Anianus

the referendarius (Dufresne, Gloss. s. v.) of Alaric the second, king of the Visigoths, and employed in that capacity to authenticate with his subscription the official copies of the Breviarium. (Dict. of Ant. s. v. Breviariumn.) In his subscription he used the words Anianus, vir spectabilis subscripsi et edidi, and it is probable that, from a misunderstanding of the word edidi, proceeded the common notion that he was the author of the Romano-Gothic code, which has thence sometimes been called Breviarium Aniani. The subscription took place at Aire (Aduris) in Gascoigne, A. D. 506. (Silberrad, ad Heinec. Hist. Jur. Germ. § 15.) Sigebert (de ecclesiasticis scriptoribus, 100.70, cited by Jac. Godefroi, Prolegomeona in Cod. Theodos. § 5) says, that Anianlus translated from Greek into Latin the work of Chrysostom upon St. Matthew; but respecting this, see the following article, No. 2. [J.T.G]

(Ἀνιανός).

1. An Egyptian monk, who lived at the beginning of the 5th century after Christ, and wrote a chronography, in which, according to Syncellus, he generally followed Eusebius, but sometimes corrected errors made by that writer. It is, however, very doubtful whether Anianus, on the whole, surpassed Eusebius in accuracy. Syncellus frequently finds fault with him. (Syncell. Chronogr. pp. 7, 6, 17, 34-36.)

2. Deacon of Celeda, in Italy, at the beginning of the 5th century, a native of Campania, was the amanuensis of Pelagius, and himself a warm Pelagian. He was present at the synod of Diospolis (A. D. 415), and wrote on the Pelagian controversy against Jerome. (Hieron. Epist. 81.) He also translated into Latin the homilies of Chrysostom on the Gospel of Matthew and on the Apostle Paul, and Chrysostom's Letters to Neophytes. Of all his works there are only extant the translations of the first eight of Chrysostom's homilies on Matthew, which are printed in Montfaucon's edition of Chrysostom. The rest of those homilies were translated by Gregorius (or Georgius) Trapezuntius, but Fabricius regards all up to the 26th as the work of Anianus, but interpolated by Gregory. (Bibl. Graec. viii. p. 552, note.) Sigebert and other writers attribute the translation of Chrysostom to the jurist Anianus, who lived under Alaric; but this is a manifest error, since the preface to the work is addressed to Orontius, who was condemned for Pelagianism in the council of Ephesus. (A. D. 431.) [P.S]