lene (fl. sixteenth century), Archbishop of
Monembasia (Anglice "Malmsey"), on the south-east coast of Laconia, was
the author of a _Universal History_ ([Greek: Biblion I(storiko/n,
k.t.l.]), edited by A. Tzigaras, Venice, 1637, 4to.

[250] Meletius of Janina (1661-1714) was Archbishop of Athens, 1703-14.
His principal work is _Ancient and Modern Geography_, Venice, 1728, fol.
He also wrote an Ecclesiastical History, in four vols., Vienna, 1783-95.

[251] Panagios (Panagiotes) Kodrikas, Professor of Greek at Paris,
published at Vienna, in 1794, a Greek translation of Fontenelle's
_Entretiens sur la Pluralite des Mondes_. John Camarases, a
Constantinopolitan, translated into French the apocryphal treatise, _De
Universi Natura_, attributed to Ocellus Lucanus, a Pythagorean
philosopher, who is said to have flourished in Lucania in the fifth
century B.C.

[252] Christodoulos, an Acarnanian, published a work, [Greek: Peri\
Philoso/phou, Philosophi/as, Physio~n, Metaphysiko~n, k.t.l.], at
Vienna, in 1786.

[253] Athanasius Psalidas published, at Vienna, in 1791, a sceptical
work entitled, _True Felicity_ ([Greek: A)lethe\s Eu)daimoni/a]). "Very
learned, and full of quotations, but written in false taste."--_MS. M._
He was a schoolmaster at Janina, where Byron and Hobhouse made his
acquaintance--"the only person," says Hobhouse, "I ever saw who had what
might be called a library, and that a very small one" (_Travels in
Albania, etc._, i. 508).

[254] Hobhouse mentions a patriotic poet named Polyzois, "the new
Tyrtaeus," and gives, as a specimen of his work, "a war-song of the
Greeks in Egypt, fighting in the cause of Freedom."--_Travels in
Albania, etc._, i. 507; ii. 6, 7.

[255] {199} [By Blackbey is meant Bey of Vlack, i.e. Wallachia. (See a
_Translation_ of this "satire in dialogue"--"Remarks on the Romaic,"
etc., _Poetical Works_, 1891, p. 793.)]

[256] [Constantine Rhigas (born 1753), the author of the original of
Byron's "Sons of the Greeks, arise," was handed over to the Turks by the
Austrians, and shot at Belgrade in 1793, by the orders of Ali Pacha.]

[257] {200} [The Hecatonnesi are a cluster of islands in the Gulf of
Adramyttium, over against the harbour and town of Aivali or Aivalik.
Cidonies may stand for [Greek: e(po/lis kydoni\s], the quince-shaped
city. "At Haivali or Kidognis, opposite to Mytilene, there is a sort of
university for a hundred students and three professors, now
superintended by a Greek