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Rh 596 JOANNES. Aristotelis lihros, especially on the Analytica priora. 11. Introductio and Scholia to the works of the Astronomer Cleoraedes [Cleomedes]. His other scientific works are, 12. Arithneiicarum Quaestio- num Expositio. 13. In quaedam Arithmetices loca obscura. 14. reufxerpia Koi (tvvo/is Trepi l^WPV- aeus Koi [xepiaixov 77)9, Geomeiria^ et Compendium de Mensuratione et Divisione Terrae. 15. DeCuho Duplicando. 16. Opusculum de Sepiem Planetis. 17. De Symphoniis Mmids. III. Miscellaneous. Two other works of Joannes ; one, 18, apparently on canon law, De Consanguinitate ; and another, 19, possibly an allegorical commentary, De Novem Musis^ are also enumerated. (Fabric. Bill. Gr, vol. vi. p. 371 ; vol. xi. p. 648, &c. ; Bandini, Catal. Codd. Laur. Medic, vol. ii. col. 95., 162.) 62. Abbot of the monastery on Mount Ganus. [See No. 101.] 63. Of Gaza, a Greek writer (grammaticus), of whose date nothing is known, except that he lived after the time of the Christian poet Nonnus [NoN- Nus], who may be placed in or just before the reign of Justinian I. John of Gaza appears to have imitated the style of Nonnus. He wrote : 1. "E/c- (ppaais rov Kocr/xiKov irivaKos rod ev Ta^ri ^ ev 'Ai/Tjoxeia, Tabellae Universi Ecphrasis, an iambic poem of 701 lines, published by Janus Rutgersius in his Variae Lectiones, 4to., Ley den, 1618, pp. 98, &LC. 2. Uepl'Apxaiohoyias^ DeAntiquitatibus, ex- tent in MS., and quoted by Du Cange in his notes to Zonaras. (Rutgersius, Var. Led. I. c. ; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. viii. p. 610, vol. xi. p. 653.) 64. Geometra, the Geometer (rewjuerpTjs), called also Protothronus (npwroSpoi'os), a Greek writer, of whose date nothing is accurately known. Combefis, in the Notitia Scriptorum in the first vol. of his Bibliotlieca Condonatoria^ places him in the ninth or tenth century. Oudin places him in the eleventh century. He is quoted by Macarius Chrysocephalus [Chrysocephalus Macarius], tvhom some critics place in the thirteenth, others in the fourteenth century, in his Catena in MattJmeum. He wrote, 1. Epigramma in S. Crucem, published by Allatius in his Excerpta Varia Graecorum Sophistarum., 8vo., Rome, 1641. 2. Metaphrasis Canticorum S. Scripturae, or Odarum (s. Cunticorum) Ecclesiae Metaphrasis ; a paraphrase in iambic verse of nine songs from the 0. and N. T. ; published by Bandini in his Catal. Codd. Laur. Medic, vol. i. p. 65, &c 3. "TfjLvoi 8' tls riv vir^paylav ©eoroKov, Hymni quatuor Elegiaci in S. Virginem, with a short Corollarium or epilogue, in iambic verse. These hymns which, from each distich beginning with the word XaTpe, are sometimes referred to b}-^ the descriptive term XazpeTto-yuoi, were published by Fed. Morel, with a Latin version, 8vo,, Paris, 1591, and were reprinted in the Corpus Poetarum Graecorum, h. Geneva, 1614, vol. ii. p. 746; in the Appendix (or Auctarium) Bibliotliecae Patrum of Ducaeus, vol. ii. fol. Paris, 1624 ; and in the Biblioth. Patrum, vol. xiv. p. 439, &c., Paris, 1654. In this last work they are followed by a Hymnus Alphabeticus, the authorship of which is uncertain. 4. *E7rt7pc£;0ijUOTa nrpdcrTixa "^QikoL Su r? eiriypa(f>ri napdStuTos, Paradisus 7etrastichorum Moraliumet Piorum. These poems, ninety-nine in number, are commonly said to have been first published by Fed. Morel, 8vo., Paris, 1595 ; but Oudin says they were published at Venice, 4to., 1563. They were reprinted with the Hymni in S. Virginem, in the Ap- jpendia of Ducaeus, and in the Bilioih. Patrum of JOANNES. 1654. Joannes Geometrd wrote several sermons and poems extant in MS. (Fabric. Bibl. Gr. voL viii. pp. 625. 676, vol.x. p. 130 ; Cave, Hist. Lilt. vol. ii. Diss. 1 ma. p. 10; Oudin, De Scripior. et Scriptis Eccles. vol, ii. col. 615.) Q5. Glyces, Glyceus, Glycis, or Glycas. [Glycis.] QQ. Grammaticus. [Philoponus.] 67. Hierosolymitanus. [See Nos. 72 to 76.] 68. Hypatus (s. Princeps) Philosophorum. [See No. 61 and No. 78.] Q9. Jacobitarum Patriarch a, a Latin version of a letter of Joannes, patriarch of the Egyptian Jacobites, to Pope Eugenius (a. d. 1431 to 1447), in reply to a letter of the Pope to him, is given in the Concilia, vol, xiii. col. 1201, ed. Labbe ; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. ii.. Appendix, p. 151. 70. Janopulus. [Janopulus,] 71. Jejunator. [See No. 27-] 72. Of Jerusalem (1 ), was originally a monk ; but little is known of his history till A. D. 386, when he was elected to succeed Cyril [Cyrillus, St. of Jerusalem] as bishop of Jerusalem. He was then not much more than thirty years of age. (Hieron. Epist. Ixxxii. 8). Some speak of him as patriarch, but Jerusalem was not elevated to the dignity of a patriarchate until the following cen- tury. Joannes was a mail of insignificant per- sonal appearance (Hieron. Lib. contra Joan. c. 10), and Jerome, who was disposed to disparage him, thought him a man of small attainments : he acknowledges, however, that others gave him credit for eloquence, talent, and learning (Hieron. Lib. contra Joan. c. 4) ; and Theodoret calls him a man worthy of admiration (//. E. v. 35). He was acquainted, at least in some degree, with the He- brew and Syriac languages, but it is doubtful if he was acquainted with Latin. He is said to have been at one period an Arian, or to have sided with the Arians when they were in the ascendant under the emperor Valens (Hieron. Lib. contra ? Joan, c, 4, 8 ): Jerome hints that there were other reports current to his discredit, but as he does not state what were the charges against him, there is some difficulty in judging whether they had any other origin than the malice of his opponents. For eight years after his appointment to the bishopric, he was on friendly terms with Jerome, who was then living a monastic life in Bethlehem or its neighbourhood : but towards the close of that period, strife was stirred up by Epiphanius of Constantia (or Salamis) in Cyprus, who came to Palestine to ascertain the truth of a report which had reached him, that the obnoxious sentiments of Origen were gaining ground under the patronage of Joannes [Epiphanius]. The violence with which Epiphanius preached against Origenism, and, by implication, against Joannes, provoked at first merely contempt for what Joannes regarded as the revilings of a dotard ; and Joannes contented him- self with sending his archdeacon to advise him to leave off such preaching (Hieron. Lib contra Joan, c. 1 4). The matter, however, produced serious re- sults ; for Epiphanius, failing to induce Joannes pointedly to condemn Origenism, roused against him the fierce and intolerant spirit of Jerome and the other solitaries of Bethlehem : and in his ardour proceeded to the irregular step of ordaining Pau- iinianus, the younger brother of Jerome, as deacon and presbyter. The ordination, however, took place, not in the diocese of Jerusalem, but in the