Page:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire vol 4 (1897).djvu/535

 APPENDIX ADDITIONAL NOTE.S BY THE EDITOR 1. AUTHORITIES The history of the reign of Leo I. and Zeno (in three Books) was written by Can- DiDUR the isaurian. He held the jiost of clerk or secretary to influential Isau- rians ; such is the vague ])hrase of Photius, who in the Bibliothcca (cod. 71>) gives a short notice of the writer an<l a summary of the contents of his work. He was an orthodox Christian. Besides the account in Photius (Miiller, F. H. G. iv. p. 13.5), we have probably three fragments in the Lexicon of Suidas : (a) svb xeipifw (Miiller, ib. 137) ; (^) the first part of the article 'Ap/jaros (assigned by Niebuhr to Malchus but) vindicated for Candidus by Toup and Shestakov ; (y) the first part of the article Ba<riAio-ico9, plausibly assigned to Candidus by Shesta- kov (p and y are jjrinted under Malchus in Miiller, ib. p. 11(5, 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 Shes- takov in his paper Candid Isavriski (Lietopis ist.-phil. obschestva, 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 apijeared. Shestakov analyses the account of the great fire in Leo's reign given % our authorities, and shows that, while Evagrius drew (through Eustathius) from Priscus, Zonaras and Ced- renus drew from Candidus (who jirobably made use of Priscus too) ; and he applies the same methoil to the stories of Aspar's fall and the exjieditiou of Basiliscus. It had already been recognized that the fragments of .John of Anti- och numbered 210 and 211 in Miiller (F. H. G. iv. 618 sqq.) depended on Candi- dus ; this is also probably true of the Escurial fragment of the same writer, 214 C in Miiller [ih. v., cp. Shestakov, p. 125). Shestakov traces Candidus in Zonaras, Cedrenus, Nicephorus Callistus, and makes it probable that his history was con- sulted by Procojjius * 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 suliject 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 M. F. Cumont in the Rrwc dr Piiistructiov. piihUqvr ni Bcbjiquc, 1897, vol. xl. p. L It contains a horoscojie of the coronation of Leontius, the puppet emperor whom the rebels set up in Sjria, and who was crowned at Tarsus, a.d. 483. The date given is the 24th of Kjiiiihi = 19th July, whereas Theophanes gives 27th June. Malchus of Philadeljihia wrote, under Anastasius, a continuation of the 1 Cp. especially p. 14^-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 (I'erinthus), is Niccpl.orus Callistus (p. 80 C). Shestakov states that we tind him there afterwards, in Theodore Lcttor, p. i.So A (Migne), and m John , t. fr. 210 ; and (p. 1491 ascribes to John of Aniioch the statement that Basiliscus is at Heraclea, where he has an interview with llkr. and conspires with him agamst /eno. The pl.K e is mentioned by Theodore (and Theophanes) but not by John. The name Heraclea or Perinthus does not occur in the fragment. (511)