nica of Eusebius and of Synicellus, of two parts, a After his death the Lesbians paid divine honours
history arranged according to years, and a chrono.
history arranged according to years, and a chrono.
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THEOPHANES.
THEOPHANES.
9
a
THEOPHA
Srcelus
, by whose desire h
Borce, which was broken off
celine
. The work of Thes
entant, begins at the acces
10. 27, and embraces a
der10 A. 0. 811, that is
period when the career cí
by bis imprisonment. It
sign el Eusebius and of
history arranged accordin
impal caile, of which the
p. 177. )
by Aelian (V. H. ii. 44) of Theon's picture of a nople“ the seed" (Td onépua, the eggs, of course)
boldier rushing to the battle. If we may believe of the silk-worm, and these “ seeds" being hatched
Aelian, Theon even transgressed the limits of his in the spring, and the worms fed with mulberry
own art in his attempt to produce a striking effect; leaves, they spun their silk, and went through
for he never exhibited the picture without first their transformations.
causing a charge to be sounded on trumpets, and The Excerpta of Photius from the ten books of
when the excitement produced by the music was the history of Theophanes were printed in Greek,
at its highest, he drew up the curtain, and showed with a Latin version by Andr. Schottus, and notes
the warrior as if he had suddenly started into the by Ph. Labbe, in Valesius's edition of the Excerpta
presence of the spectators. Pliny places Theon de Legationibus, from Dexippus and others, Paris,
among the painters who were primis proximi, and 1648, fol. ; reprinted in the Venetian collection of
mentions two of his works, namely, Orestis insania, the Byzantine historians, Venet. 1729, fol. : they
and Thamyrus citharoedus (H. N. xxxv. 11. 6. 40. are also printed in the volume of Niebuhr's Cor-
$ 40). The former picture is also mentioned in pus Scriptorum Hist. Byzant. , containing Dex-
the treatise of the Pseudo-Plutarch, de Audiendis ippus, &c. , Bonn. 1829, 8vo. (Cave, Hist. Litt.
Poetis, p. 18, from which we learn, what might be s. a. 580, vol. i. p. 537, ed. Basil. ; Hankius, Byz.
inferred from Pliny's words, that it represented Rer. Script. ii. 4, pp. 674, foll. ; Fabric. Bibl. Gracc.
Orestes slaying his mother. (See further, re- vol. vii. pp. 459, 541, 543; Vossius, de Hist. Gracc.
specting this picture, R. Rochette, Monum. Ined. pp. 327, 328, ed. Westermann ; Clinton, Fusti
2
[P. S. ] Romani, s. aa. 567, 568, 571. )
THEONDAS, the chief magistrate in Samo- 3. ISAURUS, also surnamed Isaacius*, from his
thrace at the time of the defeat of Perseus, in father's name, and also Confessor, or Confessor
B. c. 168. (Liv. xlv. 5. )
Imaginum, from his sufferings in the cause of image
THEO'NOE (covón). 1. A daughter of Pro- worship, but more celebrated now as the author of
teus and Psammathe, who is said to have been in a Chronicon in continuation of that of Syncellus,
love with Canobus, the helmsman of Menelaus, lived during the second half of the eighth century
who died in Egypt, in consequence of the bite of a of our era, and the first fifteen years of the ninth.
snake.
She is also called Eido or Eidothea. He was of noble birth, his parents being Isaacius,
(Eurip. Helen, 11 ; Aristoph. Thesm. 897 ; Plat. the praefect of the Aegeopelagitae, and Theodota.
Cratyl. p. 407; Hom. Od. iv. 363. )
He was born in A. D. 858, and soon after, by the
2. A daughter of Thestor. [THESTOR. ] (L. S. ] death of his father, he became a ward of the em-
THEOPHANE (eopávn), a daughter of perur Constantinus Copronymus. While quite a
Bisaltes, who, in consequence of her extraordinary youth, he was compelled by Leo the patrician to
beauty, was beleaguered by lovers, but was carried marry his daughter ; but, on the wedding-day,
off by Poseidon to the isle of Crinissa. As the Theophanes and his wife agreed that the marriage
lovers followed her even there, Poseidon metamor. should not be consummated ; and, on the death of
phosed the maiden into a sheep and himself into Leo, in A. D. 780, his daughter retired into a con-
a ram, and all the inhabitants of the island into vent, and her husband Theophanes, who had in the
animals. As the lovers began to slaughter these meantime discharged various public offices, entered
animals, he changed them into wolves. The god the monastery of Polychronium, near Singriana, in
then became by Theophane the father of the ram lesser Mysia. He soon left that place, and went
with the golden fleece, which carried Phrixus to to live in the island of Calonymus, where he con-
Colchis. (Hygin. Fab. 188. )
(L. S. ) verted his paternal estate into a monastery. After
THEOʻPHANES (eopávns), literary. 1. A a residence of six years there, he returned to the
writer on painting, mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius neighbourhood of Singriana, where he purchased
(ii. 104).
an estate, called by the simple name of Ager
2. Of Byzantium, one of the writers of the By- (áypos), and founded another monastery, of which
zantine history, flourished most probably in the he made himself the abbot. In A. D. 787, he was
latter part of the sixth century of our era. He summoned to the second Council of Nicaea, where
wrote, in ten books, the history of the Eastern he vehemently defended the worship of images.
Empire (iotopiv aóyou déka), during the Persian We have no further details of his life until A. D. 813,
war under Justin II. , beginning from the second when he was required by Leo the Armenian to
year of Justin, in which the truce made by Jus- renounce the worship of images, and, upon his
tinian with Chosroës was broken, A. D. 567, and refusal, though he was extremely ill, and had been
going down to the tenth year of the war, which, bed-ridden for five years, he was carried to Con-
according to Mr. Clinton, was not a. D. 577, but stantinople, and there, after a further period of
A. D. 581, because the war did not begin till A. D. resistance to the command of the emperor to re-
571, although the history of Theophanes may have nounce his principles, he was cast into prison, at
commenced with A. D. 567.
the close of the year 815 or the beginning of 816;
Photius (Bib. Cod. 64) gives an account of the and, after two years' imprisonment, he was banished
work of Theophanes, and he repeats the author's to the island of Samothrace, where he died, only
statement that, besides adding other books to the twenty-three days from his arrival. His firmness
ten which formed the original work, he had written was rewarded by his party, not only with the
another work on the history of Justinian. It well title of Confessor, but also with the honours of
deserves mention that, among the historical state-canonization.
ments preserved by Photius from Theophanes is the Theophanes was the personal friend of Georgius
discovery, in the reign of Justinian, of the fact that
silk was the production of a worm, which had not * There appears to be no authority for calling
been before known to the people of the Roman him, as Vossius does, Georgius. The mistake pra
empire. A certain Persian, he tells us, coming bably arose from some accidental confusion of his
from the land of the Seres, brought to Constanti- | name with that of Georgius Syncellus.
to the latter. We posse
ancient Latin transla
Anastasius Bibliothecar
listed, with an improve
the Notes of Goat and
and Venetian Colectia
Paris, 1€55, iol, len
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Hakius. Byz. Rer.
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Some less importa
this name are not
relti. pp. 218-
There is one er
der the name of
is very uncertain
I. p. 958. )
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THEOPHANES.
1083
THEOPHILUS.
Syncellus, by whose desire he continued the Chro | Caes. B. C. iii. 18; Cic. ad Att. ir. 3, 11. ) After
nicon, which was broken off by the death of Syn- the battle of Pharsalia Theophanes Aed with
cellus. The work of Theophanes, which is still | Pompey from Greece, and it was owing to his
extant, begins at the accession of Diocletian, in advice that Pompey went to Egypt (Plut. Pomp.
A. D. 277, and embraces a period of 524 years, 76, 78. ) After the death of his friend and patror. ,
down to A. D. 811, that is, almost up to the very Theophanes took refuge in Italy. He was par-
period when the career of Theophanes was ended doned by Caesar, and was still alive in B. C. 44, as
by his imprisonment. It consists, like the Chrn we see from one of Cicero's letters (ad Atl. xv. 19).
nica of Eusebius and of Synicellus, of two parts, a After his death the Lesbians paid divine honours
history arranged according to years, and a chrono. to his memory. (Tac. Ann. vi. 18. ) Theophanes
logical table, of which the foriner is very superior wrote the history of Pompey's campaigns, in which
to the latter. We possess the original Greck, and he represented the exploits of his hero in the most
an ancient Latin translation, badly executed, by favourable light, and did not hesitate, as Plutarch
Anastasius Bibliothecarius. It has been pub- more than hints, to invent a false tale for the pur-
lished, with an improved Latin Version, and with pose of injuring the reputation of an enemy of the
the Notes of Goar and Combofis, in the Parisian Pompeian family. (Plut. Pomp. 37, et alibi ; Strab.
and Venetian Collections of the Byzantine writers, xi. p. 503, xiii. p. 617 ; Cic. pro Arch, h. c. ; Val.
Paris, 1655, fol. , Venet. 1729, fol. , and in Nie- Max. l. c. ; Capitol. l. c. )
buhr's Corpus Script. Ilist. Byz. Bonn. 2 vols. Ovo. Theophanes leſt behind him a son, M. Pom-
(Fabric. Bill Gracc. vol. vii. pp. 459, foll. ; Cave, PEIUS THEOPHANES, who was sent to Asia by
Hist. Lill. s. a. 792, vol. i. p. 641, ed. Basil. ; Vos- Augustus, in the capacity of procurator, and was
sius, dc Hist. Graec. p. 3-10, ed. Westermann; at the time that Strabo wrote one of the friends of
Hankius, Byz. Rer. Script. i. 11, pp. 200, foll. ). Tiberius. The latter emperor, however, put his
4. CERAMEUS. (CERAMEUS, THEOPHANES. ] descendants to death towards the end of his reign,
Some less important writers and ecclesiastics of A. D. 33, because their ancestor had been one of
this name are noticed by Fabricius, Bibl. Gracc. Pompey's friends, and had received after his death
vol. xi. pp. 218–222.
divine honours from the Lesbians. (Strab. xiii. p.
There is one epigram in the Greek Anthology, 617 ; Tac. Ann. vi. 18 ; comp. Drumann, Geschichte
under the name of Theophanes, but its authorship Roms, vol. iv. pp. 551-553 ; Vossius, de llist.
is very uncertain. (See Jacobs, Bibl. Gracc. vol. Graec. pp. 190, 191, ed. Westermann. )
xiii. p. 958. )
[P. S. ] THEOPHILISCUS, a Rhodian, who com-
THEOPHANES GRAPTUS. [GRAPTUS. ] manded the fleet sent by his countrymen to the
THEOʻPHANES NONNUS. [NONNUS. ] assistance of Attalus, king of Pergamus, against
THEO'PHANES, CN. POMPEIUS, of My- Philip, king of Macedonia, B. C. 201. He bore an
tilene in Lesbos, a learned Greek, was one of the important part in the great sea-fight off Chios,
most intimate friends of Pompey, whom he accom- which was brought on by his advice, and in which
panied in many of his campaigns, and who fre- he mainly contributed to the victory, both by his
quently followed his advice on public as well as skill and personal valour. But having been led
private matters. (Caes. B. C. iii. 18 ; Strab. xiii. by his ardour too far into the midst of the enemy's
p. 617. ) He was not a freedman of Pompey, as fleet, his own ship was assailed on all sides, and
some modern writers have supposed (Burmann, ad he extricated her with great difficulty, having lost
Vel. Put. ii. 18); but the Roman general appears almost all his crew, and himself received three
to have made his acquaintance during the Mithri- wounds, of which he died shortly after. The
datic war, and soon became so much attached to highest honours were paid to his memory by the
him that he presented to the Greek the Roman Rhodians. (Polyb. xvi. 2, 5, 9. ) [E. H. B. )
franchise in the presence of his army, after a speech THEOʻPÌILUS (Oc601dos), emperor of Con-
in which he eulogised his merits. (Cic. pro Arch. stantinople A. D. 829—842, was the son and suc-
10 ; Val. Max. viii. 14. § 3. ) This occurred in cessor of Michael II. Balbus, with whom he was
all probability about B. C. 62, and Theophanes associated in the government as early as 821
must now have taken the name of Pompeius after (Eckhel, vol. viii. p. 240. ) He was engaged in
his patron. Such was his influence with Pompey, war with the Saracens during the greater part of
that, in the course of the same year, he obtained his reign, but notwithstanding his valour and energy
for his native city the privileges of a free state, he was generally unsuccessful against these for-
although it had espoused the cause of Mithridates, midable foes, and hence obtained the surname
and had given up the Roman general M'. Aquillius of the Unfortunate. At the end of his fifth cam-
to the king of Pontus. (Plut. Pomp. 42. ) Theo-paign he had the mortification of seeing the city of
phanes came to Rome with Pompey after the con- Amorium in Phrygia, which was the birth-place of
clusion of his wars in the East. There he adopted, his father, and which he and his father had adorned
before he had any son, L. Cornelius Balbus, of with public buildings, levelled to the ground by the
Gades, a favourite of his patron. (Cic. pro Balb. caliph Motassem. Like most of the other Byzan-
25 ; Capitol. Balbin. 2. ) He continued to live tine emperors, Theophilus took part in the religious
with Pompey on the most intimate terms, and disputes of his age. He was a zealous iconoclast,
we see from Cicero's letters, that his society and persecuted the worshippers of images with the
was courted by many of the Roman nobles, on utmost severity ; but notwithstanding his heresy,
account of his weil-known influence with Pom- the ancient writers bestow the highest praise upon
pey. (Cic. ad Att. ii. 5, 12, 17, v. 11. ) On his impartial administration of justice. He died
the breaking out of the civil war he accompanied in 812, and was succeeded by his infant son
Pompey to Greece, who appointed him commander Michael III. , who was left under the guardianship
of the Fabri, and chiefly consulted him and Lucceius of his mother, the empress Theodora. (MICHAEL
on all important matters in the war, much to the III. ) (Zonar. xv. 25—29 ; Cedrenus, pp. 513-
indignation of the Roman nobles. (Plut. Cic. 38 ; 533 ; Continuator Thcoph. lib. iii. ; Ducange, Fu-
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THEOPHILUS.
THEOPHILI'S.
THEOPHIE
be made use in his own Com
the thinks not equal in style
Thespailus. (V. I. Lc;P
volp. 318. ) There are
dels, under the name of Th
Llegatical commentaries on
Gospels, which the best
underledig an original
och absequent to the
thragh very probably his
been used in its compilatie
published in tbe Dinio
1398, 1609, 1654, Co
Enxhia further ment
racks by bim ( xz1 et epa
Bala, H. E. ir. 24; 1
ad codi font unein ecclesia
milius Byzantinae, pp. 132, 133 ; Gibbon, Decline | an earnest lover of truth (Theoph. ad Autolye. i.
and Full, cc. xlviii. and lii. )
p.
and by Suidas (s. v. ), who tells us that Theon was more strongly exhibited in the description given
s
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THEOPHANES.
THEOPHANES.
9
a
THEOPHA
Srcelus
, by whose desire h
Borce, which was broken off
celine
. The work of Thes
entant, begins at the acces
10. 27, and embraces a
der10 A. 0. 811, that is
period when the career cí
by bis imprisonment. It
sign el Eusebius and of
history arranged accordin
impal caile, of which the
p. 177. )
by Aelian (V. H. ii. 44) of Theon's picture of a nople“ the seed" (Td onépua, the eggs, of course)
boldier rushing to the battle. If we may believe of the silk-worm, and these “ seeds" being hatched
Aelian, Theon even transgressed the limits of his in the spring, and the worms fed with mulberry
own art in his attempt to produce a striking effect; leaves, they spun their silk, and went through
for he never exhibited the picture without first their transformations.
causing a charge to be sounded on trumpets, and The Excerpta of Photius from the ten books of
when the excitement produced by the music was the history of Theophanes were printed in Greek,
at its highest, he drew up the curtain, and showed with a Latin version by Andr. Schottus, and notes
the warrior as if he had suddenly started into the by Ph. Labbe, in Valesius's edition of the Excerpta
presence of the spectators. Pliny places Theon de Legationibus, from Dexippus and others, Paris,
among the painters who were primis proximi, and 1648, fol. ; reprinted in the Venetian collection of
mentions two of his works, namely, Orestis insania, the Byzantine historians, Venet. 1729, fol. : they
and Thamyrus citharoedus (H. N. xxxv. 11. 6. 40. are also printed in the volume of Niebuhr's Cor-
$ 40). The former picture is also mentioned in pus Scriptorum Hist. Byzant. , containing Dex-
the treatise of the Pseudo-Plutarch, de Audiendis ippus, &c. , Bonn. 1829, 8vo. (Cave, Hist. Litt.
Poetis, p. 18, from which we learn, what might be s. a. 580, vol. i. p. 537, ed. Basil. ; Hankius, Byz.
inferred from Pliny's words, that it represented Rer. Script. ii. 4, pp. 674, foll. ; Fabric. Bibl. Gracc.
Orestes slaying his mother. (See further, re- vol. vii. pp. 459, 541, 543; Vossius, de Hist. Gracc.
specting this picture, R. Rochette, Monum. Ined. pp. 327, 328, ed. Westermann ; Clinton, Fusti
2
[P. S. ] Romani, s. aa. 567, 568, 571. )
THEONDAS, the chief magistrate in Samo- 3. ISAURUS, also surnamed Isaacius*, from his
thrace at the time of the defeat of Perseus, in father's name, and also Confessor, or Confessor
B. c. 168. (Liv. xlv. 5. )
Imaginum, from his sufferings in the cause of image
THEO'NOE (covón). 1. A daughter of Pro- worship, but more celebrated now as the author of
teus and Psammathe, who is said to have been in a Chronicon in continuation of that of Syncellus,
love with Canobus, the helmsman of Menelaus, lived during the second half of the eighth century
who died in Egypt, in consequence of the bite of a of our era, and the first fifteen years of the ninth.
snake.
She is also called Eido or Eidothea. He was of noble birth, his parents being Isaacius,
(Eurip. Helen, 11 ; Aristoph. Thesm. 897 ; Plat. the praefect of the Aegeopelagitae, and Theodota.
Cratyl. p. 407; Hom. Od. iv. 363. )
He was born in A. D. 858, and soon after, by the
2. A daughter of Thestor. [THESTOR. ] (L. S. ] death of his father, he became a ward of the em-
THEOPHANE (eopávn), a daughter of perur Constantinus Copronymus. While quite a
Bisaltes, who, in consequence of her extraordinary youth, he was compelled by Leo the patrician to
beauty, was beleaguered by lovers, but was carried marry his daughter ; but, on the wedding-day,
off by Poseidon to the isle of Crinissa. As the Theophanes and his wife agreed that the marriage
lovers followed her even there, Poseidon metamor. should not be consummated ; and, on the death of
phosed the maiden into a sheep and himself into Leo, in A. D. 780, his daughter retired into a con-
a ram, and all the inhabitants of the island into vent, and her husband Theophanes, who had in the
animals. As the lovers began to slaughter these meantime discharged various public offices, entered
animals, he changed them into wolves. The god the monastery of Polychronium, near Singriana, in
then became by Theophane the father of the ram lesser Mysia. He soon left that place, and went
with the golden fleece, which carried Phrixus to to live in the island of Calonymus, where he con-
Colchis. (Hygin. Fab. 188. )
(L. S. ) verted his paternal estate into a monastery. After
THEOʻPHANES (eopávns), literary. 1. A a residence of six years there, he returned to the
writer on painting, mentioned by Diogenes Laërtius neighbourhood of Singriana, where he purchased
(ii. 104).
an estate, called by the simple name of Ager
2. Of Byzantium, one of the writers of the By- (áypos), and founded another monastery, of which
zantine history, flourished most probably in the he made himself the abbot. In A. D. 787, he was
latter part of the sixth century of our era. He summoned to the second Council of Nicaea, where
wrote, in ten books, the history of the Eastern he vehemently defended the worship of images.
Empire (iotopiv aóyou déka), during the Persian We have no further details of his life until A. D. 813,
war under Justin II. , beginning from the second when he was required by Leo the Armenian to
year of Justin, in which the truce made by Jus- renounce the worship of images, and, upon his
tinian with Chosroës was broken, A. D. 567, and refusal, though he was extremely ill, and had been
going down to the tenth year of the war, which, bed-ridden for five years, he was carried to Con-
according to Mr. Clinton, was not a. D. 577, but stantinople, and there, after a further period of
A. D. 581, because the war did not begin till A. D. resistance to the command of the emperor to re-
571, although the history of Theophanes may have nounce his principles, he was cast into prison, at
commenced with A. D. 567.
the close of the year 815 or the beginning of 816;
Photius (Bib. Cod. 64) gives an account of the and, after two years' imprisonment, he was banished
work of Theophanes, and he repeats the author's to the island of Samothrace, where he died, only
statement that, besides adding other books to the twenty-three days from his arrival. His firmness
ten which formed the original work, he had written was rewarded by his party, not only with the
another work on the history of Justinian. It well title of Confessor, but also with the honours of
deserves mention that, among the historical state-canonization.
ments preserved by Photius from Theophanes is the Theophanes was the personal friend of Georgius
discovery, in the reign of Justinian, of the fact that
silk was the production of a worm, which had not * There appears to be no authority for calling
been before known to the people of the Roman him, as Vossius does, Georgius. The mistake pra
empire. A certain Persian, he tells us, coming bably arose from some accidental confusion of his
from the land of the Seres, brought to Constanti- | name with that of Georgius Syncellus.
to the latter. We posse
ancient Latin transla
Anastasius Bibliothecar
listed, with an improve
the Notes of Goat and
and Venetian Colectia
Paris, 1€55, iol, len
batz's Corpus Script i
(Fabric. Bila Grace
Hs. Litt. . . c. 792
fias, de Hist. Grace
Hakius. Byz. Rer.
4. CERAVELS
Some less importa
this name are not
relti. pp. 218-
There is one er
der the name of
is very uncertain
I. p. 958. )
THEOPHAS
THEOPHAS
THE0PHAN
tilene in Lesbos
wat intimate fra
paried in many
quently followe
mate matter
617. ) He
some modern
Val. Pet. 1
to have made
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in which be
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patron.
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THEOPHANES.
1083
THEOPHILUS.
Syncellus, by whose desire he continued the Chro | Caes. B. C. iii. 18; Cic. ad Att. ir. 3, 11. ) After
nicon, which was broken off by the death of Syn- the battle of Pharsalia Theophanes Aed with
cellus. The work of Theophanes, which is still | Pompey from Greece, and it was owing to his
extant, begins at the accession of Diocletian, in advice that Pompey went to Egypt (Plut. Pomp.
A. D. 277, and embraces a period of 524 years, 76, 78. ) After the death of his friend and patror. ,
down to A. D. 811, that is, almost up to the very Theophanes took refuge in Italy. He was par-
period when the career of Theophanes was ended doned by Caesar, and was still alive in B. C. 44, as
by his imprisonment. It consists, like the Chrn we see from one of Cicero's letters (ad Atl. xv. 19).
nica of Eusebius and of Synicellus, of two parts, a After his death the Lesbians paid divine honours
history arranged according to years, and a chrono. to his memory. (Tac. Ann. vi. 18. ) Theophanes
logical table, of which the foriner is very superior wrote the history of Pompey's campaigns, in which
to the latter. We possess the original Greck, and he represented the exploits of his hero in the most
an ancient Latin translation, badly executed, by favourable light, and did not hesitate, as Plutarch
Anastasius Bibliothecarius. It has been pub- more than hints, to invent a false tale for the pur-
lished, with an improved Latin Version, and with pose of injuring the reputation of an enemy of the
the Notes of Goar and Combofis, in the Parisian Pompeian family. (Plut. Pomp. 37, et alibi ; Strab.
and Venetian Collections of the Byzantine writers, xi. p. 503, xiii. p. 617 ; Cic. pro Arch, h. c. ; Val.
Paris, 1655, fol. , Venet. 1729, fol. , and in Nie- Max. l. c. ; Capitol. l. c. )
buhr's Corpus Script. Ilist. Byz. Bonn. 2 vols. Ovo. Theophanes leſt behind him a son, M. Pom-
(Fabric. Bill Gracc. vol. vii. pp. 459, foll. ; Cave, PEIUS THEOPHANES, who was sent to Asia by
Hist. Lill. s. a. 792, vol. i. p. 641, ed. Basil. ; Vos- Augustus, in the capacity of procurator, and was
sius, dc Hist. Graec. p. 3-10, ed. Westermann; at the time that Strabo wrote one of the friends of
Hankius, Byz. Rer. Script. i. 11, pp. 200, foll. ). Tiberius. The latter emperor, however, put his
4. CERAMEUS. (CERAMEUS, THEOPHANES. ] descendants to death towards the end of his reign,
Some less important writers and ecclesiastics of A. D. 33, because their ancestor had been one of
this name are noticed by Fabricius, Bibl. Gracc. Pompey's friends, and had received after his death
vol. xi. pp. 218–222.
divine honours from the Lesbians. (Strab. xiii. p.
There is one epigram in the Greek Anthology, 617 ; Tac. Ann. vi. 18 ; comp. Drumann, Geschichte
under the name of Theophanes, but its authorship Roms, vol. iv. pp. 551-553 ; Vossius, de llist.
is very uncertain. (See Jacobs, Bibl. Gracc. vol. Graec. pp. 190, 191, ed. Westermann. )
xiii. p. 958. )
[P. S. ] THEOPHILISCUS, a Rhodian, who com-
THEOPHANES GRAPTUS. [GRAPTUS. ] manded the fleet sent by his countrymen to the
THEOʻPHANES NONNUS. [NONNUS. ] assistance of Attalus, king of Pergamus, against
THEO'PHANES, CN. POMPEIUS, of My- Philip, king of Macedonia, B. C. 201. He bore an
tilene in Lesbos, a learned Greek, was one of the important part in the great sea-fight off Chios,
most intimate friends of Pompey, whom he accom- which was brought on by his advice, and in which
panied in many of his campaigns, and who fre- he mainly contributed to the victory, both by his
quently followed his advice on public as well as skill and personal valour. But having been led
private matters. (Caes. B. C. iii. 18 ; Strab. xiii. by his ardour too far into the midst of the enemy's
p. 617. ) He was not a freedman of Pompey, as fleet, his own ship was assailed on all sides, and
some modern writers have supposed (Burmann, ad he extricated her with great difficulty, having lost
Vel. Put. ii. 18); but the Roman general appears almost all his crew, and himself received three
to have made his acquaintance during the Mithri- wounds, of which he died shortly after. The
datic war, and soon became so much attached to highest honours were paid to his memory by the
him that he presented to the Greek the Roman Rhodians. (Polyb. xvi. 2, 5, 9. ) [E. H. B. )
franchise in the presence of his army, after a speech THEOʻPÌILUS (Oc601dos), emperor of Con-
in which he eulogised his merits. (Cic. pro Arch. stantinople A. D. 829—842, was the son and suc-
10 ; Val. Max. viii. 14. § 3. ) This occurred in cessor of Michael II. Balbus, with whom he was
all probability about B. C. 62, and Theophanes associated in the government as early as 821
must now have taken the name of Pompeius after (Eckhel, vol. viii. p. 240. ) He was engaged in
his patron. Such was his influence with Pompey, war with the Saracens during the greater part of
that, in the course of the same year, he obtained his reign, but notwithstanding his valour and energy
for his native city the privileges of a free state, he was generally unsuccessful against these for-
although it had espoused the cause of Mithridates, midable foes, and hence obtained the surname
and had given up the Roman general M'. Aquillius of the Unfortunate. At the end of his fifth cam-
to the king of Pontus. (Plut. Pomp. 42. ) Theo-paign he had the mortification of seeing the city of
phanes came to Rome with Pompey after the con- Amorium in Phrygia, which was the birth-place of
clusion of his wars in the East. There he adopted, his father, and which he and his father had adorned
before he had any son, L. Cornelius Balbus, of with public buildings, levelled to the ground by the
Gades, a favourite of his patron. (Cic. pro Balb. caliph Motassem. Like most of the other Byzan-
25 ; Capitol. Balbin. 2. ) He continued to live tine emperors, Theophilus took part in the religious
with Pompey on the most intimate terms, and disputes of his age. He was a zealous iconoclast,
we see from Cicero's letters, that his society and persecuted the worshippers of images with the
was courted by many of the Roman nobles, on utmost severity ; but notwithstanding his heresy,
account of his weil-known influence with Pom- the ancient writers bestow the highest praise upon
pey. (Cic. ad Att. ii. 5, 12, 17, v. 11. ) On his impartial administration of justice. He died
the breaking out of the civil war he accompanied in 812, and was succeeded by his infant son
Pompey to Greece, who appointed him commander Michael III. , who was left under the guardianship
of the Fabri, and chiefly consulted him and Lucceius of his mother, the empress Theodora. (MICHAEL
on all important matters in the war, much to the III. ) (Zonar. xv. 25—29 ; Cedrenus, pp. 513-
indignation of the Roman nobles. (Plut. Cic. 38 ; 533 ; Continuator Thcoph. lib. iii. ; Ducange, Fu-
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