Palladius
9. Of METHONE, a sophist or rhetorician, was the son of Palladius, and lived in the reign of Constantine the Great.
Works
Definite Works
He wrote, (1) Περὶ τῶν παρὰ Ῥωμαίοις ἑορτῶν, De Romanorum Festis (2.) Διαλέξεις, Disputationes (3.) Λόγοι διάφυροι, Ὀλυμπιακός, πανηγυρικός δικανικός, Orationes Diuersae, Olympiaca, Panegyrica, Judicialis (Suidas, s. v. Παλλάδιος; Eudocia Ἰωνιά, Vioetum, s. v. Παλλάδιος ὁ Ῥήτωρ, apud Villoison, Anecdot, Graec. p. 352).
Other possible works
Orationes Diversae
It is probable that what Suidas and Eudocia describe as Orationes Diversae are the Μελέται διάφοροι Exercitationes Diversae, which Photius (Bibl. codd. 132-135) had read, and which he describes as far superior in every respect to those of the rhetoricians Aphthonius [APHTHONIUS], Eusebius, and Maximus, of Alexandria.
De Gentibus Indiae
Lambecius ascribed, but without reason, to this Palladius the work De Gentibus Indiae, &c., published under the name of Palladius of Helenopolis [No. 7].
Confusion with Palladius, the friend of Symmachus
This Palladius of Methone must not be confounded with the Latin rhetorician Palladius, the friend of Symmachus, mentioned by Sidonius Apollinaris.
Further Information
Symmach. Epistol. passim; Sidon. Epistol. lib. v. ep. 10). (Fabric. Bil. Graec. vol. vi. p. 135, vol. x. pp. 113, 716, &c.; Vossius, De Historicis Graec. lib. 4. c.18.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.