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For the Tyche, to whom Constantine dedicated his new city, the most recent and instruetive study is the brief paper of Strzygovski, in Analecta Greciensia (Graz, 1893).

As to the connexion of Constantine with the Donatist controversy, attention may be drawn to the article of O. Seeck in Brieger’s Zeitsch. f. Kirchengeschichte, x. 505-568 (Quellen und Urkunden iiber die Anfange des Donatismus). He fixes the date of the Council of Arles to a.p. 316 (cp. Euseb., V. C. i. 44-45). The general result of his discussion is to discredit the authority of Optatus, whom he regards as a liar, drawing from a lying source. The only value of the work of Optatus is to be found, he concludes, in the parts which rest on the protocols of the Synods of Cirta and Rome, and the lost parts of the Acta of the process of Felix (viz, 1., 13, 14, 23, 24, 27, and perhaps the story of the choice of Cecilian, 16-18).

For Constantine in medieval legend see the Incerti Auctoris de C. Magno eiusque matre Helena, edited yy Heydenreich (1879); Extracts from a popular Chronicle (Greek) given by A. Kirpitschnikow, Byz. Ztsch. i. p. 308 sqq. (1892) ; Heydenreich, C. der Grosse in den Sagen des Mittelalters, Deutsche Ztsch. f. Geschichts-wissenschaft, 9, 1 sqqg. (1893), and Griechische Berichte tiber die Jugend C. des G., in Gr. Stud. H. Lipsius zum Geburtstag dargebracht, p. 88 sqq. (1894). For his father Constantius in medizval legend see Li contes dou roi Constant I’Emperor, ed. in the Bibl. Elzevir, by MM. Moland and d’Hericault, 1856. An English translation by Mr. Wm. Morris has appeared 1896.

20. ECCLESIASTICAL GEOGRAPHY—(P. 315)

The ecclesiastical divisions of the empire, referred to incidentally by Gibbon, are not closely enough connected with the subject to require an editorial note. But, as they sometimes throw light on the len boundaries, and as they have been recently much investigated, some bibliographical indications of literature on the eastern bishoprics may be useful.

Parthey : Notitie Gree Episcopatuum (along with Hierocles).

H. Gelzer: Die Zeitbestimmung der griech. Not. Epise., Jahrb. f. protest. Theo- logie, xii. 556 sqq. ; Zeitsch. f. wiss. Theologie, xxxv. 419 qq. ; Byz. Ztsch., i. 245 (on eastern Patriarchates); ii. 22. Also edition of Basil’s Notitia (early in ninth century) in ‘‘ Georgius Cyprius” (edition Teubner, 1890).

W. Ramsay: Articles in the Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1884, 1887 ; Historical Geography of Asia Minor, 1890, passim.

De nee i deme f. Kirchengeschichte, xii. 303 sqq., 519 sqqg. (1890) ; xiv. 573 sqq.

893). Duchesne: Byz. Ztsch., i. 531 sqq. (eccl. geogr. of Illyricum).

21. LEGEND OF THE FINDING OF THE TRUE CROSS—(P. 456)

The legend of the discovery of the Cross by Judas for St. Helena has come down in Syriac, Greek and Latin versions. See E. Nestle, Byz. Zeitschrift, iv. p. 319-345, who makes it probable that the original Helena legend was in Syriac, and prints the oldest Greek version extant from a Sinai Ms. of the eighth cen- tury copied by Mr. Rendel Harris. (The Greek from later Mss. (1) in J. Gretser’s huge treatise, De Cruce Christi (1600), ii. 530 sqgq., and Holder, Inventio verae crucis, 1889; (2) in Gretser, op. cit., ii. 543 sqq. ; (3) Wotke, Wiener Studien, 1891, p. 300 sqq. ; the Latin (1) in the Sanctuarium (a rather rare book ; c. 1479) of Mombritius, and in Acta Sanct., May 4, I., 445 sqq. ; (2) in Holder, op. cit. ; (3) in Mombritius, op. cit.; the Syriac (1) from seventh century Ms., in Nestle’s De sancta Cruce, 1889; (2) ib. ; (3) in Bedjan’s Acta Martyrum et Sanctorum, 1890, p. 326 sgq.)

22, ST. GEORGE—(P. 472)

The article on St. George by Zéckler in Herzog and Plitt’s Encyclopedia has