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Rh THEODORUS. of John, and the Epistle of Jude). Fragments of these commentaries are preserved in the Acta of the fifth Council and elsewhere. His commentaries on the Twelve Minor Prophets are said to be still extant. Those on Jonah, Obadiah, Nahum, and the preftices to those on Amos, Zachariah, Haggai and Hosea, were published byAngelo Mai {Script, vcterum nova Collect, vol. i. sect. ii. p. 41 — 104). The fragments of the commentary on Luke, pre- served in the Catenae^ were published by MUnter (1788). Photius {Cod. 381) mentions Theodorus's epfjLTjueia t7]s Kria-ecos, fragments of which are extant. 8. A work on the Nicene creed is quoted in the Jc^a of the fifth council (Cullat. iv. p. 81). 9. A treatise addressed to candidates for baptism (Ibid.). 10. A confession of faith is extant (Act. VI. Condi. Ephes, tom. i. p. 1515, ed. Hard.) which is by some ascribed to Theodoras, by others to Nestorius. 11. A work against the allegorical interpretation of Scripture is mentioned by Ebed Jesu and Facundus (iii. 6). 12. Theodoras also compiled a liturgy, which was adopted by the Nestorians. 1 3. A few other treatises are men- tioned by Ebed Jesu. (Fabric. Bibl. Grace, vol. x. p. 346, &c. ; Neander, Allgemeine Geschichte der Christliclien Religion und Kirche, vol. ii. Abt. ii. and iii.) 57. Neocaksariensis. [Gregorius Thauma- TIJRGUS.] 58. Son of Theodorus, bishop of Jerusalem, was pope from Nov. 3, A. d. 642, to April 20, a. d. 649. There is still extant a letter addressed by him to Paulus, Patriarch of Constantinople, in the matter of one Pyrrhus, a Monothelite ; and likewise a letter addressed to the bishops who con- secrated Paulus. (Fabric. Bibl. Grace, vol. x. p. 427, vol. xii. p. 707). B9. Patriarcha. [No. 26.] 60. Of Perinthus. [No. 42.J 61. Bishop of Petra in Galilee, flourished in the sixth century, and was the author of a life of the archimandrite Theodosius, whose disciple he was. His Canonicon also is quoted by Nic. Com- nenus. (Fabric. Bibl. Grace, vol. x. pp. 337, 428.) 62. Pharanites, bishop of Pharan, belonged to the Monothelite party. He was one of those condemned by the sixth oecumenical council, held at Constantinople. We find ascribed to him a treatise Trept ovffias koI (piacws, viroaraffecis re Koi Trpoaoonov, a Ao'7os Trphs '^epyiou, and another Ifls Tas epixr]veias rcSif irarpiKooV XP^^^'^^^i some fragments of which remain. (Fabric. Bibl. Grace. jvol. X. p. 428.) 63. Prodromus. There were two of this name. [1. A writer on canonical law, whose i^ijyrjcris of ithe canons of the councils is repeatedly quoted by jNic. Comnenus and others. Nothing is known of his personal history, but that he seems to have Gracc. vol. x. p. 428, vol. xii. p. 206.) There is some 1 [confusion in the notices contained in Fabricius. In jvol. X. p. 429, and vol. xii. p. 206, he speaks of this Prodromus as rhu twv UpSiv kclvSvoiv irpwTOU ^a(pr)viaTi]v, and as the author of an exposition of fthe canones or hymns appropriated to the dominical lestivals ; while in vol. viii. p. 1 42, note h, that jvvork is assigned to the following Theodoras Prodromus. iii. Prodromus (2), or, as he is sometimes liied in the MSS., Theodorus Ptochoprodromus, a
 * lived a long time before Balsamo. (Fabric. Bibl.
 * i<'nk who lived in the first half of the twelfth

THEODORUS. 1055 century. On entering upon the monastic life he received the name of Hilarion, He was held in great repute by his contemporaries as a scholar and philosopher, and received the appellation of Kupo? (equivalent to Kvpios in the Greek of the Middle Ages). He wrote upon a variety of subjects, — philosophy, grammar, theology, history, and astro- nomy, and in particular was a somewhat prolific poet. Several of his compositions have come down to us, and some have been published. The following are extant : 1. A metrical romance in nine books, on the loves of Rhodanthe and Dosicles. It is written in iambic metre, and exhibits no great ability. The reader would look in vain for any thing like a natural progress in the action, or unity in the characters. Not only are we introduced at once i?i medias res, but instead of narrating on suitable opportunities what had preceded, Dosicles is made to tell what had gone before, beginning at the end, and interweaving the preceding parts of the narrative into his story. There is only one edition of this poem, by Gilb. Gaulmin. (Paris, 1625.) Poor as the poem is, however, it found an imitator. There is extant an iambic poem, also in nine books, on the loves of Drosilla and Charicles, by Nicetas Eugenianus, which has been erroneously ascribed to Theodorus Prodromus. 2, A poem entitled Galeomyomachia, in iambic verse, on " the battle of the mice and cat," in imitation of the Homeric Batrachomyomachia. Victory declares itself on the side of the mice, the cat being killed by the fiill of a beam. This piece is often appended to the editions of Aesop and Babrius. It has also been edited by K. D. Ilgen, in connection with the Homeric hymns. (Halle, 1796.) 3. 'H aTr65r]fj.os (piKia, a poem in iambic senarii. Friendship relates how Human Life, to whom she had been married, had repudiated her by the advice of his slave Folly, and given his hand to Enmity. After a long con- versation, depicting the operation of Friendship in the world, the upshot is that Friendship marries the stranger to whom her narrative is addressed. This dialogue, with the translation of Conrad Gesner, has frequently been appended to the editions of Stobaeus. A separate edition was pub- lished by J. F. Morel. (Paris, 1549.) It is also edited by Honter and Guntius in the collection of the epigrams of Theodorus (Basel, 1536), and by J. Erard, with some other small poems by the same author. (Leipzig, 1598.) 4. A poem of above 1000 lines, divided into two books, in which Theodorus complains to the emperor Manuel Comnenus (who reigned from 1143 to 1180) of his extreme poverty, and begs him to withdraw him from the misery which he had to endure in his convent, while those placed over him indulged in debaucheries. About forty lines at the be- ginning and end of each book are written in old Greek, the remainder in a dialect resembling the modern Greek. The poem has been published by Koray, in the first volume of the .(toA^ia (Paris, 1828). 5. ^AfidpavTos, ^ yepoi/ros epwrer, a dia- logue in prose, published by Gaulmin, together with No. 1, and also by De la Porte du Theil (Notices et Extraits, vol. viii. 1810). 6. A Dis- sertation on Wisdom, being an invective against the saying ^ ireviri aocplrfv eaxfv, published by F. Morell. (Paris, 1608.) 7. Epigrammata, de- scribed more fully as T^rpdanxa ia/xSela nal rjpwa els ra Ke<paaia)5ci}s pr)64vTa iv rfj ypacp'^, consisting of poetical summaries of the subject-matter of the