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LYDUS (" THE LYDIAN "), JOANNES LAURENTIUS

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 158 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: LUP-MAL
LYDUS (" THE LYDIAN "), JOANNES LAURENTIUS , Byzantine writer on antiquarian subjects, was born at Philadelphia in
Lydia
  about A.D. 490. At an early age he set out to seek his fortune in
Constantinople
 , and held high
court
  and state offices under
Anastasius
  and Justinian. In 552 he lost favour, and was dismissed. The date of his death is not known, but he was probably alive during the early years of
Justin
  II. (reigned 565-578). During his retirement he occupied himself in the compilation of works on the antiquities of Rome, three of which have been preserved: (I) De Ostentis (llepl Sioa peiWV), on the origin and progress of the art of divination; (2) Dc Magistratibus reipublicae Romanae (IIepi apxCw Tfls `Pwpatwv sroXeretas), especially valuable for the administrative details of the time of Justinian; (3) De Mensibus (Ilepi /anv&w), a history of the different festivals of the year. The
chief
  value of these books consists in the fact that the author made use of the works (now lost) of old Roman writers on similar subjects. Lydus was also commissioned by Justinian to compose a panegyric on the emperor, and a history of his successful campaign against Persia; but these, as well as some poetical compositions, are lost.
Editions of (I) by C.
Wachsmuth
  (1897), with full account of the authorities in the prolegomena; of (2) and (3) by R. Wunsch (1898-1903) ; see also the essay by C. B. Hase (the first editor of the De Ostentis) prefixed to I.
Bekker
 's edition of Lydus (1837) in the
Bonn
  Corpus scriptorum hist. Byzantinae.


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