A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

!16 EUSEBIUS. EUSEBIUS.
Apollo, Zeus, and all other persons deified by the A.. D. 324. When Constantine visited Caesareia,
Greeks. In the course of the work Eusebius gives he offered to give Eusebius anything which would
extracts from Berosus, Sanchoniathon, Polyhistor, be beneficial to the Church there; Eusebius reCephalion, and Manetho, which materially- in- quested him to order an examination to be made
crease its value. Of this Ch1ronicon an abridge- of all documents connected with the history of
ment was found by Mai in. the Vatican library, at martyrs, so as to get a list of the times, places,
the end of a copy of Theodoret's Haereticae Fa- manner, and causes of their deaths, from the arbulae, also in two parts, to the second of which is chives of the provinces. On this the history is
added by the abbreviator, a list of bishops of the founded; and of its general trustworthiness, with
five patriarchal sees, Rome, Alexandria, Antioch, the limitation necessary from the principle of
Jerusalem, and Constantinople, together with the omission noticed above, there can be no doubt
boundaries of these patriarchates as they existed whatever. The first book consists of a discussion
in the ninth century. This has been published on our Lord's pre-existence, the prophecies reby Mai, together with a commentary on St. Luke specting Him, the purpose of His revelation,
and twenty Quaestiones Evangelicae, also by Euse- and many facts relating to His life, together with
bius, in the Scriptorusn Vaticanorunm Nova Collectio, the story of His correspondence with Abgarls or
Rome, 1825..The Quaestiones are short disquisi- Agbarus, toparch of Edessa. [ABsARUvs.] The
tions on certain points of the Gospel histories, e. g. second book begins the history of the Church after
why the evangelists give Joseph's genealogy rather our Lord's Ascension, with an account of the death
than Mary's; in what sense our Lord is said to of Pilate, the history of Simon Magus, St. Peter's
sit on David's throne, &c. The Chironicon was trans- preaching at Rome, and the various labours of other
lated into Latin by Jerome, and published by J. J. apostles and disciples. The rest of the work gives
Scaliger, Leyden, 1606, of which another enlarged an account of the principal ecclesiastical writers,
edition appeared at Amsterdam, 1658. It was I heresies, and persecutions, including the beautiful
again published at Venice, in Armenian, Greek, stories of the martyrs at Lyons and Vienne, and
and Latin, by J. Baptist Aucher, 1818. Mai and the death of Polycarp. Many accounts of different
Zohrab's edition has been. noticed above. The scenes and periods in church history had been
historical importance of their discovery is explained written before, as by HIegesippus, Papias, Irenaeus,
by Niebuhr, in his essay entitled Historischer Ge- and Clemens of Alexandria; but Eusebius was the
winn aus der Armenischen Uebersetzung der COlronik first who reduced them all into one whole, availing
des Eusebius, published in his Kleine Scrifteni. himself largely of the labours of his predecessors,
2. The Praeparotio Evangelica (edayysy-leAcjs but giving a unity and completeness to them all.
d7roertews rrporapaacrir'71) in fifteen books, in- The History was turned into Latin by Rufinus,
scribed to Theodotus, bishop of Laodiceia, is a col- though with many omissions and interpolations,
lection of various facts and quotations from old and published at Rome, 1474. The Greek text,
writers, by which it was supposed that the mind together with that of the histories of Socrates,
would be prepared to receive the' evidences of Theodoret, Sozomen, and Evagrius, appeared at
Christianity. This book is almost as important to Paris, 1549, edited by R. Stephens, and again at
us in the study of ancient philosophy, as the Chron- Geneva, 1612, with little alteration from the preicon is with reference to history, since in it are ceding edition. In this edition the text of Eusepreserved specimens from' the' writings of almost bins was that which had been published by Valeevery philosopher of any note whose works are sius at Paris, in 1659, with many emendations,
not now extant. It was translated into Latin by after a careful recension of the MSS. in the BiblioGeorge of Trebisond, and published at Treviso, thbque du Roi; and again at Amsterdam,,with
1480. This translation is said to be a very bad the other historians, in 1695. The same histories,
one, and the Greek work itself first appeared at with the remaining fragments of Theodorus and
Paris, 1544, edited by Robert Stephens, and again the Arian Philostorgius, were published at Camin 1628, also at Paris, with a Latin version, by bridge in three folio volumes, 1720. The CamF. Viger, who republished his edition at Cologne, bridge edition was furnished with notes by W.
1688. The Praeparatio Evangelica is closely con- Reading, and republished at Turin, 1746-48.
nected with another work written soon after it, viz.: More recent editions are Heinichen, in three vo3. The Demonstratio Evangelica (e6ayiyexiK) lumes, Leipzig, 1827, which contains the commen1r7S6etbE s) in twenty books, of which ten are ex- tary of Valesius and very copious notes, and
tant, is a collection of evidences, chiefly fromn the another at Oxford in 1838, by Dr. Burton, regius
Old Testament, addressed principally to the Jews. professor of divinity in that University.
This is the completion of the preceding work, The History has been translated into various
giving the arguments which the Praeparatio was languages: into English by Parker, 1703, by Caintended to-make the mind ready to receive. The ter, 1736, and by Dalrymple, 1778; into German,
two together form a treatise on the evidences of Eusebii Kirchengesch7ichte aus dem Griech. und snit
considerable ability and immense learning. The Anmercungen erlaiitert von F. A. Stroth, 1778;
Demonstratio was translated into Latin by Donatus into Italian in the Biblioctca degli A2ztori volgaof Verona, and published either at Rome or Venice rizzati, Venice, 1347; and into French by Cousin,
in 1498 and at Cologne in 1542. The Greek text Paris, 1675.
appeared with that of the Praeparatio, at Paris, in 5. De Martyribus Palaestinae (7rep! Trcy s
the editions both of R. Stephens and Viger. laAaL'rTivL apTvpIaTdCOrwv), being an account of
4. The Ecclesiastical History (cmKAscrrtao'r'c) the persecutions of Diocletian and Maximin fromn
0r'opfa), in ten books. The:work was finished A. D. 303 to 310. It is in one book, and generally
in the lifetime of Crispus, i.'e. before 326, found as'an appendix to the eighth of the Ecclesiwhom (x. 9) he commemorates as OeotnoA6svavov astical History.
Kal icaTd 7rauY'a To0 wracTpJs OtbOiOV.. The 6. Against Hierocles (Wrpss'ri t7rJd 4Aoo-'pdcro0
history terminates with the.death of Licinlus, els'AxroXAAcjvov TdP. TuavYa:&td'sV'IsposKes