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604 JOANNES. IOCASTUTS.
4. ANTIOCHENUS and SCHOLASTICUS, from his were much referred to by subsequent compilers, as
native place Antioch, and the profession of ad- by Arsenius in his Synopsis Canonum. (Heimbach,
vocate, which he once exercised there (arod Anecdota, vol. ii. in Prolegomenis; Zachariae,
oaXoaanTaKwv). At a later period of his life he Hist. Jur. C(r. Rosr. Delin. ~ 22; Mortreueil,
entered into holy orders, and was ordained priest. Histoire du Droit Byzantin, vol. i. p. 201-211,
Ile was then named Apocrisiarius, agent or p. 288; BUcking, Institutionen, vol. i. p. 102,
cltarge d'ffaires of the church of Antioch at the 103.)
imperial court in Constantinople towards the end 5. NOMOPHYLAX. He is commonly called a
of the reign' of Justinian. In A. D. 565 he was scholiast on the Basilica, but was rather a jurist,
elevated to the vacant patriarchate of Constanti- whose Scholia are appended to that work. In
nople, and he died on the 31st of August, A. D. the heading of the Scholia taken from Joannes
578, in the 12th year of the reign of Justin the he is called, from his office, Joannes Nomophylax,
younger. (Theophanes, Clhronoqraphia, p. 203, fol. and sometimes cac' egoxklv, Nomophylax alone.
Par. 1655, Assemani, Bibl. Jur. Orient. vol. iii. p. In the Scholia (vol. ii. p. 549-648, vol. iii. p.
340-343.) 400, ed. Fabrot.) he appears to cite the text of the
Joannes published a collection of canons in 50 Basilica; and Assemani (Bibl. Jur. Orient. vol. ii.
titles. Assemani (vol. i. p. 114) thinks that it p. 415) believes him to have lived about A. D.
was published and prescribed by him as a rule to 1100, under Alexius Comnenus; while Suarez
the bishops of the patriarchate, after he was made (Notit. Basil. ~ 42) confounds him with Joannes
patriarch. In the preface to the work, however, Antiochenus. In his Scholia appended to the
he himself assumes no higher rank than presbyter. Basilica, he interprets passages in the Digest,
This collection is entitled Zvvayw) ic Kavvdwv the Code, and the Novells. (Schol. Basil. vol. ii.
es v' -'Aovr 8Lp1uev71, and is founded on the pp. 544, 558, 559, 587, vol. iii. pp. 360, 390, vol.
basis of a previous collection, which is attributed iv. pp. 658, 662.) Constantinus Nicaeus (who, in
by some manuscripts to Stephanus Ephesius. It Basil. vol. iii. p. 208, calls himself a disciple of
consists chiefly of decrees of early councils, and Stephanus) cites Joannes Nomophylax, with whom
letters of St. Basil. The:vvaywoys7 of Joannes he disagrees. (Basil. vol. ii. p. 549.) Joannes is
(which was one of the earliest compilations of the coupled with Dorotheus in Basil. vol. v. p. 410.
kind) enjoyed for some centuries great credit in In Basil. vol. iii. p. 360, and vol. ii. p. 587, we
the Oriental church, received from time to time cor- find him citing Athanasius and Theodorus Hermorections and additions, and was translated into polita. From these indications, we believe him to
several foreign languages. Assemani (vol. i. p. 60) have lived not long after the reign of Justinian,
cites the Syrian translation: Biener (de Collectio- and would explain his apparent citations of the
nibus Canonuen, p. 49) treats of the Sclavonic Basilica by supposing that his original citations of
translation; and Beveridge (Synodicon, p. 211) the Digest were subsequently adapted to the Basimentions an Egyptian collection of Abnalcassabi in lica-a charge which was frequently made, and
51 titles, resembling that of Joannes. The Zvv- which has occasioned much chronological difficulty.
ay-wy-s of Joannes is printed in Voelli et Justelli Many of the jurists, whose fragments appear apBibliotlweca Jur. Canon. vol. ii. p. 499-602. pended to the Basilica, have, for this reason, been
A collection of 87 chapters, intended as a sup- referred to too late an age. Thus, every circumplement to the former vvanywayo, was published stance tends to show that Constantinus Nicaeus,
(if we may credit the title to the work) by Joannes, who cites Joannes, lived before the compilation of
after he was in possession of the metropolitan the Basilica, if we except his supposed citations of
throne, and after the death of Justinian. It was the Basilica, and of the o-lTxeiov of Garidas.
published, therefore, between A. D. 565 and 578. (Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. xii. p. 447; Reiz. ad
As the former collection contained the rules of Tbleophilusn, p. 1236; Pohl, ad Snares. NVotit.
purely ecclesiastical origin (Kavo'ves), the present Basil. p. 138. n. f; Heimbach, de Orig. Basil.
was intended to comprehend the enactments of the p. 87.) [J. T. G.]
civil law (vduoL) relating to the affairs of the church, JOANNES ALEXANDRI'NUS, a physician
and was compiled from the Novells of Justinian. of Alexandria, who may be supposed to have lived in
Joannes makes abridged extracts from Novells the seventh or eighth century after Christ, and under
3, 5, 6, 32, 46, 56, 57, 83, 120, 123, 131, usually whose name are extant some commentaries on two
employing the words of the original text. works of the Hippocratic Collection. That on the
These 87 chapters have in several catalogues of sixth book De Mohbis Popularibulsis said to have been
manuscripts been wrongly attributed to Balsamo. translated from Greek into Arabic, and from thence
Some notices of their contents, and some extracts into Latin, in which language it is to be found, tofrom them, were given by Assemani (Bibl. Juar gether with Hlenain Ibnl Ishak (commonly called
Orient. vol. ii. p. 451-459): and Biener has by his Latinised name, Joannitius), and other
treated of them with his usual sagacity and learn- authors, in the edition of the collection called A.riilg. (Geschicte der Novellen, p. 167-173, p. 584 ticella, printed at Venice, 1483, fol., and in other
-597.) They were first printed at length by editions. His commentary on the De Natura PuHeimbach in 1840. (As2ecdota, vol. ii.) eri, which is imperfect, was first published in Greek
A Nomsocanon (combination of Kav&,es and v.uos) in the second vol. of Dietz's Sceool. ins Hippocr. et
in 50 titles, with a supplement of 21 chapters, was Gal. Regim. Pruss. 8vo. 1834. (See Fabric. Bibl.
subsequently compiled from the two works of Gr. vol. xii. pp. 687-88, ed. vet.) [W. A. G.]
Joannes. This compilation (printed in Voel. et IOBATES. [BELLEROPHON.]
Justell. Bibl. Jur. Canon. vol. ii. p. 603-672) has IOCASTE. [EPICASTE and OEDIPUS.]
been wrongly attributed to Joannes himself. The IOCASTUS ('IocKanoTos), a son of Aeolus, king
author of it is uncertain, but it was probably cornm- on the coast of Italy in the district of Rhegiusm.
posed by Theodoretus, bishop of Cyrrhus (now (Diod. v. 8; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 732; Callim.
Khoros, in Syria). The 87 chapters of Joaliles Fraagn. 202, ed. Bentley.) [L. S.]