1. Εἰς τὴν κατὰ Περσῶν Ἐκστρατείαν Ἡρακλείου τοῦ Βασιλέως, ἀκροάσεις τρεῖς, .

This work is mentioned by Suidas, and is probably the earliest of the extant works of this writer. The three books are written in trimeter iamnbics, and contain 1098 verses. They describe the first expedition of Heraelius, whose valour and piety are immoderately praised, against the Persians, A. D. 622, when he attacked the frontier of Persia, in the neighbourhood of the Taurus. The descriptions of the author lead us to regard him as an eye-witness; and the poem was probably written not long after the events he records.

2. Πόλεμος Ἀβαρικός, or Ἀβαρικά, or

More fully, Εἰς τὴν γενομένην ἔφοδον τῶν Βαρβαρῶν καὶ εἰς τὴν αὐρῶν ἀστυχίαν ἤτοι ἔκθεσις τοῦ ψενομένου πολέμου εἰς τὸ τεῖχος τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως μεταξὺ Ἀβάρων καὶ τῶν Πολίτων, This poem consists of one book of 541 trimeter iambic verses, and describes the attack of the Avars on Constantinople, and their repulse and retreat (A. D. 626), while Herachus was absent, and a Persian army occupied Chalcedon, opposite Constantinople.

3. Ἀκάθιστος Ὕμνος,

was composed on occasion of the victory over the Avars, commemorated in No. 2. It is ascribed to George by his editor Quercius on internal evidence, which cannot, however, be regarded as conclusive.

4. Εἰς τὴς ἁγίαν το͂ Χριστον͂ τοῦ Θεον͂ ἡμῶν ἀνάστασιν

This poem consists of 129 trimeter iambic verses, in which George exhorts Flavius Constantine, the son of Heraclius, to emulate the example of his father. It was probably written about A. D. 627.

5. Εἰς Ἡράκλειον τὸν Βασιλέα,

Commonly cited by the title or Ἡρακλιάδος Ἀκροάσεις δύω, It has the second title, ἤτοι εἰς τὴν τέλειαν πτῶσιν Χοσπόου Βασιλέως Περσῶν But this title does not correctly describe it, for it takes a hasty survey of the transactions and exploits of Heraclius at home and abroad, and only slightly touches on the final overthrow of Chosröes. It was perhaps written when the intelligence of that monarch's death first reached Constantinople, about the end of A. D. 628, and before the return of Heraclius.

6. Ἑξαήμερον ἤτοι Κοσμουργία,

This poem consists of 1910 trimeter iambic verses in the edition of Quercius, who restored some lines omitted by previous editors. It has been supposed that this work has come down to us in a mutilated condition, for Suidas speaks of it as consisting of 3000 verses. But it is possible that the text of Suidas is corrupt, and that we should read εἰς ἔπη δισχίλια, instead of τρισχίλια. The poem has no appearance of incompleteness. The contains a prayer as if by the patriarch Sergius, for Heraclius and his children. The poem was probably written about A. D. 629.

7. Εἰς τὸν μάταιον Βίον,

This poem consists of 262 iambic verses, but has no internal mark of the time when it was written.

8. Κατὰ Σευήρον or Κατὰ δυσσεβοῦς Σευήρον Ἀντιοχείας,

This poem consists of 731 iambic verses. A passage of Nicephorus Callisti ( 18.48) has been understood as declaring that George wrote a poem against Johannes Philoponus, and it has been supposed that Philoponus is aimed at in this poem under the name of Severus, while others have supposed that Nicephorus refers to the Hexaemeron, and that Philoponus is attacked in that poem under the name of Proclus. But the words of Nicephorus do not require us to understand that George wrote against Philoponus at all. This poem against Severus contains the passage to which Nicephorus refers, and in which the Monophysite opinions which Philoponus held are attacked.

9. Ἐγκώμιον εἰς τὸν ἅγιον Ἀναστάσιον μάρτυρα,

or, more fully, Βίος καὶ πολιτεία καὶ ἄθληδις τοῦ ἁγίου καὶ ἐνδόσου ὁσίον μάρτυρος Ἀναστασίου τοῦ μαρτυρήσαντος ἐν Πέρσιδι, This piece is in prose.

10. Εἰς τὸν ἐν Βλαχέρναις ναὸν

A short poem in iambic verse.

Lost works

These are all the extant works of George; but that he wrote others appears from the quotations which are found in ancient writers, and of which a considerable number have been collected from the of Theophanes, the of Suidas, the of Cedrenus, the of Nicephorus Callisti, and the of Isaacius Tzetzes. George is mentioned also by Johannes Tzetzes.

Works ascribed to George

Some works known or asserted to be extant have been ascribed to George, but without sufficient reason. Usher and others have conjectured that he was the compiler of the but Quercius refutes the supposition. Possevino mentions a MS. work of his, but the supposition of the existence of such a work probably originated in a mistake. A MS. in the Imperial Library at Vienna is described by Nesselius and Reimannus as This MS. is probably the same which Raderus mentions as having been read by him. It is a modern MS., probably of the latter part of the sixteenth century and an examination of the title of the MS. itself shows that the Chronological Compendium is ascribed to Cyril alone. But to the proper title of this work is prefixed the inscription Γεωργίου τοῦ Πισίδου καὶ Κυρίλλου; an indication, perhaps, that the writer of the Codex intended to transcribe some of the works of George. The astronomical poem known as consisting of 168 iambic verses, has been conjectured to be George's; but it has been observed by Fabricius, that the writer speaks in one place like a polytheist, while all the known writings of George are distinct expressions of Christian belief; and Quercius thinks this objection is decisive. Le Long speaks of Greek Commentaries on the Epistles of Paul by George of Pisidia as being extant in the Imperial Library at Vienna, but they are not noticed in the catalogues of Lambecius and Reimannus; and it is probable that Le Long's statement is erroneous. Some persons have improperly confounded George of Pisidia with George of Nicomedeia, who lived two centuries later [GEORGIUS, No. 36]; and Cave erroneously makes George of Pisidia archbishop of Nicomedeia, although he correctly fixes the time in which he lived.