Per the enemy as solely
responsible
for the treaty, and,
haps it is this passage that has led Meyer (Kunst- on their refusal to punish him, was put to death at
geschichte, vol.
haps it is this passage that has led Meyer (Kunst- on their refusal to punish him, was put to death at
geschichte, vol.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
of Nicopolis, poets of the Greek Anthology, whose passed into a proverb, Taavkov té xvn.
(Schol.
ad
epigrams seem to have been confounded together. Plat. Phaed. p. 13, Ruhnken, pp. 381-2, Bekker. )
The Anthology contains six epigrams, of which the Stephanus Byzantinus (s. v. Aidáan) calls Glau-
1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th are simply inscribed raas- cus a Samian. The fact is, that Glaucus belonged
kov, the 3rd, raúxov 'Aonvalov, and the 6th, to the Samian school of art.
Γλαύκου Νικοπολίτα. From internal evidence, Ja- Glaucus is placed by Eusebius (Chron. Arm. ) at
cobs thinks that the 1st and 2nd belong to Glaucus Ol. 22, 2 (B. C. 69%). Alyattes reigned B. C. 617
of Nicopolis, and that the 3rd, 4th, and 5th were —560. But the dates are not inconsistent, for
written by one poet, probably by Glaucus of Athens. there is nothing in Herodotus to exclude the sup-
These latter three are descriptions of works of art. position that the iron base had been made some
Perhaps all the epigrams should be ascribed to time before Alyattes sent it to Delphi.
Glaucus of Athens. (Brunck. Anal. vol. ii. pp. 2. Of Lemnos, a distinguished statuary (Steph.
347, 348 ; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. pp. 57, 58, Byz. s. v. Aidáan), is perhaps the same as the for-
vol. xiii. p. 898 ; Fabric. Bill. Graec. vol. ii. p. 122, mer, for several of the Samian school of artists
vol. iv. p. 476. )
wrought in Lemnos.
3. A Locrian, who is mentioned as one of the 3. Of Argos, was the statuary who, in conjunc-
writers on cookery (BaptutiKÓ, Athen. vii. p. tion with Dionysius, made the works which Smi-
324, a. , ix. p. 369, b. , xii. p. 516, c. , xiv. p. 661, cythus dedicated at Olympia. Glaucus made the
e. ; Pollux, vi. 10. )
statues of Iphitus crowned by Ececheiria (the god-
4. Of Rhegium, sometimes mentioned merely as dess of truces), of Amphitrite, of Poseidon, and of
of Italy, wrote on the ancient poets and musicians Vesta, which Pausanias calls “the greater offer-
(oúrypauuá to nepl tûv ápxalwy TOINT CV Te kadings of Smicythus. " Dionysius made the lesser
MOVOLK@v, Plut. de Music. 4, p. 1132, e. ). Diogenes offerings. ” (Paus. v. 26. SS 2–6. [Dions-
Laërtius quotes statements of his respecting Empe- SIUs. )
[P. S. ]
docles and Democritus, and says that he was con- GLAUCUS (TAaðkos). 1. Called by Arrian
temporary with Democritus (viii. 52, ix. 38). ; (Anab. vii. J4) Glaucias (raavrias), the nanie
Glaucus is also quoted in the argument to the of the physician who attended on Hephaestion
Persae of Aeschylus. (Plaukos év Tols Tepi Alo at the time of his death, B. C. 325, and who is said
xúzov púbwv. ) His work was also ascribed to the to have been either crucified or hanged by Aler-
orator Antiphon. (Plut. Vit. X. Orat. p. 833, d. ) ander, for his ill success in treating him. (Plut.
5. A sophist and hierophant of the Eleusinian Aler. c. 72. )
mysteries. (Philostrat. de Sophist. ii. 20, p. 601. ) 2. Another physician of the same name at Aler-
6. A writer on the geography and antiquities of andria, who is said to have informed Q. Dellius of
Arabia, often quoted by Stephanus Byzantinus, a plot formed against him by Cleopatra, probably
who calls his work sometimes 'ApabiT dpxaiolo B. c. 31. (Plut. Anton. c. 59. )
gía, and sometimes 'Apabiá (s. v. Ataavov, récom 3. Another physician of the same name, is quoted
&c. ; Vossius, de Hist. Graec. pp. 443-4, ed. West- by Asclepiades Pharmacion (ap. Galen, De Compos.
ermann. )
[P. S. ] Medicam. sec. Loc. iv. 7, vol. xii. p. 743. ), and
GLAUCUS (r^aūkos), of Carystus, the son of lived in or before the first century after Christ.
Demylos, was one of the most celebrated Grecian 4. A physician, about the end of the first cen-
athletes. He was a reprodovians, having gained tury after Christ, mentioned by Plutarch as a con-
one Olympic, two Pythian, eight Nemean, and temporary in his treatise De Sanitate Tuenda
eight Isth oian victories in boxing. It is said that (init. ).
while stil: a boy, he refixed a ploughshare which GLI'CIA or GLYCIAS, M. CLAU'DIUS, a
had dropped out of its place by the blows of his freedman of P. Claudius Pulcher (CLAUDIUS, No.
fist, without the help of a hammer. His statue at 13), to whom he was clerk or messenger. When
Olympia was made by GLAUCIAS of Aegina Claudius, after his defeat at Drepana, B. C. 249,
(Müller, Aeginet. iii. 4. p. 103; Krause, Olymp. was cited by the senate to answer for his miscon-
p. 292. )
[P. S. ) duct, and commanded to appoint a dictator, he no-
GLAUCUS (raūros), artists. 1. Of Chios, minated Glicia (Suet. Tib. 2. ) The appointment
a statuary in metal, distinguished as the inventor was, however, instantly cancelled, even before
of the art of soldering metals (Komanois). His Glicia had named his master of the equites. (Fasti.
most noted work was an iron base (ÚTromptnpídiov, Capit. ). His disgrace did not prevent Glicia from
Herod. ; únbonuan Paus. ), which, with the silver appearing at the Great Games in his pretexta as iſ
bowl it supported, was presented to the temple at he had been really dictator. (Liv. Epit. xix. ) Glicia
Delphi by Alyattes, king of Lydia. (Herod. i. 25. ) was afterwards legatus in Corsica, to the consul
This base was seen by Pausanias, who describes its C. Licinius Varus, B. C. 236, where, presuming to
construction (1. 16. § 1), and by Athenaeus (v: treat with the Corsicans without orders from the
p. 210, b. c. ), who says that it was chased with senate or the consul, he was first delivere
small figures of animals, insects, and plants.
Per the enemy as solely responsible for the treaty, and,
haps it is this passage that has led Meyer (Kunst- on their refusal to punish him, was put to death at
geschichte, vol. ii. p. 24) and others into the mistake Rome. (Dion Cass. fr. 45 ; Zonar. viii. p. 400. B;
of explaining kóxinois as that kind of engraving Val. Max. vi. 3. 3; Comp. Grot. de Jur. Bell et
on steel which we call damascene work. There is Pac. ii. 21. § 4. )
(W. B, D. ]
no doubt that it means a mode of uniting metals by GLICIUS GALLUS. [GALLUS. ]
a solder or cement, without the help of the nails, GLOBULUS, P. SERVILIUS, was tribune
c
1
up to
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GLYCAS.
277
GLYCERIUS.
of the plebs, B. C. 67. When one of his colleagues, | Byzantines, and appeared at Paris 1660, fol. ; it
C. Cornelius (C. CORNELIUS), brought forward a was reprinted at Venice 1729, fol. The best edition
rogation which the senate disliked, Globulus laid is by I. Bekker, in the Bonn collection of the
his tribunitian interdict on its reading by the clerk. Byzantines, 1836, 8vo.
(Ascon. in Cic. pro Cornel. p. 57, ed. Orelli. ) But Besides this historical work, Glycas wrote a
he appeared as evidence in defence of Cornelius, great number of letters, mostly on theological sub-
when impeached for disregarding the interdict. jects ; some of them have been published, under
(Ascon. p. 61. ) Globulus was praetor of Asia the title of “ Epistolae sive Dissertationes decem
Minor in B. C. 65–64, since he was the immediate et Graece et Latine, interprete J. Lamio, cum
predecessor of L. Flaccus (Sall. Cat. 45; Cic. pro Notis," in the first vol. of J. Lamius, Deliciue Eru.
Flacc. 3) in that province. (Cic. pro Flacc. 32;
Schol. ditorum. (Dissertatio de Aetate et Scriptis M.
Bob. pro Flacc. pp. 233, 245, Orelli. ) [W. B. D. ] Glycae, in Oudin, Commentarius de Scriptoribus
GLOS. (Gaos. )
Ecclesiasticis, vol. iii. p. 2522 ; Vita Glycae, in
GLUS (Taoûs), an Egyptian, was son of Tamos, Lamius, Deliciae Eruditorum; Hamberger, Zuver-
the admiral of Cyrus the younger. When Menon, lässige Nachrichten von gelehrten Männern, vol. iv.
the Thessalian, had persuaded his troops to show p. 729, &c. ; Cave, Hist. lit. vol. ii. p. 206, &c. ;
their zcal for Cyrus, by crossing the Euphrates Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 199. ) (W. P. ]
before the rest of the Greeks, Glus was sent by the GLY'CERA (rauképa)," the sweet one," a
prince to convey to them his thanks and promises favourite name of helairae. The most celebrated
of reward. After the battle of Cunaxa he was one hetairae of this name are, 1. The daughter of Tha-
of those who announced to the Greeks the death of lassis and the mistress of Harpalus. (Athen. xiii.
Cyrus, and he is mentioned again by Xenophon as pp. 586, 595, 605, &c. ) (HARPALUS. ) 2. Of Si-
watching their movements, when, in the course of cyon, and the mistress of Pausias. (PAUSIĄS. ) 3. A
their retreat, they were crossing the bridge over favourite of Horace. (Hor. Carm. i. 19. 30. iii. 19. 29. )
the Tigris. (Xen. Anab. i. 4. $ 16,5. § 7, ii. 1. $ 3, GLYCE'RIUS, one of the phantom emperors
4. $ 24. )
(E. E. ] of the latest period of the western empire. Before
GLYCAS, MICHAEL (Mixanla o rauras), a his accession he held the office of Comes domesti-
Byzantine historian, was a native either of Con- corum, and is described by Theophanes as durip
stantinople or Sicily, whence he is often called oŮK dobriuos (“ a man of good reputation "). After
"Siculus. " There are great doubts with regard to the death of the emperor Olybrius and the patrician
the time when he lived. Oudin, Hamberger, and Ricimer, Glycerius was instigated to assume the
others, are of opinion that he was a contemporary empire by Gundibatus or Gundobald the Burgun-
of the last emperors of Constantinople, as may be dian, Ricimer's nephew. His elevation took place
concluded from letters of his being extant in MS. at Ravenna in March, A. D. 473. His reign was
which are addressed to the last Constantine, who too short, and the records of it are too obscure, for
perished in the storm of Constantinople by the us to form any trustworthy judgmer:t of his cha-
Turks in 1453: but it is doubtful whether those racter. He showed great respect for Epiphanius,
letters are really written by him. Walch, Fabri- bishop of Ticinum or Pavia, at whose intercession
cius, Vossius, and Cave, on the contrary, believe he pardoned some individuals who had incurred
that Glycas lived in the twelfth century. However his displeasure by some injury or insult offered to
this may be, it is certain that he lived after 1118, his mother. When Widemir, the Ostro-Goth,
because his Annals go down to that year. Glycas invaded Italy, Glycerius sent him several presents,
was probably an ecclesiastic: he possessed an er- and induced him to quit Italy and to march into
tensive amount of knowledge, and he was ac- Gaul, and incorporate his army with the Visi-
quainted with several languages. His style is Goths, who were already settled in that province.
generally clear and concise, and he is justly placed This event, which is recorded by Jornandes, is, by
among the better Byzantine historians. The An- Tillemont, but without any apparent reason, placed
nals (Bibos Xpovinn) mentioned above are his before the accession of Glycerius. The eastern
principal work. They are divided into four parts. emperor Leo I. , the Thracian, does not appear to
The first part treats of the creation of the world : have acknowledged Glycerius ; and, by his direc-
it is a physico-theological treatise ; the second part tion, Julius Nepos was proclaimed emperor at
is historical, and contains the period from the Ravenna, either in the latter part of 473 or the
Creation to Christ ; the third goes from Christ to beginning of 474. Nepos marched against Gly-
Constantine the Great ; and the fourth from cerius, and took him prisoner at Portus (the
Constantine the Great to ihe death of the em- harbour of Rome at the mouth of the Tiber), and
peror Alexis I. Comnenus, in 1118. It was first compelled him to become a priest. He was ap-
published in a Latin translation, by Leunclavius, pointed then, or soon afterward, to the bishoprick
together with a continuation of the Annals down of Salona in Dalmatia.
to the capture of Constantinople, by the editor, The subsequent history of Glycerius is involved
Basel, 1572, 8vo. The first part of the work was in some doubt. The Chronicon of Marcellinus com-
first published in Greek, with a Latin translation, prebends the notice of his deposition, ordination to
by Meursius, under the title of “Theodori Metochi- the priesthood, and death in one paragraph, as if they
tae Historiae Romanae a Julio Caesare ad Constan- had all happened in the same year. But accord-
tinum Magnum," Lugdun. 1618, 8vo. ; and it is also ing to Malchus, he was concerned in the death of
given in the 7th vol. of Meursius' works: Meursius the emperor Nepos, who, after being driven from
erroneously attributed it to Theodorus Metochita. Italy by the patrician Orestes, preserved the im-
'The whole of the Greek text was first published by perial title, and apparently a fragment of the em-
Labbe, who took great care in collecting MSS. , and pire, at Salona, and was killed (A. D. 480) by his
added valuable notes, as well as the translation of own followers, Viator and Ovida or Odiva, of
Leunclavius, which he revised in many places. This whom the second was conquered and killed the
edition forms part of the Paris collection of the year after by Odoacer. A Glycerius appears among
T 3
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278
GLYCON.
GNAEUS.
the archbishops of Milan mentioned by Ennodius, statue of Heracles, which is commonly called the
and Gibbon, though with some hesitation, identifies - Farnese Hercules. ” It was found in the baths of
the archbishop with the ex-emperor, and suggests Caracalla, and, after adorning the Farnese palace
that his promotion to Milan was the reward of his for some time, it was removed, with the other
participation in the death of Nepos ; but we much works of art belonging to that palace, to the royal
doubt whether the two were identical. (Marcelli- museum at Naples : it represents the hero resting
nus, Marius A venticensis and Cassiodorus, Chron. ; on his club, after one of his labours. The swollen
Jornand. de Reb. Get. c. 56, de Regn. Succ. p. muscles admirably express repose after severe ex-
58, ed. Lindenbrogii, Hamb. 1611 ; Malchus and ertion. The right hand, which holds the golden
Candidus, apud Phot. Bibl. codd. 78, 79; Evagr. apples, is modern : the legs also were restored by
II. E. ii. 16; Ennod. Epiphan. Ticin. Vita and Gulielmo della Porta, but the original legs were dis-
Carmina apud Sirmond. Opera Vuria, vol. i.
epigrams seem to have been confounded together. Plat. Phaed. p. 13, Ruhnken, pp. 381-2, Bekker. )
The Anthology contains six epigrams, of which the Stephanus Byzantinus (s. v. Aidáan) calls Glau-
1st, 2nd, 4th, and 5th are simply inscribed raas- cus a Samian. The fact is, that Glaucus belonged
kov, the 3rd, raúxov 'Aonvalov, and the 6th, to the Samian school of art.
Γλαύκου Νικοπολίτα. From internal evidence, Ja- Glaucus is placed by Eusebius (Chron. Arm. ) at
cobs thinks that the 1st and 2nd belong to Glaucus Ol. 22, 2 (B. C. 69%). Alyattes reigned B. C. 617
of Nicopolis, and that the 3rd, 4th, and 5th were —560. But the dates are not inconsistent, for
written by one poet, probably by Glaucus of Athens. there is nothing in Herodotus to exclude the sup-
These latter three are descriptions of works of art. position that the iron base had been made some
Perhaps all the epigrams should be ascribed to time before Alyattes sent it to Delphi.
Glaucus of Athens. (Brunck. Anal. vol. ii. pp. 2. Of Lemnos, a distinguished statuary (Steph.
347, 348 ; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. pp. 57, 58, Byz. s. v. Aidáan), is perhaps the same as the for-
vol. xiii. p. 898 ; Fabric. Bill. Graec. vol. ii. p. 122, mer, for several of the Samian school of artists
vol. iv. p. 476. )
wrought in Lemnos.
3. A Locrian, who is mentioned as one of the 3. Of Argos, was the statuary who, in conjunc-
writers on cookery (BaptutiKÓ, Athen. vii. p. tion with Dionysius, made the works which Smi-
324, a. , ix. p. 369, b. , xii. p. 516, c. , xiv. p. 661, cythus dedicated at Olympia. Glaucus made the
e. ; Pollux, vi. 10. )
statues of Iphitus crowned by Ececheiria (the god-
4. Of Rhegium, sometimes mentioned merely as dess of truces), of Amphitrite, of Poseidon, and of
of Italy, wrote on the ancient poets and musicians Vesta, which Pausanias calls “the greater offer-
(oúrypauuá to nepl tûv ápxalwy TOINT CV Te kadings of Smicythus. " Dionysius made the lesser
MOVOLK@v, Plut. de Music. 4, p. 1132, e. ). Diogenes offerings. ” (Paus. v. 26. SS 2–6. [Dions-
Laërtius quotes statements of his respecting Empe- SIUs. )
[P. S. ]
docles and Democritus, and says that he was con- GLAUCUS (TAaðkos). 1. Called by Arrian
temporary with Democritus (viii. 52, ix. 38). ; (Anab. vii. J4) Glaucias (raavrias), the nanie
Glaucus is also quoted in the argument to the of the physician who attended on Hephaestion
Persae of Aeschylus. (Plaukos év Tols Tepi Alo at the time of his death, B. C. 325, and who is said
xúzov púbwv. ) His work was also ascribed to the to have been either crucified or hanged by Aler-
orator Antiphon. (Plut. Vit. X. Orat. p. 833, d. ) ander, for his ill success in treating him. (Plut.
5. A sophist and hierophant of the Eleusinian Aler. c. 72. )
mysteries. (Philostrat. de Sophist. ii. 20, p. 601. ) 2. Another physician of the same name at Aler-
6. A writer on the geography and antiquities of andria, who is said to have informed Q. Dellius of
Arabia, often quoted by Stephanus Byzantinus, a plot formed against him by Cleopatra, probably
who calls his work sometimes 'ApabiT dpxaiolo B. c. 31. (Plut. Anton. c. 59. )
gía, and sometimes 'Apabiá (s. v. Ataavov, récom 3. Another physician of the same name, is quoted
&c. ; Vossius, de Hist. Graec. pp. 443-4, ed. West- by Asclepiades Pharmacion (ap. Galen, De Compos.
ermann. )
[P. S. ] Medicam. sec. Loc. iv. 7, vol. xii. p. 743. ), and
GLAUCUS (r^aūkos), of Carystus, the son of lived in or before the first century after Christ.
Demylos, was one of the most celebrated Grecian 4. A physician, about the end of the first cen-
athletes. He was a reprodovians, having gained tury after Christ, mentioned by Plutarch as a con-
one Olympic, two Pythian, eight Nemean, and temporary in his treatise De Sanitate Tuenda
eight Isth oian victories in boxing. It is said that (init. ).
while stil: a boy, he refixed a ploughshare which GLI'CIA or GLYCIAS, M. CLAU'DIUS, a
had dropped out of its place by the blows of his freedman of P. Claudius Pulcher (CLAUDIUS, No.
fist, without the help of a hammer. His statue at 13), to whom he was clerk or messenger. When
Olympia was made by GLAUCIAS of Aegina Claudius, after his defeat at Drepana, B. C. 249,
(Müller, Aeginet. iii. 4. p. 103; Krause, Olymp. was cited by the senate to answer for his miscon-
p. 292. )
[P. S. ) duct, and commanded to appoint a dictator, he no-
GLAUCUS (raūros), artists. 1. Of Chios, minated Glicia (Suet. Tib. 2. ) The appointment
a statuary in metal, distinguished as the inventor was, however, instantly cancelled, even before
of the art of soldering metals (Komanois). His Glicia had named his master of the equites. (Fasti.
most noted work was an iron base (ÚTromptnpídiov, Capit. ). His disgrace did not prevent Glicia from
Herod. ; únbonuan Paus. ), which, with the silver appearing at the Great Games in his pretexta as iſ
bowl it supported, was presented to the temple at he had been really dictator. (Liv. Epit. xix. ) Glicia
Delphi by Alyattes, king of Lydia. (Herod. i. 25. ) was afterwards legatus in Corsica, to the consul
This base was seen by Pausanias, who describes its C. Licinius Varus, B. C. 236, where, presuming to
construction (1. 16. § 1), and by Athenaeus (v: treat with the Corsicans without orders from the
p. 210, b. c. ), who says that it was chased with senate or the consul, he was first delivere
small figures of animals, insects, and plants.
Per the enemy as solely responsible for the treaty, and,
haps it is this passage that has led Meyer (Kunst- on their refusal to punish him, was put to death at
geschichte, vol. ii. p. 24) and others into the mistake Rome. (Dion Cass. fr. 45 ; Zonar. viii. p. 400. B;
of explaining kóxinois as that kind of engraving Val. Max. vi. 3. 3; Comp. Grot. de Jur. Bell et
on steel which we call damascene work. There is Pac. ii. 21. § 4. )
(W. B, D. ]
no doubt that it means a mode of uniting metals by GLICIUS GALLUS. [GALLUS. ]
a solder or cement, without the help of the nails, GLOBULUS, P. SERVILIUS, was tribune
c
1
up to
## p. 277 (#293) ############################################
GLYCAS.
277
GLYCERIUS.
of the plebs, B. C. 67. When one of his colleagues, | Byzantines, and appeared at Paris 1660, fol. ; it
C. Cornelius (C. CORNELIUS), brought forward a was reprinted at Venice 1729, fol. The best edition
rogation which the senate disliked, Globulus laid is by I. Bekker, in the Bonn collection of the
his tribunitian interdict on its reading by the clerk. Byzantines, 1836, 8vo.
(Ascon. in Cic. pro Cornel. p. 57, ed. Orelli. ) But Besides this historical work, Glycas wrote a
he appeared as evidence in defence of Cornelius, great number of letters, mostly on theological sub-
when impeached for disregarding the interdict. jects ; some of them have been published, under
(Ascon. p. 61. ) Globulus was praetor of Asia the title of “ Epistolae sive Dissertationes decem
Minor in B. C. 65–64, since he was the immediate et Graece et Latine, interprete J. Lamio, cum
predecessor of L. Flaccus (Sall. Cat. 45; Cic. pro Notis," in the first vol. of J. Lamius, Deliciue Eru.
Flacc. 3) in that province. (Cic. pro Flacc. 32;
Schol. ditorum. (Dissertatio de Aetate et Scriptis M.
Bob. pro Flacc. pp. 233, 245, Orelli. ) [W. B. D. ] Glycae, in Oudin, Commentarius de Scriptoribus
GLOS. (Gaos. )
Ecclesiasticis, vol. iii. p. 2522 ; Vita Glycae, in
GLUS (Taoûs), an Egyptian, was son of Tamos, Lamius, Deliciae Eruditorum; Hamberger, Zuver-
the admiral of Cyrus the younger. When Menon, lässige Nachrichten von gelehrten Männern, vol. iv.
the Thessalian, had persuaded his troops to show p. 729, &c. ; Cave, Hist. lit. vol. ii. p. 206, &c. ;
their zcal for Cyrus, by crossing the Euphrates Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 199. ) (W. P. ]
before the rest of the Greeks, Glus was sent by the GLY'CERA (rauképa)," the sweet one," a
prince to convey to them his thanks and promises favourite name of helairae. The most celebrated
of reward. After the battle of Cunaxa he was one hetairae of this name are, 1. The daughter of Tha-
of those who announced to the Greeks the death of lassis and the mistress of Harpalus. (Athen. xiii.
Cyrus, and he is mentioned again by Xenophon as pp. 586, 595, 605, &c. ) (HARPALUS. ) 2. Of Si-
watching their movements, when, in the course of cyon, and the mistress of Pausias. (PAUSIĄS. ) 3. A
their retreat, they were crossing the bridge over favourite of Horace. (Hor. Carm. i. 19. 30. iii. 19. 29. )
the Tigris. (Xen. Anab. i. 4. $ 16,5. § 7, ii. 1. $ 3, GLYCE'RIUS, one of the phantom emperors
4. $ 24. )
(E. E. ] of the latest period of the western empire. Before
GLYCAS, MICHAEL (Mixanla o rauras), a his accession he held the office of Comes domesti-
Byzantine historian, was a native either of Con- corum, and is described by Theophanes as durip
stantinople or Sicily, whence he is often called oŮK dobriuos (“ a man of good reputation "). After
"Siculus. " There are great doubts with regard to the death of the emperor Olybrius and the patrician
the time when he lived. Oudin, Hamberger, and Ricimer, Glycerius was instigated to assume the
others, are of opinion that he was a contemporary empire by Gundibatus or Gundobald the Burgun-
of the last emperors of Constantinople, as may be dian, Ricimer's nephew. His elevation took place
concluded from letters of his being extant in MS. at Ravenna in March, A. D. 473. His reign was
which are addressed to the last Constantine, who too short, and the records of it are too obscure, for
perished in the storm of Constantinople by the us to form any trustworthy judgmer:t of his cha-
Turks in 1453: but it is doubtful whether those racter. He showed great respect for Epiphanius,
letters are really written by him. Walch, Fabri- bishop of Ticinum or Pavia, at whose intercession
cius, Vossius, and Cave, on the contrary, believe he pardoned some individuals who had incurred
that Glycas lived in the twelfth century. However his displeasure by some injury or insult offered to
this may be, it is certain that he lived after 1118, his mother. When Widemir, the Ostro-Goth,
because his Annals go down to that year. Glycas invaded Italy, Glycerius sent him several presents,
was probably an ecclesiastic: he possessed an er- and induced him to quit Italy and to march into
tensive amount of knowledge, and he was ac- Gaul, and incorporate his army with the Visi-
quainted with several languages. His style is Goths, who were already settled in that province.
generally clear and concise, and he is justly placed This event, which is recorded by Jornandes, is, by
among the better Byzantine historians. The An- Tillemont, but without any apparent reason, placed
nals (Bibos Xpovinn) mentioned above are his before the accession of Glycerius. The eastern
principal work. They are divided into four parts. emperor Leo I. , the Thracian, does not appear to
The first part treats of the creation of the world : have acknowledged Glycerius ; and, by his direc-
it is a physico-theological treatise ; the second part tion, Julius Nepos was proclaimed emperor at
is historical, and contains the period from the Ravenna, either in the latter part of 473 or the
Creation to Christ ; the third goes from Christ to beginning of 474. Nepos marched against Gly-
Constantine the Great ; and the fourth from cerius, and took him prisoner at Portus (the
Constantine the Great to ihe death of the em- harbour of Rome at the mouth of the Tiber), and
peror Alexis I. Comnenus, in 1118. It was first compelled him to become a priest. He was ap-
published in a Latin translation, by Leunclavius, pointed then, or soon afterward, to the bishoprick
together with a continuation of the Annals down of Salona in Dalmatia.
to the capture of Constantinople, by the editor, The subsequent history of Glycerius is involved
Basel, 1572, 8vo. The first part of the work was in some doubt. The Chronicon of Marcellinus com-
first published in Greek, with a Latin translation, prebends the notice of his deposition, ordination to
by Meursius, under the title of “Theodori Metochi- the priesthood, and death in one paragraph, as if they
tae Historiae Romanae a Julio Caesare ad Constan- had all happened in the same year. But accord-
tinum Magnum," Lugdun. 1618, 8vo. ; and it is also ing to Malchus, he was concerned in the death of
given in the 7th vol. of Meursius' works: Meursius the emperor Nepos, who, after being driven from
erroneously attributed it to Theodorus Metochita. Italy by the patrician Orestes, preserved the im-
'The whole of the Greek text was first published by perial title, and apparently a fragment of the em-
Labbe, who took great care in collecting MSS. , and pire, at Salona, and was killed (A. D. 480) by his
added valuable notes, as well as the translation of own followers, Viator and Ovida or Odiva, of
Leunclavius, which he revised in many places. This whom the second was conquered and killed the
edition forms part of the Paris collection of the year after by Odoacer. A Glycerius appears among
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the archbishops of Milan mentioned by Ennodius, statue of Heracles, which is commonly called the
and Gibbon, though with some hesitation, identifies - Farnese Hercules. ” It was found in the baths of
the archbishop with the ex-emperor, and suggests Caracalla, and, after adorning the Farnese palace
that his promotion to Milan was the reward of his for some time, it was removed, with the other
participation in the death of Nepos ; but we much works of art belonging to that palace, to the royal
doubt whether the two were identical. (Marcelli- museum at Naples : it represents the hero resting
nus, Marius A venticensis and Cassiodorus, Chron. ; on his club, after one of his labours. The swollen
Jornand. de Reb. Get. c. 56, de Regn. Succ. p. muscles admirably express repose after severe ex-
58, ed. Lindenbrogii, Hamb. 1611 ; Malchus and ertion. The right hand, which holds the golden
Candidus, apud Phot. Bibl. codd. 78, 79; Evagr. apples, is modern : the legs also were restored by
II. E. ii. 16; Ennod. Epiphan. Ticin. Vita and Gulielmo della Porta, but the original legs were dis-
Carmina apud Sirmond. Opera Vuria, vol. i.
