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594- JOANNES. JOANNES.
Graec. vol. xi. p. 152; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. i. p. by Gery and Wharton, p. 65; Oudin, De Scrip:.
619.) toribus et Scriptis Ecclesiasticis, vol. iii. col. 1062.)
42. Of CONSTANTINOPLE, 5;. [CAMATERUS.] 49. DAMASCENUS. [DAMASCENUS.]
43. Of CONSTANTINOPLE, 6. [CALECAS.] 50. DIACRINOMENUS. [See No. 2.]
44. Of CONSTANTINOPLE, 7. A Joannes Con- 51. DIACONUS et RHETOR (ALdKOvOS Kail'Pi.
stantinopolitanus, of whom nothing further isknown, rwp), deacon of the great church (St.: Sophia)
was the compiler of the first- part of that division of at Constantinople, about the end of the ninth centhe Collectanea of Constantine Porphyrogenitus, tury. He wrote A0'yos Els'tbv Bgov'roi'V daioms
which bears the title rIepl lIpeeigscv, De Legatio- IraTpTs'recuv'IWci)p'TOi iwo'ypdpqov, Vita S. Jonibus. This first part was published by Fulvius sephi Hymnographi; published in the Acta SanctoUrsinus, 4to. Antwerp, 1582, with notes; it was rum, Aprilis (a. d. iii.), vol. i.; a Latin version
entitled'EIc TRv nOXvgiov Troi Me'yaioroXL'rov being given in the body of the work, with a learned
cKoAal'repl 7rpeo~ELCwv, with an addition to the Commentarius Praevius at p. 266, &c., and the
title, printed on the back, in Latin, Fragmenta ex original in the Appendix, p. xxxiv. Allatius (De
Historiis quae non extant Dionysii Halicarnassei, Psellis e. xxx ) cites another work of this writer
Diodori Siculi, Appiani Alexandrini, Dionys Cassii entitled Ts o' Kaotrs T'r 0eT 7ri rpo'r'qs To6 dvOpdNicaei, de Legationibus; Dionys Lib. lx'ix. et xxx. rov rAdcrecs, IK. r. A., Quid est Consilium Dei in
imperfectus. Emendationes in Polybium. This prima Hominis Formatione, ~c. The designation
copious title enumerates the contents of the work, Joannes Diaconus is common to several mediaeval
and indicates their value. (Ursinus, Praefatio; writers; as Joannes Galenus or Pediasmus, Joannes
Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. viii. p. 7.) Hypatus, Joannes deacon of Rome (who comes
45. CUBID1US. [COBIDAS.] not within our limits as to time), and Joannes
46. CUCUZELES (Kovcov'NXals or KovicovefJX), Diaconus, a contemporary and correspondent of
a Greek musical composer of the later Byzantine George of Trebizond. [GEORGIUS, No. 48.] (Acta
period. Fabricius says he was a bishop of Euchaita Sanctorum, 1. c.: Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. x. p. 264,
or Euchaitae [see No. 58]; but we do not know the vol. xi. p. 654; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. ii. Dissertatio I.
authority for this assertion, and doubt its correct- p. 11; Oudin, De Scriptoribus et Scriptis Ecclesiness. Various MSS. of his musical compositions asticis, vol. ii. col. 335.)
are extant, in some of which he is designated simply 52. DoXIPATOR, or DOXOPATOR. [DOXIPATOR.]
j patiro'p, magister, in others that designation is 53. DRUNGARIUS, or DRUNGARIAS, or of DRUNprefixed to his name. Part of one of his pieces is GARIA (Montfaucon gives the name'Iwcivvrls'rSi
given in an engraved plate to Martin Gerbert's Apovyyaptas, and expressly observes that it is so
work De Cantu et Musicea Sacra, vol. i. p. 587; in the MS.), a contemporary of Cyril of Alexandria
and there is a notice of him in vol. ii. p. 7, of the [CYRILLUS], and probably one of his clergy. At
same work. Joannes Cucuzelesis tobedistinguished the instigation of Cyril he undertook a comfrom Joasaph Cucuzeles, another Greek musical mentary on Isaiah, which is extant in, MS. The
composer, of less reputation apparently, than Jo- IlpodAoyos, Praefatio, is given by Montfaucon in
annes. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 653; Ger- his Nova Collectio Patrum, vol. ii. p. 350, and by
bert, 1. c.) Fabricius, Bibl. Graec. vol. viii. p. 663. Fabricius,
47. CUROPALATA. [SCYLITZES.] in giving the author's name, omits the article before
48. CYPARISSIOTA (Kv7rapw'leo'wTqs), surnamed Apovy'yapias. (Montfaucon, Fabricius, 11. cc.)
SAPIENS or the WIssE, an ecclesiastical writer, who 54. Of EGYPT. [See Nos. 3, 5, 16.]
lived in the latter half of the fourteenth century, not 55. ELEEMOSYNARIUS the ALMONER, patriarch
in the middle of the twelfth, as erroneously stated of Alexandria early in the seventh century. He
by Labbe in his Chronologia Brevis Ecclesiasticorum was appointed to the patriarchate in A. D. 606, or,
Scriptorum, From indications in his own works according to some of-our authorities, in A. D. 609;
they were, some of them at least, written after the and was dead in or before A. D. 616. Gardiner,
year 1359. Cyparissiota was an opponent of bishop of Winchester, ascribed to Joannes EleemoGregory Palamas [PALAMAS] and his followers synarius the celebrated Epistola ad Caesarizlo,
(the believers in the light of Mount Thabor), which is by most Protestant critics, and by some
and his principal publications had reference to Roman Catholics, ascribed to Chrysostom; and
that controversy. They compose a series of five whichis appealed to as containing a clear declaration
treatises; but only the first and fourth books of the against the doctrine of transubstantiation. The
first treatise of the series, Palamiticarun Trans- eminence of Joannes is evidenced by the fact that
gressionum Libri IV, have been published. They three biographical accounts of him were written; one,
appeared, with a Latin version, in the Auctariumn not nowextant, byJoannesMoschus [MoscHns] and
Novissimum of Combdfis (Pars ii. pp. 68-105), Sophronius; and a second by Leontius, bishop of
and the Latin version was given in the Bibliotheca Neapolis in Cyprus, of which a Latin version, made
Patrnm (vol. xxi. p. 476, &c., ed. Lyon. 1677). in the ninth century by Anastasius Bibliothecarius,
Cyparissiota wrotealso'EcOe0'r r'TOLXEeJ71rAsp ro'scov has been repeatedly printed. It is given, with a,eohoyiKcwv, Expositio Alfateriarum eoruem. quae de Commentarius Praevius, in the Acta Sanctorum of
Deo a Theologis dicuntur. The work is divided the Bollandists (Januar. 23. vol. ii. p. 495). The
into a hundred chapters, which are arranged in ten'third life is either by Symeon Metaphrastes, or by
Decades or portions of ten chapters each, from some older Greek writer: a Latin version of it, by
which arrangement the work is sometimes referred Gentianus Hervetus, was published by Aloysius
to by the simple title of Decades. A Latin version Lippomani (De Vitis Sanctorum, a. d. 12 Novemb.),
of it by Franciscus Turrianus was published at by Surius (De Probatis Sanctorum Vitis, a. d. 23
Rome in 4to, 1581; and was reprinted in the oJannar.), and in the Acta Sanctorum of the BolBibliotheea Patrum (vol. xxi. 377, &c). (Combefis, landists (ut supra). (Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. i. p. 699,
Auectar. Novissim. pars ii. p. 105; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. note xx.; vol. viii. p. 322, vol. x. p. 262.)
vol xi. p. 507.; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. ii., Appendix 56. Of EPIPHANEIA in Syria, a Byzantine hi