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JOANNES. Srian, av ho 'flourished toward the close of the sixth nitury. Evagrius Scholasticus, the ecclesiastical historian {H. E. v. 14, sub fin.), speaks of him as his kinsman and townsman. Vossius, misled by the latter expression of Evagrius, has considered Joannes as a native of Antioch instead of Epi- phaneia. He wrote a history of the affairs of the Byzantine Empire, from the latter part of the reign of Justinian to the restoration of the Persian king Chosroes or Khosru II. by the Byzantine emperor Maurice. Evagrius says the history had not been published at the time his own work was written A. D. 593 or 594 [see Evagrius, No. 3.]. The history of Joannes has never been published ; a MS. of it, the only one known, is said to be in the library at Heidelberg. Joannes of Epiphaneia is sometimes improperly confounded with another writer, Joannes Rhetor [See below. No. 105 J, who wrote a history of the times of Theodosius II., Marcian, Leo, and Zeno, and who is repeatedly quoted by Evagrius. (Valesius, Not. ad Evagr. H. j&. i. 16 ; Cave, Hist Litt. vol. i. p. 546 ; Vossius, De Ilvitoricis Graecis, iv. 20, sub fin.) 57. Epiphanh Discipulus. A spurious life of Epiphanius of Constantia (or Salamis ), in Cyprus [Epiphanius], of which a Latin version was printed by Aloysius Lipomanus (i><? Vitis Sanctorum), and Surius (De Probatis Sanctorum Vitis), and both the Greek original and a Latin version by Petavius, professes to be written in great part during the life of Epiphanius, by Joannes, a disciple of the Saint. Joannes, however, is represented as having died before the subject of his memoir, which was finished by another person. The piece was rejected by the liollandists as worthless. (Papebroche, in the Acta Sanctorum, Mail 12, vol. iii. p. 37.) 58. Of Euchaita or Euchaitae or Euchania, a city of Heleno-Pontus, which had received not long before (i. e. in the time of the emperor Joannes Zimisces) the name of Theodoropolis ; it was not fur from Amasia. Joannes was archbishop of Eu- chaita (MTjTpoTToAiTTjs EuxaiTcov), and lived in the time of the emperor Constantino X. Monomachus (A. p. 1042 — 1054), but nothing further is known of him. He was surnamed Mauropus, MaupoTrous, i. e. " Blackfoot." He wrote a number of iambic poems, seiTnons, and letters. A volume of his poems was published by Matthew Bust, 4to., Eton, 1610: the poems occupy only about 73 pp. small 4to., and were pro- bably written on occasion of the church festivals, as they are commemorative of the incidents of the life of Christ, or of the Saints. An Offidum, or ritual service, composed by him, and containing three Canones or hymns, is given by Nicolaus Ray- aeus in his dissertation De Aeoloutkia Officii Ca- nonici, prefixed to the Acta Sanctorum, Junii, vol. ii. Joannes wrote also Vita S. Dorothei Junioris, given in the Acta Sanctorum, Junii, vol. i. p. 605, &c. Various Sermons for the Church Festivals, and other works of his, are extant in MS. ( Fabric. Bill. Gr. vol. viii. pp. 309, 627, &c., vol. x. pp. 221, 226, vol. xi. p. 79 ; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. ii. p. 139 ; Oudin, De Scriptor. et Scriptis Eccles. vol. ii. col. 606 ; Acta Sanctorum, IL cc. ; Bust, Carmina Joannis Euchaitensis.) 59. EuG'ENicus. This name is sometimes given to Joannes the Deacon and Rhetorician. [See above No. 51.] 60. EuGENicus (EvytviKoi) was deacon and nomophylax of the great church at Constanti- JOANNES. 595 nople, and brother to the celebrated Marcus or Mark Eugenicus, archbishop of Ephesus, one of the leaders of the Greeks at the councils of Fer- rara and Florence (a. d. 1438 — 39). [Euge- nicus, M.] Joannes also attended the council, and embraced the same side as his brother. He attempted to leave Italy during its session, but was brought back. He wrote : 1. An imbic poem of 25 lines, Ely eiKova rov fieyaKov Xpyaoaroixov, In imayinem magni Chrysostomi. 2. An iambic tetrastich, Ets iravayidpiov. In Panagiarium. 3. IlpoOewpia, J^rue- fatio, i. e. to the Aethiopica of Heliodorus. [Heli- ODORUS IV., Romance Writer.] These three pieces were published by Bandini {Catalog. Codd. Laur. Medic, vol. iii. col. 322, &c,) Several other works of Joannes Eugenicus are extant in MS., especially his Antirrheticum advers/is Synodum Florentinum, quoted by AUatius in his work De Purgatorio. (Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. xi. p. 653 ; Cave, Llist. Litt. vol. ii. Appeyidix by Wharton and Gery, p. 141.) 61. Galenus {TaK-riv6s) or Pediasimus (Ile- ^laaifxos) ; also called Pothus (Iloflos), and Hy- PATUS (s. Princeps) Philosophorum ("TTraros Twv ^io(T6(puv). He was Chartophylax, keeper of the records of the province of Justiniana Prima, and of all Bulgaria, under the emperor Andronicus Palaeologus the Younger (a. d. 1328 — 1341). He was a man of varied accomplishments, as his works show, and the eminence which he attained among his countrymen is evinced by his title of " Chief of the Philosophers." He wrote ; I. 'E|7j'77j(Tts els riiv rov QeoKpirov 2vpt77a, Exegesis in Theocriti Syringem. This was first published by Henry Stephens in his smaller edition of Theocriti aliorum- qm Poetarum Idyllia, 12mo., Paris, 1579 : it is re- printed in Kiessling's edition of Theocritus, 8vo., Leipzig, 1819. 2. Scholia Graeca in Oppiani Halieu- tica s. De Piscibus. Harles thinks the scholia published by Conrad Rittershusius with his edition of Oppian, 8vo., Leyden, 1597, are those of Joannes Galenus. 3. Uodos, Desiderium, a short iambic poem in two parts, respectively entitled Yl^pX yvvaiKds KaKrjs, De Muliere mala, and Ilepl -yvvaiKos d-yaBiis, De Muliere bona. These verses were first published by Lucas Holstenius in his edition of DemophiU, ^c. Sententiae Morales, 12mo., Rome, 1638 ; and were reprinted by Gale in his Opuscula Mythologica, Ethica, Physica, 8vo., Cambr. 1671 ; and by Fa- bricius in his Bibl. Gr. vol. xiii. p. 576, ed. vet. It is from the title of these verses that Joannes is thought to derive his surname of Pothus. 4. Ilepl Toiv do/deKa oidKcop rov 'UpuKXeovs, De Duodecim Labores Herculis. This piece was printed by Allatius in his Exceipta Varia Graecorum Sophis- tarum, 8vo., Rome, 1641. He gave it as the work of an anonymous author ; but Fabricius thinks it maybe a work of Joannes Galenus, "forte Pe- diasimi" (Bibl. Gr. vol. vi. p. 54). Joannes' other works are still in MS. : they consist, I. of commentaries and expositions of the Greek poets, as, 5. Allegoria Anagogica, in quatuor primos ver- sus Lib. IV. Iliados. 6. Eis T171' 'Ha-io8oy ©6070- viav dAK-qyopiai, Interpretatio AUegoricain Hesiodi Theogoniam. 7. Tix^oKoyia els ti)v tov 'Ha-ioSov dairida, Commentarius Grammaticus in Hesiodi Scu- tum. 8. Allegoria Tantali. 9. He wrote also a work on the science of allegorical interpretation, De triplici RationeAllegoriae Fabidarum Poeticarum, sG. Physica, Ethica, Theologica. II. Philosophical and scientific works. 10. Exegeses in quosdam Q(4 2