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his T61sos Xapas. Fol. Rimnik, 1705. A letter, p. 329, &c. No. 42, July 1813, and Class. Jour2.
Ad Tlieophanem Al/onachum, i. e. to Theophanes 1. c.)
Cerameus, with a Latin version by Sirmond, was 7'AcplAodXia, As.mpliloclia. This -work, which
published by the Jesuit Franciscus Scorsus, in his Allatius, not a friendly censor, declared to be " a
Prooeamiumn Secunduns, ~ 3, to the Ilomiliae of Ce- work filled with vast and varied learning, and very
rameus, fol. Paris, 1644 [CERAMEUS, THEOPHA- needful for theologians and expositors of Scripture,'
NES], and another letter, Stauracio Spatharo-candi- is in the fornm of answers to certain questions, and
dato, Praefecto insulae Cypri, was included inl the is addressed to Amphilochus, archbishop of Cyzicus.
Ecclesiae Graecae as onumenta of Cotelerius, vol. ii. The title is thus given in full by Montfaucon
p. 104, together with a short piece, lespl ro) s) (Bibliotih. Coislin. fol. Paris, 1715, p. 326): TQd
afEav rp's Ta n A' - AuT svrvp& TrL'pepeOnai, Qeod'AsA(dXth zxa t XyAosv s' FEpcV Kai cl'?Tla7d'w, isepoAonon oporteat ad praesentis vitae mnolestlis attendere,?ian 7rpos'APClAOXov To' o, &lrT'aToy U7spoiroxiwhich, though not bearing the form of a letter T7SV KVLKOv TZ icapC Toro 7retpaep,'rn(perhaps it is a fragment of one), is in the MS. /uadTrv 3satnoopw els dptOBizv rptaK ooneo'v'rTelclassed with the Epistolae. A Latin version, from'dTrwoe iErlAvo'v aira,ueo,usvov, Amnphilochia s. Sesthe Armenian, of some fragments of an Epistola mones et Quaestiones Sacrae ad A amphilochium MePhotii ad Zachariamn Armeniae Patriarchanraz, in tropolitanm C/ziienum in Temnpore Tentationum;
support of the doctrine of the Council of Chalcedon, Quaestiones Variae sunt Nunlero trecentae. The
is given in the Conciliatio Ecclesiae Armseniae cuan answers are said in one MS. (apud Fabric. Bibl.
Romana of Galanus, fol. Rom. 1650. To all these Grace. vol. xi. p. 26) to be two hundred and ninetywe may add the Eplistola Tarasio Fe'atri, usually seven in number; but Montfaucon (1. c.) published
subjoined to the Bibliotheca. The Epistola ad Za- an index of three hundred and eight, and a Vatican
chariam,, just mentioned, and another letter, Ad MS., according to Mai (Script. Vet. Vova Collectio,
Principemn Armenilum Asutizum, are extant in MS. vol. i. proleg. p. xxxix.), contains three hundred
in an Armenian version. (Comp. Mai, Scriptor. and thirteen. Of these more than two hundred
Veteran/m Nov. Collectio. Proleg. in vol. i. 4to. Rom. and twenty have been published, but in various
1825.) fragmentary portions (Mai, i. c.). The first portion
6. AeSnwv ovvaeywyt s. AeStluc, Lexicon. Mar- which appeared in print was in the Lectiones A2diquardus CGudius of Hamburg had an anonymous quae of Canisius (4to. Ingolstadt, 1604, &c. vol. v.
MS. lexicon, which he believed and asserted to be p. 188, &c.), who gave a Latin version by Franthat of Photius; but the correctness of his opinion ciscus Turrianus, of six of the Quaestionwes; but
was first doubted by sonme, and is now given up the work to which they belonged was not ienby most scholars; and another lexicon, much tioned. In the subsequent edition of the Lectiozes
shorter, and which is in the MSS. ascribed to Pho- by Basnage (4to. Amsterdam, 1725, vol. ii. pt. ii.
tius, is now admitted to be the genuine work of p. 420, &c.), the Greek text of five of the six was
that eminent man. A writer in the Classical Jowrnal added (the original of the sixth seems never to
(No. 54. p. 358) has indeed expressed his conviction have been discovered), as well as the Greek text of a
that, "tin the composition of it the patriarch never seventh Quaestio, "De Christi Voluntatibus Gnomicis,"
stirred a finger," and that it received his name of which a Latin version by Turrianus had been
nlerely fromn having been in his possession; but published in the Auctarium Antiquaruan Canisii
we are not aware that his opinion has found any Lectionumz of the Jesuit Petrus Stewartius, 4to. Insupporters. Of this Lexicon there exist several golstadt, 1616; also without notice that it was froll
MSS., but that known as the Codex Galeanus, the Ampl3hilocina. Further additions were made
because given by Tholmas Gale to the library of by Combdfis, in his SS. Patrsau Anmphilochii, t'c.
Trinity College, Cambridge, is considered to be Opera, 2 vols. fol. Paris, 1644 (by a strange error
the archetype from which the others have been he ascribed the work not to Photius, but to Amtranscribed; but this MS. is itself very imperfect, philochius of Iconium, a much older writer, from
containing in fact not much more than half the whose works he supposed Photius had made a
original work. Nearly the whole of the Lexicon, -selection), and in his Novuns Auctariums, 2 vols.
kncown as the Lexicon Sangermanense, a portion of fol. Paris, 1648; by Montfaucon,, in his Bibliotheca
which was published in the Anecdota Graeca of Coisliniana, fol. Paris, 1715; and by Jo. Justus
Immanuel Bekker, vol. i. p. 319, &c. 8vo. Berlin, Spier, in WVittenbeygisclhen Anm)erknlzngen ueber theo1814, appears to have been incorporated in the logische, philosophische, historisclse, philologische, unld
Lexicon of Photius, of which, when entire, it is kritische iMate ien, part i. 8vo. Wittenberg, 1738
estimated to have formed a third part (Pi-raef/t. to (Harles, Introd. in Historiami Linguae Graec. SupPorson's edition). The Lexicon of Photius was plenm. vol. ii. p. 47). But the principal addition
first published, from Continental MSS., by Gotho- was made by Jo. Chr. Wolff, of forty-six Quaesfredus Hermannus, 4to Leipzig, 1808. It formed tiones, published, with a Latin version, in his Curae
the third volume of a set, of which the two first Philologicae, vol. v. ad fin. 4to. Hamb. 1735: these
volumes contained the Lexicon ascribed to Joannes were reprinted in the Bibliotheca Patlrumn of Galland,
Zonaras [ZONARAS, JOANNES]. The publicatlon vol. xiii. fol. Venice, 1779. A further portion of
of the Lexicon was followed by that of a Libellus eighteen Quaestiones, under the title'EK T'rosv ICTOi.
Animnadversionsmn, ad P'hotii Lexicon, 4to. Leipzig,'A.ucpLAoXoov Tiva, E x Photii Anzphilochiis quaedam,
1810, and Cuase Novissimae sire Appendix Notarum was published, with a Latin version, by Angelus
et Etnendtationuil in Photii Lexiicon, 4to. Leipzig, Antonius Schottus, 4to. Naples, 1817; and some
1812, both by Jo. Frid. Schleusner. But the edi- further portions, one of twenty Quaestiones, with a
tion of Hermann having failed to satisfy the wants Latin version by Mai, in his Scriptorumn Ieterzum
of the learned, an edition from a transcript of the Nova Collectio, vol. i. pp. 193, &c,, and another of a
Codex Galeanus, made by Porson, was published hundred and thirty Quaestiones, in vol. ix. p. 1,
after the death of that eminent scholar, 4to. and &c. As many of the Quaestiones were mere extracts
8vo. London, 1822. (Comp. Edinb. Rev. vol. xxi. from the Epistolae and other published works of
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