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 APPENDIX ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE EDITOR 1. AUTHORITIES [For Greek Historiography, for this and the following volumes, see Krumbacher's Gescbichte der byzantinischen Litteratur, ed. 2, 1897.] The history of the reign of Leo I. and Zeno (in three Books) was written by Can- didus the Isaurian. He held the post of clerk or secretary to influential Isaurians ; suoh is the vague phrase of Photius, who in the BibliotJieca (cod. 79) gives a short notice of the writer and a suumiary of the contents of his work. He was an orthodox Chris- tian. Besides the acoount in Photius (Miiller, P. H .G. iv. p. 135), we have probably three fragments in the Lexicon of Suidas : (a) sub x^plfa (Miiller, ib. 137) ; (0) the first part of the article 'Apudros (assigned by Niebuhr to Malchus but) vindicated for Candidus by Toup and Shestakov ; (y) the nrst part of the article BacriAtfficos, plausibly assigned to Candidus by Shestakov (£ and y are printed under Malohus in Miiller, ib. p. 116, 117). But the work of Candidus can be further traced in the chronicles of later writers, who made use (directly or indirectly) of his history. This has been shown by Shestakov in his paper Candid Isavriski (Lietopis ist.-phil. obshchestva, Odessa, 1894, Viz. Otd. 2, p. 124-149), of which he promises a continuation. This is the most important study of Candidus that has yet appeared. Shestakov analyses the acoount of the great tire in Leo's reign given by our authorities, and shows that, while Evagrius drew (through Eustathius) from Priscus, Zonaras and Cedrenus drew from Candidus (who probably made use of Priscus too) ; and he applies the same method to the stories of Aspar's fall and the expedition of Basiliscus. It had already been recognized that the fragments of John of Antioch numbered 210 and 211 in Miiller (F. H. G. iv. 618 sqq.) depended on Candidus ; this is also probably true of the Esourial fragment of the same writer, 214 C in Miiller (ib. v., cp. Shestakov, p. 125). Shestakov traces Candidus in Zonaras, Cedrenus, Nicephorus Callistus, and makes it probable that his history was consulted by Procopius 1 and Theodore Lector. Pamprepius, the philosopher, a friend of the general Illus who revolted against Zeno, also wrote a book on Isaurian history ; and the same subject was treated by Capito the Lycian, who translated the history of Eutropius into Greek. See Miiller, F. H. G. iv. p. 123. It may be added that a notice bearing on the chrono- logy of the revolt of Verina and Illus has been recently discovered in a curious work by a contemporary astrologer named Palchus. An account of this work is given by F. Cumont in the Revue de V instruction publique en Belgique, 1897, vol. zL p. 1. It contains a horoscope of the coronation of Leontius, the puppet emperor whom the rebels set up in Syria, and who was crowned at Tarsus, a.d. 483. 1 Cp. especially p. 148-9. But Shestakov makes one inaccurate statement. Our sole authority for the place to which Basiliscus, on his return from Africa, was removed, namely, Heraclea (Perinthus), is Nicephorus Callistus (p. 80 C). Shestakov states that we find him there afterwards, in Theodore Lector, p. 180 A (Migne), and in John of Antioch, fr. 210 ; and (p. 149) ascribes to John of Antioch the statement that Basiliscus is at Heraclea, where he has an interview with Illus and conspires with him against Zeno. The place is mentioned by Theodore (and Theophanes) but not by John. The name Heraclea or Perinthus does not occur in the fragment. 543