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Rh S54 PHOTIUS. Photius, Mai considers that with these and with the portions published by him, the whole of the Amphi- lochia has now been published. He thinks {Scrip- tor. Vet. Nova Collect, vol. i. proleg. p. xl.) that the patriarch, toward the close of his life, compiled the work from his own letters, homilies, commentaries, &c., and addressed it to his friend Amphilochius, as a mark of respect, and not because the questions which were solved had actually been proposed to him by that prelate ; and he thus accounts for the identity of many passages with those in the author's other works. 8. Adversus Manickaeos s. Paulicianos Libri Qiiatuor. No Greek title of the whole work occurs, but the four books are respectively thus described : 1. Aj'^77)«Ttou Xo'^os F, Photii Sermo III. 4. Kara ttjs tuiv Mavixaicou dpTKffVovs ttAovjjs, 'A/)(reJ'J(jJ r^ dyiioTaTcp fxovaxyterum et Praefedum Sacrorum. The title of the second book is con- sidered by Wolff to apply to the second, third, and fourth books, which formed the argumentative part of the work, and to which the first book formed an his- torical introduction. The second book is intended to show that the same God who created spiritual intelligences, also created the bodies with which they are united, and the material world generally ; the third vindicates the divine original of the Old Testament ; and the fourth reiterates some points of the second and third books, and answers the objections of the Paulicians. The first book has several points in common with the historical work of Petrus Siculus [Pktrus, No. 7] on the same subject, so as to make it probable that one writer used the work of the other, and it is most likely Photius availed himself of that of Petrus. This important work of Photius was designed for pub- lication by several scholars (vid. Wolff, Praefat. in Anecdot. Graec. vol. i. and Fabric. Biblioth. Graec. vol. vii. p. 329, vol. xi. p. 18), but they were pre- vented by death from fulfilling their purpose. Montfaucon published the first book, with a Latin version, in his BibliotJieca Coisliniana^ p. 349, &c. ; and the whole work was given by Jo. Christoph. Wolff, with a Latin version and notes, in his Anec- dota Graeca, vols. i. ii. 12mo. Hamb. 1722, from which it was reprinted in vol. xiii. of the Bihliotlieca Pairum of Galland, fol. Venice, 1779. A sort of epitome of this work of Photius is found in the Panoplia of Euthymius Zigabenus. Oudin con- tended that the work of Metrophanes of Smyrna, on the Manichaeans and on the Holy Spirit, was identical with this work of Photius ; but this opinion, which is countenanced in a foregoing article [Metrophanes]. is erroneous. 9. Karci tQv ttj? TroAaiay 'PwjUtjs otl Ik riarpos fMvov eKiropeverai rb nviipLaro dyiov dAA' ovx). koI iK rod Tiou, Adversus Laiinos de Processione Spi- riius Sancti. This work is incorporated in the Greek text of the Panoplia of Euthvmius Ziga- benus (fol. Tergovist. 1710, fol. 112, 113), of ■which it constitutes the thirteenth T^tAos or section. It is omitted in the Latin versions of Euthymius. The work of Photius contains several syllogistic propositions, which are quoted and answered se- riatim, in the De Unione Ecclesiarum Oratio I, of PHOTIUS. Joannes Veccus [Veccus], published in the Graccla Orihodoxa of Allatius, vol. i. p. 154, &c. 4to. Rome, 1652. It is apparently the work entitled by Cave Disputatio Compendiaria de Processione Spiritus Sancti a solo Patre. 10. 'Ofj-iXiai^ Homiliae. Several of these have been published : — 1. "E/cc^patris t^s iu tu7s fiaai- eloLs peas iKKXrjffias rrjs virepayias QeoroKOv vnd Baa-tXdov tov MuKeSovos olKo5oixr}diiaris,Descripiio Novae Sandissimae Dei Genitricis Ecclesiae, in Pa- latio a Basilio Macedone exstrmtae ; a discourse delivered on the day of the dedication of the church described. It was first printed by Lambecius, in his notes to the work of Georghis Codinus, De Ori- ginibus CPolitanis, p. 187, fol. Paris, 1655, and is contained, with a Latin version, in the Bonn re- print of Codinus, 8vo. 1839. It is also contained in the Originurn CPolitanarum Manipulus of Com- befis, 4to. Paris, 1664, p. 296, with a Latin version and notes ; and in the Imperium Orientale of Ban- durius, pars iii. p. 117, fol. Paris, 1711. 2. E/y TO yivktTLOV TTJs VTTepayias ©cotokou, Homilia in Sandissimae Dei Genitricis Natalem Diem., pub- lished by Combefis, in his Audarium Novum, vol. i. col. 1583, fol, Paris, 1648, and in a Latin version, in his Bihliotlieca Patrum concionatoria, fol. Paris, 1662, &c. Both text and version are reprinted in the BibliotJieca Pairum, of Galland. 3. In Sepul- turam Domini, a fragment, probably from this, is given by Mai (Scriptor. Vet. Nova Colled, proleg. in vol. i. p. xli). 4. Uepl tow ixrj 5e7u Trpds to lu T^ ^icp Kvirrjpoi eTriaTpecpeadai, Quod non oporteat ad praesentis Vitae Molestias attendere. This piece, which is perhaps not a homily, but the fragment of a letter, v/as published in the Ecclesiae Graecae Monumenta of Cotelerius, and has been already noticed in speaking of the Epistolae of Photius, 11. 'EpcoTTjVaTK ^eKa aiiu taais reus dwoKpi- (Teai, Inierrogaiio7ies decern cum totidem Responsio- nibus, s. Iivvayasyal Ka aTroSet'leis dKpi§e7s avv€i- eyiJ.4vai ck twu avvoZiKwv /cot icrropiKcau ypa(pwv irepi iiriCKOTrcou Kal UTiTpoiroKiTwu Kai Aonrcau kri- pbov dvayitaioou f'TjTTjftaTwj/, Collediones accuratae- que Demonstrationes de Episcopis et Metropolitis et reliquis aliis necessariis Quaestionibus ex Synodicis et ilistoricis Monumentis excerptae. This piece was published, with a Latin version and notes, by Francesco Fontani, in the first volume of his Novae Eruditorum Deliciae, 12mo. Florence, 1785. The notes were such as to give considerable offence to the stricter Romanists. (Mai, Scriptor. Veter. Nov. Colled. Proleg, ad vol. i. p. xliv.) 1 2. Ets Tou AovKau 4pp.T]Viiai, In Lucam Eocpcf sitiones. Some brief Scholia on the gospel of Luke from MSS, Catenae, are given, with a Latin version, in vol. 1. of the Scriptorum Veterum Nova Colledio of Mai, p. 189, &c., but from which of Photius's works they are taken does not appear. 1 3. Canonica Responsa, addressed to Leo, arch- bishop of Calabria ; also published, with a Latin version, by Mai {ibid. p. 362), from a Palimpsest in the Vatican library. Many works of this great writer still remain in MS. 1. Commentarius in D. Pauli Epistolas, a mutilated copy of which is (or Avas, according to Cave) in the public library at Cambridge. It is largely cited by Oecumenius. 2. Catena in Psalmos, formerly in the Coislinian library, of which, accord- ing to Montfaucon ( Bibl. Coislin. pp, 58, 59), Photius appears to have been the compiler. But the Com- A