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Theodo'siusDIACONUS

9. DIACONUS, a third Byzantine historian, who appears to have lived about the same time as the preceding.

Works
five ἀκροάσεις in iambic verse

He was the author of five ἀκροάσεις in iambic verse, on the subject of the expedition of Nicephorus Phocas to Crete, in A. D. 961.

Editions

This was first published in Greek and Latin by Fl. Cornelius, in his Creta Sacra, Venet. 1755, 4to.; again, by P. F. Fogginius, in his Nova Appendix Corporis Historiae Byzantinae, Romae, 1777, fol.; and lastly, with notes and a vocabulary of words peculiar to the author, by F. Jacobs, in his edition of Leo Diaconus, in the Corpus Script. Hist. Byzant. Bonn. 1828, 8vo.

Further Information

Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. p. 533; Vossius, de Hist. Graec. l.c. ; Hoffmann, Lexicon, ll. cc.