MARCELLINUS.
COunt Marcellinus wrote a Continuation of the Chronicon of St. Jerom unto the Year 535 for what follows in the Chronicon under his Name is another Authors, as appears by the Preface. He wrote * 1.1 also four Books of Geography which are mention'd by Cassiodorus. He would not deserve to be rank'd among Ecclesiastical Writers, if he had not in his Chronicon wrote some things which concern the Histo∣ry of the Church. These following Particulars are the principal things in it; The Ordination of St. Gregory Nazianzen; the Councils of Constantinople, of Ephesus, of Chalcedon; The Death and Elogy of St. Jerom, the Bishops of Rome and Constantinople; The Banishment and Deposition of St. John Chrysostom, the Percecution of the Christians in Persia, the Discovery of the Head of St. John Baptist, the Persecution of the Christians in Afric, the Division of the Eastern and Western Churches, the Tumults in the Church of Constantinople for this Form of Faith, One Person of the Trinity suffer'd, and some other particular Remarks.
It was first publish'd by Sconhovius, containing only the Chronicon continued to 535; the follow∣ing part of it was publish'd by Pemvinius, as if it had been Marcellinus's without any Note of distin∣ction. Besides this Edition of Sch••••hovius, this Chronicon was publish'd at Paris 1546, in Octavo, and 1575, at Heidelberg 1588. and at the end of Eusebius's Chronicon at Leyden, 1606. and Amster∣dam 1658. At last Sirmondus publish'd both the Chronicon more correct, and a much larger Appen∣dix of an ancient Writer, from a very old Manuscript at Paris 1619, in Octavo, from whence it was taken, and inserted into the Bibliotheque of the Fathers, Tom. 9. p. 517. Marcellinus wrote al∣so, as Cassiodorus testifies, chap. 17, 25. of Divine Learning, two Books of the Qualities of Times, and Positions of Places, and as many more of the Cities of Constantinople and Jerusalem: But both these Works are lost. Cave Hist. Lit. p. 406.