Joannes35. Of CITRUS (now Kitro or Kidros), in Macedonia, the ancient
Pydna. Joannes was bishop of Citrus about A. D. 1200. He wrote
Ἀποκρίεσις πρὸς Κωνσταντῖνον Ἀρχιεπίσκοπον Δ̓υρραχίου
τὸν Καβάσιλαν. Response ad Constantinum Cabasilum,
Archiepiscopum Dyrrachii, of which sixteen answers, with the questions prefixed, are
given with a Latin version in the
Jus Graeco-Romanum of Leunclavius (fol.
Frankfort, 1596), lib. v. p. 323. A larger portion of the
Responsa is given in
the
Synopsis Juris Graeci of Thomas Diplouaticitus (Diplovatizio). Several MSS.
of the
Responsa contain twenty-four answers, others thirty-two; and Nic.
Comnenus Papadopoli, citing the work in his
Praenotiones
Mystagogicae, speaks of a hundred. In one MS. Joannes of Citrus has the surname of
Dalassinus. Allatius, in his
De Consensu, and
Contra Hottingerum, quotes a work of Joannes of Citrus,
De
Consuetudinibus et Dogmatibus Latinorum. (Fabric.
Bibl. Gr. vol.
xi. pp. 341, 590; Cave,
Hist. Litt. vol. ii.p. 279.)