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

PATRICIUS. PATRICIUS. 137
evidence. TheIlomero-C!esntrea, as they appear in close of the sixth century, but according to Nice'
the printed'editions, are still further enlarged by phorus the editor of Isaac's Ascetica (Praef. p. vi.)
the addition of prefixed narratives of the creation in the first half of that century. The Vienna MS.
and the fall of man, and by the insertions of various bears this title: Toe is dyfolis 7rarp's rj 4ev'A6ED
episodes and descriptions. These Honzero-Centrca'Ioaalc Vpov Kai aCvaXpX77roU -roOv EvoevoEo,ou e7rtwere first published with the Latin version of Pe- Ko'7rucov ros SpLhoXPlorToe roAecws Nvsevi AhotL do'scqltrus Candidus, 4to. Venice, 1502, in the second Truroal, eupe0E'Ves 67ro T'Y Ce-cW srarpo, 7se,uCWV rou
volume of the Collection of the ancient Christian'Aea~ naTrptceov Tc al ros'A~~''ACpa/uiov ee, cpAoPoets, printed by Aldus. It was reprinted 8vo. ecpw'v ieall eovxaoc' 7' XaVpa eu' ov dVoYsS
Frankfort, 1541 and 1554, by Henry Stephens, irarTpe'ipcv 2oa'~a, Sencti Patins nostri Abbatis
12mo. Paris, 1578, and by Claudius Chapelet, 8vo. Isaaci Syri ct Anachloretae, quifuit Episcopus urbis
Paris, 1609, with various-other pieces. In all C/lristi-anantis Nineve, Sermones ascetici, reperti a
these editions they were given anonymously. They sanlcis patribus nostris Abbate Patvicio et Abbute
were afterwards inserted in the Appendix to the Abran7io sapientiae Clhristianae et quzieti montstic/ie
BibliothecaPatrumn, ed. fol. Paris, 1624, and in deditis in caura (sive 1iionasterio) Sancti Pa(tris
vol. xi. of the edition of the Bibliotheca Patrum, fol. nostri Slbbae. (Lambec. Coczmenstar. de Bibliotlc.
Paris, 1644, and vol. xiv. of the edition of 1654. Caesar. vol. v. col. 158, ed. Kollar.) The MS.
The Latin version had appeared in the Bibliotheca contains eighty-seven Sermones Ascetici, apparently
as compiled by De la Bigne, A. D. 1575. In all translated fromt the Syriac text of Isaac by Patrithe editions of the Bibliotheca the Homero-Centra cius and Abramius; though the title of the MIS.
are ascribed to Eudocia or to Patricius Pelagius only ascribes to them the finding of the work. In
and Eudocia conjointly. They were reprinted, 1 2mo. other MISS. however (e. g. in several Vatican,
Leipsic, 1793, by L. H. Teucher, who professed to Assemani, Bibl. Orieszt. vol. i. p. 446, and one,
have revised the text. In this edition the poem perhaps two, Bodleian, Nos. 256 and 295, vid.
consists of two thousand three hundred and forty- Catalog. IlStornums An.aqliae et Hiberniae, pp. 35,
three lines. (Fabric. Biblioth.. Graec. vol. i. p. 552, 44, fol. Oxford, 1697), they are described as trans&c., vol. xi. p. 706; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. i. p. 403, lators. Assemani, however, observes that they
ed. Oxford, 1740-43; Olearius, De Poet-iis translated not the whole works of Isaac, which,
Graecis, c. 32, apud Wolfiumn Poetricareum Octo according to Ebed-jesu (apud Assemani, 1. c.), who
Freagmenta, 4to. Hamb. 1734, with Wolfius' notes.) has perhaps ascribed to Isaac of Nineveh the
6. Of PRUSA. In the Acta Sanctorum of the works of other Isaacs, extended to seven toni or voi3ollandists (Aprilis, vol. iii. Appendix, p. lxv.) is lumes, and treated De Regyicmine Spisites, de Divinis
given from a MS. in the Medicean Library at Mysteriis (comp. Gennad. De Viris Illus/t. c. 26),
Florence, a narrative entitled Mapv'psov'roD dyoou de Juediciis et de Politia, but only ninety-eight of
LsepoaprTpos IIaerpulou Ilpovaorls. A Latin version his Sers}esones. This is the number in the Vatican
is given in the body of the volume (ad diem xxviii. MSS.; in one of the Bodleian (No. 295, Ctcal.
p. 576). Patricius was arraigned before Julius, M/Stor. Anylice, p. 44) there are ninety-nine, but it
proconsul, it may be supposed of Bithynia, who, is to be observed that the division, as well as the
having experienced great benefit from certain warm number of these Sermnones, which are also termed
springs sacred to Asclepias and Hygeia, sent for him XAoyoi, Or-ationes, differs in different MSS (Nito urge upon him the proof which this circumstance cephorus, 1. c.). The first fifty-three, according to
afforded of the power of the gods. Patricius replied the arrangement of the Vienna MS., are extant
to the proconsul's argument by an exposition of the in a Latin version, as one work, under the title of
cause of warm springs, which he ascribed to sub- Isaaci Syri de Contemputzu Mundi Liber; and this
terranlean fires destined to be hereafter the place work, which appears in several collections of the
of torment to the souls of the wicked; and ap- works of the fathers, has been improperly ascribed
pealed to the flames of Aetna as evidence of the by the respective editors of the Bibliotheca Pcatrum,
existence of this fire. Patricius was beheaded by except Galland, to Isaac of Antioch [IsAAcvs,
the proconsul's order, on the 19th of May, but in No. 5], instead of their true author Isaac of
vwhat year or reign the record does not state. All Nineveh [ISAAcus, No. 6]. It is to be observed,
that canl be conjectured is that' it was in one of that Isaac of Nineveh was not the Isaac menthe persecutions of the heathen emperors of Rome, tioned by Pope Gregory the Great as visiting
and apparently before Diocletian fixed the seat of Italy and dying near Spoletum [ISAatces, No. 61.
government at Nicomedeia. The defence of Pa- The Greek version of Isaac's ascetic works by
tricius of Prusa is cited by Glycas (Annal. pars i. Patricius and Abramnius, as far as it is extant,
p. 17, ee. Paris, p. 13, ed. Venice, p. 34, ed. Bonn), was published by Nicephorus Theotocius, a Greek
and at greater length by Cedrenus (Comnpenal. p. monk, by direction of Ephraim, patriarch of Jeru242, ed. Paris, vol. i. p. 425, ed. Bonn); but there salem, 4to., Leipzig, 1770. The edition contains
are many discrepancies between the citation of eighty-six Aodyot, Orationes, and four'EsrLCrAo al,
Cedrenus and the text (c. 4, 5) given in the Acta Epistolae, which, in the two MSS. employed by
Sanctoumnz. The Latin version from the Acta Nicephorus, were reckoned as XdyoQ, making
slanctorumn is given in Ruinart's Acta Prinm. ninety altogether. These were differently divided
leartgr. p. 554, &c. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. x. and arranged in his MSS. He followed the
p. 305; Cave, Hist. Litt. ad Ann. 858 (sub nom. division (with one exception) and the text of
Patricius A1arsius), vol. ii. p. 51.) one MS., giving the different readings of the
7. PETRUS, the Patrician. [PsTRUS.] other, but formed an arrangement of his own,
8. Of ST. SABA. In the imperial library at differing from both the MSS. What portion
Vienna is a Greek version of the works or part of the, seven tosi mentioned by Ebed-jesu is
of the works of Isaac the Syrian, bishop of Nine- contained in this work cannot, from the various
veh, who lived, according to Assemani (Biblioth. divisions and titles of the divisions in the MSS.,
Orietl. vol. iii. pars i. p. 104, nete 3), about the be ascertained. Of the time when Patricius sand