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his cause there in person. Simplicius, with the yeL tre s' a3rTov~ atv&TWv, Hymnus ad Deem et
usual papal jealousy of the patriarchs of Con- ad gloriosum Demetrium curn particulari narratione
stantinople, took the side of Joannes against Aca- miraculorum ejus, is given by Comb6fis in the Paris
cius and Zeno, the latter of whom replied that edition of the Byzantine writers, among theSSeiptores
Joannes had been expelled for perjury, and for post Thleophanem, p. 314, &c., and is described as the
that alone; but neither the exertions of Simplicius work of Joannes, archbishop of Thessalonica, whom
nor those of his successor Felix, could obtain the Combdfis apparently confounds with the subject of
restoration of the banished patriarch. Joannes the preceding article, and erroneously places in the
after a time accepted from Felix the bishopric of reign of the emperors Justinian I. -and Maurice.
Nola in Campania, where he lived many years, Comb6fis (whom Cave follows) is, however, maniand at last died peaceably. festly in error, for the extract itself refers to the
Joannes (whom Theophanes extols for his piety capture of the city " many years before" by "the
and orthodoxy) wrote a work, npds rexdaoov rdv children of the handmaid, that is, Hagar," " in the'PcJ6/ls dcroXoyta, Ad Gelasium Papam Apologia, reign of Leo." This can hardly be any other capin which he anathematized Pelagianism, as well as ture than that by the Saracens of Tripoli, in the
its defenders Pelagius and Celestius, and their suc- reign of Leo VI. (Sapiens or Philosophus) A. D.
cessor Julianus. The work which is noticed by 904, and consequently the Joannes of Thessalonica
Photius is not extant. (Victor Tununensis, Chro- from whom the'extract is taken could not have
nicon; Liberatus Diaconus, Breviarium Caussae lived earlier than the tenth century, and must
Nesterianor. et Eutyckianor., capp. 16-18 (apud therefore be a different person from the author of
Galland. Biblioth. Patrum, vol. xii. p. 146, &c.); the preceding article. Gallandius reprints the
Evagrius, H.E. iii. 12, 13, 15, 18, 20, cum notis extract with the works of the preceding (Bibl.
Valesii; Theophanes, Chronographia; pp. 110-113, Patrum, vol. xiii. p. 195), but intimates in his
ed. Paris, pp. 88-90, ed. Venice, pp. 199-204, Prolegomena, c. iv., that it can hardly be by the
ed. Bonn; Photius, Biblioth. cod. 54, sub fin.; same author. It is not given in the Bonn reprint
Tillemont, Memoires, vol. xvi.; Cave, Hist. Litt. of the Byzantine writers. It is probable that
vol. i. p. 455.) Comb~fis, by confounding the work of Joannes with
116. Of THESSALONICA (1). Joannes, arch- an anonymous account of a deliverance of Thessabishop of Thessalonica, was a stout defender of the lonica, through the miraculous interposition of Demeorthodox faith against the Monothelites of the trius, when besieged by barbarians, probably Avars,
seventh century. He attended as papal legate the in the reign of the emperor Maurice, was led into
third Constantinopolitan (sixth oecumenical) coun- error. (Gallandius, ll. cc.; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. i. p.
cil (A. D. 680), and in that character subscribed 597; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. vii. p. 683, vol. x. pp.
the Acta of the council. (Coneilia, vol. vi. col. 1058, 218, 219; Allatius, de Symeonum Sriptis, p. 97.)
ed. Labbe; vol. iii. col. 1425, ed. Hardouin; vol. 118. Of THESSALONICA (3). [CAMENIATA.]
xi. col. 639, ed. Mansi.) The time of his death is 119. Of THESSALONICA (4). [ANAGNOSTES.]
altogether Lncertain. He wrote: 1. E's ras svpo- 120. TZETZES. [TZETZES.]
40 0pour oyupaLcar, In Malieres ferentes Unguenta, a 121. VEccUS or BEccvs. [VEccus.]
discourse or treatise in which his object is to. show 122. XIPHILINUS (1). Patriarch of Constantithat there is no contradiction in the several accounts nople. [XIPHILINUS, 1.]
of the resurrection of Christ given by the four Evan- 123. XIPHILINUS (2). [XIPHILINUS, 2.]
gelists. This piece appears to have been regarded 124. ZONARAS. [ZONARAS.] [J. C. M.]
by some as a work of Chrysostom, and was first JOANNES, jurists. 1. COMES SACRARlI, under
published (but from a mutilated and corrupt text) Theodosius the younger, was one of the nine comby Savile in his edition of Chrysostom (vol. v. p. missioners appointed by that emperor in A. D. 429
740, fol. Eton. 1610, &c.), though with an expres- to compile codes of law upon a plan which was
sion of doubt as to its genuineness. It was sub- subsequently abandoned. He was not, however,
sequently printed more correctly in the Novum afterwards employed in compiling the Theodosian
Auctarium of Combefis (vol. i. fol. Paris, 1648), code, of which a great part is still extant. [DIoand by him assigned to the right author. It is DORUS, Vol. I. p. 1018.]
given in a mutilated form in Montfaucon's edition 2. Was at the head of the first commission of
of Chrysostom, among the Spuria, vol. viii. p. 159, ten appointed by Justinian in A. D. 528 to compile
fol. Paris, 1718, &c., or vol. viii. p. 816 of the 8vo. re- the ConstitutionunB Coder. In Const. Haec quae
print, Paris, 1839. It is alsogiven in the Bibliotheca necessario, ~ 4, and Const. Summa Reipublicae,
Patrum of Gallandius, vol. xiii. p. 185, &c. A Latin ~ 2, he is designated by the title " Vir excellenversion is given in the Biblioth. Pat}rum, vol. xii. tissimus ex-quaestore sacri palatii, consularis atque
Lyon, 1677. 2. A&oyos, Oratio, of which a con- patricius." In the subsequent revision of the code
siderable extract was read by Nicolaus, bishop of he had no part, though a person of the same name
Cyzicus at the second Nicene (seventh oecumenical) was one of the second commission of five.
council, and is printed in the Concilia (vol. vii. col. 3. An advocate in the courts of the praefecti'
353, ed. Labbe, vol. iv. col. 292, ed. Hardouin, vol. praetoriorum at Constantinople, was one of thexiii. col. 163, ed. Mansi), and by Gallandius in his commission of sixteen, headed by Tribonian, who.
Bibliotheca Patrum (vol. xiii. p. 196). (Gallan- were employed by Justinian (A. D. 530-533) ta
dius, II. cc.; Concilia, 1. cc.; Cave, Hist. Lilt. vol. compile the Digest. (Const. Tanta, ~ 9, Const.
i. p. 597; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. x. p. 250.) Aeswoice, ~ 9.) He is a different person from the
117. Of THESSALONICA (2), the younger. A Joannes who was at the head of the commission
fragment of a discourse which was entitled A' rov appointed to compile the first Constitutionu7n Codes;
d6Aodopoov AtL1nrplov eV - Pu nE~ rpol e Oavpa- but it appears from Const. Cordi, ~ 2, that he was
-ovp-y~,la, Trinumphalis Martsyris Demetrii sigillatisn one of the commission of five, headed by Tribonian,
iarrata Miracula,. or "Tivos sis Eldv Kal eis Tdv who drew up the repetita praelectio codicis, which
ravsv6o.,v daAopopov Axt7 pmo erp' pYepIsej 8s7- wae'published in.A. D. 534.