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SYMEON METAPHRASTES ,1 the most renowned of the See also:

BYZANTINE

Byzantine hagiographers. Scholars have been very much divided as to the See also:

period in which he lived, See also:

DATES

dates ranging from the 9th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century to the 14th having been suggested; but it is now generally agreed that he flourished in the second See also:

HALF

half of the loth century. Still greater divergences of See also:

OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion have existed as to the lives of See also:

SAINTS, BATTLE OF THE

saints coming from his See also:

PEN (Lat. penna, a feather, pen)

pen, and here again the See also:

SOLUTION (from Lat. solvere, to loosen, dissolve)

solution of the problem has been attained by studying the See also:

composition of the See also:

GREAT

great See also:

Greek menologies. The menology of Metaphrastes is a collection of lives of saints for the twelve months of the See also:

YEAR

year, easily recognizable among analogous collections, and consisting of about 150 distinct pieces, some of which are taken bodily from older collections, while others have been subjected to a new recension (,ueret pavts). Among other See also:

WORKS

works attributed (though with some uncertainty) to Symeon are a See also:

CHRONICLE (from Gr. Xpovos, time)

Chronicle, a canonical collection, some letters and poems, and other writings of less importance. Symeon's great popularity is due more particularly to his collection of lives of saints. About his See also:

LIFE

life we know only very few details. The Greeks See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour him as a See also:

SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

saint on the 28th of See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November, and an 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 has been composed in his honour. See L. Allatius, De Symeonum scriptis diatriba (See also:

Paris, 1664) ; F. See also:

Hirsch, Byzantinische Studien, pp. 303–355 (See also:

LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1876); A.

Ehrhard, See also:

Die Legendensammlung See also:

des Symeon Metaphrastes (See also:

Rome, 1897); and in ROmische Quartalschrift (1897), pp. 67–205 and 531–553; H. Delehaye, La See also:

Vie de S. See also:

Paul le jeune et la chronologie de Metaphraste (1893) ; Analecta Bollandiana, xvi. 312–327 and xvii. 448–452. (H.

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