Phorbe'nus
or PHOBE'NUS, GEO'RGIUS (
Γεώργιος ὁ Φυρβηνός), a Greek jurist of uncertain date. A MS. which Ducange has cited (
Glossur. Med. et Iufim. Graecitat. Index Auctor. col. 26), describes him as
Δικαιόφυλαξ Θεσσαλονίκης, "Judge at Thessalonica."
He wrote two very short dissertations :--1.
Περὶ ὑποβόλου,
De Donatione super Nuptias ; and 2.
Περὶ ἀποτυχίας,
De Casso. He wrote also
Scholia on the
Basilica, of which possibly the above dissertations may have formed part. (Allatius,
De Georgiis, 100.48; Fabric.
Bibl. Graec. vol. x. p. 721, and vol. xii. pp. 483, 564, ed. vet.)
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