THOMAS

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THOMAS , surnamed MAGISTER (i.e. officiorum),1 also known as
a monk by the name Theodulos Monachos, a native of Thessalonica, Byzantine scholar and grammarian and confidential adviser of Andronicus II. (1282-1328). His

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

work

WORK

, 'EKXoyil 'Ovob.rwv Kai 'Prtarwv 'ArnKG)v, is a collection of selected Attic words and phrases, partly arranged in alphabetical order, compiled as a help to Greek composition from the works of Phrynichus, Ammonius, Herodian and

Moeris

MOERIS, AELIUS
MOERIS, LAKE OF

. He also wrote scholia on Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (with

life

LIFE

), and three of the comedies of Aristophanes; the scholia on

Pindar

PINDAR (Gr. HivSapos, c. 522–443 B.c.)

, attributed to him in two MSS., are now assigned to Demetrius Triclinius. His speeches and letters consist partly of declamations on the usual sophistical themes, partly deal with contemporary historical events: an argument between the fathers of Cynegirus and Callimachus (two Athenians who fell at Marathon) as to which had the better claim to have the funeral oration pronounced over him first; a discussion on the duties of, a king and of his subjects; a defence of the Byzantine general Chandrenos addressed to the emperor; a

letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the
alphabet
- ALPHABET (see also WRITING)
; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

on the cruelties of the Catalans and Turks in Thessaly and Macedonia; a congratulatory

letter

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the
alphabet
- ALPHABET (see also WRITING)
; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

Theodorus

THEODORUS, FLAVIUS MALLIUS

Metochita

METOCHITA, THEODORE

; a panegyric on the king of Cyprus.
Editions of the 'E/cXoyn by F. Ritschl (1832), C. Jacobitz (1833) and C. D. Beck (1836); other works in J. P. Migne, Patrologia graeca, cxly. ; see also C. Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897).

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