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Photius

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[foh-shee-uhs] / ˈfoʊ ʃi əs /

noun

  1. a.d. c820–891, patriarch of Constantinople 858–867, 877–882.


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You must immediately seek all the young Romans who frequent the house of Photius.

From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Dahn, Felix

He especially had at heart to make Constantinople submit; and his first step was to condemn and depose the patriarch Photius, in defiance of the emperor Michael.

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois

Photius, condemned already at Rome, was also condemned in a general council held at Constantinople.

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois

Photius ascribes their composition to Leucius Charinus—therefore to the 2nd century, but Lipsius assigns it to the early decades of the 3rd.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various

The short excerpt from Ctesias, which Photius has preserved, contains useful information, although we must always mistrust him.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various

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