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Rh 222 PETRUS. ieen written after the rise of Mohammedanism. 6. Tlerpov KT^pir/fxa, Petri Praedicatio^ mentioned by Clement of Alexandria {Stromat. libb. i. vi.), Eusebius {H. E. iii. 3), and Jerome {I. c). A few fragments of this work have been collected by Grabe (Spicileg. vol. i. p. 62, &c.), from Clement of Alexandria, Origen, Lactantius, Gregory Na- zianzen, and others. Dodwell supposed that the Epistola ad Jacohum (No. 3) was the introduction to the Praedicatio, but his opinion is rejected by Grabe (ibid. p. 59). The work entitled j^ibadKoKia IlfTpov, Doctrina Petri, quoted by Origen (Prae/. ad Libros, Ilept dpx'^v, vers. Rufini) and Damas- cenus {Parallel, ii. 16), is probably only another name for the Praedicatio (Grabe, ibid. pp. 56, 57). The KoT7fx''?ff'ts Uirpov, Catecliesis Petri., formerly in the Coislin library at Paris, is also apparently the same work. 6. Petri Judicium s. Duae Viae. This work is mentioned by Rufinus {Exposit. Sym- holi) and Jerome {I. c.). Grabe suspects that no such work ever existed ; but that the supposition of its existence arose from Rufinus mistaking SpAto", the abbreviation of Krjpvyfia, for Kpi/j-a, and that Jerome was misled by the error of Rufinus. The work is certamly not mentioned by Eusebius. 7. A work entitled 'H ^eia Xenovpyla tov dyiov itiroaroKov nhpov, Missa Apostolica s. Divinum Sacrificium S. Apostoli Petri., was published in Greek, with a Latin version by Fed. Morel. Paris, 1 595, and has been reprinted (sometimes in Latin only) in various editions of the Bibliotheca Patrum. The Tlirpov nepioboi, or Circuitus s. Peregrinationes s. Itinerarium Petri, mentioned repeatedly by the ancients, appear to be only so many titles for the Eecofffiitiones of Clement The Tlerpov koI "'Atticovos (s.'Ainrlcovos) SidKoyoi, Petri et Apionis Disputationes ( Euseb. H.E. iii. 38 ; Hieron. De Viris Iltustr. c. 15), was not ascribed to Peter as its author, but to Clement of Rome. Eusebius speaks of it as a spurious work, recently produced, and not noticed by more ancient writers. Valesius {not. ad Euseb. I.e.) thinks it was a second, and now lost part of the Recognitiones. The Praecepta Petri et Pauli and the XleVpou rcu HavXov Tuv ayluv airotTroKwv SioTa|e»s, Petri et Pauli SS. Apostolorum Constitutiones, now or for- merly extant in the Medicean library at Florence, and the Bodleian at Oxford, appear to be portions of the well-known Constitutiones Apostolicae (Grabe, Spicileg. vol, i. pp. 85, 86). The Plandus Petri Apostoli Vicarii (Fabric. Cod. Apocryph. N. T. vol. iii. p. 721) is one of a parcel of forged docu- ments, partly written on parchment, partly inscribed on leaden plates, professing to be Latin translations from the Arabic, which were dug up in a mountain near Granada, near the close of the sixteenth cen- tury. The Epistola ad Pipinum Regem Francorum et Carolum ac Cnrlomannum Filios ejus, written by Pope Stephen IIL in the name of the Apostle Peter, soliciting aid against the Lombards, is re- garded by Fabricius rather as a piece of rhetorical aifectation than a fraud. The Epistola is given by Baronius, in his Annates Ecclesiastici, ad ann. 755, xvii. &c. (Grabe, Spicileg. SS. Patrum, vol. i. pp. 55—81 ; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. i. p. 6 ; Fabric. Codex Apocryphus N. T. passim.) 7. Of Argos. There were two bishops of Argos of the name of Peter, authors of works extant in MS. or print. One of these wrote an Elogium Cosmxte et Damiani SS. Anargyrorum in Asia 8. Oratio in sanctos et gloriosos Anargyros et Tkaumaturgos Cosmum et Damianum, which has PETRUS. never been printed (Fabric. Bibl Graec. vol. x. p. 214, vol. xi. p. 336 ; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. ii. Dissert, i. p. 15). The other, who is termed Petrus Siculus or Peter the Sicilian, and acquired his bishopric after a. d. 790, wrote a life of St. Athanasius, bishop of Methone in the Pelopon- nesus ; and is probably the same person as the Petrus Siculus who was sent by the emperor Basil the Macedonian [Basilius I. Macedo] to Tab- rica in the district or on the frontier of Melitene near the Euphrates, to negotiate an exchange of prisoners, apparently with the chiefs of the Pauli- cians ; a purpose which, after a residence of nine months, he effected. He wrote an account of the Paulicians, or as he designated them, Manichaeans. Both these works have been published in a Latin version : 1. The life of St. Athanasius is given in the Latin version of the Jesuit Franciscus Blanditius in the Acta Sanctorum of the Bollandists, Januar. vol. ii. p. 1125, &c. It is entitled Petri Siculi, humillimi Argivorum Episcopi, Funebris Oratio in B. Athunasium, Methones Episcopum. 2. The account of the Paulicians was translated into Latin, and published by Matthaeus Raderus, 4to. Ingolstadt, 1604, and has been reprinted in various editions of the Bibliotheca Patrum. It is entitled Petri Siculi Historia de vana et stolida Mani- chaeorum Haeresi tanquam Archiepiscopo Bulga- rorum nuncupata. It is in the sixteenth volume of the Lyon edition of the Bibliotheca, fol. 1677. It is to be observed that Le Quien considers the Elogium SS. Cosmae et Damiani to be by Petrus Siculus, and not by another Peter. (Miraeus, Auctarium de Scriptor. Eccles. c. 256 ; Vossius, De Historicis Graeeis, lib. iv. c. 19 ; Cave, Hist. Litt. ad ann. 870, vol. ii. p. 55 ; Acta Sanctorum^ I. c. ; Fabric. Biblioth. Graec. vol. x. p. 201 ; Le Quien, Oriens Christianus, vol. ii. col. 1 84.) 8. Chartophylax. [No. 15.] 9. Chrysolanus or Grosolanus, was arch- bishop of Milan, A. D. 1110, having previously held some less important see. He was sent by Pope Paschal II. on a mission to the emperor Alexius I. Comnenus, and engaged eagerly in the controversy on the procession of the Holy Spirit. His only title to be noticed in this work, within the limits of which he does not properly fall, is derived from his having composed Ilpos tou fiaai- a Kupiov 'AKe^iov r6v Koixv-qvov yos, k. t. A. Ad Imperatorem Dominum Alexium Comnenum Oratio, ^c, designed to prove the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Son as well as from the Father, published in the Graecia Orihodoxa of Allatius, vol. i. p. 379, &c. 4to, Rome, 1652, and given in a Latin version by Baronius, Annal. Eccles. ad ann. 1116. viii. &c. (Fabric. ^iMo^A. Graec. vol. xi. p. 335 ; Cave, Hist. Liit. ad ann. 1110, vol. ii. p. 191.) 10. Chrysologus. This ecclesiastic (a saint in the Romish Calendar) is thought to have been bom at Forum Cornelii (now Imola) in the north- em part of Italy, and was educated by Cornelius, a bishop, and perhaps (though Tillemont doubts it) of that city. He received ordination as presbyter, or, as some think, as deacon only, from the same prelate ; and became archbishop of Ravenna, as Tillemont thinks, before a. d. 431, but according to Cave in a. d. 433, and died in or before A. D. 451, in which year Pope Leo the Great wrote a letter to a Leo bishop of Ravenna, who must have been a successor of Peter Chrysologus. The state-