A new history of ecclesiastical writers containing an account of the authors of the several books of the Old and New Testament, of the lives and writings of the primitive fathers, an abridgement and catalogue of their works ... also a compendious history of the councils, with chronological tables of the whole / written in French by Lewis Ellies du Pin.

IDACIUS.

IDacius of Lan••ecum in Gall••••ia, Bishop of Augusti-Lucus a 1.1 the Metropolis of the same Province, hath made a Chronicle, in which he continues St. Jeromes to his own time. It begin•• at the * 1.2 first Year of Theodos••us the Great, and ends at the Eleventh Year of the Reign of Le••, and contains the History, or rather a Chronicle of 86 Years, from the Year 381, to 467. To the Year 437 it is made up of the Writings and Histories of others, but from that time of his own ob∣servations. In this Chronicle he sets down the most considerable Events of the Empire, the Years, and Alterations of the Emperors, the Names and Years of the Popedom of the Bishop of Rome, and part•…•…larly the Eccles••astical and Profane History of his own Country. He makes use of three Epoch••'s; The first is of the Years of the World according to Eusebius; the Second is the Spanish Aera▪ which begins 37 Years before the Nativity of Christ, and the last is of the Olmpiads, which he brings lower than Socrates, who makes them to end in 440. We may see there the Years of the Em∣p••••••••s▪ This Chronicle is in a rough and barbarous stile but easie enough to be understood. Cana∣•…•…▪ and Scaliger had Printed some fragments of it, but F. Sirmondus hath Published it entire in 1619, [〈◊〉〈◊〉 at Parit] out of a MS. in the Jesuits Library of the College of Clermont, which came from 〈◊〉〈◊〉. It had been already Printed at Rome before him, since 'tis inserted in Eusebius's Chronicon.

〈◊〉〈◊〉. Sirmondus found in the same MS a very exact Computation of Years by the Consuls, which begins with the Year 269, and ends at 423. It is thought to belong to the same Idacius, not only because it is in the same MS, but because they are very like to one another in style and Chronology. F. Labbe hath also Published the same since, under the name of Idacius, but much enlarged; for they begin at the Consulship of Brutus and Collatinus, which was in the 245 Year from the builing of Ro••••, and ends in the second Consulship of Anthemius, that is to say, at the Year 468, where also 〈◊〉〈◊〉's Chronicle ends. [Both are extant in Biblioth. Patr. Tom. VII.]

Notes

• a 1.1

  Of Augusti-Lueus.] He observes in the Preface, that he was bo••n ex Leonicâ Civitate, and was Bishop in ••••llicia, and says likewise, That he was preferred to t•…•… dignity in the third year of Val••••tinian III. but doth not tell us of what City. They who speak of him, have supposed that he was Bishop of the same City where he was born, but what he notes upon the 310 Olympiad, that he was taken in the Church, which he had called aquae Flaviensis, when Augusti-Lucus was pillaged, shews, that he was Bi∣shop of that City, for Aquae Fl••viae, is not a Bisho∣prick but a Church subject to Augusti-Lucus. Saint Leo speaks of this Bishop in his Letter to Turribius, or rather to the Synod of Gallicia, heretofore the 93, now the 15th; and he gives him an Answer in the following Letter.
• * 1.2

  alias Hida∣tius.