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

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pears to have contemplated a series of such pro- which contain apparently the older edition of Isaac,
ductions, of which this was only the AAxa. Va- others the improved edition of Joannes, the adrious appendices or scholia to it, and a collection of ditions exhibiting not only the learning, but the
107 prose epistles are yet unpublished. The first arrogant self-complacency of Joannes. The latter
edition of this work was published by Gerbelius in moreover does tell us that his brother Isaac wrote
1546. The best edition is that of Kiessling (Lips. a commentary on Lycophron (Schol. ad tesiol.
1826), though much still requires correction and Proleg. Kal r, HE/W 3E &aeAJp) iec7re7r&dvu', \LV
supplementation (see Struve, Ueber den politiseAen K&cAdXA7a Kal pLXoru6'Tera'a'repi'ro-orv cE T'r,'o
Vets ider Miltelyrieclen, 1828, and in the Krit. AvK cpdpoVos IV'1yUeL; comp. C0il. viii. 486). The
Biblioth. 1827, 3. p. 241, &c.; comp. Diibner, in commentary is printed in several of the editions oft
the Rhein. laus. iv. 1). Some insignificant scholia Lycophron, as in that printed at Basel, 1546; ill
on the Chiliades by Tzetzes are published in Cra- those of Canter (Basel, 1566), Stephanus (1601),
mer's Aecdlota. Oxon. (iii. 350, &c.). 3. An Potter (Oxon. 1697), Owen (Oxon. 1702), Seiambic poem on the education of children is printed bastiani (Rome, 1803). The best edition of the
in the editions of the Chiliades. 4. A series of commentary, without the text of Lycophron, is
mythical and epic narratives, in 777 political lines, that by Miiller (Leipzig, 1811). [C. P. M.]
entitled eeo-yovla, was discovered by Immanuel Bekker, and published in the Ablusndlungen der Preussischen Akadenzie, 1840. 5. A versified treatise U. V.
7repl ~teTrpcv, and another crepi a&ampopas 7rolrjrcV,
(Cramer, Anect. Oxon. iv. 302, &c.; Welcker, VABALATHUS. Vopiscus, in his life of Alnlheib. l_3us. iv. 393, &c.; Meineke, Corn. Gr. ii. relian (c. 33), asserts that Zenobia assumed the
p. 1245-1254, v. p. 3). 6. An equally worthless purple as regent for her son Balbatus (al. leg.
poem or collection of verses, crepl rIlvSapLKCov Babeloatus), and not in the name of Herennianus
/sdETpvWI (Cramer, Aneecd. Paris. i. 59-162). 7. and Tinmolaus, which is the statement of Trebellius
Some versified scholia on HIerinogenes (Cramer, Pollio (Triq. Tyrann. xxix.). It is certain that
Aznecd. Olon. iv. p. 1-148). 8. Lines 7repl prV/d- we find no trace of either Herennianus or Timolaus
TWY, aVbu7roTdcrKr, (Bekker, Anecd. vol. iii. p. on medals, while a few are extant, both Greek
1088-1090). 9. An ed~?VyoLfcs on the Iliad of and Roman, which exhibit IMP. C. VABALAT'HUS
Homer; published by G. Hermann, together with AUG. or ATT.OYABAAAA~OOC.CEB. with the
the work of Draco of Stratonicea, on metres (Leip- effigy and titles of Aurelian on the reverse. But
zig, 1812). 10. Scholia on flesiod, printed in the several of these bear words or characters, in addieditions of HIesiod by Trincavelli (Venice, 1537), tion to those given above, which have proved a
and Ileinsius (Leyden, 1603). source of much embarrassment. Thus, on one we
Of the unpublished works of Joannes Tzetzes, find VABALATHUS. VCRIMDR., abbreviations to
the most considerable is: 1. The Homeric Alle- which no archaeologist has been able to supply a
gories (67roOeo-Ls roS'OUini)ov &XAkh. yopIOesoa, or satisfactory interpretation; on others,
/TerTappaois'O/u.pov), consisting of some 6000 po- ATT.CPnIAC.OTABAAAAOC.A0HNOT. or,
litical lines. Tzetzes mentions this work in the A.CPIAC.OTABAAAA~OC.AOHNT. or,
Chiliades (v. 7, 776, ix. 282, &c.). Besides this ATT.K.OTABAAAA~OC.AOHNO. CEB,
there are, 2. Scholia on the l-alieutica of Oppian. in which AOHNOT, &c., is supposed to stand for
3. Ex7oesitio Iosqyqes, sesi Libri de V. Vocibus Por-'A0vwo3wpov vieos, while Sroias or Srias may be a
phyr-ii, in political verses. 4. Aul epitome of the sort of praenomen. Finally, there is a rare coin
rhetoric of Hernlogenes, in political verses. 5. Ao- displaying on the obverse two laurelled heads, one
ytostcwv Qi3Aos (coimp. C/li. xi. 361). ~6. A col- of a bearded man, the other of a smooth-faced boy,
lection of 107 letters (see above). 7. A treatise on with the legend ATPHAIANOC.AO~HNOAIPOC.
the Canon of Ptolemy. 8. Various short pieces, It would be tedious and unprofitable to enumerate
epigrams, &c. For an account of the mlanuscripts the various theories proposed to solve the problems
in which these are found the reader is referred to suggested by these pieces. The only conclusionl we
Fabricius, Bibl. Cr. vol. xi. p. 215, &c., coimp. i. can safely form is, that Sroias, Vabahdttus, and
403, &c. vi. 352. (Sch11ll, Gescsicstle der Grieclh. At/enodorus were princes of Palmyra, connected
Litteratur, vol. iii. p. 84, &c.; Bernhardy, Grun- with Odenathus and Zenobia, but ill what relation
driss der Griec/ischen Littecatur, vol. ii. p. 1070.) they stood to them and to each other. has never
2. ISAAC ('Ia-dKcos TCEr@5js), brother of the been determined. [W. R.]
precediilg, is named in the manuscripts as the
author of the commentary on the Cassandra of Lycophronl. It appears however from passages in his ~$~,
works, that Joannes Tzetzes claimed it as his production (C/il. ix. hist. 298; comp. Schol. ad Lycopshr. 83). The same claim is made in a letter of
Joannes Tzetzes to the Protonotarius Basilius
Achridenuls, printed in Fabricius, vol. iii. p. 753,
and in Kidster's Suidas, s. v. AvscodppvW. In Ch/il.
viii. hist. 204, Joannes says that some other gram- COIN OF VABALATHUS.
marian attempted to set up a claim to be the author VACCA, FLAMI'NIUS, a Roman sculptor,
of the commentary, but was speedily detected. of whom all that is known is contained in the
The last editor, J. C. Miiller, is of opinion that following inscription: D. o. M. FLAMINIO VACCAE
Isaac Tzetzes first published a commenta!ry on Ly- SCULPTORI ROMANO QUI IN OPERIBUS QUAE
cophron, and that Joannes Tzetzes subsequently FECIT NUNQUAM SiBT SATISFECIT. (Montfaucon,
published an enlarged and improved edition of it. Diar. Ital. p. 105; Welcker, RMein. Alus. 1848.
Of this he finds traces in the nmanuscripts, some of vol. vi. p. 383.) [P. S.]
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