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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ge'ssius (search)
Ge'ssius （*Ge/ssios:), an eminent physician, called by Stephanus Byzantinus (s. v. *Ge/a) o( perifane/statos i)atrosofi/sths, was a native of Gea, a place near Petra, in Arabia, and lived in the reign of the emperor Zenon, A. D. 474-491. He was a pupil of Domnus, whose reputation he eclipsed, and whose scholars he enticed from him by his superior skill. He was an ambitious man, and acquired both riches and honours; but his reputation as a philosopher, though he wished to be considered such, was not very great. (Damascius ap. Suid s. v. *Ge/sios, and Phot. Bibl. 242. p. 352b. 3, ed. Bekker.) He may perhaps be the physician mentioned by one of the scholiasts on Hippocrates. (Dietz, Schol. in Hippocr. et Gal. vol. ii. p. 343, note.) The little medical work that bears the name of Cassius Iatrosophista has been by some persons attributed to (Gesius, but without sufficient reason. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xiii. p. 170, ed. Vet.) [W.A.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Jaco'bus (search)
Jaco'bus （*)Ia/kwbos). 1. Of ALEXANDRIA, called PSYCHRISTUS or PSYCOCHRISTUS, a physician who lived in the reign of the emperor Leo I. Thrax (A. D. 457-474), mentioned by Photius Bibl. Cod. 242), and by Tillemont, who has supplied many references respecting him. (Hist. des Emp. vol. 6.376
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Illus (search)
Illus a leading personage in the troubled reign of the Byzantine emperor Zeno, who reigned A. D. 474-491. His name is variously written *)/Illos (which is the most common form), *)Illo/s, *)/Illous, *(/Illos, and *(Illou=s, and by Latin writers, ILLUS, ELLUS, and HYLLUS. Victor of Tunes in one place calls him Patricius, mistaking his title of Patrician for a proper name. Illus was an Isaurian, but the time and place of his birth are unknown. He is said to have held various offices under the Emperor Leo I. (A. D. 457-474), and to have been an intimate friend of Zeno, apparently before his accession. But we first read of him in Zeno's reign and in hostility to that emperor. Basiliscus, brother of the empress dowager Verina,the widow of Leo,hadexpelled Zeno from Constantinople (A. D. 475) and sent an army in pursuit of him under Illus and his brother Trocondus (whose name is variously written *Tro/kondos, *Trokou=ndos, *Trobou=ndos, *Prokou=ndos, *Pro/mondos, and *Sekoou=ndos, and by
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Leo Ii. emperor, succeeded his grandfather, Leo I., in A. D. 474, at four years of age, and died in the same year, after having reigned under the guardianship of his mother, Verina, and his father, Zeno, by whom he was succeeded. [VERINA ; ZENO.] [W.P]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Nepos, Ju'lius the last emperor but one of the Western Empire, A. D. 474-475. He was the son of Nepotianus, by a sister of that Marcellinus who established a temporary independent principality in Illyricum, about the middle of the fifth century. [MARCELLINUS.] A law of the Codex of Justinian mentions a Nepotianus as general of the army in Dalmatia in A. D. 471, but it is doubtful whether this was the emperor's father or the emperor himself, as it is not clear whether the true reading of the Coat Constantinople as an usurper. Nepos marched against his competitor, took him prisoner at Portus at the mouth of the Tiber, and obliged him to become a priest. These events took place, according to the more numerous and better authorities, in A. D. 474, but Theophanes, by contracting the reign of Glycerius to five months [GLYCERIUS], brings his deposition within the year 473. The elevation of Nepos is placed by the Chronicon of an anonymous author, published by Caspinianus (No. viii. in the V