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 544 APPENDIX The date given is the 24th of Epiphi = 19th July, whereas Theophanes gives 27th June. Malchus of Philadelphia wrote, under Anastasius, a continuation of the history of Priscus, covering the years a.d. 474 to 480. (So Photius, Bib. Cod. 78 ; but Suidas gives the work a wider extent — from Constantine I. to Anastasius. ) He was indifferent to religion, like Priscus and Procopius, but did not attack Christianity, so that Photius charitably regarded him as within the pale of Christendom. He censured the vices of Zeno with great severity. [Fragments (preserved in the Excerpta de legationibus of Constantine Porph., and in Suidas) in Muller's F. H. G. iv. p. Ill sqq. Also in Dindorf's Hist. Grcec. minores. For De Boor's ed. of the Excerpta see below under Peter the Patrician.] Eustathius of Epiphania wrote, under Anastasius, a history from the earliest times to the 12th year of Anastasius ; he died in thai year (a.d. 502). He is known through Evagrius, who used him largely, and through Malalas (p. 398-9, ed. Bonn). [See Gleye, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 5, 436 sqq.] For the fifth century he used the work of Priscus. [Miiller, F. H. G. iv. p. 138 sqq.] A Panegyric on the Emperor Anastasius by the rhetor Procopius of Gaza is printed in the same vol. of the Bonn Script. Byzant., as Dexippus, Eunapius, Mal- chus, &o. Here will also be found a poetical encomium in Latin on the same Emperor by Priscian. Both these panegyrics laud the financial relief which the government of Anastasius gave to the Empire. Hesychius illustris, of Miletus, wrote under Justinian : (1) a universal history coming down to the death of Anastasius (a.d. 518), of which almost nothing has been preserved but a long fragment relating to the early history of Byzantium (irdrpta Ks, in Scriptores rerum Cplitanarum, i., ed Preger, 1901, and in Codinus, ed. Bonn, p. 16 sqq.) ; (2) a history of the reign of Justin and the first years of Justinian ; nothing of this survives, a loss deeply to be regretted ; (3) a lexicon of famous literary people ; some fragments of this are preserved in Photius and Suidas. The short bio- graphical dictionary asoribed to Hesychius is not genuine, but a much later compil- ation. This pseudo-Hesychius was edited by J. Flach, 1880, and is included in Muller's ed. of the Fragments (F. H. G. iv. 143 sqq.). See also E. Martini, Analecta Laertiana, Pars secunda, in Leipziger Studien, 20, 147 sqq., 1902. Theodoros Anagnostes (Lector) wrote, under Justin and in the early years of Justinian, (±) a Historic/, tripartita, founded on Socrates, Sozomen and Theodoret, coming down to a.d. 439 ; and (2) a continuation of this, Historia ecclesiastica, to the beginning of Justinian's reign. Neither work is extant. Some fragments from (1) are contained in a Paris Ms., and have been published by Cramer, Anecd. Paris, ii. p. 87 sqq. ; but these fragments were derived not from the original work, but from a Collection of excerpts which was used by the chronographer Theophanes. Other fragments have been found in an Oxford Ms. (Barocc. 142) and were used by de Boor for his edition of Theophanes. Of (2), fragments have been edited by Valois (at end of his ed. of Theodoret, Evagrius, and Philostorgius, p. 551 sqq., 1673), Cramer iib.), Miiller (Revue aicheologique, nouv. s£rie, 1873, t. 26, 396 sqq.), and some others have been found in Codinus and the Anonymus Banduri by V. Sarrazin, whose monograph, De Theodora Lectore (in the Commentationes Philol. Jenenses, 1881, vol. 1), is an important study of Theodorus, especially as a source of Theo- phanes. Sarrazin has shown (p. 193 sqq.) that some of the fragments of Valois and Cramer are not from Theodore but from John Diacrinomenos, who was one of the sources of Theodore. He has also given reasons for holding that Theophanes used a Collection of Excerpts in the case of this work too ; that the Miiller frag- ments are remains oE that Collection ; and that the Cramer and Valois fragments represent Excerpts from that Collection, not from the original work. (See also Diekamp, Zu Theodoros Lektor, in Historisches Jahrbuch, 24, 553 sqq., 1903 ; J. Bidez, La tradition manuscrite de Sozomene et la Tripartite de Theodore le Lecteur, 1908.) A treatise on the civil service (irepi apx^v "rrs 'Pai.uaiW iroKirelas, De magistratibus), written by an official, John of Philadelphia, generally described as " the Lydian " (Lvdus), was first published in 1812 by Hase, was re-edited by Bekker in the Bonn ed. of Byzantine writers ; and has recently been edited by R. Wiinsch (1903). His work,