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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Constanti'nus Ix. emperor of the East, A. D. 976-1028, the son of the emperor Romanus II., was born in A. D. 961, and began to reign, together with his elder brother, Basil II., in 976 ; but, addicted to idleness and luxury, he took no part in the administration of the empire. After the death of Basil in 1025, he became sole emperor; but, fortunately for his subjects, who suffered much from the Arabians during his miserable administration, he died three years afterwards, in 1028. Constantine IX. was the last of the Macedonian dynasty. His successor was Romanus Argyrus, the husband of his daughter Zoe, whom he had by his wife Helena Augusta. [BASILIUS II.]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Nicon (search)
Nicon 2. An Armenian abbot. He fled from his parents and was trained in a monastery on the confines of Pontus and Paphlagonia. About A. D. 961, he was sent by the abbot of his monastery on a missionary tour. In the course of it he visited Crete, recently freed from the Saracens, and reclaimed the inhabitants to Christianity. He was employed A. D. 981 to intercede with the Bulgarians, who were making inroads into the Grecian empire, and died, about A. D. 998. He was canonised, his name being in the calendar of both the Greek and Latin churches, on the 26th of November. From his life, written originally in Greek, and translated by Sirmondus, Baronius (Annales, vol. x.) has extracted the account of numerous miracles performed by him. Works Treatises against the Armenians Two treatises against the Armenians are ascribed to him (Cave speaks doubtfully of the last). ED They are printed, in Greek and Latin, by Cotelerius (Not. ad Patres Apostol. pp. 152, 237). Other unpublished w
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Theodo'sius DIACONUS (search)
Theodo'sius DIACONUS 9. DIACONUS, a third Byzantine historian, who appears to have lived about the same time as the preceding. Works five a)kroa/seis in iambic verse He was the author of five a)kroa/seis in iambic verse, on the subject of the expedition of Nicephorus Phocas to Crete, in A. D. 961. Editions This was first published in Greek and Latin by Fl. Cornelius, in his Creta Sacra, Venet. 1755, 4to.; again, by P. F. Fogginius, in his Nova Appendix Corporis Historiae Byzantinae, Romae, 1777, fol.; and lastly, with notes and a vocabulary of words peculiar to the author, by F. Jacobs, in his edition of Leo Diaconus, in the Corpus Script. Hist. Byzant. Bonn. 1828, 8vo. Further Information Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. p. 533; Vossius, de Hist. Graec. l.c. ; Hoffmann, Lexicon, ll. cc.