Philippus
Φίλιππος
(Φίλιππος), literary and ecclesiastical.
Philippus
1. ABUCARA or ABUVARA.
Work
on the Enchiridion of the Greek grammarian, Hephaestion of Alexandria
He was one of the Greek scholiasts on the Enchiridion of the Greek grammarian, Hephaestion of Alexandria [HEPHAESTION, No. 1], or perhaps the compiler of the Scholia.
Editions
These are usually published in the various editions of Hephaestion. The Scholia are ascribed to our Philip in a MS. in the King's Library at Paris.
Further Information
Catal. 1MStorum Biblioth. Regiae, No. nmmdclxxiv. No. 1. vol. ii. p. 539, fol. Paris, 1740; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 709; Vossius, De Hist. Graec. lib. iii.
Philippus
2. Of AMPHIPOLIS, a Greek writer of unknown date, remarkable for his obscenity, of which Suidas (s. v. ἀποσιμῶσαι) has given a sufficiently significant specimen. He wrote, according to Suidas (s. r. Φίλιππος) :--1. Ρ̓οδιακὰ βιβλία iq, Rhodiaca Libris XIX., a history of Rhodes, which Suidas especially stigmatizes for the obscenity of its matter. 2. κωανὰ (s. Κωιακἂ, βιβλία βʼ, Coiaca Libris dvolams, a history of the island of Cos. 3. Θυσιακά, De Sacrificiis, or more probably Θασιακά, Thasiaca, a history of Thasos, also in two books. He wrote some other works not enumerated by Suidas. Theodorus Priscianus, an ancient medical writer (Logicus, 100.11), classes Philip of Amphipolis with Herodian and lamblichus the Syrian [IAMBLICHUS, No. 1], as a pleasant writer of amatory tales, whose works tended to allure the mind to the pursuit of pleasure. All his works appear to be lost. (Suidas ll. cc.; Theodor. Priscian. l.c.; Fabric. BBL. Graec. vol. viii. pp. 159, 160; Vossius, De Hist. Graec. lib. iii.)
Philippus
3. APOSTOLUS. [No. 11.]
Philippus
4. CAESARIENSIS SYNODI RELATOR.
Works
account of the council of Caesareia
The account of the council of Caesareia, held A. D. 196, which (if indeed it be genuine) was written by Theophilus of Caesareia, who lived about that time [THEOPHILUS], was published by the Jesuit Bucherius, as the work of one Philippus; the editor being apparently misled by an error in the MS. used by him.
Editions
The Jesuit Bucherius published this work in his notes to the Canon Paschalis of Victories of Aquitania, fol. Antwerp, 1634.
Further Information
Fabric. Bibl. Gracec. vol. vii. p. 107; Cave, Hist. Litt. ad ann. 192, vol. i. p. 87, ed. Oxford, 1740-1743.
Philippus
5. CARICARUM RERUM SCRIPTOR. [No. 30.]
Philippus
6. Of CHALCIS, a Greek historian mentioned by Plutarch (Alex. Mag. Vita, 100.46) as one of the writers who regarded the story of the visit of the queen of the Amazons to Alexander the Great, as a fable.
Philippus CHOLLIDEUS
7. CHOLLIDEUS, or CHOLLIDENSIS (Χολιδεὺς, more correctly Χολλιδεὺς), mentioned in Plato's will, given by Diogenes Laertius (3.41), as the owner of land adjoining a farm or estate which Plato bequeathed to his son Adeimantius. Fabricius (Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 181) notices this occurrence of the name of Philippus: and the compiler of the index to Fabricius has unwittingly converted the Attic landowner into a Platonic philosopher.
Philippus
8. COMICUS, the COMIC WRITER
Works
Comedies
Scarcely anything is known of him, except it be the title of some of his comedies, and even with respect to these there is considerable difficulty. Suidas (s. v.), on the authority of Athenaeus, ascribes to him a comedy entitled κωδωνιασταί, but no such title is found in the present text of Athenaeus; and it is doubtful if that writer has mentioned Philip at all. His name occurs, indeed, in one place (viii. p. 358f.), according to the older editions, but the correct reading is Ephippus. Philip is among the comic poets from whom passages are given in the several collections of the Poetae Gnomici Graeci; but only one citation appears to be ascribed to him, said by Grotius to be from a comedy entitled Ὀλυνθιακός, Olynthiacus; but Grotins assigns the play not to Philippus, but to Philippides. There is consequently not one known drama to which the title of Philip is clear and indisputable. Philip is probably the γελωτοποιὸς Φίλιππος, "the laughter-exciting Philip" of Maximus Tyrius (Dissert. xxi. vol. i. p. 402, ed. Reiske), and the Φίλιππος κωμῳδιδάς καλος of Themistius (Paraphras. Aristotelis Lib. I. de Anima, 100.3, sub fin. p. 68b. ed. Aldus, Venice, 1533, or 100.19, in the Latin version of Hermolaus Barbarus), who cites a saying of Daedalus, one of his characters.
Further Information
Suidas, l.c. c.; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. pp. 728, 743, 747, 748, vol. ii. p. 480.
Philippus Diaconus
9. DIACONUS, the DEACON. [No. 11.]
Philippus
10. EPIGRAMMATICUS.
Confusion among various epigrammatists named Philip
Among the writers whose Epigrammata are inserted in the various editions of the Anthologia Graeca, or in other works, are several who bear the name of Philip; as Philip the Macedonian [No. 15], and Philip of Thessalonica [see below].
There are two others: a Philip whom Fabricius styles Junior, and assigns to the fifth or sixth century after Christ.
Works
Epigramma in Amores sibi arridentes Constantinopoli
There is extant an Epigramma in Amores sibi arridentes Constantinopoli, which is assigned to Philip of Thessalonica.
Editions
Among his epigrams it is No. lvii., in the editions of Brunck, vol. ii. p. 227, and Jacobs, vol. ii. p. 211.
Epigramma in Herculem
There is a Philip called Byzantinus who composed an Epigramma in Herculem.
Editions
This is given in the Mythologiae of Natalis Comes, lib. vii. pp. 691, 692, ed. sine loci not. 1653, and assigned to Philip of Thessalonica (No. li.) in the Anthologia of Brunck, vol. ii. pp. 225, 226, and Jacobs, vol. ii. p. 209.
Further Information
Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 491.
Philippus
11. EVANGELISTA, the EVANGELIST.
Works
Gospel
Among the spurious gospels which were produced in the early ages of the Church, was one to which some of the Gnostic sects appealed (Epiphan. Haeres. 26.13), and which they ascribed to Philip, whether to the Apostle Philip or the deacon Philip, who in one passage in the New Testament (Acts, 21.8) is called the Evangelist, is not clear. A passage from this apocryphal gospel is cited by Epiphanius (ibid.) Timotheus, the presbyter of Constantinople (apud Meursium, Varia Divina, p. 117), and Leontius of Byzantium (De Sectis, act. s. lect. iii.) mention Τὸ κατὰ Φίλιππον Εὐαγγέλιον, Evangelium secundnum Philippum, as among the spurious books used by the Manichaeans. Whether this was the same book with that used by the Gnostics, is not determined.
Further Information
Fabric. Cod. Apocryph. N. T. vol. i. p. 376, &c.
Philippus
12. Of GORTYNA, a Christian writer of the second century. He was bishop of the Church at Gortyna in Crete, and was spoken of in the highest terms by Dionysius of Corinth [DIONYSIUS, literary, No. 22], in a letter to the Church at Gortyna and the other Churches in Crete (apud Euseb. Hist. Eccl. 4.23), as having inspired his flock with manly courage, apparently during the persecution of Marcus Aurelius.
Works
Against Marcion
Philip wrote a book against Marcion [MARCION], which was highly esteemed by the ancients, but is now lost: Trithemius speaks of it as extant in his day, but his exactness as to whether books were in existence or not is not great. He also states that Philip wrote Ad Diversos Epistolae and Varii Tractatus, but these are not mentioned by the ancients.
Further Information
Euseb. Hist. Eccl. 4.21, 23, 25; Hieron. De Viris Illustr. c. 30; Trithem. De Scriptorib. Eccles. 100.19; Cave, Hist. Litt. ad ann. 172, vol. i. p. 74, ed. Oxford, 1740-1743.
Philippus GRAMMATICUS
13. GRAMMATICUS S. RHETOR S. SOPHISTA.
Nothing is known of the works or the writer, who must have lived at a later period than Herodian [HERODIANUS AELIUS], who belongs to the age of the Antonines.
Works
on the aspirates, Περὶ πνευμάτων, De Spiritibus
Suidas (s. v. *Fi/lippos sofisth/s) ascribes to this writer a work on the aspirates, Περὶ πνευμάτων, De Spiritibus, taken from Herodian, and arranged in alphabetical order.
Περὶ πνευμάτων, συναλοιφῆς, De Synaloepha.
Also a work Περὶ πνευμάτων, συναλοιφῆς, De Synaloepha.
Philippus ISANGELUS
14. ISANGELUS (ὁ εἰσαγγελεύς), a writer cited by Plutarch (Alex. Mag. Vita, 100.46) as one of those who affirmed that the account of the visit of the queen of the Amazons to Alexander was a fiction. It has been conjectured (vide Reiske, Not. ad Plutarch. l.c.) that ὁ εἰσαγγελεύς is a corrupt reading, and that it should be ὁ Θεαγ γελεύς. [No. 30.]
Philippus MACEDO
15. MACEDO, the MACEDONIAN.
Fabricius supposed him to have been a different person from Philip of Thessalonica (see below), and to have lived in the reign of Caligula, whose bridge at Puteoli has been thought to be referred to. But Jacobs (Animadvers. in loc.) considers the reference to be to the Portus Julius formed by Agrippa in Lake Lucrinus near Baiae, and places the Epigramma among those of Philip of Thessalonica.
Works
Epigram
An Epigramma in the Anthologia Graeca (lib. 4. c.11, vol. ii. p. 232, ed. Brunck, vol. ii. p. 216, No. lxxiv. ed. Jacobs) is ascribed by Fabricius to a Philippus Macedo, Philip the Macedonian.
Philippus MEDMAEUS
16. MEDMAEUS (ὁ Μεδμαῖος), an astronomer of Medama or Medma in Magna Graecia (about 25 miles N. N. E. of Rhegium), and a disciple of Plato, under whose direction he turned his attention to the mathematical sciences. His observations, which were made in the Peloponnesus and in Locris, were used by the astronomers Hipparchus, Geminus the Rhodian, and Ptolemy.
In the Latin version of Proclus, by Franc. Ba?ocius (lib. 2. c.4), Philip is called Mendaeus, which is doubtless an error either of the printer or translator, or perhaps of the MS. which he used. Mende was in Macedonia, in the peninsula of Pallene.
Works
He is mentioned by several ancient writers, as Vitruvius (Architect. 9.7, s. ut alii 4), Pliny the elder (H. N. 18.31. s. 74), Plutarch (Quod non possit suaviter vivi second. Epicur Opera, vel x. p. 500, ed. Reiske), who states that he demonstrated the figure of the moon; Proclus (In I. Euclid. Element. Lib. Commentar.), and Alexander Aphrodisiensis.
Treatise on the Winds
He is said by Stephanus of Byzantium (De Urbibus s. v. Medme) to have written a treatise on the winds.
Treatise on the mathematical passages in Plato
Fabricius also states that "Philippus Mendaeus extracted and explained all the mathematical passages which he had noticed in the works of his instructor Plato ;" but he does not give his authority for the statement. Mendaeus is here, too, an evident error for Medmaeus.
Further Information
Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 10, vol. vi. p. 243.
Philippus MEGARICUS
17. MEGARICUS (ὁ Μεγαρικός), i. e. the MEGARIC PHILOSOPHER [comp. EUCLEIDES of MEGARA].
Works
Diogenes Laertius (2.113) has given an extract from a work of this Philip, containing some account of Stilpo of Megara [STILPO], who lived during the struggles of the successors of Alexander the Great.
Philippus MENDAEUS.
18. MENDAEUS. [No. 16.]
Philippus
19. Of OPUS. Suidas (s. v. Φιλόσοφος) has this remarkable passage: "--, a philosopher who divided the Leges (s. De Legibus) of Plato into twelve books (for he is said to have added the thirteenth himself), and was a hearer of Socrates and of Plato himself; devoting himself to the contemplation of the heavens (σχολάσας τοῖς μετεώ ροις). He lived in the days of Philip of Macedon." Suidas then gives a long list of works written by Philip. It is evident that the passage as it stands in Suidas is imperfect, and that the name of the author of the numerous works which he mentions has been lost from the commencement of the passage. It appears, however, from the extract occupying its proper place in the Lexicon according to its present heading, that the defect existed in the source from which Suidas borrowed. Kuster, the editor of Suidas (not. in loc.), after long investigation, was enabled to supply the omission by comparing a passage in Diogenes Laertius (3.37), and to identify "the philosopher" of Suidas with Philip of the Locrian town of Opus, near the channel which separates Euboea from the main land. The passage in Laertius is as follows: "Some say that Philip the Opuntian transcribed his (Plato's) work, De Legibus, which was written in wax (i. e. on wooden tablets covered with a coat of wax). They say also that the Ἐπινομις, Epinomis (the thirteenth book of the De Legibus) is his," i. e. Philip's. The Epinomis, whether written by Philip or by Plato, is usually included amon, the works of the latter. [PLATO.] Diogenes Laertius elsewhere (3.46) enumerates Philip among the disciples of Plato. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 104.)
Philippus
20. ORI APOLLINIS INTERPRES
Further Information
Voss. De Historicis Graecis, lib. iii.. [HORAPOLLO.]
Philippus PARODUS
21. PARODUS, the PARODIST.
Works
Parodies
In a fragment of the Parodist. Matron [MATRON]. quoted by Athenaeus, in which apparently there is an enumeration of Parodists who had lived long before Matron, two or more writers of the name of Philip are mentioned, with the laudatory epithet "eminent" (δῖοί τε Φίλιπποι, "nobiles Philippi"); but of their country, works, or age, except that they lived long before (πάρος, "olim") Matron himself, who cannot be placed later than the time of Philip king of Macedon, nothing is known.
Philippus PRESBYTER.
22. PRESBYTER.
Gennadius (De Viris Illustrib. 100.62) states that Philip the Presbyter was a disciple of Jerome, and that he died in the reign of Marcian and Avitus over the Eastern and Western Empires respectively, i.e. A. D. 456. [AVITUS; MARCIANUS.]
Works
He wrote, 1. Commentarius in Jobum 2. Familiares Epistolae Of these, Genadius, who had read them, speaks highly. These Epistolae have perished.
Commentarius in Jobum
Editions
A Commentarius in Jobum addressed to Nectarius has been several times printed, sometimes separately under the name of Philip (two editions, fol. and 4to. Basel, 1527), and sometimes under the name and among the works of Venerable Bede and of Jerome. Vallarsius and the Benedictine editors of Jerome give the Commentarius in their editions of that father (vol. v. p. 678, &c. ed. Benedict., vol. xi. col. 565, &c. ed. Vallars.), but not as his. The Prologus or Praefatio ad Nectarium are omitted, and the text differs very widely from that given in the Cologne edition of Bede (vol. iv. p. 447, &c.) fol. 1612, in which the work is given as Bede's, without any intimation of its doubtful authorship. Cave, Oudin, and Vallarsi agree in ascribing the work to Philip, though Vallarsi is not so decided in his opinion as the other two.
Further Information
Gennad. l.c.; Cave, Hist. Litt. ad ann. 440, vol. i. p. 434; Oudin, De Scriptorib. Eccles. vol. i. col. 1165; Vallarsi, Opera Hieron. vol. iii. col. 825, &c., vol. xi. col. 565, 566; Fabric. Biblioth. Med. et Infim. Latiz. vol. v. p. 295, ed. Mansi.
Philippus
23. Of PRUSA (ὁ Προυσιεύς), a stoic philosopher, contemporary with Plutarch, who has introduced him as one of the speakers in his Sympos. (vii. quaest. 7.)
Philippus RHETOR.
24. RHETOR. [No. 13.]
Philippus SCRIPTOR
25. SCRIPTOR DE AGRICULTURA.
Works
On Agriculture
Athenaeus (iii.) mentions a Philippus, without any distinctive epithet, as the author of a work on Agriculture, either entitled Γεωργικόν, Georgicum, or similar to the work of Androtion, another writer on agriculture [ANDROTION], which bore that title. Nothing more is known of this Philip.
Philippus
26. Of SIDE (ὁ Σιδίτης, or Σιδέτης, or ὁ ἀπὸ Σίδης), a Christian writer of the first half of the fifth century. His birth must be placed in the latter part of the fourth century, but its exact date is not known. He was a native of Side in Pamphylia, and according to his own account in the fragment published by Dodwell (see below), when Rhodon, who succeeded Didymus in the charge of the Catechetical school of Alexandria, transferred that school to Side, Philip became one of his pupils. If we suppose Didymus to have retained the charge of the school till his death, A. D. 396 [DIDYMUS, No. 4], at the advanced age of 86, the removal of the school cannot have taken place long before the close of the century, and we may infer that Philip's birth could scarcely have been earlier than A. D. 380. He was a kinsman of Troilus of Side, the rhetorician, who was tutor to Socrates the ecclesiastical historic, and was indeed so eminent that Philip regarded his relationship to him as a subject of exultation (Socrates, H. E. 7.27). Having entered the church, he was ordained deacon, and had much intercourse with Chrysostom; in the titles of some MSS. he is styled his Syncellns, or personal attendant, which makes it probable that he was, from the early part of his ecclesiastical career, connected with the church at Constantinople. Liberatus (Breviar. 100.7) says he was ordained deacon by Chrysostom; but Socrates, when speaking of his intimacy with that eminent man, does not say he was ordained by him. Philip devoted himself to literary pursuits, and collected a large library. He cultivated the Asiatic or diffuse style of composition, and became a voluminous writer. At what period of his life his different works were produced is not known. His Ecclesiastical History was, as we shall see, written after his disappointment in obtaining the patriarchate: but as his being a candidate for that high office seems to imply some previous celebrity, it may be inferred that his work or works in reply to the emperor Julian's attacks on Christianity were written at an earlier period. On the death of Atticus patriarch of Constantinople A. D. 425 [ATTICUS] Philip, then a presbyter, apparently of the great church of Constantinople, and Proclus, another presbyter, were proposed, each by his own partizans, as candidates for the vacant see; but the whole people were bent upon the election of Sisinnius, also a presbyter, though not of Constantinople, but of a church in Elaea, one of the suburbs. (Socrates, H. E. 7.26.) The statement of Socrates as to the unanimity of the popular wish leads to the inference that the supporters of Philip and Proclus were among the clergy. Sisinnius was the successful candidate; and Philip, mortified at his defeat, made in his Ecclesiastical History such severe strictures on the election of his more fortunate rival, that Socrates could not venture to transcribe his remarks; and has expressed his strong disapproval of his headstrong temper. On the death of Sisinnius (A. D. 428) the supporters of Philip were again desirous of his appointment, but the emperor, to prevent disturbances, determined that no ecclesiastic of Constantinople should succeed to the vacancy; and the ill-fated heresiarch Nestorius [NESTORIUS], from Antioch, was consequently chosen. After the deposition of Nestorius at the council of Ephesus (A. D. 431), Philip was a third time candidate for the patriarchate, but was again unsuccessful. Nothing is known of him after this. It has been conjectured that he was dead before the next vacancy in the patriarchate A. D. 434, when his old competitor Proclus was chosen. Certainly there is no notice that Philip was again a candidate: but the prompt decision of the emperor Theodosius in Proclus' favour prevented all competition, so that no inference can be drawn from Philip's quiescence.
Works
Philip wrote,
1. Multa volumina contra Imperatorem Julianum Apostam.
(Liberatus, Breviar. 100.7; comp. Socrat. H. E. 7.27.) It is not clear from the expression of Liberatus, which we have given as the title, whether Philip wrote many works, or, as is more likely, one work in many parts, in reply to Julian.
2. Ἱστορία Χριστιανική, Historia Christiana.
The work was very large, consisting of thirty-six Βίβλοι or Βιβλία. Libri, each subdivided into twenty-four τόμοι or λόγοι, i. e. sections. This voluminous work appears to have comprehended both sacred and ecclesiastical history, beginning from the Creation, and coming down to Philip's own day, as appears by his record of the election of Sisinnius, already noticed. It appears to have been finished not very long after that event. Theophanes places its completion in A. M. 5922, Alex. era=A. D. 430; which, according to him, was the year before the death of Sisinnius. That the work was completed before the death of Sisinnius is probable from the apparent silence of Philip as to his subsequent disappointments in obtaining the patriarchate: but as Sisinnius, according to a more exact chronology, died A. D. 428, we may conclude that the work was finished in or before that year, and, consequently, that the date assigned by Theophanes is rather too late. The style was verbose and wearisome, neither polished nor agreeable; and the matter such as to display ostentatiously the knowledge of the writer, rather than to conduce to the improvement of the reader. It was, in fact, crammed with matter of every kind, relevant and irrelevant: questions of geometry, astronomy. arithmetic and music; descriptions of islands, mountains and trees, rendered it cumbersome and unreadable. Chronological arrangement was disregarded.
Editions
The work is lost, with the exception of three fragments. One of these, De Scholae Catechetice Alexandrinae Successione, on the succession of teachers in the Catechetical School of Alexandria, was published from a MS. in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, by Dodwell, with his Dissertationes in Irenaeum, 8vo Oxford, 1689, and has been repeatedly reprinted It is given in the ninth volume of the Bibliotheca Patrum of Galland, p. 401.
Another fragment in the same MS., De Constantino, Maximiano, et Licinio Augustis. was prepared for publication by Crusius, but has never, we believe, been actually published. The third fragment, Τὰ γενόμενα ἐν Περσίδι μεταξὺ Χριστιανῶν Ἑλλήνων τε καὶ Ἰουδαίων Acta Disputationis de Christo, in Perside, inter Christianos, Gentiles, et Judaeos habitae, is (or was) in the Imperial Library at Vienna. Philip was present at the disputation.
Further Information
Socrates, H. E. 7.26, 27, 29, 35; Liberatus, l.c.; Phot. Bibl. cod. 35; Theophan. Chronog. p. 75, ed. Paris, p. 60, ed. Venice, vol. i. p. 135, ed. Bonn; Tillemont. Hist. des Empereurs, vol. vi. p. 130; Cave, Hist. Litt. ad ann. 418, vol. i. p. 395; Oudin. De Scriptorib. Eccles. vol. i. col. 997; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. pp. 739, 747, 749, vol. vii. p. 418, vol. x. p. 691; Galland, Biblioth. Patrum, vol. ix. Prol. 100.11; Lamnbecius, Commentar. de Biblioth. Cae saraea, lib. s. vol. v. col. 289, vol. vi. pars ii. col. 406, ed. Kollar.
Philippus SOLITARIUS.
27. SOLITARIUS. The title Solitarius is given by bibliographers to a Greek monk of the time of the emperor Alexius I. Comnenus, of whom nothing further seems to be known than what may be gleaned from the titles and introductions of his extant works.
Works
He wrote :--
1. Διόπτρα, Dioptra
Dioptra, s. Amussis Fideil et Vitae Christianae, written in the kind of measure called "versus politici," and in the form of a dialogue between the soul and the body. It is addressed to another monk, Callinicus; and begins with these two lines :-- πῶς κάθῃ; πῶς ἀμεριμνεῖς; πῶς ἀμελωῖς, ψυχή μου; ὁ χρόνος σου πεπλήρωται · ἔξελθε τοῦ σαρκίου.
The work, in its complete state, consisted of five books; but most of the MSS. are mutilated or otherwise defective, and want the first book. Some of them have been interpolated by a later hand. Michael Psellus, not the older writer of that name, who died about A. D. 1078, but one of later date, wrote a preface and notes to the Dioptra of Philip.
Editions
A Latin prose translation of the Dioptra by the Jesuit Jacobus Pontanus, with notes, by another Jesuit, Jacobus Gretserus, was published, 4to. Ingoldstadt, 1604; but it was made from a mutilated copy, and consisted of only four books, and these, as the translator admits in his Praefatio ad Lectorem, interpolated and transposed ad libitum. Philip wrote also :--
2. Τῷ κατὰ πνεῦμα υἱῷ καὶ ἱερεῖ Κωνσταντίνῳ περὶ πρεσβείας καὶ προστασίας ἀπόλογους, Epistola Apologetica ad Constantianum Filium Spiritualem et Sacerdotem, de Differantia inter Intercessionem et Auxilium Sanctorum.
3. Versus Politici
in the beginning of which he states with great exactness the time of his finishing the Dioptra, 12th May, A. M. 6603, era Constantinop. in the third indiction, in the tenth year of the lunar Cycle=A. D. 1095, not 1105, as has been incorrectly stated.
Other works
Cave has, without sufficient authority, ascribed to our Philip two other works, which are indeed given in a Vienna MS. (Codex 213, apud Lambec.) as Appendices to the Dioptra. One of these works (Appendix secunda), Ὅτι οὐκ ἔφαγε τὸ νομικὸν πάσχα ὁ Χριστὸς ἐν τῷ δείπνῳ, ἀλλὰ τὸ ἀληθινόν, Demonstratio quod Christus in Sacra Coena non legale sed verum comederit Pascha, may have been written by Philip. Its arguments are derived from Scripture and St. Epiphanius. The other work, consisting of five chapters, De Fide et Caeremoniis Armeniorum, Jacobitarum, Chatzitzariorum et Romanorum seu Francorum, was published, with a Latin version, but without an author's name, in the Auctarium Novum of Combéfis, fol. Paris, 1648, vol. ii. col. 261, &c., but was, on the authority of MSS., assigned by Combéfis, in a note, to Demetrius of Cyzicus [DEMETRIUS, No. 17], to whom it appears rightly to belong (comp. Cave, Hist. Litt. Dissertatio I. p. 6; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. 11.414). The Chatzitzarii (Χατζιτζάριοι) were a sect who paid religious homage to the image of the Cross, but employed no other images in their worship.
Confusion with Demetrius
The work of Demetrius appears under the name of Philip in the fourteenth (posthumous) volume of the Bibliotheca Patrum of Galland; but the editors, in their Prolegomena to the volume, 100.15, observe that they knew not on what authority Galland had assigned it to Philip. Among the pieces given as Appendices to the Dioptra, are some verses in praise of the work and its author, by one Constantine, perhaps the person addressed in No. 2, and by Bestus or Vestus, a grammarian, Στίχοι κυροῦ Κωνσταντίνου καὶ Βέστου τοῦ γραμματικοῦ, Versus Domini Constantini et Vesti Grammatici.
Further Information
Lambecius, Commentar. de Biblioth. Caesarea. lib. s. vol. v. col. 76-97, and 141, codd. 213, 214, 215, and 232, ed Kollar; Cave, Hist. Litt. ad ann. 1095, vol. ii. p. 163; Oudin, De Scriptorib. Eccles. vol. ii. col. 851.
Philippus SOPHISTA.
28. SOPHISTA. [No. 13.]
Philippus STUDITA.
29. STUDITA. In the notice of the Adversaria Gerardi Langbaini contained in the Catalogus MStorum Angliae et Hiberniae, vol. i. p. 269. the eighth volume of Langbaine's collection is said to contain a notice, De Philippi Studitae Historia Graeca. Of the historian or his work there is, we believe, no notice in any extant writer; and as the preceding article in Langbaine's book is described as Scholae Alexandrinae Paedagogorum Successio, and is probably the fragment of the work of Philip of Side, already noticed [No. 26], we suspect that "Studitae" is an error for "Sidetae," and that the Historia Graeca is no other than his Historia Christiana, which is termed Graeca, not because it treats of Grecian affairs, but is written in the Greek language.
Further Information
Catal. MStorum Angliae, &c. l.c.; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 709.
Philippus
30. Of THEANGELA (ὁ Θεαγγελεύς), a writer cited by Athenaeus, (vi. p. 271b) and by Strabo (xiv. p.662). Theangela, from which Philip received his designation, apparently as being a native of it, was a city on the most eastern promontory of Caria, not far from Halicarnassus. Of the age of Philip nothing is known, except that he was earlier than Strabo; but if there is any reason for identifying him with Philip Isangelus (ὁ Εἰσαγγελεύς), mentioned by Plutarch (No. 14), he must be placed after the time of Alexander the Great.
Works
History of Caria
He wrote a history of Caria, the title or description of which is thus given by Athenaeus (l.c.), Περὶ Καρῶν καὶ Λελέγων σύγγραμμα; and by Strabo more briefly, Καρικά. The work is lost.
Further Information
Vossius, De Hist. Graec. lib. iii.
Philippus
31. THEOPOMPI EPITOMATOR. (Comp. Photius, Biblioth. cod. 176.)
Philippus
32. Of THESSALONICA. [See below.] [J.C.M]
Philippus
of Thessalonica, an epigrammatic poet, who, besides composing a large number of epigrams himself, compiled one of the ancient Greek Anthologies.
Works
Epigrams
The whole number of epigrams ascribed to him in the Greek Anthology is nearly ninety; but of these, six (Nos. 36-41) ought to be ascribed to Lucillius, and a few others are manifestly borrowed from earlier poets, while others are mere imitations. [Comp. above, PHLIPPUS, literary, Nos. 10 and 15.] They include nearly all the different classes of subjects treated of in the Greek epigrammatic poetry.
The Anthology of Philip
The Anthology (Ἀντηολογψ) of Philip, in imitation of that of Meleager, and as a sort of supplement to it, contains chiefly the epigrams of poets who lived in, or shortly before, the time of Philip. These poets were the following: Antipater of Thessalonica, Crinagoras, Antiphilus, Tullius, Philodemus, Parmenion, Antiphanes, Automedon Zonas, Bianor, Antigonus, Diodorus, Evenus, and some others whose names he does not mention. The earliest of these poets seems to be Philodemus, the contemporary of Cicero, and the latest Automedon, who probably flourished under Nerva. Hence it is inferred that Philip flourished in the time of Trajan. Various allusions in his own epigrams prove that he lived after the time of Augustus.
Further Information
Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. xiii. pp. 934-936.
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