A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

JOANNES. ~JOANNES. 595
torian, who flourished toward the close ofthe sixth nople, and brother to the celebrated Marcus or
century. Evagrius Scholasticus, the ecclesiastical Mark Eugenicus, archbishop of Ephesus, one of
historian (H. E. v. 14, sub fin.), speaks of him as the leaders of the Greeks at the councils of Ferhis kinsman and townsman. Vossius, misled by rara and Florence (A. D. 1438-39). [EUGEthe latter expression of Evagrius, has considered NICUS, M.] Joannes also attended the council, and
Joannes as a native of Antioch instead of Epi- embraced the same side as his brother. He attempted
phaneia. He wrote a history of the affairs of the to leave Italy during its session, but was brought
Byzantine Empire, from the latter part of the reign back. He wrote: 1. An imbic poem of 25 lines,
of Justinian to the restoration of the Persian king Eis eicKJa'roi uesydAov XpvoooTo'ov, In inzaginevs
Chosroes or Khosru II. by the Byzantine emperor magni Chrysostorni. 2. An iambic tetrastich, Els'Maurice. Evagrius says the history had not been 7ravayadptov, In Panagiariu.m. 3. IrpoOewpifa, Praepublished at the time his own work was written fatio, i. e. to the Aethiopica of Heliodorus. [HELIA. D, 593 or 594 [see EVAGRIus, No. 3.]. The oDORUS IV., Romance Writer.] These three pieces
history of Joannes has never been published; a were published by Bandini (Catalog; Codd. Laur.
MS. of it, the only one known, is said to be in the IMedic. vol. iii. col. 322, &c.) Several other works
library at Heidelberg. Joannes of Epiphaneia is of Joannes Eugenicus are extant in MS., especially
sometimes improperly confounded with another his Antirrheticum adversus Synodum Florentinun,
writer, Joannes Rhetor [See below, No. 105], who quoted by Allatius in his work De Purgatorio.
wrote a history of the times of Theodosius II., (Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. xi. p. 653; Cave, Hist.
Marcian, Leo, and Zeno, and who is repeatedly Litt. vol. ii. Appendix by Wharton and Gery, p.
quoted by Evagrius. (Valesius, Not. ad Evagr. 141.)
H. E. i. 16; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. i. p. 546; Vossius, 61. GALENUS (raexps) or PEDIASIMUS (IlDe Historicis Graecis, iv. 20, sub fin.) 61aLly/os); also called POTHUS (rdiOos), and Hy57. EPIPHANII DIscIPULUS. A spurious life of PATUS (s. PRINCEPS) PHILOSOPHORUM ("Trrao0s
Epiphanius of Constantia (or Salamis), in Cyprus TaV 4Aood(pwcov). He was Chartophylax, keeper
[EPIPHANIus],of which a Latin version was printed of the records of the province of Justiniana Prima,
by Aloysius Lipomanus (De Vitis Sanctorum), and and of all Bulgaria, under the emperor Andronicus
Surius (De Probatlis Sanctorum Vitis), and both Palaeologus the Younger (A. D. 1328-1341). He
the Greek original and a Latin version by Petavius, was a man of varied accomplishments, as his works
professes to be written in great part during the life of show, and the eminence which he attained among
Epiphanius, by Joannes, a disciple of the Saint. his countrymen is evinced by his title of " Chief
Joannes, however, is represented as having died of the Philosophers." He wrote; 1.'E4yV7ats els
before the subject of his memoir, which was finished ir)v TroE OEoscpi-ov V6pLy-ya, Exegesis in Theocriti
by another person. The piece was rejected by the Syringem. This was first published by Henry
Bollandists as worthless. (Papebroche, in the Stephens in his smaller edition of TkieocritialiorumActa Sanctorum, Maii 12, vol. iii. p. 37.) que Poetarum Idyllia, 12mo., Paris, 1579: it is re58. Of EUCHAITA or EUCHAITAE or EUCHANIA, printed in Kiessling's edition of Theocritus, 8vo.,
a- city of Heleno-Pontus, which had received not Leipzig, 1819. 2. Scholia Graeca in Oppiani Halieulong before (i. e. in the time of the emperor Joannes ticas.DePiscibus. Harlesthinksthescholiapublished
Zimisces) the name of Theodoropolis; it was not by Conrad Rittershusius with his edition of Oppian,
far from Amasia. Joannes was archbishop of Eu- 8vo., Leyden, 1597, are those of Joannes Galenus.
chaita (M4rTporoA(T1's EXa'XTwv), and lived in the 3. IHi0os, Desiderium, a short iambic poem in two
time of the emperor Constantine X. Monomachus'parts, respectively entitled nepl -yvvatcks iKacsr,
(A. r. 1042-1054), but nothing further is known De Muliere gnala, and nIepl yvvaacs daTaOrs, De
of him. He was surnamed MAUROPUS, Mavp$7rovs, Muliere bona. These verses were first published
i.e. "Blackfoot." by Lucas Holstenius in his edition of Demophili,
He wrote a number of iambic poems, sermons, kc. Sententiae Morales, 12mo., Rome, 1638; and
and letters. A volume of his poems was published were reprinted by Gale in his Opuscula Mytlologica,
by Matthew Bust, 4to., Eton, 1610: the poems Eihica, Physica, 8vo., Cambr. 1671; and by Faoccupy only about 73 pp. small 4to., and were pro- bricius in his Bibl. Gr. vol. xiii. p. 576, ed. vet.
bably written on occasion of the church festivals, It is from the title of these verses that Joannes is
as they are commemorative of the incidents of the thought to derive his surname of Pothus. 4. IIpl
life of Christ, or of the Saints. An Oficiurm, or TWOv 8dKEca aOAP TOO'HpaKcAovs, De Duodecihn
ritual service, composed by him, and containing Labores Herculis. This piece was printed by
three Canones or hymns, is given by Nicolaus Ray- Allatius in his Excerpta Varia Graecorum Sophisaeus in his dissertation De Acolouthia Ofticii Ca- tarum, 8vo., Rome, 1641. He'gave it as the work
nonici, prefixed to the Acta Sanctorunz, Junii, vol. of an anonymous author; but Fabricius thinks it
ii. Joannes wrote also Vita S. Dorothei Junioris, may be a work of Joannes Galenus, "forte Pegiven in the Acta Sanctorum, Junii, vol. i. p. 605, diasimi" (Bibl. Cr. vol. vi. p. 54). Joannes'
&c. Various Sermons for the Church Festivals, other works are still in MS.: they consist, I. of
and other works of his, are extant in MS. (Fabric. commentaries and expositions of the Greek poets,
Bibl. Gr. vol. viii. pp. 309, 627, &c., vol. x. pp. 221, as, 5. Allegoria Anagogica, in quatuorprimos ver226, vol. xi. p. 79; Cave, Hist. Lift. vol. ii. p. sus Lib. IV. Iliados. 6. Els r~-'Ho' (bou 0eoyo139; Oudin, De Scriptor. et Scriptis,ccles. vol. ii. ii. av dAiyoptfa, Interpretatio Allegor-ica in Hesiodi
col. 606; Acta Sanctorum, 11. cc.; Bust, Carmina Theogoniam. 7. TeXvoAoyfa sis Tr)l TOO~'Ho'bdou
Joannis Euchaitensis.) derriga, Commentarius Grammaticus in Hesiodi Scu59. EUGvENIC.s. This name is sometimes given turn. 8. Allegoria Tantali. 9. He wrote also a
to Joannes the Deacon and Rhetorician. [See above work on the science of allegorical interpretation,
No. 51.] De triplii Ratione Allegoriae Fabularum Poeticarum,
60. EUGENICUS (Ev'yeYucoS) was deacon and so. Physica, Etlhica, Theologica. II. Philosophical
nomophylax of the great church at Constanti- and scientific works. 10. Exegeses in quosdaW4
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