medals, appear quite irresistible. From these it appears certain that the death of Alexander Severus happened not later than the beginning of July, A. D. 235; that Maximinus betook himself to Sirmium, after his successful campaign against the Germans, towards the close of A. D. 237; that the elevation of the Gordians in Africa took place about the commencement of March, A. D. 238, and their death about six weeks afterwards; that Maximinus set out upon his march for Rome early in April, sat down before Aquileia towards the end of the month, and was slain, in all probability about the middle of May.

fought near Heracleia, he fled first to Nicomedeia and thence to Tarsus, where he soon after died according to some accounts of despair, according to others by poison. His wife and children were murdered, and every imaginable insult heaped upon his memory by the conqueror.

The great military talents of Herculius, Galerius, and Licinius, served in some degree, if not to palliate, at least to divert attention from, their vices and their crimes. But not one quality, either noble or dazzling, relieves the coarse brutality of Maximin, who surpassed all his contemporaries in the profligacy of his private life, in the general cruelty of his administration, and in the furious hatred with which he persecuted the Christians. His elevation, which was the result of family influence alone, must have been as unexpected by himself as by others; but he did not prove by any means such a passive and subservient tool as was anticipated. His extravagant vanity, for we can scarcely dignify the feeling by the name of ambition, was for a while gratified, because Galerius felt unwilling to engage in a civil war with the creature of his own hands; but the arrogance engendered by this success in all probability prompted him to the unprovoked aggression which proved his ruin. (Zosim. ii. 8; Victor, Epit. 40; Oros. vii. 25; Auctor. de Mort. Persec. 5, 32, 36, 38, 45, &c.; Euseb. H. E. viii. 14, ix. 2, &c.; Eckhel, vol. viii. p. 51.)

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MAXIMI'NUS II., Roman emperor 305314. GALERIUS VALERIUS MAXIMINUS, who originally bore the name of DAZA, was the nephew of Galerius by a sister, and in early life followed the occupation of a shepherd in his native Illyria. Having forsaken this humble calling for the life of a soldier, by force of interest rather than of any conspicuous merit, he rose to the highest rank in the service, and upon the abdication of Diocletian at Nicomedeia in A. D. 305 [DIOCLETIANUS, p. 1013], although altogether undistinguished, and MAXIMI'NUS, the excellent ambassador of indeed unknown, was adopted by the new emperor Theodosius the Younger to Attila in a. D. 448. of the East, received the title of Jovius, was elevated He was already conspicuous in the Persian war in to the rank of Caesar, and was nominated to the 422, when he was lieutenant of Ardaburius. Theogovernment of Syria and Egypt. Little grateful dosius sent him in 448 to Attila; Orestes and for these extraordinary and most undeserved marks Edicon, the Hunnic ambassadors at Constantinople, of favour, he displayed violent indignation upon returned with him to Pannonia. This Edicon had being passed over in the arrangements which fol- been bribed by the minister, Chrysaphius, to lowed the death of Constantius Chlorus in A. D. murder Attila, but on his arrival in Pannonia in 307, when Licinius was created Augustus. [LI- formed his master of the plot, of which Maximin CINIUS; GALERIUS MAXIMIANUS.] Far from being was totally ignorant. Attila was well aware of satisfied by the concession of Galerius, who in this, and consequently turned his resentment only vented the new title of Filii Augustorum to super- against the emperor and the minister at Constantisede the appellation of Caesars, he assumed without nople, disdaining even to punish Vigilius, who was permission the highest imperial designation, and the entire promoter of the scheme, and who was with much difficulty succeeded in wringing a re-entrapped in his turn by Attila. This embassy of luctant acquiescence from his uncle. Upon the death of the latter, in 311, he entered into a convention with Licinius, in terms of which he received the provinces of Asia Minor in addition to his former dominion, the Hellespont and the Bosporus forming the common boundary of the two sovereignties; but having treacherously taken advantage of the absence of his neighbour, who had repaired to Milan in 313 for the purpose of receiving in marriage the sister of Constantine, he suddenly invaded Thrace, and surprised Byzantium. Having, however, been signally defeated in a great battle

Maximin is described by his secretary, Priscus, to
whom we refer for the interesting details of an
event to which we are indebted for nearly all our
knowledge of Attila's person and private life.
Maximin became afterwards one of the four prin-
cipal ministers of the emperor Marcian; and in
later years held the supreme command in Egypt,
whence he made a successful campaign against the
Aethiopians. He is invariably represented as a
virtuous, firm, and highly talented man. (Priscus,
p. 39, 40, 48-70; Socrat. Hist. Eccles., vii. 20;
PRISCUS.)
[W. P.]

MAXIMUS AEGIENSIS (6 Aiyeús), of | is not clear. Taking advantage of the sickness of Aegae in Cilicia, a writer contemporary with Apollonius of Tyana [APOLLONIUS TYANAEUS], of some of whose transactions he wrote an account, which was part of the materials employed by Philostratus [PHILOSTRATUS] in his biography of that philosopher. (Philostr. Apollon. Vit. i. 3; Euseb. In Hieroclem, c. 2, 3; Tzetzes, Chilias. II. Hist. 60, vs. 974, Chilias. IX. Hist. 291, vs. 865; Voss. De Hist. Graec. ii. 10.)

Gregory, and supported by some Egyptian ecclesiastics, sent by Peter, patriarch of Alexandria, under whose directions they professed to act, Maximus was ordained, during the night, patriarch of Constantinople, in the place of Gregory, whose election had not been perfectly canonical. This audacious proceeding excited the greatest indignation among the people, with whom Gregory was popular. Nor did the emperor Theodosius, then at Thessalonica, to whom the usurper applied, show them any favour. Maximus therefore withdrew to Alexandria, from which he was in a short time expelled by his patron, Peter. (Gregor. Nazian. Carmen de Vita sua, vss. 750-1029.)

[J. C. M.] MA'XIMUS ALEXANDRI'NUS, known also as the cynic philosopher (Kuvikos piλóσopos), was a native of Alexandria, the son of Christian parents of rank, who had suffered on account of their religion; but whether from Pagan or Arian violence is not clear. Maximus united the faith of an orthodox be- The resignation of Gregory, who was succeeded liever with the garb and deportment of a cynic philo- in the patriarchate of Constantinople by Nectarius, sopher, and was held in great respect by the leading did not benefit Maximus. His election was detheologians of the orthodox party. Athanasius, in a clared null by the second general (first Constantiletter written about A. D. 371 (Epist. ad Maxim. nopolitan) council, and the presbyters whom he Philosoph. Opp. vol. i. p. 917, &c. ed. Benedict.), had ordained were declared not to be presbyters. pays him several compliments on a work written (Concil. CPolit. can. 3. sec. Dionys. Exiguum; in defence of the orthodox faith. Tillemont and Capital. 6. sec. Isidor. Mercat. ; apud Concil. vol. the Benedictine editor of the works of Gregory i. col. 809, 810, ed. Hardouin.) He attempted even Nazianzen (Monitum ad Orat. xxv.), misled by the after this to assert his claims to the patriarchate ; virulent invectives of that father, attempt to distin- but though the Italian bishops for a while seemed guish between our Maximus and the one to whom disposed to support him, he met with no success. Athanasius wrote, on the ground that Athanasius The invectives of Gregory Nazianzen against | could never have spoken so well of so worthless a Maximus (Carmina, sc. De Vita sua, 1. c.; In character. They also distinguish him from the Invidos, vs. 16, &c.; In Maximum) were written Maximus to whom Basil the Great addressed a after their struggle for the patriarchate, and conletter (Ep. 41, editt. vett. 9, ed. Benedict. vol. iii. trast singularly with the praises of his twenty-fifth p. 90, ejusd. edit. p. 127, ed. Benedict. alterae, Oration, to which some of Gregory's admirers, to Paris, 1839) in terms of the highest respect, dis- conceal the inconsistency, prefixed the name of cussing some doctrinal questions, and soliciting a Heron or Hero, Eis 'Hpŵva, In Laudem Heronis visit from him; but they are not successful in (Hieron. De Viris Illustr. 1. c.), which it still either case. However, the Maximus Scholasticus, bears. The work of Maximus, De Fide, which is to whom Basil also wrote (Ep. 42, editt. vett. 277, well spoken of by Jerome, is lost. (Athanas., ed. Benedict.), was a different person. In A. D. 374, Basil., Gregor. Nazianz., Hieronym. ll. cc.; Sozoduring the reign of the emperor Valens, in the per- men, H. E. vii. 9. cum not. Vales.; Tillemont, secution carried on by Lucius, Arian patriarch of Mémoires, vol. ix. p. 443, &c.; Cave, Hist. Litt. Alexandria [LUCIUS, No. 2], Maximus was cruelly ad ann. 380, vol. i. p. 276, ed. Oxford, 1740-42 ; scourged, and banished to the Oasis, on account of Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 520.) [J. C. M.] his zeal for orthodoxy and the promptitude with MAXIMUS, L. A'PPÍUS, a distinguished which he succoured those who suffered in the same Roman general in the reigns of Domitian and Tracause (Gregor. Nazianz. Orat. xxv. c. 13, 14). jan. In A. D. 91 Maximus quelled the revolt of He obtained his release in about four years (Ib.), Antonius in Germany, and at the same time had probably on the death of Valens; and it was the magnanimity to burn all the letters of the perhaps soon after his release that he presented to latter, that they might not expose others to the the emperor Gratian at Mediolanum (Milan), his vengeance of Domitian. In A. D. 101 he fought work Пepl rîs níorews, De Fide, written against with success under Trajan in the Dacian war against the Arians (comp. Hieron. De Viris Illustr. c. 127). Decebalus. In A. D. 115 he was one of Trajan's Tillemont, however, thinks that the work was pre- generals in the Parthian war; but here his good sented to the emperor when Maximus was in Italy, fortune failed him, for he was defeated and perished A. D. 382, after the council of Constantinople. in this year. We learn from the Fasti that he He wrote also against other heretics, but whether was consul in A. D. 103. (Dion Cass. lxvii. 11, in the same work or in another is not clear (Greg. lxviii. 9, 30) There is some doubt about the Naz. ib.); and disputed ably against the heathens exact form of his name. Dion Cassius names him (Ib.). Apparently on his return from Milan he simply L. Maximus; but Domitian, in a letter visited Constantinople, where Gregory Nazianzen contained among those of Pliny (x. 66), and the had just been appointed to the patriarchate (A. D. Fasti call him L. Appius Maximus, which is the 379). Gregory received him with the highest form we have adopted. But Martial (ix. 85), and honour; and pronounced an oration in his praise Aurelius Victor (Epit. 11. § 10), give to the con(Orat. xxv.), compared with which the soberqueror of Antonius the name of Appius, Norbanus. commendations of Athanasius, and Basil are cold These statements can only be reconciled by supand tame. He received him at his table, and posing that his full name was L. Appius Maximus treated him with the greatest confidence and Norbanus. regard. He was, however, grievously disappointed in him. Whether the events which followed were the results solely of the ambition of Maximus, or whether Maximus was himself the tool of others,

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MA'XIMUS CAESAR, whose full name was C. JULIUS VERUS MAXIMUS, was the son of Max

iminus I., upon whose accession he became Caesar | liscans on the payment of a large sum of money and Princeps Juventutis; and having accompanied On his return to Rome he celebrated a splendid the emperor in the campaigns against the barba- triumph-according to Livy, over the Samnites and rians, he was subsequently styled Germanicus, Etruscans, and after the triumph of Papirius; acSarmaticus, and Dacicus. It does not appear pro- cording to the Triumphal Fasti, over the Samnites bable, however, that he was invested with the alone, and a month before the triumph of his coltribunician power or with the consulship, or that he league. Carvilius acquired great popularity by was ever formally associated in the imperial dignity distributing a large part of the booty among the with the title of Augustus, although such legends soldiers, which his colleague had not done; but as VICTORIA AUGUSTORUM and MAXIMINUS ET even after this distribution he paid into the treaMAXIMUS. AUGUSTI. GERMANICI, are found upon sury 380,000 pounds of bronze, and applied the medals. He was murdered, along with his father, remainder to the erection of a temple of Fors Forby the troops while besieging Aquileia, a. D. 238, | tuna. With the bronze armour taken from the at the age of eighteen, or, according to other au- Samnites he made a colossal statue of Jupiter upon thorities, twenty-one. From coins and inscriptions the Capitol, which was of such a height that it we are enabled to pronounce with certainty that could be seen from the temple on the Alban Mount; his name was Maximus, and not Maximinus, as and with the bronze which fell off in polishing this Capitolinus would lead us to suppose. work he had his own statue cast, which was placed at the feet of the colossus. (Liv. x. 9, 39, 43-45, 46; Zonar. viii. 1; Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 7, s. 18; Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, vol. iii. p. 392, &c.) In the year after his consulship Carvilius was appointed legate to the consul D. Junius Brutus, as the consuls of that year did not possess military experience, and had been elected in expectation of a state of peace. (Zonar. l. c.)

This youth was equally celebrated for the surpassing beauty of his person, the elaborate finish of his dress, and the excessive haughtiness of his demeanour. He was, however, educated with much care, was well acquainted with Greek and Latin literature, and seems in many respects to have had a good disposition. It is said that Alexander had at one time some thoughts of bestowing his sister, Theoclia, upon Maximus in marriage; and at a later period he was betrothed to Junia Fadilla, a great-grand-daughter of Antoninus. (Capitolinus, Maximin. jun.; Eckhel, vol. vii. p. 291, 297; MAXIMINUS I.) [W. R.]

In B. C. 272, Carvilius was elected consul a second time with his former colleague L. Papirius Cursor, as the people, recollecting their former victories, fully hoped that they would put an end to the Samnite war before Pyrrhus could return again to Italy. They did not disappoint the expectations of the people, though of the details of the war we have no information. They conquered the Samnites, Lucanians, Bruttians, and Tarentines, and celebrated a triumph on account of their victories. (Fasti Capit.; Zonar. viii. 6; Liv. Epit. 14; Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome vol. iii. p. 524.) It must be of this Sp. Carvilius that Velleius Paterculus (ii. 128) relates, that, though born of equestrian rank, he arrived at the highest honours of the state, and not of the consul of B. c. 234 [No. 2], as Orelli supposes (Onom. Tull. vol. ii. p. 133).

MAXIMUS, CAESO'NIUS, was banished from Italy by Nero on the detection of Piso's conspiracy in a. D. 66. (Tac. Ann. xv. 72.) From an epigram of Martial (vii. 44), addressed to one Q. Ovidius, a friend of Caesonius Maximus, we learn that Maximus had been consul, and also that he was one of the friends of Seneca, which was no doubt the cause of his punishment.

2. SP. CARVILIUS, SP. F. C. N. MAXIMUS RUGA, son of No. 1, was consul, B. c. 234, with L. Postumius Albinus, and carried on war first against the Corsicans and then against the Sardinians: according to the Fasti Capitolini he obtained a triumph over the latter people. (Zonar. viii. 18.) He was consul a second time in B. c. 228 with Q. Fabius Maximus Verrucossus, in which year, according to Cicero (Cato, 4), he did not resist, like his col league, the agrarian law of the tribune C. Flaminius for the division of the lands in Cisalpine Gaul. Polybius (ii. 21), however, places the agrarian law of C. Flaminius four years earlier, in the consulship of M. Aemilius Lepidus, B. c. 232.

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MAʼXIMUS, CARVI'LIUS. 1. SP. CARVILIUS C. F. C. N. MAXIMUS, was curule aedile B. C. 299, and consul B. C. 293, with L. Papirius Cursor. Their consulship was distinguished by brilliant victories over the Samnites, who had made immense exertions to ensure success, and had penetrated into Campania. Carvilius first took Amiternum, and then proceeded to assault Cominium, while his colleague engaged with the great Samnite army, the soldiers of which had devoted themselves to conquest or death by the most solemn vows. After Papirius had gained a brilliant victory over this army, Carvilius took Cominium, and then proceeded to attack Palumbinum and Herculaneum, both of which fell into his hands, although he had previously suffered a defeat from the Samnites near the latter town. After this Carvilius was called away into Etruria, where the Faliscans had broken the peace. Here, too, he was successful; he took Carvilius is related to have been the first person the town of Troilium and five other fortified places, who divorced his wife, which he is said to have defeated the enemy and granted peace to the Fa-done on the ground of barrenness, but his conduct

Carvilius is not mentioned again till the year of the fatal battle of Cannae, B. c. 216, when he proposed, in order to fill up the numbers of the senate and to unite the Latin allies more closely to the Romans in this their season of adversity, that the vacancies in the senate should be supplied by electing two senators from each one of the Latin tribes, but his proposition was rejected with the utmost indig nation and contempt. He died in B. c. 212, at which time he was augur. (Liv. xxiii. 22, xxvi. 23.)

MAXIMUS CHRYSOBERGES. An account of the only published work of this writer is given elsewhere. [CHRYSOBERGES LUCAS.] He flourished about a. D. 1400, and was, though a Greek, a strenuous defender of the opinions of the Latin church, sending letters to various persons on this subject, especially to the people of Constantinople. His own inclination would have led him to a Whether the Пepì diapóρwv kepaλaíwv, Quaestiones life of privacy and study, but his merit had atSacrae Miscellaneae, by "Maximus the Monk," tracted regard; and Heraclius, who had obcontained in a MS. of the Imperial Library at tained the Byzantine sceptre in A. D. 610, made Vienna, are by Chrysoberges, is not clear. Max-him his chief secretary, and treated him with the imus Chrysoberges had for his antagonist Nilus greatest regard and confidence. How long MaxDamyla. [NILUS.] (Comp. Fabric. Bibl. Graec. imus held his important office is not clear; but vol. ix. p. 679, vol. xi. p. 397; Cave, Hist. Litt. long before the death of Heraclius (who died a. D. vol. ii. Appendix, p. 87; and Dissert. Prima, p. 641), probably about the middle of that emperor's 14.) [J. C. M.] reign, he resigned his post; and leaving the palace, embraced a monastic life at Chrysopolis, on the Asiatic side of the Bosporus, opposite Constantinople. Here he was distinguished by the severity of his ascetic practices, and was soon appointed hegumenus or abbot of his monastery.

his history; and the works are in some cases accompanied by ancient anonymous Greek scholia, as well as by the notes of the learned editor. This edition is not complete: a third volume was in preparation by Combéfis at the time of his death, A. D. 1679; but no successor undertook to complete the unfinished labour.

The works are too numerous, and many of them too unimportant for distinct notice. The following are the most important: 1. Πρὸς Θαλάσσιον τὸν ὁσιώτατον πρεσβύτερον καὶ ἡγούμενον περὶ δια póрwv dπóршv тîs deías ypapñs, Ad Sanctissimum

some others, were sent to him apparently to get him to renounce his opposition to the Monothelites. Blows, kicks, and spitting, were resorted to by the messengers and their servants, but in vain; nothing could shake his firmness. He was brought back after some time to Constantinople, and subjected to still greater severities. He was severely scourged; and the two Anastasii, who had been also brought back to the city, were similarly treated, apparently in his presence. They were then all remanded to prison, but were brought out again in a few days, when their tongues were cut out, their right hands cut off, and they were again sent into exile. Max-Presbyterum ac Praepositum Thalassium, de variis imus, from age and the effects of his tortures, was scarcely able to bear the journey. They were confined in separate places in the Caucasus, where Maximus and one of the Anastasii soon died from the effects of their sufferings, A. D. 662. Anastasius Apocrisiarius survived, and his recital of their sufferings is one of the authorities employed for this article. Various miraculous circumstances were reported to have attended the sufferings of these unhappy men. (Eis Tòv Blov, к. T. λ., In Vitam ac Certamen S. Patris nostri ac Confessoris Maχimi, published by Combéfis in his edition of the works of Maximus. This biography is not by Anastasius Apocrisiarius, as Fabricius has erroneously stated (Bibl. Graec. vol. ix. p. 635, and vol. x. p. 291); but Combéfis has subjoined some other ancient documents, including the narrative of Anastasius Apocrisiarius, already noticed, and has added some valuable notes. Theophan. Chronog. pp. 275, 276, 288, ed. Paris, pp. 219, 229, ed. Venice, vol. i. p. 509, 510, 530, 531, ed. Bonn; Cave, Hist. Litt. ad ann. 645, vol. i. p. 585; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ix. p. 635; Bolland. Acta Sanctor. August. vol. iii. p. 97, &c.)

Maximus is reverenced as a saint both by the Greek and Latin churches; by the former his memory is celebrated on the 21st of January, and the 12th and 13th August; by the latter on the 13th August.

The writings of this father were in the middle ages held in the highest esteem, and possessed considerable authority. The more discriminating judgment of Photius has severely criticised the style of his 'Arорhμатα yраpiká, Dubia S. Scripturae, or rather грaçıkŵv åторημáтwv λúσeis, Dubiorum S. Scripturae Solutiones. He notices his long, spun-out sentences, his frequent transpositions and circumlocutions, and his metaphors, so carelessly and awkwardly employed as to render his meaning often very obscure, and making his works very wearisome to read. He charges him with wandering from his subject, and indulging in irrelevant and abstract speculations. Photius, however, is less severe in criticising his other works, and observes that all his writings in every part manifest the purity and earnestness of his piety. (Phot. Bibl. Cod. 192-195.) His orthodoxy on some points is questionable.

Scripturae Sacrae Quaestionibus ac Dubiis. This is the work already noticed as severely criticised in respect of style by Photius: it contains the solution of sixty-five scriptural difficulties, and is accompanied by the Scholia of an anonymous commentator, apparently of the close of the eleventh or beginning of the twelfth century. 2. Eis Thy προσευχὴν τοῦ Πάτερ ἡμῶν πρός τινα φιλόχριστον épμeveía ouvтoμos, Orationis Dominicae brevis Expositio, ad quendam Christo devotum. 3. Aóγος ἀσκητικὸς κατὰ πεῦσιν καὶ ἀπόκρισιν, Liber ad Pietatem exercens per Interrogationem et Responsionem. This piece had been published by Fl. Nobilius, with some small pieces of Chrysostom and Basil, Rome, 1578. 4. Kepáraia weρl åɣáwns, Capita de Charitate. This work, to which an ancient Greek writer has added Scholia, was published by Vicentius Opsopoeus (who ascribed the work to Maximus of Turin), with a Latin version, 8vo. Haguenau, 1531, and was repeatedly reprinted in the course of the same century; and a Latin version was given in most of the editions of the Bibliotheca Patrum. 5. Περὶ Θεολογίας καὶ τῆς ἐνσάρκου οἰκονομίας τοῦ υἱοῦ Θεοῦ σ', Ad Theologiam Deique Filii in Carne Dispensationem spectantia Capita Ducenta. 6. Κεφάλαια διάφορα θεολογικά τε καὶ οἰκονομικὰ, καὶ περὶ ἀρετῆς καὶ Kaкías, Diversa Capita ad Theologiam et Oeconomiam spectantia, deque Virtute ac Vitio, first published by Joannes Picus. 8vo. Paris, 1560. 7. Περὶ τῆς ἁγίας Τριάδος διάλογοι έ, Dialogi quinque de Sancta Trinitate. These are ascribed to Maximus in several MSS., and by various ancient Greek writers who have cited them. Other writers have, however, ascribed them to Athanasius, in some editions of whose works they consequently appear. The opinion of Garnier, that they are the production of Theodoret, has been generally rejected; and the preponderance of evidence seems to be decidedly in favour of the authorship of Maximus. 8. Μυσταγωγία περί τοῦ τίνων σύμβολα τὰ κατὰ τὴν ἁγίαν ἐκκλη σίαν ἐπὶ τῆς συνάξεως τελούμενα καθέστηκε, Mystagogia qua explicantur quorum Signa sint quae in Sacra Ecclesia peraguntur in Divina Synaxis. Collecta. This was published by David Hoeschelius, Augsburg, 1599; and afterwards in the Auctarium of Ducaeus, vol. ii. fol. Paris, 1624. 9. Κεφάλαια θεολογικά, ἤτοι ἐκλογαὶ ἐκ διαφόρων βιβλίων τῶν τε καθ' ἡμᾶς καὶ τῶν θύραθεν, Capita Theologica, id est scite dicta atque electa ex Diversis tum Christianorum tum Gentilium ac Pro

Various of his pieces were published in the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, either separately or in the different collections of the writings of the fathers, sometimes in the original, sometimes in a Latin version. The only consider-fanorum Libris; or more briefly, Sermones per able collection of his works is that of Combéfis, S. Maximi Confessoris, Graecorum Theologi, eximiique Philosophi Opera, 2 vols. fol. Paris, 1675. An introduction contains the ancient biography of Maximus, and some other ancient pieces relating to

Excerpta, or Loci Communes. This selection of sentences is arranged in seventy-one Aóyol, Sermones, and has been repeatedly published. It first appeared, with the similar compilation of Antonius Melissa [ANTONIUS No. 2], under the care of