(David), a Greek historian, a native, as some relate, of Paphlagonia, who lived about the end of the 9th century. He wrote *The Life of St Ignatius*, patriarch of Constantinople, which was translated into Latin by Frederic Mutius, bishop of Termoli; he composed also several panegyrics in honour of the apostles and other saints, which are inserted in the last continuation of the *Bibliotheca Patrum* by Combolisi.

(surnamed Serron), deacon of the church of Constantinople, contemporary with Theophylact in the 11th century, and afterwards bishop of Heraclea, wrote a *Catena upon the book of Job*, compiled from passages of several of the fathers, which was printed at London in folio, 1637. We have also, by the same writer, several *catenae* upon the Psalms and Canticles, Basil 1552; together with a Commentary on the poems of Gregory Nazianzen.

(Arhomnates), a Greek historian of the 13th century, called *Coniates*, as being born at Chone, or Colossus, in Phrygia. He was employed in several considerable affairs at the court of Constantinople; and when that city was taken by the French in 1204, he withdrew, with a young girl taken from the enemy, to Nice in Bithynia, where he married his captive, and died in 1206. He wrote a History, or Annals, from the death of Alexius Comnenus in the year 1118, to that of Baldwin II 1205; of which work we have a Latin translation by Jerome Wolfius, printed at Basil in 1557; and it has been inserted in the body of the Byzantine Historians, printed in France at the Louvre.