Nicetas PAPHLAGO
9. PAPHLAGO, DAVID, perhaps bishop of Dadybri in Paphlagonia, lived about 880, and became known by his attachment to the patriarch Ignatius, and by his attacks upon Piotius.
Works
He wrote:--
1. Vita S. Ignatii Patriarchae
Editions
>Graece et Latine, in Raderus (Acta Concilii, 8vo. Ingolstadt, 1004, 4to.); and also in the 8th vol. of (Concilia.
2. Apostolorum XII. Encomia XII.
3. Orationes, viz in Marcum Evangelistam, in Nativitatem S. Mariae, in Exaltationem S. Crucis, in S. Gregorium Theologum, Oratio Panegyrica in S. Hyacinthum Amastrensem Martyrem
Editions
All of which together with the Encoimia Apostol. were published with a Latin translation by Combéfis in Novissimum Auctuarium, Paris, 1672, fol.
4. Oratio Panegyrica in inclytum Martyrem Eustathium, &c.
Editions
ed. Graece et Lat. with notes by Combéfis, in Illustrium Chrysti Martyrum Triumphi, Paris, 1660, 8vo.
5. Historia Apocrpha
lost. Nicephorus Callistus borrowed freely from it for his Historia Eccles.
6. Liber pro Synodo Chalcedonensi adversus Epistolam Regis Armeniae
more probably the work of Nicetas BYZANTINUS [No. 3].
7. Commentarii in Gregor. Nazianzeni Tetrasticha et Monosticha
perhaps the work of Nicetas Serron.
Further Information
The text, Venice, 1563, 4to.; a Latin version, Imola, 1588, 8vo.
7. Several hymns and minor productions.
Further Information
Cave, Hist. Liter. ad an. 880; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. p. 747.
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