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136 PATRICIUS. PATRICIUS.
tion to Aspar's influence. Leo and Aspar had against the Persian king Cubades. (Cliron.
been estranged from each other; but a recon- J'aschal. vol. i. p. 323, ed. Paris, p. 596, ed.
ciliation having been effected between them, it Bonn; Theophanes, C/lronoq. p. 101, ed. Paris,
was agreed that Patricius should receive the hand pp. 181, 182, ed. Bonn; Mfarcellin. Cassiodor.Victor
of one of Leo's daughters. Nicephorus Callisti Tunet. Cilronica; Zonaras, Annal. xiv. I; Cedrcsays he was to marry Ariadne, the elder of the nus, Colnpenal. p. 350, ed. Paris, vol. i. p. 613, ed.
two; but it was more probably Leontia, the Bonn; Candidus, apud Phot. Bibl. Cod. 79;
younger, as Ariadne appears to have been already Niceph. Callist. Hist. Eccles. xv. 27; Valesius,
married to Zeno, afterwards emperor [ZENo]. It Rermn Francic. lib. v. vol. i. p. 213, ed. Paris
was also stipulated that Patricius should be raised 1646, &c.; Tillemont, Hist. des E,2p. vol. vi,
to the rank of Caesar. As this would have been p.413, &c.) [J. C. M.]
equivalent to pointing him out as Leo's successor PATRI'CIUS (IIarpLKcos), literary. 1. ARARon the throne, and as Patricius held the Arian sirs. [AARsIvsUS.]
principles of his father and family, the arrangement 2. CHRISTOPHORUS. [CIIRISTOPHORUS.]
was vehemently opposed by the orthodox clergy, 3. Of MYTILENE. [CHRISTOPHORUus.]
monks, and populace of ConstantinopDle, who re- 4. MONACHUS. [NO. 8.]
quired that the arrangement should be set aside, 5. PELAGIUS. According to Zonaras (Annales,
or, at least, that Patricius should make profession lib. xiii. c. 23, vol. ii. p. 44, ed. Paris, p. 35, ed.
of orthodoxy as the price of his elevation. Leo Venice) the tIoeero-Centra, or Ilo)mero-Cedtrones,
appeased the malcontents by promising that their'OpSUrlp'mvtp( a e Ka KIrTPWves, composed by the
request should be complied with. Whether Pa- Empress Eudocia, wife of the younger Theodosins
tricius renounced Arianism is not stated; but lihe [EUDocIA, No. 1], had been begun but left unreceived the title of Caesar, and was either married, finished by a certain Patricius, or, for the expresor, as Tillemont thinks, only affianced to the em- sion (Ilarpic/ouv Twos) is ambiguous, by a certain
peror's daughter. He soon after set out in great Patrician. If a MS. noticed below is right in
state for Alexandria; but he must soon have re- terming him Sacerdos, Patricius must be underturned, as he was at Constantinople when Leo stood as a name, not as a title. Cedrenus (p. 354,
determined oH the removal of Aspar and his sons ed. Paris, 621, ed. Bonn) ascribes the Honetroby assassination. Aspar, and Ardaburius, his C'entra to a certain Pelagius Patricius, or (for
eldest son, fell, and most writers state that Pa- there is the same ambiguity as in Zonaras), " Pelatricius was murdered also; but according to the gius the Patrician" (Inedayov rdv rIa-p1KLorv),
more ancient, circumstantial, and, on the whole, who was put to death by the Emperor Zeno. If
more trustworthy narrative of Candidus, Patricius we understand Zonaras to say that Patricius left
escaped, though not without many wounds. Ac- the Hlonero-Ce6ntra unfinished at his death, and
cording to Nicephorus Callisti he was banished, that they were afterwards finished by Eudocia,
and deprived of his affianced bride, who was given who herself died in A. D. 460 or 461, he must
to Zeno; the statement that he was banished, and have been a different person from the Pelagius
that his wife was taken from him, or that the Patricius slain by Zeno, who did not become emmarriage was not completed, is not improbable; peror till A. D. 474. But it is not necessary so to
but that she was given to Zeno is probably an understand Zonaras. A MS. in the king's library
error, arising from Nicephorus's confounding Leon- at Paris (formerly No. 2891) is supposed to contia and Ariadne. Valesius says that Patricius was tain th!e lIoizero-Centra as written by Patricius,
father of Vitalian, who played so conspicuous a consisting of only two hundred and three lines, yet
part under the emperors Anastasius and Justin I. noticing all those events in the Saviour's History
He does not cite his authority, but he probably which are recapitulated in the Apostles' anld Nifollowed the statement of Theophanes, that Vita- cene Creeds. Two other MSS. in the same library
lian was the son of Patriciolus, by which name (formerly Nos. 2977 and 3260) are thought to
Marcellinus calls our Patricius; but Theophanes contain the poem as completed by Eudocia, consistnever gives the name Patriciolus to the son of Aspar, ing of six hundred and fifteen verses, and comprenor does there seem sufficient reason for identify- bending not only the work of Patricius, but also
ing them. It is difficult to ascertain the dates of narratives of many of the miracles of Christ inthese transactions; the elevation of Patricius is serted in the appropriate places, and a description
fixed by Cedrenus in the twelfth year of Leo, i. e. of the last judgment. In the account of a MS. in
A. D. 469; the assassination of Aspar is placed by the Escurial, the poem is described (Fabric. Bibl.
the Alexandrian Chronicle in the consulship of Gr. vol. xi. p. 706) as composed by "Patricius
Pusaeus and Joannes, A. D. 467; by Theophanes Sacerdos," but arranged and corrected by Eudocia.
in A. M. 5964; Alex. era, A. D. 472; and by the It is not unlikely therefore that the poem of PatriLatin chroniclers, Marcellinus, Cassiodorus, and cius was not properly left unfinished, as Zonaras
Victor of Tunes, whose date is adopted by Tille- states, but composed on a less comprehensive plan,
mont, in A. D. 471; we do not attempt to recon- and that Eudocia enlarged the plan, and re-arranged
cile these discrepancies. This Patricius, the son the poem, inserting her own additions in suitable
of Aspar, is to be distinguished from Patricius, places. There is then little difficulty in believing
magister officiorum, whom the intriguing empress that Patricius was contemporary with Eudocia, but
Verina [VERINA], Leo's widow, after driving survived to the reign of Zeno, and was put to
her sonl-in-law Zeno [ZENO] from his throne and death by him as related by Cedrenus. The difficapital, hoped to marry, but who was put to death culty would be removed by supposing the correctby Basiliscus, Verina's brother [BAsmLImCUS]; from iiess of the title of one of the above MSS. in the
Pelagis. Patricius, the- supposed author of the king's library at Paris (formerly No. 2977), which
JIomiero-e ntra [PATRICIUS, Literary, No. 5]; ascribes the poem in its complete state to the later
and from Patricius, a distinguished general in the Empress Eudocia of Macrembolis [EujuocIA, No.,
war carried:on by Anastasius, Zeno's successor, 8]; but the supposition is contrary to all other