he
Egyptian clergy, having been condemned at the was at Padua A. D. 1434, reading and explaining
council of Nice A. D. 325, was really bent, while the works of Aristotle on natural philosophy. In
apparently submitting to the judgment of the A. D. 1439 an Argyropulus was present with the
council, on maintaining his party: and just before emperor Joannes Palaeologus at the council of
his death, which occurred shortly after the council Florence (Michael Ducas, Hist. Byzant. c. 31): it
broke up, prepared Joannes or John, surnamed is not clear whether this wasJoannes or some other
Archaph, one of his partizans, and apparently Me-' of his name, but it was probably Joannes. In
litian bishop of Memphis, to assume the leadership A. D. 1441 he was at Constantinople, as appears