Baphius

Baphius (Ancient Greek: Βάφιος) was a Greek commentator on the Byzantine code of laws called the Basilika.^[1]

His date and history are uncertain, but he probably lived in the 10th or 11th century. Seventeenth-century hagiographer and historian Joseph-Marie Suarez [fr] wrote that Baphius was not strictly a proper name, but an appellative epithet given to an annotator on the Rubrics of the Basilika.^[2] Other scholars reject this opinion.^[3] Some scholars call him "Salomon Baphius", but this naming is obscure and possibly incorrect.^[4]

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Graves, John Thomas (1870). "Baphius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 459.