Of the history of Marcus ing of Idacius Clarus, and
Sulpicius
Severus, in his
nothing more is known.
nothing more is known.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
(Palladius,
sostom that the work extant, under the name of l. c. ; Sozomen, l. c. ; Photius, 6 c. ; Niceph. Callist.
“ Marcus Eremita," are to be ascribed ; as appears l. c. ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ix. p. 267, &c. ;
from the express testimony of Nicephorus Callisti, Cave, Hist. Litt. ad ann. 401, vol. i. p. 372;
who had met with the following works :-eight Oudin, De Scriptor. Eccles. vol. j. col. 902, &c. ;
treatises (16you ÓKT), “ equal to the number of the Tillemont, Mémoires, vol 1. p. 801 ; Galland,
universal passions;"and thirty-two others, describing Biblioth. Patrum, Proleg. ad Vol. VIII. c. 1. )
the whole discipline of an ascetic life. Other works 11. EUGENICUS. [EUGENICUS. ]
of Marcus must have been extant at that time, but 12. Of Gaza. Marcus, the biographer of St.
Nicephorus does not mention them: the above were Porphyry of Gaza, lived in the fourth and fifth
the only ones that had come into his hands. centuries. He was probably a native of Procon-
The eight treatises appear to have been originally sular Asia, from which country he travelled to
'distinct, but had been collected into one volume risit the scenes of sacred history in the Holy Land,
(Bibalov), and are so described by Photius (Bibl. where he met and formed an acquaintance with
cod. 200), to whose copy was subjoired a ninth Porphyry, then at Jerusalem, some time before
treatise or book, written against the Melchize- A. D. 393. Porphyry sent him to Thessalonica to
dekians (kard MeaxiSeDeKiT@v), which showed, dispose of his property there ; and after his return,
says Photius (according to our rendering of a dis- Marcus appears to have been the almost inseparable
puted passage), that the writer was no less ob companion of Porphyry, by whom he was ordained
noxious to the charge of heresy than the parties deacon, and was sent, A. D. 398, to Constantinople,
against whom it was written. Photius remarks to obtain of the emperor Arcadius an edict for de
that the arrangement of the works was different in stroying the heathen temples at Gaza. He obtained
different copies. A Latin version by Joannes an edict to close, not destroy them. This, however,
Picus of the eight books was published 8vo. Paris, was not effectual for putting down heathenism, and
1563, and has been repeatedly reprinted in the Porphyry went in person to Constantinople, taking
various editions of the Bibliotheca Patrum. It is Marcus with him, and they were there at the time
in the fifth volume of the edition, Lyon. 1677. of the birth of the emperor Theodosius the Younger,
The Greek text was also published, 8vo. Paris, A. D. 401. They obtained an imperial edict for the
1563, by Guillaume Morel, with the Antirrhetica destruction both of the idols of the heathens and their
of Hesychius of Jerusalem. [Hesychius, No. 7. ) temples; and Marcus returned with Porphyry to
To the Greek text and the Latin version were re Gaza, where he probably remained till his death,
spectively prefixed, as if also written by Marcus, of which we have no account. He wrote the life
the text and version of a homily, lepi napadeloou of Porphyry, the original Greek text of which is
Kal vóuou aVEVLATIKOÙ, De Paradiso et Lege Spi- said to be extant in MS. at Vienna, but has never
rituali, which is one of those extant under the been published. A Latin version (Vita S. Por-
name of Macarius the Egyptian (Macarius, No. phyrii, Episcopi Gazensis), was published by Lipo-
1], to whom it more probably belongs, and from manus, in his Vitae Sanctorum, by Surius, in
whose works those of Marcus have been much in- his De Probatis Sanctorum Vitis, and by the Bol-
terpolated. The last four works are arranged in a landists, in the Acta Sanctorum, Februar. vol. iji.
different order from that of Photius ; and to the p. 643, &c. with a Commentarius Praevius and
end of the fifth, which is addressed to one Nicolaus, notes by Henschenius. It is given also in the
a friend of the writer, is subjoined Nicolaus' reply. Bibliotheca Patrum of Galland, vol. ix. p. 259, &c.
A tract, Tepl motelas, De Jejunio, a Latin version (Fabric. Bibl. Græc vol. 4. p. 316 ; Cave, Hist.
of which was first published by Zinus, with some Litt. ad ann. 421, vol. i. p. 403 ; Oudin, De
other ascetic tracts, 8vo. Venice, 1574, is probably Scriptor. Eccles. vol. i. col. 999; Galland, Biblioth.
a part of the sixth book of the printed editions, the Patrum, Proleg. ad Vol. IX. c. 7. )
seventh of Photius, as it corresponds with the title 13. HAERESIARCHA, the HERESI ARCH, a gnostic
given by Photius to that book. The Greek text of teacher who appeared in the second century, and
Morel's edition was reprinted, with the version of probably towards or after the middle of it. The
there Jerome L
99, ed. Veti, 53,
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about the Rhône
the Pyrenees into
cites is speaking.
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MARCUS.
947
MARCUS.
;
anonymous writer usually cited as Praedestinatus, the supreme God and the Creator, and to havu
inakes Marcus contemporary with Clement of Rome; denied the reality of Christ's incarnation, and the
but this is placing him too early, as, according to resurrection of the body.
Irenaeus he was a disciple of Valentinus, who pro- Marcus was charged with using magic, and
bably lived in the first half of the century (VALEN- Irenaeus has given a sufficiently obscure descrip-
TIN ÚS); and there is reason to think, from the tion of the modes in which he imposed on the
manner in which Irenaeus speaks of him, that he was credulity of his votaries, who were commonly women
still alive when that father wrote his treatise Ad- possessed of wealth, and acquired riches at their
versu Haereses (IRENAEUS). He must be placed expense. Irenaeus suspected that he was assisted
considerably later than the time of Clement. We in his delusions by some daemon, by whose aid he
have no account in Irenaeus of the country of appeared both to deliver prophecies himself, and to
Marcus ; Jerome (Comment. in Isai. Ixiv. 4,5) calls impart the gift of prophecy to those women whom
him an Egyptian, but modern critics do not adopt he deemed worthy to participate in the gift. He
this statement ; Lardner thinks, but on very preca- is charged also with employing philters and love
rious ground, that he was an Asiatic” (i. e. a na potions, in order to effect his licentious purposes.
tive of Proconsular Asia), and Neander is induced Whether any, or what part of these charges is true,
by some peculiarities of his system to think he was it is difficult to say: that of using magical prac-
from Palestine. All this, however, is mere con- tices, or practices reputed to be magical, is the most
jecture, and we are disposed to accept the statement probable. It is difficult to judge what foundation
of Jerome as to this point, especially as it accords there is for the charge of licentiousness. Lardner
with the statement of Irenaeus that he was a disciple regards it as unfounded. The Marcosians appear
of Valentinus. That Marcus was in Asia, appears to have acknowledged the canonical Scriptures, and
from a scandalous anecdote, related by Irenaeus, of to have received also many apocryphal books, from
his seducing the wife of one Diaconus (or perhaps one of which Irenaeus cites a story which is found
of a certain deacon), into whose house he had been in the Evangelium Infantiae. (Iren. Ado. Haeres.
received ; but the circumstances show that he was i. 8—18; Epiphan. Hacres. xxxiv. 8. ut alii, xiv. ;
travelling in that country rather than residing Anon. in the spurious edition to Tertullian, De Prue-
there. Jerome (l. c. and Epist. ad Theodoram, No. script. Haeret. C. 50, &c. ; Tertullian, Adv. Valent.
29, ed. Vett. , 53, ed. Benedict, 75, ed. Vallarsii) C. 4, De Resurrect. Carnis, c5; Theodoret. Haere-
states that he travelled into the parts of Gaul ticarum Fabularum Compend. c. 9; Euseb. H. E.
about the Rhône and the Garonne, then crossed iv. Il ; Philastrius, De Hacrcsib. post Christum, c.
the Pyrenees into Spain ; but Irenaeus, whom he 14; Praedestinatus, De Haeresib. i. 14; Augustin.
cites, is speaking, not of Marcus himself, but of De Haeres. c. 15 ; Hieronym. I. cc. ; Ittigius, De
his followers ; and Jerome was probably led into Haeresiarchis, sect. ii. c. 6. § 4 ; Tillemont, Mé-
this misunderstanding of his authority by con- moires, vol. ii. p. 291, &c. ; Lardner, Hist. of Here-
founding this Marcus with another and later tics, book ii. ch. 7 ; Neander, l. c. )
teacher of the gnostic school (No. 14), of the same 14. HAERETICUS. Isidore of Seville, in speak-
name and country.
Of the history of Marcus ing of Idacius Clarus, and Sulpicius Severus, in his
nothing more is known. His character is seriously Historia Sacra (ii. 61), mention Marcus, a native
impeached, as already noticed, by Irenaeus, who is of Memphis, as being eminently skilled in magic,
followed by others of the fathers, and who charges a Manichaean, or perhaps personally a disciple of
him with habitual and systematic licentiousness. Manes, and the teacher of the persecuted heresiarch
The followers of Marcus were designated Mar- Priscillian. He is noticed here as having been by
cosii (Mapkcóoli), Marcosians, and a long account Jerome and others confounded with the earlier
of them is given by Irenaeus and by Epiphanius, heresiarch of the same name. (No. 13. ) (Isidor.
who has transcribed very largely from Irenaeus ; Hispal. De Script. Eccles. c. 2; Sulp. Sever. I. c. )
and a briefer notice is contained in the other an- 15. HAMARTOLUS. (No. 16. )
cient writers on the subject of heresies.
16. HIEROMONACHUS. In the Typicum, or
peculiar tenets of Marcus were founded on the ritual directory of the Greek church (TUTIKOV Our
gnostic doctrine of Aeons; and, according to Oeg áziu mapeixov Taoay thy Sáraživ tis
Irenaeus, Marcus professed to derive his know- εκκλησιαστικής ακολουθίας του χρόνου όλου,
ledge of these Aeons, and of the production of the Typicum, favente Deo, continens integrum Officii
universe, by revelation from the primal four Ecclesiastici Ordinem per totum Annum. See the
in the system of Aeons, who descended to him description of the work in Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. ii.
from the region of the invisible and ineffable, in Dissert. II. p. 38) is contained a treatise, Súv-
the form of a female ; but this representation has | ταγμα εις τα απορούμενα του τυπικού, De Dublis
perhaps been owing to Irenaeus interpreting too quae ex Typico oriuntur, arranged in 100 chapters
literally the poetical form in which Marcus deve by Marcus Hieromonachus, who calls himself
loped his views. Neander (Church Hist. by Rose, 'Auaptwrós, “a sinner. ” This commentary is
vol ii. p. 95) thus characterizes the system of adapted to the arrangement of the Typicum,
Marcus. “ He brought forward his doctrines in a ascribed to St. Saba, but which Oudin supposed to
poem, in which he introduced the Aeons speaking have been drawn up by Marcus himself, and pro-
in liturgical formulae, and in imposing symbols of duced by him as the work of St. Saba, in order to
worship. . . After the Jewish cabalistic method, he obtain for it an authority wbich, had it appeared in
hunted after mysteries in the number and positions his own name, it would not have possessed. But
of the letters. The idea of a Nóyos Toù órtós, of though Oudin is successful in showing that parts of
the word as the revelation of the hidden divine the Typicum are adapted to practices which did
being in creation, was spun out by him with the not come into use till several centuries after St.
greatest subtilty: he made the whole creation a Saba's death, in the sixth century, and therefore
progressive expression of the inexpressible. ” The that those parts were of much later date than that
Marcosians are said to have distinguished between of Saint (SABA), he does not prove either that
The
;
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MARDONIUS.
MARDONIUS.
d a tributary of
als by the name
waiting ten dara
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termined on an eng
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who troommended
where pier. ty of pro
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of fgting was to
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spring on which
1
the whole work was a forgery, or that, if it was, | Thracian tribe, who slaughtered a great portion of
Marcus was the author of it. The very form of a his ariny. He remained in the country till he
commentary on doubtful parts implies the previous had reduced them to submission ; but his force
existence and the antiquity of the work itself. was so weakened by these successive disasters,
Oudin makes Marcus to have been a monk of the that he was obliged to return to Asia. His failure
convent of St. Saba, near Jerusalem, in the begin was visited with the displeasure of the king, and
ning of the eleventh century. A life of Gregory of he was superseded in the command by Datis and
Agrigentum (GREGORIUS, No. 2] by Marcus, monk Artaphernes, B. C. 490. On the accession of
and hegumenus, or abbot of st. Šaba, is perhaps Xerxes, in B. C. 485, Mardonius, who was high in
by the same author as the commentary on the his favour, and was connected with him by blood
Typicum. We are not aware that it has been as well as by marriage, was one of the chief insti-
published. Various works are extant in MS. , by gators of the expedition against Greece, with the
Marcus Monachus ; but the name is too common, government of which he hoped to be invested after
and the description too vague, to enable us to its conquest ; and he was appointed one of the
identify the writers. (Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. ii. generals of the whole land army, with the cxcep-
Dissert. I. p. 13; Oudin. De Scriptorib. Eccles. tion of the thousand Immortals, whom Hydarnes
vol. ii. col. 584, &c. ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. led. After the battle of Salamis (B. C. 480), he
p. 232, vol. xi. p. 678. )
became alarmed for the consequences of the advice
17. HYDRUNTIS or Idruntis Episcopus, (érés he had given, and persuaded Xerxes to return
OKOTOS '18 puüvtos), Bishop of OTRANTO. Mar- home with the rest of the ariny, leaving 300,000
cus of Otranto is supposed to have lived in the men under his command for the subjugation of
eighth century. Allatius says he was oeconomus Greece. Having wintered in Thessaly, he re-
or steward of the great church of Constantinople, solved, before commencing operations, to consult
before he became bishop, which seems to be all the several Grecian oracles, for wbich purpose he
that is known of him. He wrote Tŷ werárq oab employed a man of the name of Mys, & native of
Cátw of arpoorixls, Hymnus Acrostichus in Mag- Europus in Caria Herodotus professes his igno-
num Sabbatum, 8. In Magno Sabbato Capita Ver- rance of the answers returned, but he connects
suum, which was published by Aldus Manutius, with them the step which Mardonius immediately
with a Latin version, in his edition of Prudentius afterwards took, of sending Alexander I. , king of
and other early Christian poets, 4to. , without Macedonia, to the Athenians, whose apótevos he
mark of date or place ; but judged to be Venice, was, with a proposal of very advantageous terms
1501. The hymn is not in metre ; the initial if they would withdraw themselves from the Greek
letters of the successive paragraphs are intended to confederacy. The proposal was rejected, and Mar-
make up the words kai onuepov dé, which are the donius poured his army into Attica and occupied
opening words of the hymn; but as divided by Athens without resistance, the Athenians having
Aldus, the acrostic is spoiled by the introduction of fled for refuge to Salamis. Thither he sent Mury-
one or two superfluous letters. A Latin version of chides, a Hellespontine Greek, with the same pro-
the hymn is given in several editions of the Biblio posal he had already made through Alexander,
theca Patrum. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. pp. 177, but with no better success than before. From
677 ; Cave, Hist. Litt. ad ann. 750, vol. i. p. 630. ) Attica (a country unfavourable for the operations
18. JOANNES. (JOANNES, No. 84. ]
of cavalry, and full of narrow defiles, through
19. MONACHUS. (No. 10. )
which retreat would be dangerous if he were de-
20. MonachUS S. SABAE. [No. 16. ) feated) he determined to fall back on Boeotia as
21. Of St. SABA. (No. 16. ) [J. C. M. ] soon as he heard that the Spartans under Pausa-
MARDOʻNIUS (Mapdovios), a Persian, son of nias were on their march against him. But before
Gobryas, who was one of the seven conspirators his departure he reduced Athens to ruins, having
Against Smerdis the Magian, in B. C. 521. (See previously abstained from damaging the city or
Herod. iii. 70, &c. ) In the spring of B. C. 492, the country as long as there had been any hope of
the second year from the close of the Ionian war, winning over the Athenians. On his retreat from
Mardonius, who had recently married Artazostra, Attica he received intelligence that a body of 1000
the daughter of Dareius Hystaspis, was sent by Lacedaemonians had advanced before the rest into
the king, with a large armament, as successor of Megara, and thither accordingly he directed his
Artaphernes, to complete the settlement of Jonia, march with the view of surprising them, and over-
and to punish Eretria and Athens for the aid they ran the Megarian plain, - the furthest point to
had given to the rebels. (Comp. Herod. v. 99, &c. ) wards the west, according to Herodotus, which
But while this was the nominal object of the ex- the Persian army ever reached. Hearing, how-
pedition, it was intended also for the conquest of ever, that the Greek force was collected at the
as many Grecian states as possible. Throughout Isthmus of Corinth, he passed eastward through
the Ionian cities Mardonius deposed the tyrants Deceleia, crossed Mount Parnes, and, descending
whom Artaphernes had placed in power, and esta- into Boeotia, encamped in a strong position on the
blished democracy, - a step remarkably opposed southern bank of the Asopus. The Greeks arrived
to the ordinary rules of Persian policy. He then not long after at Erythrae and stationed them-
crossed the Hellespont, and, while his fleet sailed selves along the skirts of Mount Cithaeron. Mar-
to Thasos and subdued it, he marched with his donius waited with impatience, expecting that
land forces through Thrace and Macedonia, re- they would descend into the plain and give him
ducing on his way the tribes which had not yet battle, and at length sent his cavalry against them
submitted to Persia. But the fleet was overtaken under MASISTIUS. After their success over the
by a storm off Mount Athos, in which it was said latter the Greeks removed further to the west near
that 300 ships and 20,000 men were lost ; and Plataea, where they would have a better supply of
Mardonius himself, on his passage through Mace-water, and hither Mardonius followed them. The
dunia, was attacked at night by the Brygians, a | two armies were now stationed on opposite banks
Pausanias again
iron stil neare
creased the river
of Plataza which
be fonght bravely
pated Persians
Aeinnestus or A
tas the signal fc
(Herod. vi. 43-
&c 113, &c. 13
65; Plut. Aris
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1. )
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MARGITES.
949
MARIAMNE.
of a tributary of the A sopus which Herodotus heighten the comic effect of the poem. The cha-
alls by the name of the main stream. After racter of the hero, which was highly comic and
waiting ten days, during which the enemy's force ludicrous, was that of a conceited but ignorant
was receiving continual additions, Mardonius de person, who on all occasions exhibited his ig-
termined on an engagement in spite of the warn- norance: the gods had not made him fit even for
ings of the sooth sa vers and the advice of Artabazus, digging or ploughing, or any other ordinary craft.
who recommended him to fall back on Thebes, His parents were very wealthy ; and the poet un.
where plenty of provisions had been collected, and doubtedly intended to represent some ludicrous
to try the effect of Persian gold on the chief men personage of Colophon. The work seems to have
in the several Grecian states ; and his resolution been neither a parody nor a satire ; but the author
of fighting was further confirmed when, the Per- with the most naïve humour represented the follies
sian cavalry having taken and choked up the and absurdities of Margites in the most ludicrous
spring on which the Greeks depended for water, light, and with no other object than to cxcito
Pausanias again decamped and moved with his laughter. (Falbe, de Margile Homerico, 1798 ;
forces still nearer to Plataea. Mardonius then Lindemann, Die Lyra, vot i. p. 79, &c. ; Welcker,
crossed the river and pursued him.
sostom that the work extant, under the name of l. c. ; Sozomen, l. c. ; Photius, 6 c. ; Niceph. Callist.
“ Marcus Eremita," are to be ascribed ; as appears l. c. ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ix. p. 267, &c. ;
from the express testimony of Nicephorus Callisti, Cave, Hist. Litt. ad ann. 401, vol. i. p. 372;
who had met with the following works :-eight Oudin, De Scriptor. Eccles. vol. j. col. 902, &c. ;
treatises (16you ÓKT), “ equal to the number of the Tillemont, Mémoires, vol 1. p. 801 ; Galland,
universal passions;"and thirty-two others, describing Biblioth. Patrum, Proleg. ad Vol. VIII. c. 1. )
the whole discipline of an ascetic life. Other works 11. EUGENICUS. [EUGENICUS. ]
of Marcus must have been extant at that time, but 12. Of Gaza. Marcus, the biographer of St.
Nicephorus does not mention them: the above were Porphyry of Gaza, lived in the fourth and fifth
the only ones that had come into his hands. centuries. He was probably a native of Procon-
The eight treatises appear to have been originally sular Asia, from which country he travelled to
'distinct, but had been collected into one volume risit the scenes of sacred history in the Holy Land,
(Bibalov), and are so described by Photius (Bibl. where he met and formed an acquaintance with
cod. 200), to whose copy was subjoired a ninth Porphyry, then at Jerusalem, some time before
treatise or book, written against the Melchize- A. D. 393. Porphyry sent him to Thessalonica to
dekians (kard MeaxiSeDeKiT@v), which showed, dispose of his property there ; and after his return,
says Photius (according to our rendering of a dis- Marcus appears to have been the almost inseparable
puted passage), that the writer was no less ob companion of Porphyry, by whom he was ordained
noxious to the charge of heresy than the parties deacon, and was sent, A. D. 398, to Constantinople,
against whom it was written. Photius remarks to obtain of the emperor Arcadius an edict for de
that the arrangement of the works was different in stroying the heathen temples at Gaza. He obtained
different copies. A Latin version by Joannes an edict to close, not destroy them. This, however,
Picus of the eight books was published 8vo. Paris, was not effectual for putting down heathenism, and
1563, and has been repeatedly reprinted in the Porphyry went in person to Constantinople, taking
various editions of the Bibliotheca Patrum. It is Marcus with him, and they were there at the time
in the fifth volume of the edition, Lyon. 1677. of the birth of the emperor Theodosius the Younger,
The Greek text was also published, 8vo. Paris, A. D. 401. They obtained an imperial edict for the
1563, by Guillaume Morel, with the Antirrhetica destruction both of the idols of the heathens and their
of Hesychius of Jerusalem. [Hesychius, No. 7. ) temples; and Marcus returned with Porphyry to
To the Greek text and the Latin version were re Gaza, where he probably remained till his death,
spectively prefixed, as if also written by Marcus, of which we have no account. He wrote the life
the text and version of a homily, lepi napadeloou of Porphyry, the original Greek text of which is
Kal vóuou aVEVLATIKOÙ, De Paradiso et Lege Spi- said to be extant in MS. at Vienna, but has never
rituali, which is one of those extant under the been published. A Latin version (Vita S. Por-
name of Macarius the Egyptian (Macarius, No. phyrii, Episcopi Gazensis), was published by Lipo-
1], to whom it more probably belongs, and from manus, in his Vitae Sanctorum, by Surius, in
whose works those of Marcus have been much in- his De Probatis Sanctorum Vitis, and by the Bol-
terpolated. The last four works are arranged in a landists, in the Acta Sanctorum, Februar. vol. iji.
different order from that of Photius ; and to the p. 643, &c. with a Commentarius Praevius and
end of the fifth, which is addressed to one Nicolaus, notes by Henschenius. It is given also in the
a friend of the writer, is subjoined Nicolaus' reply. Bibliotheca Patrum of Galland, vol. ix. p. 259, &c.
A tract, Tepl motelas, De Jejunio, a Latin version (Fabric. Bibl. Græc vol. 4. p. 316 ; Cave, Hist.
of which was first published by Zinus, with some Litt. ad ann. 421, vol. i. p. 403 ; Oudin, De
other ascetic tracts, 8vo. Venice, 1574, is probably Scriptor. Eccles. vol. i. col. 999; Galland, Biblioth.
a part of the sixth book of the printed editions, the Patrum, Proleg. ad Vol. IX. c. 7. )
seventh of Photius, as it corresponds with the title 13. HAERESIARCHA, the HERESI ARCH, a gnostic
given by Photius to that book. The Greek text of teacher who appeared in the second century, and
Morel's edition was reprinted, with the version of probably towards or after the middle of it. The
there Jerome L
99, ed. Veti, 53,
state that be to
about the Rhône
the Pyrenees into
cites is speaking.
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MARCUS.
;
anonymous writer usually cited as Praedestinatus, the supreme God and the Creator, and to havu
inakes Marcus contemporary with Clement of Rome; denied the reality of Christ's incarnation, and the
but this is placing him too early, as, according to resurrection of the body.
Irenaeus he was a disciple of Valentinus, who pro- Marcus was charged with using magic, and
bably lived in the first half of the century (VALEN- Irenaeus has given a sufficiently obscure descrip-
TIN ÚS); and there is reason to think, from the tion of the modes in which he imposed on the
manner in which Irenaeus speaks of him, that he was credulity of his votaries, who were commonly women
still alive when that father wrote his treatise Ad- possessed of wealth, and acquired riches at their
versu Haereses (IRENAEUS). He must be placed expense. Irenaeus suspected that he was assisted
considerably later than the time of Clement. We in his delusions by some daemon, by whose aid he
have no account in Irenaeus of the country of appeared both to deliver prophecies himself, and to
Marcus ; Jerome (Comment. in Isai. Ixiv. 4,5) calls impart the gift of prophecy to those women whom
him an Egyptian, but modern critics do not adopt he deemed worthy to participate in the gift. He
this statement ; Lardner thinks, but on very preca- is charged also with employing philters and love
rious ground, that he was an Asiatic” (i. e. a na potions, in order to effect his licentious purposes.
tive of Proconsular Asia), and Neander is induced Whether any, or what part of these charges is true,
by some peculiarities of his system to think he was it is difficult to say: that of using magical prac-
from Palestine. All this, however, is mere con- tices, or practices reputed to be magical, is the most
jecture, and we are disposed to accept the statement probable. It is difficult to judge what foundation
of Jerome as to this point, especially as it accords there is for the charge of licentiousness. Lardner
with the statement of Irenaeus that he was a disciple regards it as unfounded. The Marcosians appear
of Valentinus. That Marcus was in Asia, appears to have acknowledged the canonical Scriptures, and
from a scandalous anecdote, related by Irenaeus, of to have received also many apocryphal books, from
his seducing the wife of one Diaconus (or perhaps one of which Irenaeus cites a story which is found
of a certain deacon), into whose house he had been in the Evangelium Infantiae. (Iren. Ado. Haeres.
received ; but the circumstances show that he was i. 8—18; Epiphan. Hacres. xxxiv. 8. ut alii, xiv. ;
travelling in that country rather than residing Anon. in the spurious edition to Tertullian, De Prue-
there. Jerome (l. c. and Epist. ad Theodoram, No. script. Haeret. C. 50, &c. ; Tertullian, Adv. Valent.
29, ed. Vett. , 53, ed. Benedict, 75, ed. Vallarsii) C. 4, De Resurrect. Carnis, c5; Theodoret. Haere-
states that he travelled into the parts of Gaul ticarum Fabularum Compend. c. 9; Euseb. H. E.
about the Rhône and the Garonne, then crossed iv. Il ; Philastrius, De Hacrcsib. post Christum, c.
the Pyrenees into Spain ; but Irenaeus, whom he 14; Praedestinatus, De Haeresib. i. 14; Augustin.
cites, is speaking, not of Marcus himself, but of De Haeres. c. 15 ; Hieronym. I. cc. ; Ittigius, De
his followers ; and Jerome was probably led into Haeresiarchis, sect. ii. c. 6. § 4 ; Tillemont, Mé-
this misunderstanding of his authority by con- moires, vol. ii. p. 291, &c. ; Lardner, Hist. of Here-
founding this Marcus with another and later tics, book ii. ch. 7 ; Neander, l. c. )
teacher of the gnostic school (No. 14), of the same 14. HAERETICUS. Isidore of Seville, in speak-
name and country.
Of the history of Marcus ing of Idacius Clarus, and Sulpicius Severus, in his
nothing more is known. His character is seriously Historia Sacra (ii. 61), mention Marcus, a native
impeached, as already noticed, by Irenaeus, who is of Memphis, as being eminently skilled in magic,
followed by others of the fathers, and who charges a Manichaean, or perhaps personally a disciple of
him with habitual and systematic licentiousness. Manes, and the teacher of the persecuted heresiarch
The followers of Marcus were designated Mar- Priscillian. He is noticed here as having been by
cosii (Mapkcóoli), Marcosians, and a long account Jerome and others confounded with the earlier
of them is given by Irenaeus and by Epiphanius, heresiarch of the same name. (No. 13. ) (Isidor.
who has transcribed very largely from Irenaeus ; Hispal. De Script. Eccles. c. 2; Sulp. Sever. I. c. )
and a briefer notice is contained in the other an- 15. HAMARTOLUS. (No. 16. )
cient writers on the subject of heresies.
16. HIEROMONACHUS. In the Typicum, or
peculiar tenets of Marcus were founded on the ritual directory of the Greek church (TUTIKOV Our
gnostic doctrine of Aeons; and, according to Oeg áziu mapeixov Taoay thy Sáraživ tis
Irenaeus, Marcus professed to derive his know- εκκλησιαστικής ακολουθίας του χρόνου όλου,
ledge of these Aeons, and of the production of the Typicum, favente Deo, continens integrum Officii
universe, by revelation from the primal four Ecclesiastici Ordinem per totum Annum. See the
in the system of Aeons, who descended to him description of the work in Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. ii.
from the region of the invisible and ineffable, in Dissert. II. p. 38) is contained a treatise, Súv-
the form of a female ; but this representation has | ταγμα εις τα απορούμενα του τυπικού, De Dublis
perhaps been owing to Irenaeus interpreting too quae ex Typico oriuntur, arranged in 100 chapters
literally the poetical form in which Marcus deve by Marcus Hieromonachus, who calls himself
loped his views. Neander (Church Hist. by Rose, 'Auaptwrós, “a sinner. ” This commentary is
vol ii. p. 95) thus characterizes the system of adapted to the arrangement of the Typicum,
Marcus. “ He brought forward his doctrines in a ascribed to St. Saba, but which Oudin supposed to
poem, in which he introduced the Aeons speaking have been drawn up by Marcus himself, and pro-
in liturgical formulae, and in imposing symbols of duced by him as the work of St. Saba, in order to
worship. . . After the Jewish cabalistic method, he obtain for it an authority wbich, had it appeared in
hunted after mysteries in the number and positions his own name, it would not have possessed. But
of the letters. The idea of a Nóyos Toù órtós, of though Oudin is successful in showing that parts of
the word as the revelation of the hidden divine the Typicum are adapted to practices which did
being in creation, was spun out by him with the not come into use till several centuries after St.
greatest subtilty: he made the whole creation a Saba's death, in the sixth century, and therefore
progressive expression of the inexpressible. ” The that those parts were of much later date than that
Marcosians are said to have distinguished between of Saint (SABA), he does not prove either that
The
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MARDONIUS.
MARDONIUS.
d a tributary of
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who troommended
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spring on which
1
the whole work was a forgery, or that, if it was, | Thracian tribe, who slaughtered a great portion of
Marcus was the author of it. The very form of a his ariny. He remained in the country till he
commentary on doubtful parts implies the previous had reduced them to submission ; but his force
existence and the antiquity of the work itself. was so weakened by these successive disasters,
Oudin makes Marcus to have been a monk of the that he was obliged to return to Asia. His failure
convent of St. Saba, near Jerusalem, in the begin was visited with the displeasure of the king, and
ning of the eleventh century. A life of Gregory of he was superseded in the command by Datis and
Agrigentum (GREGORIUS, No. 2] by Marcus, monk Artaphernes, B. C. 490. On the accession of
and hegumenus, or abbot of st. Šaba, is perhaps Xerxes, in B. C. 485, Mardonius, who was high in
by the same author as the commentary on the his favour, and was connected with him by blood
Typicum. We are not aware that it has been as well as by marriage, was one of the chief insti-
published. Various works are extant in MS. , by gators of the expedition against Greece, with the
Marcus Monachus ; but the name is too common, government of which he hoped to be invested after
and the description too vague, to enable us to its conquest ; and he was appointed one of the
identify the writers. (Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. ii. generals of the whole land army, with the cxcep-
Dissert. I. p. 13; Oudin. De Scriptorib. Eccles. tion of the thousand Immortals, whom Hydarnes
vol. ii. col. 584, &c. ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. led. After the battle of Salamis (B. C. 480), he
p. 232, vol. xi. p. 678. )
became alarmed for the consequences of the advice
17. HYDRUNTIS or Idruntis Episcopus, (érés he had given, and persuaded Xerxes to return
OKOTOS '18 puüvtos), Bishop of OTRANTO. Mar- home with the rest of the ariny, leaving 300,000
cus of Otranto is supposed to have lived in the men under his command for the subjugation of
eighth century. Allatius says he was oeconomus Greece. Having wintered in Thessaly, he re-
or steward of the great church of Constantinople, solved, before commencing operations, to consult
before he became bishop, which seems to be all the several Grecian oracles, for wbich purpose he
that is known of him. He wrote Tŷ werárq oab employed a man of the name of Mys, & native of
Cátw of arpoorixls, Hymnus Acrostichus in Mag- Europus in Caria Herodotus professes his igno-
num Sabbatum, 8. In Magno Sabbato Capita Ver- rance of the answers returned, but he connects
suum, which was published by Aldus Manutius, with them the step which Mardonius immediately
with a Latin version, in his edition of Prudentius afterwards took, of sending Alexander I. , king of
and other early Christian poets, 4to. , without Macedonia, to the Athenians, whose apótevos he
mark of date or place ; but judged to be Venice, was, with a proposal of very advantageous terms
1501. The hymn is not in metre ; the initial if they would withdraw themselves from the Greek
letters of the successive paragraphs are intended to confederacy. The proposal was rejected, and Mar-
make up the words kai onuepov dé, which are the donius poured his army into Attica and occupied
opening words of the hymn; but as divided by Athens without resistance, the Athenians having
Aldus, the acrostic is spoiled by the introduction of fled for refuge to Salamis. Thither he sent Mury-
one or two superfluous letters. A Latin version of chides, a Hellespontine Greek, with the same pro-
the hymn is given in several editions of the Biblio posal he had already made through Alexander,
theca Patrum. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. pp. 177, but with no better success than before. From
677 ; Cave, Hist. Litt. ad ann. 750, vol. i. p. 630. ) Attica (a country unfavourable for the operations
18. JOANNES. (JOANNES, No. 84. ]
of cavalry, and full of narrow defiles, through
19. MONACHUS. (No. 10. )
which retreat would be dangerous if he were de-
20. MonachUS S. SABAE. [No. 16. ) feated) he determined to fall back on Boeotia as
21. Of St. SABA. (No. 16. ) [J. C. M. ] soon as he heard that the Spartans under Pausa-
MARDOʻNIUS (Mapdovios), a Persian, son of nias were on their march against him. But before
Gobryas, who was one of the seven conspirators his departure he reduced Athens to ruins, having
Against Smerdis the Magian, in B. C. 521. (See previously abstained from damaging the city or
Herod. iii. 70, &c. ) In the spring of B. C. 492, the country as long as there had been any hope of
the second year from the close of the Ionian war, winning over the Athenians. On his retreat from
Mardonius, who had recently married Artazostra, Attica he received intelligence that a body of 1000
the daughter of Dareius Hystaspis, was sent by Lacedaemonians had advanced before the rest into
the king, with a large armament, as successor of Megara, and thither accordingly he directed his
Artaphernes, to complete the settlement of Jonia, march with the view of surprising them, and over-
and to punish Eretria and Athens for the aid they ran the Megarian plain, - the furthest point to
had given to the rebels. (Comp. Herod. v. 99, &c. ) wards the west, according to Herodotus, which
But while this was the nominal object of the ex- the Persian army ever reached. Hearing, how-
pedition, it was intended also for the conquest of ever, that the Greek force was collected at the
as many Grecian states as possible. Throughout Isthmus of Corinth, he passed eastward through
the Ionian cities Mardonius deposed the tyrants Deceleia, crossed Mount Parnes, and, descending
whom Artaphernes had placed in power, and esta- into Boeotia, encamped in a strong position on the
blished democracy, - a step remarkably opposed southern bank of the Asopus. The Greeks arrived
to the ordinary rules of Persian policy. He then not long after at Erythrae and stationed them-
crossed the Hellespont, and, while his fleet sailed selves along the skirts of Mount Cithaeron. Mar-
to Thasos and subdued it, he marched with his donius waited with impatience, expecting that
land forces through Thrace and Macedonia, re- they would descend into the plain and give him
ducing on his way the tribes which had not yet battle, and at length sent his cavalry against them
submitted to Persia. But the fleet was overtaken under MASISTIUS. After their success over the
by a storm off Mount Athos, in which it was said latter the Greeks removed further to the west near
that 300 ships and 20,000 men were lost ; and Plataea, where they would have a better supply of
Mardonius himself, on his passage through Mace-water, and hither Mardonius followed them. The
dunia, was attacked at night by the Brygians, a | two armies were now stationed on opposite banks
Pausanias again
iron stil neare
creased the river
of Plataza which
be fonght bravely
pated Persians
Aeinnestus or A
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(Herod. vi. 43-
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65; Plut. Aris
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MARIAMNE.
of a tributary of the A sopus which Herodotus heighten the comic effect of the poem. The cha-
alls by the name of the main stream. After racter of the hero, which was highly comic and
waiting ten days, during which the enemy's force ludicrous, was that of a conceited but ignorant
was receiving continual additions, Mardonius de person, who on all occasions exhibited his ig-
termined on an engagement in spite of the warn- norance: the gods had not made him fit even for
ings of the sooth sa vers and the advice of Artabazus, digging or ploughing, or any other ordinary craft.
who recommended him to fall back on Thebes, His parents were very wealthy ; and the poet un.
where plenty of provisions had been collected, and doubtedly intended to represent some ludicrous
to try the effect of Persian gold on the chief men personage of Colophon. The work seems to have
in the several Grecian states ; and his resolution been neither a parody nor a satire ; but the author
of fighting was further confirmed when, the Per- with the most naïve humour represented the follies
sian cavalry having taken and choked up the and absurdities of Margites in the most ludicrous
spring on which the Greeks depended for water, light, and with no other object than to cxcito
Pausanias again decamped and moved with his laughter. (Falbe, de Margile Homerico, 1798 ;
forces still nearer to Plataea. Mardonius then Lindemann, Die Lyra, vot i. p. 79, &c. ; Welcker,
crossed the river and pursued him.
