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JOANNES. his cause there in person. Simplicius, with" the usual papal jealousy of the patriarchs of Con- stantinople, took the side of Joannes against Aca- cius and Zeno, the latter of whom replied that Joannes had been expelled for perjury, and for that alone ; but neither the exertions of Simplicius nor those of his successor Felix, could obtain the restoration of the banished patriarch. Joannes after a time accepted from Felix the bishopric of Nola in Campania, where he lived many years, and at last died peaceably. Joannes (whom Theophanes extols for his piety and orthodoxy) wrote a work, llpos TeXda-iov rov 'PoufiT}^ aTToXoyia, Ad Gelasium Papam Apologia, in which he anathematized Polagianism, as well as its defenders Pelagius and Celestius, and their suc- cessor Julianus. The work which is noticed by Photius is not extant. (Victor Tununensis, Chro- nicon ; Liberatus Diaconus, Breviarium Caussae Nesteria7ior. et Eutychianor., capp. 16 — 18 (apud Galland. Bihlioth. Patrum, vol. xii. p. 146, &c.) ; Evagrius, H. E. iii. 12, 13, 15, 18, 20, cum notis Valesii ; Theophanes, Chronographia, pp. 1 1 — 1 1 3, ed. Paris, pp. 88—90, ed. Venice, pp. 199—204, ed. Bonn ; Photius, Biblioth. cod. 54, sub fin. ; Tillemont, Memoires, vol. xvi. ; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. i. p. 455.) 116. Of Thessalo,nica (1). Joannes, arch- bishop of Thessalonica, was a stout defender of the orthodox faith against the Monothelites of the seventh century. He attended as papal legate the third Constantinopolitan (sixth oecumenical) coun- cil (a. d. 680), and in that character subscribed the Acta of the council. {Concilia, vol. vi. col. 1058, ed. Labbe ; vol. iii. col. 1425, ed. Hardouin ; vol. xi. col. 639, ed. Mansi.) The time of his death is altogether uncertain. He wrote : 1. Els ros fivpo- (popovs "yvvouKas, In Mulieres ferentes Unguenta, a discourse or treatise in which his object is to show that there is no contradiction in the several accounts of the resurrection of Christ given by the four Evan- gelists. This piece appears to have been regarded by some as a work of Chrysostom, and was first published (but from a mutilated and corrupt text) by Savile in his edition of Chrysostom (vol. v. p. 740, fol. Eton. 1610, &c.), though with an expres- sion of doubt as to its genuineness. It was sub- sequently printed more correctly in the Novum Audarium of Combefis (vol. i. fol. Paris, 1648), and by him assigned to the right author. It is given in a mutilated form in Montfaucon's edition of Chrysostom, among the Spuria, vol. viii. p. 159, fol. Paris, 1718, &c., or vol. viii. p. 816 of the 8vo. re- print, Paris, 1839. It is also given in the Bihliotheca Patrum of Gallandius, vol. xiii. p. 185, &c. A Latin version is given in the Bihlioth. Patrum, vol. xii. Lyon, 1677. 2. A070S, Oratio, of which a con- siderable extract was read by Nicolaus, bishop of Cyzicus at the second Nicene (seventh oecumenical) council, and is printed in the Concilia (vol. vii. col. 353, ed. Labbe, vol. iv. col. 292, ed. Hardouin, vol. xiii. col. 163, ed. Mansi), and by Gallandius in his Bibliotlteca Patrum (vol. xiii. p. 196). (Gallan- dius, //. cc. ; Concilia, II. cc. ; Cave, Hist. Lilt. vol. i. p. 597 ; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. x. p. 250.) 117. Of Thessalonica (2), the younger. A fragment of a discourse which was entitled At rov dQKo(p6pov ATj^TjTpiou ei^ jxepiKr Sirjyi^oei ©avfia- Tovpylai, Triumphalis Martyris Demetrii sigillatim fuirraki Miracula, or"TjU»'os eis @i6v koI eis t6v rravti/So^ov ddKocpopov A-qp-y'irpiov ^v fiepiK'p StTj- JOANNES. 603 yvffei rwp avrov dai'^arwi', Hymnus ad Deum et ad gloriosum Demetrium cum particulari narratione miraculorum ejus, is given by Combefis in the Paris edition of the Byzantine writers, among the Scripto res post Tlieophanem, p. 314, &c., and is described as the work of Joannes, archbishop of Thessalonica, whom Combefis apparently confounds with the subject of the preceding article, and erroneously places in the reign of the emperors Justinian I. and Maurice. Comb6fis (whom Cave follows) is, however, mani- festly in error, for the extract itself refers to the capture of the city " many years before " by " the children of the handmaid, that is, Hagar," " in the reign of Leo." This can hardly be any other cap- ture than that by the Saracens of Tripoli, in the reign of Leo VI. (Sapiens or Philosophus) a. D. 904, and consequently the Joannes of Thessalonica from whom the extract is taken could not have lived earlier than the tenth century, and must therefore be a different person from the author of the preceding article. Gallandius reprints the extract with the works of the preceding {Bill. Patrum, vol. xiii. p. 195), but intimates in his Prolegomena, c. iv., that it can hardly be by the same author. It is not given in the Bonn reprint of the Byzantine writers. It is probable that Combefis, by confounding the work of Joannes with an anonymous account of a deliverance of Thessa- lonica, through the miraculous interposition of Deme- trius, when besieged by barbarians, probably Avars, in the reign of the emperor Maurice, was led into error. (Gallandius,//. cc. ; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. i. p. 597; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. vii. p. 683, vol. x. pp. 218, 219 ; Allatius, de Symeonum Scriptis, p. 97.) 118. Of Thessalonica (3). [Cameniata.] 119. Of Thessalonica (4). [Anagnostes.] 120. Tzetzes. [Tzetzes.] 121. Veccus or Beccus. [Veccus.] 122. XiPHiLiNUS (1). Patriarch of Constanti- nople. [XlPHILINUS, 1.] 123. XlPHILINUS (2). [XlPHILINUS, 2.] 124. ZONARAS. [ZONARAS.] [J. C. M.] JOANNES, jurists. 1. Comes Sacrarii, under Theodosius the younger, was one of the nine com- missioners appointed by that emperor in a. d. 429 to compile codes of law upon a plan which was subsequently abandoned. He was not, however, afterwards employed in compiling the Theodosian code, of which a great part is still extant. [Dio- DORUS, Vol. I. p. 1018.] 2. Was at the head of the first commission of ten appointed by Justinian in a. d. 528 to compile the Constitutionum Codex. In Const. Haec quae necessario, § 4, and Const. Summa Reipublicae^ § 2, he is designated by the title *' Vir excellen- tissimus ex-quaestore sacri palatii, consularis atque patricius." In the subsequent revision of the code he had no part, though a person of the same name was one of the second commission of five. 3. An advocate in the courts of the praefecti praetoriorum at Constantinople, was one of the commission of sixteen, headed by Tribonian, who were employed by Justinian (a. d. 530 — 533) to compile the Digest. (Const. Tanta, $ 9, Const. AeSoj/cei/, § 9.) He is a different person from the Joannes who was at the head of the commission appointed to compile the first Constitutionum Codex ; but it appears from Const. Cordi, § 2, that he was one of the commission of five, headed by Tribonian, who drew up the repetita praelectio codicit, which was published in a. d. 534.