A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

or, by contraction, CHALCO'NDYLES, LAO'NICUS or NICOLA'US (Δαόνικος ορ Νικολάος Χαλκοκονδύλης ορ Χαλκονδύλης), a Byzantine historian of the fifteenth century of the Christian aera, of whose life little is known, except that he was sent by the emperor John VII. Palaeologus, as ambassador to the camp of Sultan Mürad II. during the siege of Constantinople in A. D. 1446. Hamberger (Gelehrte Nachrichlten von berühmten Männern, &ξ. vol. iv. p. 764) shews, that he was still living in 1462, but it is scarcely credible that he should have been alive in 1490, and even later, as Vossius thinks (De Historicis Graecis, 2.30).

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