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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 124 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIMOCATTA ,1 See also:

THEOPHYLACT, See also:Byzantine historian, a native of See also:Egypt, flourished at See also:Constantinople during the reign of See also:Heraclius (610-640), under whom he held the See also:office of imperial secretary. He is best known as the author of a See also:history, in eight books, of the reign of the See also:emperor See also:Maurice (582-602), for which See also:period he is the' best and See also:oldest authority. The See also:work describes the See also:wars with the ' Persians, the See also:Avars and Slays, and the emperor's tragic end. " His want of See also:judgment renders him diffuse in trifles and concise in the most interesting facts " (See also:Gibbon), but his See also:general trustworthiness is admitted. The history contains an introduction in the See also:form of a See also:dialogue between History and See also:Philosophy. See also:Photius (See also:cod. 65) while admitting a certain amount of gracefulness in the See also:language, blames the author's excessive use of figurative and allegorical expressions and moral sentiments. While the vocabulary contains many See also:strange and affected words, the See also:grammar and syntax are on the whole correct (ed. pr. by J. See also:Pontanus, 1609; best edition by C. de Boor, 1887, with a valuable See also:Index Graecitatis). Simocatta was also the author of See also:Physical Problems('AAopial ¢uoLKaL) in dialogue form, dealing with the nature of animals and especially of See also:man (ed. J. See also:Ideler in Physici et See also:medici Graeci minores, i.

1841,) ; and of a collection of 85 letters (moral, rustic, erotic), the supposed writers of which are either fictitious or well-known personages (See also:

Antisthenes to See also:Pericles, See also:Socrates to See also:Plato, Socrates to See also:Alcibiades). The best edition is by R. Hercher in Epistolographi Graeci (1873). The letters were translated into Latin (1509) by See also:Copernicus (re-printed 1873 by F. Hipler in Spicilegium Copernicanum). See C. See also:Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Literatur (1897).

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