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

1074 THEODOTTTS. THEOGNETUS.
The above are the only persons of this name, preserved by Festus (s. v. Penern antiqtui cocdani
who appeared of sufficient importance to be noticed vocabant, p. 250, ed. MUller, p. 204, ed. Lindehere;but there are several others of less conse- mann): —
quence, a list of whom is given by Fabricius, Bibl.
"Theodotum appellas, qui aras Compitalibus
(Graec. vol. x. pp. 513, 515. [(P. S.] Sedens in cella circumtectus tegetibus
THEO'DOTUS (OE05dbros), the name of an Lares ludentes peni pinxit bubulo."
oculist, who must have lived in or before the first
century after Christ, as he is quoted by Celsus (vi. These verses describe a rude picture of the Lares
6, p. 119). at play, painted on an altar at the meeting of two
2. A physician of Athens in the second century streets, with a rude instrument, a brush made from
after Christ, mentioned several times as a contem- the tail of an ox. The painting must, therefore,
porary by Aristides in his Sesuniones Sacri. have resembled the daubs which are seen on the.3. A physician, who afterwards succeeded Ste- outer walls of the houses in Pompeii and Herculaphanus as bishop of Laodicea in Syria, in the early nem, and those to which Juvenal refers in the
part of the fourth century after Christ. He is line (Sat. viii. 157): —
highly praised by Eusebius (Ilist. Eccles. vii. 32), " Eponam et facies olida ad praesepia pictas;"
who dedicated to him his Praeparatio Evangelica; and the artist may be classed with those painters
but he appears to have embraced the Arian heresy, d the artist may be classed with those ainters
and to have been one of the most active of the of vulgar subjects whom the Greeks called pvrrapoArian bishops. He excommunicated Apollinaris, ypcpor or pc7roypadpo, or with our sign painters.
both father and son, on account of their intimacy (See PYREIcus, and Dct. of Antiq. s. v. Pictura,
with the heathen sophist Epiphanius [EPIPHANIUS. 912, a. 2 e. R. Rohette, etre a. S
~ 10, p.40]; and is said to have been instrumenta pp. 416, 417; and, especially, the full discussion
in deposing Eustathius, bishop of Antioch. [ EUSTA- of this comparatively unnoticed fragment of Naevius,
THIUS,~ I,p.119]. He held the see of Laodicea for by Panofka, in the Rhein. Mzus. for 1846, vol. iv.
about thirty years, and was succeeded by Georgius pp. 133-138: there is no ground for Botle's
[GEORGIUS, ~ 29, p. 251]. His name is inserted alteration of the painter's name to Theodoby some of the Martyrologies under the date of rus.) [P. S.]
Nov. 2, from which it has been copied by Bzovius THEODUNUS, the name given by Pococke (in
(lomoenclator Sanctor. Professione Medicor.) and his Latin Version of Abfi-l-Faraj, Hist. Dynast. p.
C. B. Carpzov (De Medicis ab Ecclesia pro Sanctis 128) toGreekphysicianintheerviceofHajj Ib
Ydsuf, the general of the chalif'Abdu-l-Malek Ibis
chabitis); but this appears to be by mistake, and his Ysuf the general of the chalif Abdu
name will probably be omitted in the "Acta Sanc- Merwan, in the seventh century after Christ. He
torum " when the volumes for November appear. is called in Arabic which Wiistenfeld
For a further account of this matter the reader may
consult Usuardi Jliartyrol. ed. Soller.; Valesilis, renders Thleodun (Gesch. der Arab. Aerzte, p. 9),
De Mlartyrol. Ronm. in his Annotationes in Euseb. but neither T]heodun nor Tlheodunus seems to be a
Hlist. Eccles. p. 317; Baronii Annal. Eccles. vol. genuine Greek name. He left behind him a sort
iv.; Tillemont, Hist. Eccles. vol. vi. [W. A. G.] of medical compendium which he compiled for the
THEO'DOTUS, artists. 1. A medallist, whose use of his son, and which is probably not extant
name is found on some very interesting coins of in any European library. One of the anecdotes
Clazomenae, which have been recently discovered. told by Ibn Abi Osaibi'ah of Theodocus is by
They are of silver, of a small size, and of extremely Abui-l-Faraj referred to Theodunus. [W. A. G.]
beautiful workmanship, bearing ahead of Apollo on THEO'GENES (OseoyE'Vs). 1. An Athenian,
the obverse, with the words in minute characters, in who, in B. C. 425, was appointed together with
two lines, by the side of the head, ~EOaOTO5 Cleon to repair to Pylos, and investigate the truth
EIOIEI. Their discovery was first published by of the tidings, which had been brought thence, as.Abeken, in the Bullet. dell' Instit. Archeol. for 1839, to the difficulties of the blockade of Sphacteria.
Nos 8 and 9, pp. 137,138, and they afterwards came Cleon, however, prudently persuaded the people to
into the possession of the Due de Luynes, by whom abandon the proposed inquiry. (Thuc. iv. 27)
they were again published in the NAouv. Annal. de [CLEON.] It is possible that this Theogenes
I'Instit. Archiol., pl. xxxv. Nos. 25, 26. In style should be identified with the person who is menand type they are closely similar to the medals of tioned by Aristophanes (Vesp. 1183), and who, the
Mausolus II. prince of Caria, and there can be no scholiast tells us, was an Acharnian (Arnold,
doubt that they belong to the same age, namely ad ThIzu. 1. c.). A man of the same name is satithe middle of the fourth century B. c. They rized also by Aristophanes (Pacr, 894) for his
are valuable as affording one among other proofs swinish propensities. (See also Arist. Av. 822,
of the fact, which has been contested, that medallists 1127, 1295, Lys. 63, with the Scholia.)
were sometimes permitted to inscribe their names 2. One of the Athenian ambassadors who set
upon coins executed by them. For this reason, forth on their way to Dareius Nothus, in B. c. 408,
and on account of their great beauty, M. Raoul- under promise of a safe conduct from Pharnabazus.
Rochette pronounces the opinion that they "ought The satrap however detained them in custody at the
to be ranked among the most precious archaeological instance of Cyrus, and he could not obtain leave to
discoveries of our age." (R. Rochette, Lettre a' release them till after the lapse of three years. (Xen.
M. Schorn, pp. 73, 97, 98, 2d edition. An en- Hell. i. 3. ~~ 8, 9, 13, 4. ~~ 6, 7; Plut.Alc. 31.)
graving of the best preserved of these medals is [PHARNABAZUS.] Whether this was the same
given on the title-page of R. Rochette's work, Theogenes who was appointed one of the 30 tyrants
Vignette 3.) in B. C. 404 (Xen. Hell. ii. 3. ~ 2) we have no
2. A Greek painter, lived at Rome in the time means of deciding. [E. E.]
of Naevius, who mentions him in the following THEOGNE'TUS (OesyVroTs), an athlete of
lines of his comedy entitled Tunicularia, which are Aegina, who is recorded as having gained the