XXVIII PREFACE.
University Library, Cambridge.’ The Arabic versions are of a later date, and are made from a comparatively modern recension of his original work, and from these were made the Ethiopie versions of the encomium of Theodotus of Aneyra? FS
The Coptic account makes George to be martyred by Dadianus the ‘great governor of the Persians’,
man was born of peasant parents and came from Dacia? he embraced the profession of a soldier and grew up without either manners or education. The general called | Euchios in the ninth miracle of St. George (p. 77) who) was sent by Diocletian to overthrow George’s shrine ate Lydda, is described as being of savage disposition, and from”
1 The Syriac version of the work attributed to Pasikrates, with an English translation, will be published by Mr. Nutt as soon as possible.
2 See Wright, Catalogue of the Ethiopic MSS. tn the British Museum, pp. 162, 168, 189 and 196, and Zotenberg, Catalogue des Manuserits: Lithiopiens, p. 203.
- Hence his name Dacianus or Dadianus. See Heylin, Si. George
Pp. 169.
4 Tillemont, Hest. des Empereurs, iv, p. 25. Ignorant of letters, careless of laws, the rusticity of his appearence and manners still” betrayed in the most clevated fortune the meanness of his extraction. War was the only art which he professed. Gibbon, Decline and Fall, chap, xii.
