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METOCHITA, THEODORE

METOCHITA, See also:
THEODORE
THEODORE (602-690)
THEODORE (Fedor) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1741–1796)
THEODORE (Rus. Fedor, or Feodor)
THEODORE [THEODOxos METOCHITES1, a See also:

BYZANTINE

Byzantine author, See also:

man of learning and statesman, who flourished during the reign of Andronicus II. Paiaeologus (1282-1328). After the deposition of his See also:

PATRON

patron by Andronicus III., Metochita was deprived of his See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office of See also:

GREAT

great See also:

LOGOTHETE (Med. Lat. logothela, Gr. Xo'yoBErtls, from Xdyos, word, account, calculation, and riOEvai, to set, i.e. " one who accounts, calculates or ratiocinates ")

logothete (See also:

CHANCELLOR (M. Eng. and Anglo-Fr. canceler, chanceler, Fr. chancelier, Lat. cancellarius)

chancellor) and sent into See also:

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

exile. He was soon recalled, but retired from See also:

POLITICAL

political See also:

LIFE

life to a See also:

CONVENT (Lat. conventus, from convenire, to come together)

convent, where he died in 1332. He was a man of very great learning, only surpassed by See also:

Photius and See also:

Michael See also:

PSELLUS (Gr.'I' XXor)

Psellus. His See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil Nicephorus See also:

GREGORAS, NICEPHORUS (c. 1295-1360)

Gregoras, who delivered his funeral oration, calls him a " living library." Only a few of his numerous See also:

WORKS

works have been preserved. The best known is 'Troµvnµarcaµol real aryµei6aeic yvwµucal, Miscellanea philosophica et historica (ed. C. G. See also:

Muller and T. Kiessling, 1821), containing some 12o essays; for a See also:

list of them see See also:

Fabricius, Bibliotheca graeca (ed. Harles), x.

417; in these he chiefly made use of See also:

SYNESIUS (c. 373-c. 414)

Synesius. Of his rhetorical pieces two have been published by C. N. Sathas in Msuaiwvucil 13itniia8ipc, (1872), and two poems on religious subjects by M. Treu (1895). The poems, dealing mainly with contemporary and See also:

PERSONAL

personal matters, are written in See also:

HEXAMETER

hexameter, not in the usual " political " See also:

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse. Metochita was also the author of works on philosophical and astronomical subjects.

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