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Rh 954 SYMEON. tores post Theophanem, in the Paris (fol. 1685), Venice (fol. 1729), and Bonn (8vo. 1838) editions of the Corpus Historiae Bi/zantitiae. The Paris edition, from which the others are taken, was pub- lished after the death of Corabdfis, and from that circumstance is without notes. In these Annales, which closely, often verbatim, agree with the anony- mous continuator of Theophanes [Leontius, lite- rary. No. C], and with George the Monk [Geor- Gius, literary and ecclesiastical. No. 33.], Symeon, in the incidental notices of himself already cited, speaks in the third person. 3. Chronicon s. An- nales ah orbi condilo. This Chronicon has never been published, and seems to be different from the more important work just cited : it was a mere compilation, and was apparently less laboriously prepared than the preceding work ; and in many parts agrees with Theophanes. Kollar, however (Supplement ad Lamhec. p. 737), speaks of the Annates mentioned above, as a portion of the Chronicon. Different copies of the Chronicon^ and there are many MSS. which contain it, terminate at different periods : some end with the accession of Leo the Armenian at the point at which the An- vales commence : others terminate with Constantine Porphyrogenitus, and have prefixed the following iambic couplet. A comparison of these last copies would show whether the Annates are an extract from the Clironicon^ as Kollar supposes, or not. ^Apxhv IJ^ev 'A8o/i effx^v pi§Kos, Kol TeAos, T6 Ilopcf>vpoy4v}/7]Tov evae§es KpaTos. One MS. at Venice comes down to the reign of Constantine XI. Ducas, who reigned from A. D. 1059 to 1067, a circumstance which shows either that the Chronicon received some additions from a later hand, or that it is incorrectly ascribed to our Symeon, and must have been composed by a later writer. Oudin observes that the Chronicon agrees in several places to the letter with the work of Leo Grammaticus ; he says it is borrowed from it, and, as he assigns Leo's work to a. d. 1013, he urges this as one argument for the later date assigned by liim to Metaphrastes. But we have elsewhere stated that the date assigned by him to Leo's work is inaccurate ; the argument built upon it therefore falls. [Leo, Greek writers, No. 15.] Combdfis suspects that Psellus [Psellus, No. 3] was the continuator of the Chronicon. (Fabric. Bibl. Grace. vol. vii. pp. 471, &c., p. 684, &c.) 4. Su^ecbi/ /jlu- •yiarpov kolI Xoyoderov tov SpSfxov eiriaToKal^ Sy- meonis Magistri et Logothetae Cursus Epistolae. AUatius has given nine of these, with a Latin ver- sion, at the end of his De Symeonum Scriptis, 4to. Paris, 1664. 5. Adyoi, Sermones. One of these is given by AUatius with a Latin version at the end of his De Symeon. Scriptis. Another is given in a Latin version in the BibliotJieca Concionatoria of Combefis, vol. iii. fol. Paris, 1 662. Some others had been seen by AUatius in manuscript. (Fabric. Bihl. Graec. vol. x. p. 183.) 6. Carmina. Some short poems of Symeon have been printed. Tov MmTaTri(riv Sfjdev Koi dir6Kpiaiv, Metaphrastae de SaliUis nostrae Mysterio et suscepti Nominis Sa- cramento : per inter rogaiionem et responsionem, was published by Fed. Morel, with a Latin version, 4to. Paris, 1600. Srixot ^vfiewuos tov MeTa(ppa(T- Tow, Slmeonis Metaphrastae irimetri iambici, four very short pieces, were given in the Poetae Gracci Christianif una cum Homericis Cantonibusy Sj^o. SYMEON. Paris, 1609, published for the use of the Jesuits- schools ; and were reprinted in the "EWrji/es IloiT)- Toi waKai.o, TpayiKot k. t. A., Poetae Graeci veterea, tragici etc., vol. ii. p. 753, fol. Geneva, 1614. Four other short poems, two of them having their lines or alternate lines beginning with the successive letters of the alphabet, and bearing each the title 'AAcpdSeTov, AlpJiabetum ; and the other two ad- dressed, one, Eis rriv iSiau y^vxv^. Ad sui ipsius Aiiimam, the other, Ets Kvpiov '2,TvXiavhv Trpwro- crrjKpTjTiv, Ad Dominum Slylianum e Secretariis Primmn, are given in the De Symeonum Scriptis of AUatius (p. 132, &c.). Some other poems of Sy- meon are extant in manuscript. 7. 'Ettito^^ kc»- vSvav, Synopsis Canonica, already noticed in speak- ing of the imaginary Symeon Logotheta Junior. [No. 14.] 8. K€(pdaia tov ayiov MuKapiov fx.€Ta- ^pa(r94vTa Trapa ^lU/JLewu tov AoyodeTov, S. Macarii Acgyptii s. Scetensis [Macarius, No. 1] Capita Ascetica centum septuaginta, metaphrasi illustrata a Symeone Logotheta. Either this work or an Epi- tome of it is inserted in the Tliesaurus Aseeticus of Possin. (Comp. the obscure notices in Lambecius, De Bihlioth. Caesaraea, vol. v. pp. 151, &c., 214, &c., ed. Kollar.) Besides these Ke(^aAam, selected from the works of Macarius and paraphrased, Sy- meon wrote some original KecpaKaia yvwixiKo. pAa, Gnomicae Sente7itiae CXXXI., extant in manuscript. (AUatius, p. 132.) 9. Hymni s. Canones et Tro- paria, also Preces, by Symeon Metaphrastes, were in the time of AUatius, and perhaps are still, in use in the Greek Church (AUatius, p. 131), and are extant in various MSS. 10. Clementinorum Epi- tome, published by Adrian Turnebus, 4to. Paris, 1555, and in a Latin version by Perionius, 4to. Paris, 1 555 ; the version was reprinted in the edi- tion of the works of Clemens Romanus, fol. Cologne, 1569. We know not on what ground this is as- cribed to Symeon. (Comp. Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. p. 31.) 1 1. 'Ek twv tov iv ayiois iruTphs TifiSuv BaaiXflov apxteTrnrKOTrou Kaicrapdas Trjs Ko7nraSo/ctas tjOlkoI xSyot kS' did 'Sv/j.ediv tov MayicTTpov Kal AoyodcTov, Ex Libris D. Basilit Archiepiscopi Caesareae Cappodociae Orationes de Moribus XXIV. Simeone Magistro ac Logotheta auctore. These Sermones were made up by Sy- meon of selections from the works of Basil, and were printed 8vo. Paris, 1556. A Latin version of them by Stanislaus Ilovius had appeared, 8vo. Venice, 1554, and has been reprinted several times. Another Latin version, by Simon Mailleus, arch- bishop of Tours, was published, 8vo. Paris, 1558, and has been reprinted in the editions of the works of Basil, in which the Orationes are usually given. (Fabric, vol. ix. p. 58, &c., vol. x. p. 183, &c.) 12. An account of the church of St. Sophia, extant in two MSS. at Vienna (KoWax, Supplement, ad Lam- hecium, comp. pp. 748, 760), is ascribed in one of the MSS. to Symeon Metaphrastes, but with what accuracy is uncertain. The citations from Meta- phrastes in the Catena in Lucam of Nicetas, and the mention by Theophanes Cerameus of his EiS Thv lephv AovKav virSpurifia, In Lucatn Commenta- rius, do not show that he wrote commentaries on Luke. The work intended is probably his account of Luke in his Sanctorum Vitae. The citations in the Catena in Matthaeum of Macarius Chrysoce- phalus are possibly from his account of Matthew. A single manuscript ascribes to Symeon Meta- phrastes, but with very doubtful correctness, a work called Dioptra whether the work of Philip the