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Rh TZETZES. pears to have contemplated a series of such pro- ductions, of which this was only the''A(pa. Va- rious appendices or scholia to it, and a collection of 107 prose epistles are yet unpublished. The first edition of this work was published by Gerbelius in 1546. The best edition is that of Kiessling (Lips. 1826), though much still requires correction and supplementation (see Struve, Ueber de?i politischen Vers der Mittelgrkchen, 1828, and in the Krit. Biblioth. 1827, 11 p. 241, &c. ; comp. DUbner, in the Rhein. Mus. iv. 1). Some insignificant scholia on the Chiliades by Tzetzes are published in Cra- mer's Anecdota. Oxon. (iii. 350, &c.). 3. An iambic poem on the education of children is printed in the editions of the Chiliades. 4. A series of mythical and epic narratives, in 777 political lines, entitled ^eoyovia^wa.?, discovered by Immanuel Bek- ker, and publislied in the Abliandlungen der Preus- sischen Akademie, 1840. 5. A versified treatise Trepi n^rpwv, and another Trepi 5ia<popas ttolt^twv (Cramer, Anecd. Oocon. iv. 302, &c. ; Welcker, Rhein. Mus. iv. 393, &c. ; Meineke, Com. Gr. ii. p. 1245 — 1254, V. p. 3). 6. An equally worthless poem or collection of verses, irepl Tliv^apiKoiv fiiTpwu (Cramer, Anecd. Paris, i. 59 — 162). 7. Some versified scholia on Hermogtmes (Cramer, Anecd. Oxon. iv. p. 1 — 148). 8. Lines irepl pr]fj.(i- TU3U avdviroTciKTwu (Bekker, Anecd. vol. iii. p. 1088—1090). 9. An i^vyncris on the Iliad of Homer ; published by G. Hermann, together with the work of Draco of Stratonicea, en metres (Leip- zig, 1812). 10. Scholia on Hesiod, printed in the editions of Hesiod by Trincavelli (Venice, 1537), and Heinsius (Leyden, 1603). Of the unpublished works of Joannes Tzetzes, the most considerable is: 1. The Homeric Alle- gories (vTr69€cns rod '0/xr}pou aWr]yoprf6e7aa, or /uerdcppacris 'Ofx-fjpov), consisting of some 6000 po- litical lines. Tzetzes mentions this work in the Chiliades (v. 7, 776, ix. 282, &c.). Besides this there are, 2. Scholia on the Halieutica of Oppian. 3. Expositio Isagoges, sen Libri de V. Vocibus Por- phyrii, in political verses. 4. An epitome of the rhetoric of Ilermogenes, in political verses. 5. Ao- yKTixwu ^iSKos (comp. Chil. xi. 361). 6. A col- lection of 107 letters (see above). 7. A treatise on the Canon of Ptolemy. 8. Various short pieces, epigrams, &c. For an account of the manuscripts in which these are found the reader is referred to Fabricius, Bibl. Gr. vol. xi. p. 215, &c., comp. i. 403, &c. vi. 352. (Schcill, Geschichte der Griech. Litteratur, vol. iii. p. 84, kc. ; Bernhardy, Grun- driss der GriecMschen Litteratur, vol. ii. p. 1070.) 2. Isaac ('Itraa/cios TCeV^Tjs), brother of the preceding, is named in the manuscripts as the author of the commentary on the Cassandra of Ly- cophron. It appears however from passages in his works, that Joannes Tzetzes claimed it as his pro- duction {Chil. ix. hist. 298 ; comp. Schol. ad Ly- cophr. 83). The same claim is made in a letter of Joannes Tzetzes to the Protonotarius Basilius Achridenus, printed in Fabricius, vol. iii. p. 753, and in KUster's Suidas, s. v. AvKScppcou. In Chil. viii. hist. 204, Joannes says that some other gram- marian attempted to set up a claim to be the author of the commentary, but was speedily detected. The last editor, J. C. Miiller, is of opinion that Isaac Tzetzes first published a commentary on Ly- cophron, and that Joannes Tzetzes subsequently published an enlarged and improved edition of it. Of this he finds traces in the manuscripts, some of VI„ lU. VACCA. 1201 which contain apparently the older edition of Isaac, others the improved edition of Joannes, the ad- ditions exhibiting not only the learning, but the arrogant self-complacency of Joannes. The latter moreover does tell us that his brother Isaac wrote a commentary on Lycophron (Schol. ad Hesiod. Proleg. Kol T(^ ijx^ Se aSe<p(p iKTreirSprjTai X'lav KaWiara Kal (piXoTifiSraTa irepl to6tov iv rrj rov AvK6(ppovos i^rjynaei ; comp. Chil. viii. 486).' The commentary is printed in several of the editions of Lycophron, as in that printed at Basel, 1546 ; in those of Canter (Basel, 1566), Stephamis(1601), Potter (Oxon. 1697), Owen (Oxon. 1702), Se- bastiani (Rome, 1803). The best edition of the commentary, without the text of Lycophron, is that by Muller (Leipzig, 1811). [C. P. M.] U. V. VABALATHUS. Vopiscus, in his life ut Au- relian (c. 38), asserts that Zenobia assumed the purple as regent for her son Balbahis (al. le^. Babalat?is), and not in the name of Herennianus and Timolaus, which is the statement of Trebcllius Pollio {Trig. Tyrann. xxix.). It is certain that we find no trace of either Herennianus or Timolaus on medals, while a few are extant, both Greek and Roman, Avhich exhibit imp. c. vabalathus AUG. or ATT.OTABAiAA0OC.CEB. with the effigy and titles of Aurelian on the reverse. But several of these bear words or characters, in addi- tion to those given above, which have proved a source of much embarrassment. Thus, on one we find VABALATHUS. VCRIMDR., abbreviations to which no archaeologist has been able to supply a satisfactory interpretation ; on others, ATT.CPniAC.OTABAAAA0OC.A0HNOT. or, A.CPIAC.OTABAAAA0OC,A0HNT. or, ATT.K.OTABAAAA0OC.A0HNO.CEB, in which A0HNOT, &c., is supposed to stand for 'ABT]vo5wpov vtos, while Sroias or Srias may be a sort of praenomen. Finally, there is a rare coin displaying on the obverse two laurelled heads, one of a bearded man, the other of a smooth-faced bov, with the legend ATPHAIANOC.A0HNOAnPOC. It would be tedious and improfitable to enumerate the various theories proposed to solve the problems suggested by these pieces. The only conclusion we can safely form is, that Sroias, Vabalathus, and Athenodorus were princes of Palmyra, connected with Odenathus and Zenobia, but in what relation they stood to tiiem and to each other, has never been determined, [W. R.] COIN OF VABALATHUS. VACCA, FLAMI'NIUS, a Roman sculptor, of whom all that is known is contained in the following inscription: d. o. m. plaminio vaccae SCULPTORI ROMANO QUI IN OPERIBUS QUAE PECIT NUNQUAM SIBI SATISFECIT. (MontfaUCOn, Diar. Ital. p. 105 ; Welcker, Rhein. Mus. 1848, vol. vi. p. 383.) [P. S.] 4 u