JOANNES, a miscellaneous Greek writer of considerable note, flourished at Constantinople about the beginning of the twelfth century. Under the emperor Alexius Comnenus, who died in 1118, he rose to the dis- tinction of being nominated great drungarios, chief secretary; but after the death of his wife, he retired to a monastery, and there closed his earthly career. His prin- cipal work is his Xeoxa, or Annals, deduced from the crea- tion of the world to the death of his imperial patron. The earlier portion of it we cannot easily suppose to be very im- portant; but that which relates to the history of the Greek empire is not without a considerable share of historical value. The editio princeps was published by Wolfius, Bas- il, 1557, 3 tom. fol. This was succeeded by the valuable edition of Du Cange, Paris, 1686, 2 tom. fol.; which was reprinted in the Venice edition of the Byzantine historians. Zonaras is well known to canonists by his work, "In Ca- nones S. S. Apostolorum et sacrorum Conciliorum Com- mentarii." Lut. Paris, 1618, fol. These commentaries are inserted in Bishop Beveridge's Pandecta. Some of his works, one in verse, may be found in other collections. See particularly Cotelerii "Ecclesiae Graecae Monumenta," tom. ii. p. 483, tom. iii. p. 465. A publication more in- teresting to philologists remains to be specified: "Jo- Zonaras et Photii Lexica, ex codicibus manuscriptis nunc pri- mum edita, observationibus illustrata, et indicibus instruc- ta." Lipsiae, 1808, 3 tom. 4to. The first two volumes contain the lexicon of Zonaras edited by Tittmann; the third volume contains that of Photius edited by Hermann. In the article Phoetus, this and another important publi- cation have both been overlooked. "Φωτιος του Παπαγεννησιου Διδαχη Συναγωγη." E codice Galeano descriptit Ricardus Porsonus." Lond. 1822, 2 part. 8vo.