[249] {198} Dorotheus of Mitylene (fl. sixteenth century), Archbishop of Monembasia (Anglicè "Malmsey"), on the south-east coast of Laconia, was the author of a _Universal History_ (Βιβλιον Ἱστορικόν, κ.τ.λ. [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, Περὶ Φιλοσόφου, Φιλοσοφίας, Φυσιῶν, Μεταφυσικῶν, κ.τ.λ. [Peri\ Philoso/phou, Philosophi/as, Physiô~n, Metaphysikô~n, k.t.l.], at Vienna, in 1786. [253] Athanasius Psalidas published, at Vienna, in 1791, a sceptical work entitled, _True Felicity_ (Ἀληθὴς Εὐδαιμονία [A)lêthê\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 Tyrtæus," 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 ἡ πόλις κυδωνὶς [ê( po/lis kydôni\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 of Mytilene, who teaches not only the Hellenic, but Latin, French, and Italian."--_Travels in Albania_, _etc._, i. 509, 510.] [258] [François Horace Bastien, Conte Sebastiani (1772-1851), was ambassador to the _Sublime Porte_, May, 1806-June, 1807.] [259] [Gregor Alexandrovitch Potemkin (1736-1791), the favourite of the Empress Catherine II.]