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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 865 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS , surnamed MAGISTER (i.e. officiorum),1 also known as a See also:

monk by the name Theodulos Monachos, a native of Thessalonica, See also:Byzantine See also:scholar and grammarian and confidential adviser of Andronicus II. (1282-1328). His See also:chief See also:work, 'EKXoyil 'Ovoµb.rwv Kai 'Prtµarwv 'ArnKG)v, is a collection of selected See also:Attic words and phrases, partly arranged in alphabetical See also:order, compiled as a help to See also:Greek See also:composition from the See also:works of Phrynichus, Ammonius, Herodian and See also:Moeris. He also wrote scholia on See also:Aeschylus, See also:Sophocles, See also:Euripides (with See also:life), and three of the comedies of See also:Aristophanes; the scholia on See also:Pindar, attributed to him in two See also:MSS., are now assigned to See also:Demetrius Triclinius. His speeches and letters consist partly of declamations on the usual sophistical themes, partly See also:deal with contemporary See also:historical events: an See also:argument between the fathers of Cynegirus and See also:Callimachus (two Athenians who See also:fell at See also:Marathon) as to which had the better claim to have the funeral oration pronounced over him first; a discussion on the duties of, a See also:king and of his subjects; a See also:defence of the Byzantine See also:general Chandrenos addressed to the See also:emperor; a See also:letter on the cruelties of the Catalans and See also:Turks in See also:Thessaly and See also:Macedonia; a congratulatory letter to See also:Theodorus See also:Metochita; a See also:panegyric on the king of See also:Cyprus. See also:Editions of the 'E/cXoyn by F. See also:Ritschl (1832), C. Jacobitz (1833) and C. D. See also:Beck (1836); other works in J. P. See also:Migne, Patrologia graeca, cxly.

; see also C. See also:

Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897).

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