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614 JOSEPHUS. I'OTAPIANUS.
St. Jerome (Praef. ad Lib. XI. Cormmn. ad the author of that work. This alphabetic Synopsis
Esaiam) speaks of a work of one Josephus on Da- appears to have been first compiled about A. D.
niel's vision of the seventy weeks; but whether he 969, and to have undergone considerable alterais referring to the subject of the present article is tions in successive editions, which are extant in
doubtful. manuscript in various libraries. (Zachariae, Hist.
At the endof hisArchaeologia,Josephus mentions Jur. Gr. Rom. Delin. ~ 39.) A wretchedly mutihis intention of writing a work in four books on lated edition, with a Latin translation (fol. Basil.
the Jewish notions of God and his essence, and on 1575), was published by Leunclavius, who departs
the rationale of the Mosaic laws. It is uncertain from the alphabetic order of the original, in an illwhether he ever accomplished this. At any rate, considered attempt to re-arrange the materials it
it has not come down to us. He promises also in contains, according to the order of the Basilica.
the same place a life of himself (which has been C. Labbaeus afterwards published Emendationes et
noticed above), and a revision of his history of the Observationes ad Synopsim Basilicorum, 8vo. Paris,
Jewish war. (See Whiston's note, Ant. adfin.; 1606.
Fabr. Bibl. Graec. vol. v. p. 9.) The work which Ant. Augustinus really referred
Josephus first appeared in print in a Latin to, as probably composed by Josephus of Tenedos,
translation, with no notice of the place or date of'was the Ta IIcpbV KaCra o0roiXeOs (as it is called
publication: the edition seems to have contained by Harmenopulus, ~ 49) or Synopsis Minor Basilionly a portion of the Antiquities. These, with the corum, which some have attributed to Docimus or
seven books of the Jewish war, were agaiu printed Docimius [DocIMus]. It is from this work that
by Schiisler, Augsb. 1470, in Latin; and there the extracts are borrowed, which Augustinus, in
were many editions in the same language of the his Paratitla on the Greek Constitutions, speaks of
whole works, and of portions of them, before the as taken from Tenedius.
editio princeps of the Greek text appeared at Basel, What reason the very learned Augustinus may
1544, edited by Arlenius. Another edition of the have had for attributing to Josephus Tenedius the
works, in Greek and Latin, was published by De authorship of the Synopsis Minor is now altogether
la Keviere, Aur. Allob. 1591, and reprinted at unknown. Josephus Tenedius is inserted in the
Geneva in 1611, and again, very badly, in 1635. index of authors (p. 65) contained in the GlosThe edition of Ittigius was printed by Weidmann, sarium ad Scriptores M[ediae et Infimae Graecitatis
Leipzig, 1691, with Aristeas's history of the Sep- of Ducange, where he is classed among anonytuagint annexed to it. The treatise on the Mac- mous Greek authors. (Zachariae, Al'Posrat, p. 63;
cabees was edited, with a Latin translation, by Mortreueil, Histoire du Droit Byzantin, pp. 450,
Combefis, in his Auctarium Bibl. Patr., Paris, 451.) [J. T. G.]
1672, and by Lloyd, Oxford, 1690. The invaluable IOTAPE ('Icw~7rl). 1. A daughter of Artabut posthumous edition by Hudson of the whole vasdes, king of Media, was married to Alexander,
works, in Greek and Latin, came out at Oxford in the son of Antony, the triumvir, after the Arme1720. The Latin version was new; the text was nian campaign in B. c. 34. Antony gave to Artafounded on a most careful and extensive collation vasdes the part of Armenia which he had conof MSS., and the edition was further enriched by quered. [ARTAVASDES, p. 370, b.] After the
notes and indices. Havercamp's edition, Amst. battle of Actium lotape was restored to her father
1726, is more convenient for the reader than cre- by Octavianus. (Dion Cass. xlix. 40, 44, 1. 16.)
ditable to the editor. That of Oberthiir, in 3 vols. 2. Wife of Antiochus IV., King of Commagene,
8vo., Leipzig, 1782-1785, contains only the [ANTIOCHUS, p. 194.] In the annexed coin she
Greek text, most carefully edited, and the edition is called BAYIAI:A InTAIIH,IAAAEAOZ:
remains unfortunately incomplete. Another was from the latter epithet we may infer that she was
edited by Richter, Leipzig, 1826, as part of a Bib- the sister as well as wife of Antiochus, of which
liotheca Patrum; and one by Dindorf has recently we find few examples among the Greek kings of
appeared at Paris, 1845. Syria, though the practice was very common
There have been numerous translations of Jo- among those of Egypt. lotape had a daughter of
sephus into different languages. The principal the same name, who was marrried to Alexander of
English versions are those of Lodge, Lond. 1602?; the race of Herod. The reverse of the coin is the
one from the French of D'Andilly, Oxford; 1676, one which we commonly find on the coins of the
reprinted at London 1683; that of L'Estrange, kings of Commagene. [See vol. I. p. 194, b.]
Lond. 1702; and that of Whiston, Lond. 1737. (Eckhel, vol. iii. pp. 257, 258.)
The two last-mentioned versions have been frequently reprinted in various shapes. [E. E.]
JOSE'PHUS, TENE'DIUS. Though this
name occurs in the modern catalogues of GraecoRoman jurists, the existence of such a jurist may
well be doubted. He is mentioned by Ant. Au- " 25 J _
gustinus (in the commencement of his Constitutionum Graecarum Collectio, 8vo. Ilerdae, 1567) as
a person to whom had been attributed the authorship of a IlpdXELpov Baco'AIKwCv KaT 0rotoXFLov,
"Prochiron incerti, ordine literarum, sive Josephi GOIN OF IOTAPE.
Tenedii." By this title, Suarez (Notit. Basil. ~ 8), IOTAPIA'NUS. We are told by Zosimus
P. Pithou (Observ. ad Codicem, fol., Par., 1687, that a rebellion having broken out in Syria, in
p.- 43), and Francois Payen (Prodromus Justini- consequence of the intolerable oppression of Prisanus, p. 539), understand Augustinus to designate cus, who had been appointed governor of'the East
the Synopsis Basilicorum Major; and accordingly by his brother, the emperor Philip, the purple was
1P. Pithou and F. Payen make Josephus Tenedius assumed by a certain Iotapianus, who claimed de