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

9.54 SYMEON. SYMEON.
tores post Tleophanem, in the Paris (fol. 1685), Paris, 1609, published for the use of the Jesuits
Venice (fol. 1729), and Bonn (8vo. 1838) editions schools; and were reprinted in the "EAXves nori7of the Corpus Historiae Byzantinae. The Paris Tal IraXalo, rpaylcol K. T. A., Poetae Graeci veteres,,
edition, from which the others are taken, was pub- tragici etc., vol. ii. p. 753, fol. Geneva, 1614. Four
lished after the death of Combefis, and from that other short poems, two of them having their lines
circumstance is without notes. In these Annales, or alternate lines beginning with the successive
which closely, often verbatim, agree with the anony- letters of the alphabet, and bearing each the title
mous continuator of Theophanes [LEONTIUS, lite-'AAhcaCe-'orv, Alphabetzls; and the other two adrary, No. 6], and with George the Monk [GEOR- dressed, one, Eis T7-v lav 4Uvx)iv, Ad sui ipsius
GIITS, literary and ecclesiastical, No. 33.], Symeon, Animam, the other, Els KipLOV,'-vaiaYbv1 7rpwrain the incidental notices of himself already cited, o'7KPiLrW, Ad Domninum, Stylianum e Secretariis
speaks in the third person. 3. Chronicon s. An- Primumn, are given in the De Symeonum Scriptis of
wales ab orbi condito. This Chronicon has never Allatius (p. 132, &c.). Some other poems of Sybeen published, and seems to be different from the meon are extant in manuscript.. 7.'EMri-roUxp Kamore important work just cited: it was a mere o'vdwv,, Synopsis Canonica, already noticed in speakcompilation, and was apparently less laboriously ing of the imaginary Symeon Logotheta Junior.
prepared than the preceding work; and in many [No. 14.] 8. KeqpcAaia'ou aylovs MaKcapiov uceaparts agrees with Theophanes. Kollar, however qppaO&e'Ta 7rapa:vue&viw ToO AoyoOE'Tov, S. Macarii
(Supplement ad Lanzbec. p. 737), speaks of the Aegyptii s. Scetensis [MACARUvs, No. 1] Capita
Annales mentioned above, as a portion of the Ascetica centuns septuaginta, szetaplrasi illustrata a
Cl/ronicon. Different copies of the Chronicon, and Symeone Logotheta. Either this work or an Epithere are many MSS. which contain it, terminate tome of it is inserted in the Tlhesaurus Asceticus of
at different periods: some end with the accession Possin. (Comp. the obscure notices in Lambecius,
of Leo the Armenian at the point at which the An- De Bibliot/i. Caesaraea, vol. v. pp. 151, &c., 214,
nales commence: others terminate with Constantine &c., ed. Kollar.) Besides these Kepa'Aaia, selected
Porphyrogenitus, and have prefixed the following from the works of Macarius and paraphrased, Syiambic couplet. A comparison of these last copies meon wrote some original KepdXaaa Vcy,/LKac pad,
would show whether the Annales are an extract GnonzicaeSententiae CXXXI., extantinmanuscript.
from the Clhronicon, as Kollar supposes, or not. (Allatius, p. 132.) 9. Hymni s. Canones et Tro-'ApX)i'v sev'Aocidu E'XEV 1@AXOS, Kcal TANOS, Keparia, also Preces, by Symeon Metaphrastes, were
Tb IoprVpo TEpvv?-sQov ev aEOes'iScp aos. in the time of Allatius, and perhaps are still, in use
in the Greek Church (Allatius, p. 131), and are
One MS. at Venice comes down to the reign of extant in various MSS. 10. Clesmentinorumn EpiConstantine XI. Ducas, who reigned from A. D. tome, published by Adrian Turnebus, 4to. Paris,
1059 to 1067, a circumstance which shows either 1555, and in a Latin version by Perionius, 4to.
that the Chironicoss received some additions from a Paris, 1] 555; the version was reprinted in the edilater hand, or that it is incorrectly ascribed to our tion of the works of Clemens Romanus, fol. Cologne,
Symeon, and must have been composed by a later 1569. We know not on what ground this is aswriter. Oudin observes that the Chronicon agrees cribed to Symeon. (Comp. Fabric. Bibl. Graec.
in several places to the letter with the work of Leo vol. vii. p. 31.) 11.'EcK Tcv ToOy ELv -yioLs 7rai-pbs
Grammaticus; he says it is borrowed from it, and, 1cpul, BaohAeiov apXLte7rLoK'7rov KastsapeLas SrTs
as he assigns Leo's work to A. D. 1013, he urges Ka7rsraaotias'0utCOl Ad5-yo Kea' 8&a:V5EZYe TroO
this as one argument for the later date assigned by Ma-yot-rpov Kal Ao'yoOerov, Ex Libris D. Basilii
him to Metaphrastes. But we have elsewhere A4rcliepiscopi Caesareae Cappodociae Orationes de
stated that the date assigned by him to Leo's work Moribus XXIV. Simeone Aluagistro ac Logotheta
is inaccurate; the argument built upon it therefore auctore. These Sermones were made up by Syfalls. [LEO, Greek writers, No. 15.] Combdfis meon of selections from the works of Basil, and
suspects that Psellus [PSELLUS, No. 31 was the were printed 8vo. Paris, 1556. A Latin version
continuator of the Chrozzcon. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. of them by Stanislaus Ilovius had appeared, 8vo.
vol. vii. pp. 471, &c., p. 684, &c.) 4. Zv/c&civ la- Venice, 1554, and has been reprinted several times.
yto-qpov Kal Ahoyode'ov Troe 8poov e rtrohrTaai, Sy- Another Latin version, by Simon Mailleus, archmneonis Magistri et Logothetae Cursus Epistolae. bishop of Tours, was published, 8vo. Paris, 1558,
Allatius has given nine of these, with a Latin ver- and has-been reprinted in the editions of the works
sion, at the end of his De Sysmeonum Scriptis, 4to. of Basil, in which the Orationes are usually given.
Paris, 1664. 5. Aeoyot, Sermones. One of these (Fabric. vol. ix. p. 58, &c., vol. x. p. 183, &c.) 12.
is given by Allatius with a Latin version at the An account of the church of St. Sophia, extant in
end of his De Synmeon. Scriptis. Another is given two MSS. at Vienna (Kollar. Supplement. ad Lamnin a Latin version in the Bibliotheca Concionatoria beciurm, comp. pp. 748, 760), is ascribed in one of
of Combefis, vol. iii. fol. Paris, 1] 662. Some others the MSS. to Symeon Metaphrastes, but with what
had been seen by Allatius in manuscript. (Fabric. accuracy is uncertain. The citations from MetaBibl. Graec. vol. x. p. 183.) 6. Carmina. Some phrastes in the Catena in Lucam of Nicetas, and
shortpoems of Symeon have been printed. To6 the mention by Theophanes Cerameus of his Els
MiTa(ppaoroO arTiXos Etrs Siv'voapKOV osiCovozinav. Trbv epbhv AOVKFaV ~Tr4ivdvu a, In Lucam Commeentacar' EpC6T57rlJ asoE Meval dKa 7rciplv, Metaphrastae riats, do not show that he wrote commentaries on
de Salutis nostrae Mysterio et szuscepti Nomainis Sa- Luke. The work intended is probably his account
cr;amento: per intersoyationema et responsionem, was of Luke in his Sanctorum Vitae. The citations in
published by Fed. Morel, with a Latin version, the Catena in Matthlaeum of Macarius Chrysoce4to. Paris, 1600. z[LXoT 1vFieEvo' Teo Mesaqippao- phalus are possibly from his account of Matthew.
ToO, Simeonis lletaphrastae trinmetri iamzbici, four A single manuscript ascribes to Symeon Metavery short pieces, were given in the Poetae Graeci phrastes, but with very doubtful correctness, a work
C'hIsistiani, una culsm Homericis Cantontibus, 8vo. called Dioptra whether the work of Philip the