Malchus (historian)
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Malchus (
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Some scholars, among them Valesius,[1] have thought that the history of Malchus began with Leo's sickness, and that he was the continuator of Priscus, whose history is supposed to have left off at that point. Barthold Georg Niebuhr[2] supposed that this coincidence arose from Photius having met with a portion only of the work of Malchus, which had been inserted in some historical Catena after the work of Priscus; or that the history of the previous period had been given by Malchus in another work. Suidas speaks of the history in its whole extent; it may have been published in successive parts, as the author was able to finish it; and Photius possibly had met with only one part.
Photius praises the style of Malchus as a model of historical composition; pure, free from redundancy and consisting of well-selected words and phrases. He notices also his eminence as a rhetorician, and says that he was favourable to Christianity; a statement which has been thought inconsistent with the praises for Pamprepius. The works of Malchus are lost, except the portions contained in the Excerpta of Constantine VII, and some extracts in Suda.
References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Malchus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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The surviving portions of his works, in Greek and with Latin translations, can be found in the Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum of Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller, vol. 4. [1]