EUTHYMIUS, ZIGABENUS (more correctly Zygadenus), was one of the most eminent Byzan tine theologians of the 12th century, and the last of the Greek commentators. He flourished under the reign of Alexius Comnenus, about 1118, and was monk of a convent dedicated to the Virgin, near Constantinople. His Commentary on the Psalms was published in a Latin Version at Verona in 153o, and has been often reprinted. Le Moyne added a preface and introduction to the Greek Text, which was inserted in the fourth volume of the works of Theophylact, Venice, 1754-63. His commentary on the four Evangelists was pub. lished in Latin by Hentenius, Louvaine, 1544, and afterwards at Paris, 1547, 1560, 1602, and in the Biblioth. Patnem. A more complete edition, with Prolegomena, was edited by C. F. Matthaei, Lips. 1792, in 4 vols. Other exegetical works are extant in manuscript in the Vatican, on the Pauline and Catholic Epistles, also letters, a monody on the death of Eustathius of Thessalonica, and a conversation with a Saracenic Philosopher. His
great polemical work was undertaken by desire of the Emperor Alexius, it is entitled IlaNOIrXICL ris 60-o86tov .4701. So-pal-um It is divided into twenty-four sections, devoted to as many heresies and their confutation, but hitherto no complete edition of it has appeared. In the earliest edition in Latin by Zini, Venice, 1555, the 12th and 13th sections against the Pope and the Church of Rome are omitted. In the Greek edition by Tergovist in Wallachia, 1711, the 24th section against Mohammedanism is left out. The section on the Bogomiles and that against the Messalians, have been printed sepa rately. His mistakes in reference to these sects nave been pointed out by later ecclesiastical writers. (Neander, Cinerch History (Bohn), vol. viii. 278, 288. Gieseler, Lehrbuch, Band ii., Abth. ii. p. 665 ; E. T. iii. 495). On the text of the Greek Testament used by Euthymius in his work on the Gospels, Mill has some remarks in his Prolego Mena, sec. . E. R.