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No. 4], who is thought to have lived in the first raclcotae TEpositio in Psalmos), and,consequently
century after Christ, he must be placed in or before published it as his. Lambecius, Cave, and Fabrithat time. (Fabric. Biblioth. Graec. vol. x. p. 395.) cius, joined Corderius in ascribing it to Theodore;
40. GRAPTUS. [GRAPTUS.] but the identity of many parts of this commentary
41. Afterwards GREGORIUS THAUMATURGUS. with that of Basil of Caesareia led Garnier to
[GREGRITJS THAUMATURGUS.] doubt whether it was correctlyascribed to Theodore;
42. Of HERACLEIA. Theodore, one of the and, on further examination, it was found to be a
leaders of the Arian party under Constantine the compilation from various fathers, from Origen and
Great and Constantins, was a native of Heracleia Didymus downward. (Lambec. Commentar. de Bib(anciently Perinthus), on the Propontis, and bishop lioth. Caesaraea, vol. iii. col. 56, &c., ed. Kollar,
of the Church there. He advocated the Arian especially Kollar's note on col. 59; Fabric. Bibdoctrine while yet a presbyter, and was raised to lioth. Graec. vol. viii. p. 652, vol. ix. pp. 20, 319,
the episcopate by the favour of the Arian party. alibi; Cave, Hist. Litt. ad ann. 334, vol. i. p. 202;
(Athanas. Ad Episcopos Aeqypti et Libyae, c. 7, Tillemont, Mimoires, vol. vi. passim; Oudin,
Opp. vol. i. p. 277, ed. Montfaucon.) H-le is men- Coominentarius de Scriptoribus Eccles. vol. i. col.
tioned by Theodoret (H. E. i. 28), as one of those 319.) [J. C. M.]
who persuaded Constantine to summon the Council 43. Of HERMOPOLTS, a Greek jurist. See below.
of Caesareia in Palestine, which was, however, 44. HYMNOGRAPHUS. [STUDITA.]
countermanded. [ATHANASIUS.] He was pro- 45. HYRTACENUS, a native probably not of
bably afterwards present at the Council of Tyre, Hyrtacus or Artacina in Crete, but of Artace,
A. D. 336; for he was one of the delegates sent by near Cyzicus, on the Propontis. He lived in the
that Council into Egypt, to investigate the charges time of the emperor Andronicus the elder, and
against Athanasius. (Theodoret. H. E. i. 30; occupied at Constantinople the office of superinAthanas. Apolog. contra Arianos, c. 13, p. 135.) tendent of the public teachers of rhetoric and belles
He was one of those who combined to raise Mace- lettres. Hie was well acquainted with the works
donius to the see of Constantinople. (Socrat. 11. E. of the ancient poets, as is abundantly testified by
ii. 12.) In A. D. 342 he was one of the delegates his extant writings, which are full of quotations
sent to convey to the emperor Constans the Con- from them, though these are not always of the
fession of Antioch. (Athanas. De Synod. c. 25; most appropriate kind. The diction of his -address
Socrat. HI. E. ii. 18.) He was one of the Eastern to the Virgin is a close imitation of the hymn of
bishops who, in A. D. 347, withdrew from the Callimachus to Diana; and in his panegyric on
Council of Sardica, and formed the rival Council of Saint Anna he has introduced the fable of Niobe.
Philippopolis; and was among those on whom the There are still extant by him ninety-three letters
Council of Sardica passed sentence of condemnation to different persons; a congratulatory address to
and deposition. (Socrat. H. E. ii. 20; Sozomen. the emperor Andronicus the elder, on his return to
H. E. iii. 11, &c.; Theodoret. H. E. ii. 7, 8; Constantinople; three funeral orations, one on the
Athanas. Apolog. contra Arianos, c. 36, Historia emperor Michael Palaeologus the younger, who
Arianor. c. 17; Hilar. Pictav. E Opere Historico died A. D. 1320, another on the empress Irene,
Fragment. iii. 29.) He nevertheless appears to the second wife of Andronicus the elder, and the
have retained his bishopric, the Council not being third on Nicephorus Chumnus, the historical value
able to carry into effect the sentence which they of which is greatly impaired by their rhetorical
had pronounced. He assisted at the Council of style. They contain a plentiful sprinkling of bibSirmium and the deposition of Photinus, A. D. 351. lical and Homeric passages. His panegyric on the
( Iilar. Pictav. ibid. vi. 7, col. 1337, ed. Benedictin.) Virgin Mary, his oratorical description of the garden
-He appears to have died about A. D. 355 (Fabric. of Saint Anna near Nazareth, and a panegyric on
Tillemont, ubi infri) or 358 (Cave, ubi infra). Aninas Thaumaturgus, are still in MS. His
After the development of the different sections of letters were published by Laporte du Theil, in the
the Arian party Theodore acted with the Eusebians Arotices et Eatraits des Alanuscrits de la Bibl. du
or Semi-Arians. In an ancient life of St. Par- Roi, vol. v. p. 709, &c., vol. vi. p. 1. The four orathenius of Lampsacus (apud Acta Sanctorum Fe- tions are printed in Boissonade's Anecdota Graeca,
bruar. a. d. vii. vol. ii. pp. 41, 42), there is a Latin vol. i. p. 248-292. (Fabric Bibl. Graec. vol. x.
version of a curious account of the sickness, recovery, p. 397; Scholl, Geschichte der Griech. Lit. vol. iii.
and subsequent death of Theodore (who, by an p. 151.)
obvious error of the translator, is called Hypatius); 46. JACOBITA. More than one dignitary of
in which account he is charged with avarice and the Jacobite sect or church bore this name. One
extortion; yet, singular to say, no hint of his was created bishop of Irta in A. D. 551. Another,
heresy is given. patriarch of the Jacobites, died A. D. 665. (AsseTheodore of Heracleia was a man of eminent mann. Bibl. Orient. vol, i. p. 167; Fabric. Bibl.Graec.
learning. He wrote, according to Theodoret (II. E. vol. x. p. 398.)
ii. 3), an exposition of the Gospels, Tov beiwv, 47. Bishop of ICONIUM, a letter by whom, on
ebayyeoioy, ~P1Cye',la, Expositio Sanctorum Evan- the martyrdom of St. Cericus and his mother Jugeliorum, and other writings which Theodoret does litta, was published by Combefisius. (Lect. Trinot specify. Jerome (De Viris Illustr. c. 90) more znnph. Martyr. Christi, Paris, 1660; Fabric. Bibl.
exactly ascribes to him Comnsentarii in Matthaeum Graec. vol. x. p. 398; Cave, Hist. Lit. vol. i. p. 534.)
et in Joannem et in Apostolum (i. e. on the Acts 48. LEcTo R. [No. 8.]
and Apostolic Epistles) et in Psalterium. Corderius 49. MALLIUS or MANLITMS, a contemporary of
published, with his Expositio (s. potius Catena) St. Augustin, who dedicated to him his work De
Patrunm Graecoruam in Psalmos, an exposition which Vita beata. He was consul in A. D. 399. A Latin
he had found ascribed in one MS. to Theodore of work by him (De Rerum Natura) is still extant,
Heracleia (~eoBsopov /ErLroK7crov'HpaitckefaS OprKjs though not published. A life of Theodorus, written
FpuvElsia dis To'bs %YaAxobs, Tleodori Episcopi He- by Albertus Rubenius, was published by Graevias