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Rh 256 GEORGIUS. pereat et eorura ingrata merces" (" My labours are lost, let the thankless recompense of them perish too ") : but the similarity of the story to an anec- dote of Theodore Gaza destroys, or at least much impairs its credibility. George's son, Andreas Trapezuntius, in his prefatory address to Pope Sixtus IV., prefixed to George's translation of the Almagest of Ptolemj^ declares that his life was shortened by the malignity of " his powerful enemy ; " but who this enemy was Andreas does not mention. It could hardly have been Theodore Gaza, the rival of George, for he died A. d. 1478, while George himself did not die until A. D. 1485 or 1486, at the age of about 90. He was buried near his residence, in the Church of the Virgin Mary, formerly the Temple of Minerva at Rome, where was a monumental inscription in the floor of the church ; but it had been so worn by the feet of the persons frequenting the church, that even in Allatius's time nothing was visible but the traces of the name. George of Trebizond left a son, Andreas or An- drew, who, during his father's lifetime, wrote in his defence against Theodore Gaza ; but he was a person of no talent or eminence. A daughter of Andrew was married to the Roman poet Faustus Magdalena, who was killed at the sacking of Rome by the troops of Charles V., a. d. 1527. Faustus, who was a friend of Leo X., used to speak much of his wife's grandfather. The character of George is unfavourably repre- sented by his biographers Allatius and Boerner, the latter of whom describes him as deceitful, vain, and envious. The disputes in which he was involved with the principal scholars with whom he had any thing to do confirm these unfavourable representa- tions. The works of George of Trebizond are nume- rous, consisting partly of original works, a few in Greek, the rest in Latin ; partly of translations from Greek into Latin. many of them, however, remain in MS. We notice only those that have been printed ; arranging them in classes, and giving the works in each class chronologically, according to the date of their earliest known publication. I. Original Works, i. In Greek. 1. IIpos t6v v/T]K6TaTOV Kai ^ciwrarov BaffiXea 'Fcoixaluiu mum sacratissimumque Regem Romanorum Joannem Ralaeologum. Subjoined by Pontanus, together with a Latin version, to his Latin versions of Theo- phylact Simocatta and Phranza, 4to. Ingolstadt, 1G04. 2. Upos '(»6.vvi]v TOP Kov€oK'^aiov wepl TTjs eKiropevaews rov 'Ayiov UveufxaTos, Ad Joan- nem Cubodesium de Processione Spiritus Sancti. 3. Tlepl TTJS eKiropevcrews tov 'Aylou nvfifjLaros, Kcti irepl T^s fjLias dyias KadoKiKris 'EKKArjalas, rdis iv KpifxTj ^eiois oofSpdai Upojxovdxoi-s re koX Upevai, De Processione Spiritus Saticii, et de Una Sancta Catholica Ecclesia, Divinis Hominibus^ qui in Greta Insula sunt, Ilieromonachis et Sacerdotibus. Both of these were published with a Latin version in the Graecia Orlhodoxa of Allatius, vol. i. pp. 469 — 582. Rome, 1652. ii. In Latin. 4. Rhetorica, Libri r., fol. Venice, 1470. This date is fixed by the chief bibliographical authorities, but is not given in the work. The RJielorica has been often reprinted. Valentine Curio, in the preface to his edition, 4to. Basil, 1522, states that the work was left by the author in so imperfect a state that its revision had coat the editor much labour. He adds that it em- GEORGIUS. bodied a translation of a considerable part of tlie rhetorical works of Hermogenes. 5. De Octo Par- tibus Orationis ex Prisciano Compendium^ 4to. Mi- lan, 1472. The same work appears to have been printed in 1537 in 8vo. at Augsburg, under the title of De Octo Partibus Orationis Compendium, omitting ex Prisciano; though some of our autho- rities hesitate about identifying the two works. 6. De Artificio Ciceronianae Orationis pro Q. Li- gario (sometimes described as Expositio in Ora- tionem Ciceronis pro Q. Ligario) ; printed with the commentaries of some other writers on some of the orations of Cicero, fol. Venice, 1477, and several times reprinted. 7. Commentarius in Phi/ippica Ciceronis, 4to. Venice. The year of publication is not known. These two works have been reprinted in some collections of commentaries on Cicero's ora- tions. S. Dialectica, 4to. Strasburg, 1509. Twelve editions of this little work were published between 1509 and 1536. The work entitled Compendium Dialeciices ex Aristoiele, by George of Trebizond, published without note of time or place, is pro- bably the same work. 9. Comparationes Philoso- phorum Platonis et Aristotelis, 8vo. Venice, 1523. We are not aware that the work was printed be- fore this date, but it must have been circulated in some form, as it was the work which drew upon George the anger of Cardinal Bessarion, who pub- lished a reply to it under the title Adversus Calum- niatorem Platonis, Libri Quinque, fol. Rome, 1469. In this reply he criticises George's translation of Plato's treatise De Legibus, which has never been printed. 10. De Antisdis in quorum Raiionem Fata sua rejicit. 11. Cur Astrologorum Judicia plerumque falluntur. These two works were printed with Omar De Nativitatibus, 8vo. Venice, 1 525. 12. Expositio in illud ^'■Si eum volo manere donee veniam,''^ 8vo. Basil. 1543 ; and reprinted in both editions of the Orthodoxograj^lia (Basil. 1555 and 15G9) and in the Bibliotheca Patrum, vol. vi. ed. Paris, 1576. In this exposition of a passage (c. xxi. 22) in the Gospel of John, George contended that the evangelist was still living on the earth. 13. In Claudii Ptolemaei Centum Sententias (or Centiloquium) Commentarius, with a reprint of Nos. 10 and 11, and with the treatise of Joannes Pon- tanus, Qjiatentis credendum sit Astrologis, 8vo. Co- logne, 1544. 14. Acta Beati Andreae Chii; printed in the De Probatis Sanctorum Vitis of Surius, Mali, 29. p. 324, fol. Cologne, 1618, and in the Acta Sanctorum of Bollandus, Maii, torn. vii. p. 184, &c. II. Translations. 15. Eusebius Pamphili de Praeparatione Evangelica a Georgio Trupezuntio traducttts, fol. Venice, 1470. In this version the whole of the fifteenth book is omitted ; yet it ob- tained great reputation, as was shown by its being reprinted nine or ten times during the fifteenth cen- tury. 16. Joannes Chrysostomus super Matthaeum, Fol. Cologne, 1487. There is an edition without note of time or place, but which, from the character of the type, is supposed to be printed by Mentelius of Strasburg, whose other works bear date from 1473 to 1476. This translation is not wholly ori- ginal ; in some of the homilies it is only the ancient version of Anianus revised. 17. RJietoricorum Aristotelis ad Tlwodecien Libri Tres. A version of this work of Aristotle, which some of our authori- ties state to be by George of Trebizond, but which does not bear his name in the title, was published in fol., Leipsic, 1503, and Venice, 1515 ; but his version was certainly printed, at Paris, 8vo. 1 530,
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