Domninus

(Δομνῖνος), 1. A Christian, who apostatized to Judaism in the persecution under Severus, about A. D. 200, and to whom Serapion, bishop of Antioch, addressed a treatise intended to recall him to the faith. (Euseb. Hist. Eccl. 6.12; comp. Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vii. p. 166.)

2. Of Laodiceia, in Syria, was a disciple of Syrianus, and a fellow-pupil of Proclus the Lycian, and must, therefore, have flourished about the middle of the fifth century after Christ. He appears to have been peculiarly bigoted to his own opinions, and is said to have corrupted the doctrines of Plato by mixing up with them his private notions. This called forth a treatise from Proclus, intended as a statement of the genuine principles of Platonism (Πραγματεία καθαπτικὴ τῶν δογμάτων τοῦ Πλάτωνος), a work which Fabricius, apparently by an oversight, ascribes to Domninus himself. (Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 171; Damasc. apud Said. s. v. Δομνῖνος.)

3. Of Antioch, an historian, quoted frequently in the chronicle of Joannes Malelas. Bentley thinks (Ep. ad Mill. p. 73), that he was bishop of Antioch, and wrote a history of events from the beginning of the world to the time of Justinian, to the 33d year of whose reign (A. D. 560) the chronicle of Malelas extends. (Voss. de Hist. Graec. p. 435, ed. Westermann; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 171, vii. p. 445.) [E.E]

a Graeco-Roman jurist, who probably flourished shortly before Justinian, or in the commencement of that emperor's reign. He may be the same person to whom was addressed a rescript of the emperor Zeno. (Basil. vii. p. 711, Cod. 10, tit. 3, s. 7.) He was a commentator upon the Gregorian, Hermogenian, and Theodosian Codes. (Reiz, ad Theophilum, pp. 1243, 1245.) Theodorus, a contemporary of Justinian, calls him his " very learned teacher" (Basil. vi. p. 217); but Zachariae imagines that Domninus could scarcely have been, in a literal sense, the teacher of Theodorus, who survived Justinian, and lived under Tiberius. (Zachariae, Anecdota, p. xlviii.) By Suarez (Notit. Basil. § 42), Domninus is called Leo Domninus ; but this seems to be a mistake. (Assemani, Bibl. Jur. Orient. lib. 2. c.20, p. 405.) By Nic. Comnenus Papadopoli (Praenot. Mystag. pp. 372, 402), a Domninus, Nomicus, JCtus, is quoted as having commented upon the Novellae Constitutiones of Constantinus and Leo; but the untrustworthiness of Papadopoli, in this case, is exposed by Heimbach. (Anecdota, i. p. 222).

The names Domnus and Domninus are sometimes confounded in manuscripts. They are formed from the word Dominus, and, like other words denoting title (as Patricius), became converted into family names. (Ménage, Amoen. Jur. p. 171.) A jurist Domnus is mentioned by Libanius, who addressed letters to him. (Liban. Ep. 3.277, 1124, ed. Wolff.) [J.T.G]