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tenant and former comrade, John Zimifces, setae better 
Cc T 
inv 
ch itfelf ; but on the 
approach of winter he was obliged to quit it, and Leia to 
his capital. Antioch was, however, in a fhort time after- 
ae {urprifed by one of his generals. This. career © 
victory, {plendid as it was, produced epee ae at pa 
on — of the new uae e was forced to im- 
was cut off D. ie » in the ei year of ie Be; = the 
feventh of n. Unive aoe im 
Niceruorus IT 
I., Boroniar nate “ys ae Fatt, 
was a general under Conftantine Dic. when he was de- 
feated and taken prifoner in an invafion of the Scythian 
e was C der of the Afiatic forces of the 
Alex 
mnenus was empioye three eae = 
viz. Urfellius, Bryennius, and Bafilacius. All thefe he fuc- 
ceffively reduced, and Nicephorus pods “aya his autho- 
rity by marrying Mary, who had the wife of 
Ducas. He was now advanced in eae and haviny no 
male iffue, he was perfuaded, by two favourites, to nominate 
in his teftament for his fucceflor, a youth who was his re- 
lation. The emprefs, however, anxious that her fon fhould 
fueceed to the empire, determined, with the affiftance of 
Alexius and Ifaac Comnenus, to depofe Nicephorus, which 
fhe quickly effected, and the emperor quitted the throne, 
after a reign of three years. He retired to a monaftery, 
where he took the habit, and ended his days in ob{curity 
and peace. Univer. Hilt. Gibbon, vol. x 
NicePHoRus, patriarch of Conftantin>ple in the begin- 
ning of the ninth century, was a native of that city, the fon 
. igen fecretary to the emperor Conftantine Copro- 
e became confidential fecretary to the emperor, 
ee ‘his mother Ire ene. 
reign of Irene. hi 
Chronological Catalogue of all the Patriarchs, Kings, and 
NIC 
Princes = Jews, Kings of Perfia and Macedon, Ro- 
man Em , &c.’” He alfo wrote three books, entitled 
“ Antirrhetics,” 
= which are now deemed “A ocryphal,’” were not of 
qual authority, though fometimes read in the churches, 
oad quoted by Chriftian writers. It affords Lkewife ftrong 
evidence to prove, that there never were any Chriftian writ- 
ings efteemed to be of equal authority with thofe which are 
letter of this 
of the Colle&, Con- 
Lardner. eri. iog. 
NicerHorus, CALuis i the fon of Calliftus, furnamed 
Xanthopulus, a learned monk of ener ty pe e, who flou- 
ifhed in the 14th 
was for many years e in the diligent ee of the 
boeks in the celebrated ley belonging to the ae of 
St. Sophia. 
to _write, in the 
fix years of age. 
nicus Palzologus the elder, and divided into twenty-three 
books, extending from the birth of Chrift to the death of 
the emperor Leo, the philofo — in the year gi1. Eighteen 
only of thefe have reached o mes, which bring the hiftory 
to the death of the emperor oe or the year 610. On 
account of the elegance of the compofition, the author has 
been ityled the “ Peclefiaftical Thucydides,’ while others, 
rom the marvellous tales and fables which are inter{perfed 
in it, have given him the name of the theological Pliny. It 
is extremely pen on account of the light which it throws 
on many important fats in ecclefiaftical hiltory. The only 
MS. of it yet aie belonged to the library of Matthias, 
impreflions. 
talogue of the Conttantinopolitan Emperors,’ 
of the Patriarchs, both in Greek Lambic verfe ; 
and dees 
and *“ An 
publithed : in Greek and Latin, dur verfy with 
Mr. Dodwell, under ce title of « poe Schifmay is Re. 
aargutio.” Gen g. 
Nicernorus Grecoras, one of the Byzantine hiitorians, 
who flourifhed in the e 
a conference with the legates cf pope John n the 
difputes that took place between Barlaam and Palamas, he 
took the part of the former, whom he warmly i achat in 
the council held at Conftantinople in 1351. is he was 
P 
Byzantine hiftory, comprehending a period of 145 years, 
from 
