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990 MAXIMUS. MAXIMUS.
Conrad Gesner, foL Zurich, 1546; and a Latin Oudin, De Scriptor. et Script. Eccles. vol. i. col.
version was given in the first edition of De la 1635, &c.; Ceillier, Auteurs Sacres, vol. xvii. p.'Bigne's Bibliotheca Patrum, fol. Paris, 1579. 10. 689, &c.; Galland, Biblioth. Patrum. Proleg. ad
HIapacrl!e~Mcrs ijss Eysvopev'is?rrJ'AE eos, K. T. h., Append. Vol. XIV. c. 10.) [J. C. M.]
Acta Disputationis, &c.;' a record of the discus- MA'XIMUS, Q. CORNE'LIUS, a Roman
sion between Pyrrhus and Maximus in the presence jurist, a contemporary of Servius Sulpicius, and the
of the patrician Gregory in Africa, already referred teacher of C. Treb'atius Testa, who was the friend of
to. It was published by Baronius, with a Latin Cicero. (Dig. 1. tit. 2. s. 2. ~ 45; Cic. ad Fam. vii.
version by Turrianus, as an appendix to the 8th 8 and 17.) He is once quoted in the Digest and by
vol. of his Annales Ecclesiastici; and reprinted Alfenus (33. tit. 7. s. 16), as having given an opifrom thence in the Concilia. 11. Epistolae, partim nion on the meaning of the word "instrumentull,"
communes, partim dogmaticae et polemicae. The in a legacy of "a vineyard and the instrumentum
other works given in the edition of Comb6fis are thereof." Servius considered that the word instrushorter and of little value, except as materials for a mentum had here no meaning. Maximus said that
history of the Monothelite controversy, to which the term included the stakes, poles, rakes, and
several of them refer. spades; which Alfenus considers to be the better
The following works of Maximus, not included opinion, and so in fact it seems to be. [G. L.]
in the collection of Combifis, have been published MA/XIMUS, CORNE'LIUS DOLABELLA.
elsewhere:-12. Fragments, incorporated in the [DOLAIELLA, No. 1.]
Catenae of the Fathers on the Sacred Books, and MA'XIMUS, DOMI'TIUS CALVI'NUS.
especially on the expository paraphrase of Solo- [CALVINUS, No. 2.]
mon's Song (Expositio. Cantici Canticorum per MA'X.IMUS, EGNA'TIUS, is mentioned by
Paraphrasin collecta ex Gregorii Nysseni, Nili, et Cicero in B. C. 45 (ad Att. xiii. 34), and the same
_[aximi Commentariis), contained in the Auctarium person is probably intended in one or two other
of Ducaeus, vol. ii. fol. Paris, 1624. 13. Schlolia passages of Cicero, where the name of Egnatius
on the works of the pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita, occurs without any surname (ad Att. xiii. 45, &c).
first published with the works of Dionysius, 8vo. The acquaintance of Cicero may perhaps be the
Paris, 1562, and repeatedly reprinted. Maximus same as the C. EGNATIUS CN. F. CN. N. MAXIMUS,
earnestly contends that these are the genuine whose name occurs on several interesting coins
works of the Areopagite converted by St. Paul. which seem to have been struck in the time of
14.'E'ryvrls KePahcauroibs srepl ToO IcaTr XpDordz' Julius Caesar, and of which three specimens are
rOdP ~eodv #siv o'`-qplov 7rdo'Xa, 7' 31aPYpacpEY given below. The head of Venus which appears
iavolvYov eipL7Jvfovua, Brevis Enarratio Christiani on the obverse of the first, and that of Cupid on
Paschatis, qua descripti Laterculi ratio declaratur, the obverse of the second, probably have reference
or Computus Ecclesiasticus. This calculation of to the descent of Julius Caesar from Venus.
Easter was drawn up by Maximus, according to An Egnatia Maximilla belonging to the family
his own declaration (pars iii. cap. 9), -in the four- of the Egnatii Maximi is mentioned in the time of
teenth indiction, in the thirty-first year of Heraclius Nero. [EGNATIA.]
(i. e. A. D. 640). Scaliger, in his'Emendatio Tenzpo2rum, lib. vii. p. 736, gave considerable extracts
from the work, and it was first published entire in
the Uranologion of Petavius, p. 313, fol. Paris,
1630. 15.'A'ropa, A mbigua sive Difficilia Loca
in Orationibus quibusdam Gregorii Nazianzeni explanata, ad Joannemn Cyzici Episcopum. These W.
"Airopa were translated into Latin by Joannes
Scotus Erigena about the middle of the ninth century; and the work itself, with the version, or
perhaps only a part of them, was edited by Thomas
Gale, with some of the works of Erigena, folio,
Oxford, 1681. It is preceded by'a letter of Maxinius to Joannes of Cyzicus. Gale also added the
following work of Maximus, 16. fHep balacop p
dc7ro'pCv Y CavY aLY r LO aveiOU KalI rpwYOpfOu, De
variis Difficilibz6s Locis Dionysii Areopagitae et
Gregorii Nazianzeni, with a Latin version by the f.
editor himself. 16. A Fragment, thought to be esl ao
from the "Arropa just mentioned (No. 15), is given
in the Appendix to the fourteenth volume of Galland's Bibliotheca Patrunz, fol. Venice, 1781. The
fragment is entitled Oecwpla av6-,rotos 7rpds ~rod
Aeyo7ras WrpovrapXetv Kal!ucOvr'dpXeLv TrCs -W~rearacV 7PaOs U t &E Animadverio B'reviSX ad eos qui COINS OF EGNATIUS MAXIMUS.
tdi-'ea,'iS 4,uxds, Animadversio brevis ad eos qui
dicernt Animas ante vel post Corpora existere. MA'XIMUS EPHE'SIUS, one of the teachers,
There are some other works of Maximus either of the emperor Julian, who is not to be conlost, or at-least unpublished, which are enumerated founded with Maximius Epirota, whose name is
by Fabricius. (Combbfis, S. Maximi Opera; likewise conspicuous among the learned friends
Phot. 1. c.; Cave, 1. c.; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. of that emperor. Maximus, the subject of this noviii. p. 430, vol. ix. pp. 599, &c., 635, &c., vol. x. tice, was a native of either Ephesus or Smyrna,
pp. 238, 736, vol. xii. p. 707; Concilia, vol. v. ed. and belonged to a rich and distinguished family.
Labbe, vol. iii. ed. Hardouin, vol. x. ed. Mansi; He early embraced the doctrine of the Pythagorean