Named Entity Results, 629 AD

s, who restored some lines omitted by previous editors. It has been supposed that this work has come down to us in a mutilated condition, for Suidas speaks of it as consisting of 3000 verses. But it is possible that the text of Suidas is corrupt, and that we should read ei)s e)/ph disxi/lia, instead of trisxi/lia. The poem has no appearance of incompleteness. The Hexaemeron contains a prayer as if by the patriarch Sergius, for Heraclius and his children. The poem was probably written about A. D. 629. 7. *Ei)s to\n ma/taion *Bi/on, De Vanitate Vitae. This poem consists of 262 iambic verses, but has no internal mark of the time when it was written. 8. *Kata\ *Seuh/ron Contra Severum or *Kata\ dussebou=s *Seuh/ron *)Antioxei/as, Contra Imperium Severum Antiochiae This poem consists of 731 iambic verses. A passage of Nicephorus Callisti (Hist. Eccl. 18.48) has been understood as declaring that George wrote a poem against Johannes Philoponus, and it has been supposed that Philoponus

a peace was concluded between Heraclius and Siroes, in consequence of which the ancient limits of the two empires were restored, and the holy cross was given back to the Christians. It was presented to the holy sepulchre by Heraclius himself in A. D. 629. Previous to this, however, the emperor celebrated his victories by a triumphal entrance into Constantinople : the blessings of his subjects followed him wherever he went, and his fame spread over the world from Europe to the remotest corners o reconquered from the Persians he was deprived of for ever by the Arabs. Our space does not allow us to give more than a short sketch of the long and bloody war that gave a new religion and a new master to the East. On his way to Jerusalem in A. D. 629, Heraclius received at Edessa an ambassador of Mohammed, who summoned the empeior to adopt the new religion. In spite of this insult the emperor condescended to conclude a treaty of friendship with the prophet. A small town, however, on the fro

rome and Sophronius. Further Information Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ix. pp. 158-161 ; Cave, Script. Eccles. Hist. Litt. s. a., 390, p. 285, ed. Basil.; Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 306, ed. Westermann. Sophro'nius 2. Patriarch of Jerusalem, A. D. 629-638, was a native of Damascus, and at first a sophist, afterwards a monk, and in A. D. 629 he succeeded Modestus as patriarch of Jerusalem. He distinguished himself as a defender of orthodoxy ; and at the Council of Alexandria, in A. D. 633, heA. D. 629 he succeeded Modestus as patriarch of Jerusalem. He distinguished himself as a defender of orthodoxy ; and at the Council of Alexandria, in A. D. 633, he openly charged Cyrus with introducing heresy into the church under pretence of peace, and renounced all communion with him. When Jerusalem was taken by Omar, in A. D. 636, he obtained for the Christians the free exercise of their worship. He died, according to some, in the same year; according to others, two years later, in A. D. 638. Works There are extant in MS. numerous epistles, discourses, commentaries, and other treatises, by Sophronius, full lists of which are given by Fabricius and

Sophro'nius 2. Patriarch of Jerusalem, A. D. 629-638, was a native of Damascus, and at first a sophist, afterwards a monk, and in A. D. 629 he succeeded Modestus as patriarch of Jerusalem. He distinguished himself as a defender of orthodoxy ; and at the Council of Alexandria, in A. D. 633, he openly charged Cyrus with introducing heresy into the church under pretence of peace, and renounced all communion with him. When Jerusalem was taken by Omar, in A. D. 636, he obtained for the Christians tA. D. 629 he succeeded Modestus as patriarch of Jerusalem. He distinguished himself as a defender of orthodoxy ; and at the Council of Alexandria, in A. D. 633, he openly charged Cyrus with introducing heresy into the church under pretence of peace, and renounced all communion with him. When Jerusalem was taken by Omar, in A. D. 636, he obtained for the Christians the free exercise of their worship. He died, according to some, in the same year; according to others, two years later, in A. D. 638. Works There are extant in MS. numerous epistles, discourses, commentaries, and other treatises, by Sophronius, full lists of which are given by Fabricius and Cave. He also wrote hymns and other poems. An Anacreontic poem by him, on the subject of Simeon taking Christ into his arms, was published by Leo Allatius, in his Diatriba de Simeonibus, pp. 5, foll. Three

Theophylactus （*Qeofula/ktos). 1. SIMOCATTA (o( *Simoka/tths, *Simo/kattos, *Simoka/ths, or *Simoka/tos, for all these forms of the name are found), was an Egyptian by descent, but a Locrian by birth; and flourished at Constantinople, where he held some public offices (a)po\ e)parxwn kai\ a)ntigrafeu/s, Phot.) under Heraclius, about A. D. 610-629, though it is evident that he was writing before this period, probably in retirement. Works History of the Reign of the Emperor Maurice Theophylactus' chief work was a history of the reign of the emperor Maurice, in eight books, from the death of Tiberius II. and the accession of Maurice, in A. D. 582, down to the murder of Maurice and his children by Phocas in A. D. 602. There are various indications in the work itself, that Theophylact was living and writing in retirement during the reign of Phocas, and it seems probable that he had been personally acquainted with Maurice. Thus, he contrasts the depressed state of literature under P