Philotheus

(Φιλοθεύς), 1. Patriarch of Alexandria. a man of luxurious habits and a most scandalous course of life, lived about A. D. 995. He wrote four works, the titles of which, as translated from the Arabic, are, 1. Declarator ; 2. Rara Commentatorum, et Depravationes Hereticorum ; 3. Detectio Arcanorum; 4. Autobiographia. The whole of these works is lost, and it does not appear whether the author wrote in Arabic or in Greek. A sermon, De Mandatis Domini nostri Jesu Christi, ed. Greek and Latin by P. Possinus in his Ascetica, is ascribed to one S. Pilotheus, perhaps the aforesaid. (Cave, >Hist. Lit. ad an. 995.)

2. Coccinus, patriarch of Constantinople, a man of great and deserved renown. He was probably born in the beginning of the 14th century, and early took the monastic habit. After living for a considerable time as a monk in, and afterwards superior of, the convent of St. Laura on Mount Sinai, he was appointed archbishop of Heracleia (before 1354). In 1355 he was employed by the emperor John Cantacuzenus, in bringing about a reconciliation between Michael, the son, and John Palaeologus, the son-in-law of the emperor; and in the same year he was chosen patriarch of Constantinople, in the place of Callistus, who, however, recovered his see after John Palaeologus had taken possession of Constantinople. Callistus, however, died soon afterwards, and now Philotheus was once more placed on the patriarchal chair, which post he occupied with great dignity till 1371 according to Cave, or 1376 according to the Chronologia reformata of J. B. Riccioli quoted by Fabricius. Works

Wharton in Cave and Fabricius give a catalogue of the numerous works of Philotheus.

We give below the titles of the most important of the numerous works of Philotheus, very few of which have been published. 1. Liturgia et Ordo instituendi Diaconum Editions

printed in Latin in the 26th vol. of Bibl. Pat. Max. 2. Libri XV. Antirrhetici,

a defence of his friend the celebrated Palama, extant in different libraries. 3. Sermo Encomiasticus in tres Hierarchas, Basilium, Gregorium Theologum, et Joannem Chrysostomum, Editions Latin Editions

Latin, in the 26th vol. of Bibl. Pat. Max. Greek Editions

Gr. and Lat., by Jac. Pontanus, together with Philippi Solitarii Dioptra, Ingolstadt, 1604, 8vo.; by Fronto Ducaeus, in the 2d vol. of Auctuar. Patr. Paris, 1624. 3. Oratio de Cruce, Editions

Gr. and Lat. apud Gretser. De Cruce, Ingolstadt, 1616, fol., vol. ii. ]; there is another Oratio de Cruce, in the same volume, which is attributed by some to our Philotheus. 4. Oratio in tertiam Jejuniorum Dominicam,

Gr. and Lat. ibid. 5. Refutatio Anathematismorum ab Harmenopulo scriptorum, Editions

Gr. and Lat. apud Leunclav. Jus. Gr. Rom. lib. iv. 6. Confutatio Capitum XIV. Acindymi et Barlaami,

extant in MS. 7. Homilia.

8. Compendium de Oeconomia Christi,

&c. &c. Further Information

Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 513, &c.; Cave, Hist. Lit. ad an. 1362.

3. Monachus or Sanctus, an unknown monk, wrote De Mandatis Domini nostri Jesu Christi, ed. Gr. and Lat. in P. Possinus, Asectica, Paris, 1684. Although this work bears the same title as the one quoted above under the head Philotheus Coccinus, the works as well as the authors are different persons. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. p. 519 Cave, Hist. Lit. Dissert. 1. p. 17. ed. Oxon.)

4. Archbishop of Selymbria, of unknown age. wrote Oratio in T. Agothonicum, which is still extant in MS. [W.P]

(Φιλόθεος), is supposed to be the same person as Theophiluis Protospatharius. [THEOPHILUS PROTOSPATHARIUS.] Works Commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates

There is extant under his name a commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates, which is in a great measure compiled from Galen's commentary on the same work, and is attributed to different persons in different MSS. Editions

It was first published in a Latin translation by Ludov. Coradus, Venet. 8vo. 1549, and again, Spirae, 8vo. 1581 : and it is in a great measure, if not entirely, the same work that has lately been published in Greek by F. R. Dietz in the second volume of his Scholia in Hippocratem et Galenum (Regim. Pruss. 8vo. 1834) under the name of Theophilus. Other works

A short work relating to a MS. of Philotheus at Altdorf is mentioned by Choulant, with the title, J. Andr. Nagel, Programma sistens Memoriam Donationis Trewianae, Altorf. 4to. 1788. Further Information

See Preface to vol. ii. of Dietz's Schol. in Hippocr. et Gal.; Choulant, Handb. der Bücherkunde für die Aeltere Medicin. [W.A.G]