a Graeco-Roman jurist, who is occasionally mentioned in the scholia on the Basilica. (Basil. vol. iii. p. 440, 7.16. 317.)
He is probably the same person with the Gregorius of Basil. ii. p.
566, and vii. p. 607.
Montfaucon (Palaeograph. Graec. lib. 1. c.6, p. 62, lib. 4. c.6, p.
302; Diar. Ital. p. 217; Bibl. MSSt. p. 196),
shews that a Doxapater, who was Diaconus Magnae Ecclesiae and Nomophylax (besides other
titles and offices), edited a Nomocanon, or synopsis of ecclesiastical law, at the command
of Joannes Comnenus, who reigned A. D. 1118-1143.
The manuscript of this work is in the library of the fathers of St. Basil, at Rome. Pohl
(ad Suares Notit. Basil. p. 139, n. 8) seems to make Montfaucon
identify the author of this Nomocanon with the Lord Gregorius Doxapater, the jurist of the
Basilica, who is not mentioned by Montfaucon.
Fabricius (Bibl. Gr. lib. 5. c.25) attributes the authorship of this
Nomocanon to Doxapater Nilus, who, under Rogerius, in Sicily, about
This was first published by Stephen le Moyne, in his
The untrustworthy Papadopoli (Praenot. Mystag. p. 372), speaks of a
Doxapater, Sacellarius, as the last of the Greek jurists, and cites his scholia upon the
Novells of Isaacus Angelus, who reigned A. D. 1185-1195.
Heimbach, de Basil. Origin. p. 81.