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Rh PHOTIUS. Tiis Tdfjios x^P^^- I*'"!- Rininik? 1705. A letter. Ad llieopluinem Monachum, i. e. to Theophanes Cerameus, with a Latin version by Sirmond, was published by the Jesuit Franciscus Scorsus, in his J'rooemium Secundum^ § 3, to the Ilomiliae of Ce- rameus, fol. Paris, 1644 [Cerameus, Theopha- >'Es], and another letter, Slauracio Spatharo-candi- dato, Fracfedo insulae Cypri^ was included in the Ecdesiae Graecae Monumenta of Cotelerius, vol. ii. p. 104, together with a short piece, Ilepi rod firi Setv irpos TO. Iv tc^ ^icf vnr]pa, inKTrpecpecTdai, Quod non oporteat ad praesentis vitae molestias attendere, which, though not bearing the form of a letter (perhaps it is a fragment of one), is in the MS. classed with the Epistolae. A Latin version, from the Armenian, of some fragments of an Epistola riiotii ad Zachariam Armeniae Patriarcham^ in support of the doctrine of the Council of Chalcedon, is given in the Coneiliaiio Ecdesiae Armeniae cum Itomana of Galanus, fol. Rom. 1650. To all these we may add the Epistola Tarasio Fratn^ usually subjoined to the BibliotJieca. The Epistola ad Za- chariam^ just mentioned, and another letter, Ad Principem Armenium Asutium, are extant in MS. iu an Armenian version. (Com p. Mai, Scnptor. Veterum Nov. Collectio. Proleg. in vol. i. 4to. Rom. 1825.) 6. Ae^eoij/ a-vvaywyq s. Ae^tKoi', Lexicon. Mar- quardus Gudius of Hamburg had an anonymous MS. lexicon, which he believed and asserted to be that of Photius ; but the correctness of his opinion was first doubted by some, and is now given up by most scliolars ; and another lexicon, much shorter, and which is in the MSS. ascribed to Pho- tius, is now admitted to be the genuine work of that eminent man. A writer in the Classical Jovrnal (No. 54. p. 358) has indeed expressed his conviction that, " in the composition of it the patriarch never stirred a finger," and that it received his name merely from having been in his possession ; but we are not aware that his opinion has found any supporters. Of this Lexicon there exist several MSS., but that known as the Codex Galeanus, because given by Thomas Gale to the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, is considered to be the archetype from which the others have been transcribed ; but this MS. is itself very imperfect, containing in fact not much more than half the original work. Nearly the whole of the Lexicon, known as the Lexicon Sangernianense, a portion of which was published in the Aneedota Graeca of Immanucl Bekker, vol. i. p. 319, &c. 8vo. Berlin, 1814, appears to have been incorporated in the I^exicon of Photius, of which, when entire, it is estimated to have formed a third part {Praefat. to Porson's edition). The Lexicon of Photius was first published, from Continental MSS., by tjrotho- fredus Hermannus, 4to Leipzig, 1808. It formed the third volume of a set, of which the two first volumes contained the Ijcxicon ascribed to Jo;aines Zonaras [Zonaras, Joannes]. The publication of tlie Lexicon was followed b}' that of a Libe'dus Animadversionum ad Photii Lexicon, 4to. Leipzig, 1 8 1 0, and Carae Novissimae sive Appendix Notarum et Eincndationum in Photii I^xkon, 4to. Leipzig, 1812, both by Jo. Frid. Schleusner. But the edi- tion of Hermann having failed to satisfy the wants of the learned, an edition from a transcript of the Codex Galeanus, made by Porson, was published after the death of that eminent scholar, 4 to. and 8vo. London, 1822. (Comp. Edi7ib. Rev. vol. xxi. VOL. ui. PHOTIUS. 8',3 p. 3-29, &c. No. 42, July 1813, and Class. Jourv. I.e.) 7 'A^^iAoxta, AmphilocMa. This work, which Allatius, not a friendly censor, declared to be " a work filled with vast and varied learning, and very needful for theologians and expositors of Scripture,'* is in the form of answers to certain questions, and is addressed to Amphilochus, archbishop of Cyzicus. The title is thus given in full by Montfaucon {BVdioth. Coislin. fol. Paris, 1715,"'p. 326): ToL 'Aix(pixtot. rj yci3V Upcov kolL ^7]r'r]ixdTUiv UpoXo- "ylai irpos ' AiJ.(pix^ou Toy offiutTarov UTjT/JOTroAt- TTji/ Kv^iKov eu rev Kaipq> rwv ■Kcipao'ixwv^ ^i7t7J- fidrwv Zia(p6pwv els dpiQyiov rpiaKoaioou ffwrei- VQvrwv eiriKvffiu alTr]ad/j.evov, Ainphilochia s. Ser- mones et Quaestiones Sacrae ad A mphilochium Me- tropolitam Cyzicenum in Tempore Tentaiionum ; Quaestiones Variae sunt Numei'o ire.centae. The answers are said in one MS. (apud Fabric. Bihl. Grace, vol. xi. p. 26) to be two hundred and ninety- seven in nvjnber ; but Montfaucon {I. c.) published an index of three hundred and eight, and a Vatican MS., according to Mai {Script. Vet. N'ova Collectio, vol. i. proleg. p. xxxix.), contains three hundred and thirteen. Of these more than two hundred' and twenty have been published, but in various fragmentary portions (Mai, /. c). The first portion which appeared in print was in the Lectioties Anti- quae of Canisius (4to. Ingolstadt, 1604, &c. vol, v. p. 188, &c.), who gave a Latin version by Fran- ciscus Turrianus, of six of the Quaestiones ; but the work to which they belonged was not men- tioned. In the subsequent edition of the Lectiones by Basnage (4to. Amsterdam, 1725, vol. ii. pt. ii. p. 420, &c.), the Greek text of five of the six was added (the original of the sixth seems never to have been discovered), as well as the Greek text of a seventh Quaestio, "Z>e Christi Volu7itatihus Gnomicis,"^ of which a Latin version by Turrianus had been published in the Auctarium Antiquarum Canisii Lectionum of the Jesuit Petrus Stewartius, 4to. In- golstadt, 1616 ; also without notice that it was from the AmphilocMa. Further additions were made by Combefis, in his SS. Pat rum Aniphilochii, <^c. Opera, 2 vols. fol. Paris, 1644 (by a strange error he ascribed the work not to Photius, but to Am- philochius of Iconium, a much older writer, from whose works he supposed Photius had made a selection), and in his Novum Auctarium, 2 vols, fol. Paris, 1648 ; by Montfaucon, in his DiUiotheca Coisliniana, fol. Paris, 1715 ; and by Jo. Justus Spier, in Wittenbergischen Anmerkungen ueber iheo- logische, philosophische, historusche, philologische, und kritische Materien, part i. 8vo. Wittenberg, 1738 (Harles, Introd. in Historiam Linguae Grace. Sup- plem. vol. ii. p. 47). But the principal addition was made by Jo. Chr. Wolif, of forty-six Quaes- tiones, published, with a Latin version, in his Curae Philologicae, vol. v. ad fin. 4to. Hamb. 1735 : these were reprinted in the BibliotJieca Patrum of Galland, vol. xiii. fol. Venice, 1779. A further portion of eighteen Quaestiones, under the title 'Ek twv itarioh 'Afi(piXoxli>>y TLva, Ex Photii Amphilochiis quaedam, was published, with a Latin version, by Angelus Antonius Schottus, 4to. Naples, 1817 ; and some further portions, one of twenty Quaestiones, with a Latin version by Mai, in his Scriptorum Veterum Nova Collectio, vol. i. pp. 1 93, &c., and another of a hundred and thirty Quaestiones, in vol. ix. p. 1, «S:c. As many of the Quaestiones were mere extracts from the Epistolae and other published works of A A.