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

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VII. Plhagetica,-Plagesia, Hedypaqygetica. These the different portions, but to have made consideraand many other titles have-been assigned to a work ble additions to the relics previously discovered.
upon edible fishes, which Ennius may perhaps have The: new verses were gathered chiefly from a work
translated from Archestratus. [ARCHESTRATUS.] by L. Calpurnius Piso, a contemporary of the
Eleven lines in dactylic hexameters have been younger Pliny, bearing the title De Continentia
preserved by Apuleius exhibiting a mere. catalogue Veterum Poetarum ad Trajanum Prineipem, a MS.
of names and localities. They are given, with of which Merula tells us that he examined hastily
some preliminary remarks, in Wernsdorf's Poet. in the library of St. Victor at Paris, accompanying
Lat. Min. vol. i. pp. 157 and 187. See also this statement with an inexplicable and most susApuleius, Apolog. p. 299 ed. Elmenh.; P. Pith- picious remark, that he was afraid the volume
oeus, Epigramm. vet. iv. fin.; Parrhas. Epoist.. 65; would be stolen. It is certain that this codex. if
Trillerus, Observatt. crit. i. 14; Scaliger Catalect. it ever existed, has long since disappeared, and the
vet.poet. p. 215; Turneb. Advers. xxi. 21; Salinas. lines in question are regarded with well-merited
ad-Solin. p.. 794, ed.. Traj.; Burmann, Anthol. Lat. suspicion. (Niebuhr, Lectures on Roman History,
iii. 135; Fabric. Bibl. Loat. lib. iv. c. 1. ~ 7. edited by Dr. Schmitz, Introd. p..35; Hoch, De
VIII. Epigrammata. Under this head we have Ennianorumn Annalium Fragmentis a P. Merula
two short epitaphs-upon Scipio Africanus, and one auctis, Bonn, 1839.)
upon Ennius himself, the whole in elegiac verse, The Annales from the text of Merula were reextending collectively to ten lines. printed, but not very accurately, with some trifling
IX. Protreptica. The title seems to indicate additions, and with the fragments of the Punic
that this was a collection of precepts exhorting the war of Naevius, by E. S. (Ernst Spangenberg),
reader to the practice of virtue. We cannot, how- 8vo. Lips. 1825.
ever, tell much about it nor even discover whether The fragments of the tragedies were carefully
it was written in prose or verse, since one word collected and examined by M. A. Delrio in his
only is known to us, namely pannibus quoted by Syntagma Tragoediae Latinae, vol., i. Antv. 4to,
Charisius. 1593; reprinted at Paris in 1607 and 1619: they. X. P~raecepta. Very probably the same with the will be found also in the Collectanea veterum Tragipreceding. From the remains of three lines in corum of Scriverius, to which are appended the
Priscian:we conclude that it was composed in emendations and notes of G. J. Vossius, Lug. Bat.
iambic trimeters. 8vo, 1620. The fragments of both the tragedies
XI. Sabinae. Angelo Mai in a note on Cic. De and -comedies are -contained in Bothe, Poetarum
Rep. ii. 8, gives a few words in prose from Latii scenicorum fryagmenta, Halberst. 8vo. 1823.
" Ennius in Sabinis " without informing us where The fragments of the Medea, with a dissertation
he found them. Columna has pointed out that in on the origin and nature of Roman tragedy, were
Macrobius, Sat. vi. 5, we ought to read " Ennius published by H. Planck, Gitting. 4to. 1806, and
in libro Satirarum quarto " instead of Sabinarum the fragments of the Medea and of the Hecuba,
as it stands in the received text. compared with the plays of Euripides bearing the
XIL. Euhemerus, a'translation into Latin same names, are contained in the Analecta Critica
prose of the'Tpa cdvaypdtpq of Euhemerus [Eu- Poesis Romanorurn scenicae reliquias illustrantia of
HEMERUS.], Several short extracts are contained Osann, Berolin. 8vo. 1816.
in Lactantius, and a single word in the De Re (See the prefaces and prolegomena to the editions
Rustica of Varro. of the collected fragments by Hesselius, and of the
Censorinus (c. 19) tells us, that according to annals by E. S. where the whole of the ancient
Ennius the year consisted of 366 days, and hence authorities for the biography of Ennius are quoted
it has been conjectured that he was the author of at full length; Caspar Sagittarius, Comnmentatio de
some astronomical treatise. But an expression of vita et scriptisLivii Andronici, Naevii, Ennii, Caecilii
this sort may have been dropped incidentally, and Statii, &c., Altenburg. 8vo. 1672; G. F. de Franckis not sufficient to justify such a supposition with- enau, Dissertatio de Morbo Q. Ennii, Witt. 4to.
out further evidence. -1694; Domen. d'Angelis, delta patria d'Ennio
The first general collection of the fragments of dissertazione, Rom. 8vo. 1701, Nap. 8vo. 1712;
Ennius is that contained in the " Fragmenta ve- Henningius Forelius, De Ennio diatribe, Upsal.
terum Poetarum Latinorum" byRobert and Henry 8vo. 1707; W. F. Kreidmannus, de Q. Ennio
Stephens, Paris, 8vo. 1564. It is. exceedingly im- Oratio, Jen. 4to. 1754; Cr. Cramerus, Dissertatio
perfect and does not include any portion of the sistens Horatii de Ennio effatum, Jen. 4to. 1755;
Euhemerus, which being in prose was excluded C. G. Kuestner Clerestomathia juris Enniani, &c.,
from the plan. Lips. 8vo. 1762.) [W. R.]
Much more complete and accurate are "Q. Ennii ENNO'DIUS, MAGNUS FELIX, was born
poetae vetustissimi, quae supersunt, fragmenta," at Arles about A. D. 476, of a very illustrious
collected, arranged, and expounded, by Hieronymus family, which numbered among its- members and
Columna, Neapol. 4to. 1590, reprinted with consi- connexions many of the most illustrious personages
derable additions, comprising the commentaries of of that epoch. Having been despoiled while yet a
Delrio and G. J. Voss, by Hesselius, professor of boy of all his patrimony by' the Visigoths, he was
history and eloquence at Rotterdam, Amstel. 4to. educated at Milan by an aunt, upon whose death
1707. This must be considered as the best edition he found himself at the age of sixteen again reof the collected fragments which has yet appeared. duced to total: destitution. From this unhappy
Five years after Columna's edition a new position he was extricated by a wealthy marriage,
edition of the Annales was published at Leyden but having been -prevailed upon by St. Epiphanius
(4to. 1595) by Paullus Merula, a Dutch lawyer, -to renounce the pleasures of the world, he received
who professed not only to have greatly purified ordination as a deacon, and induced his wife to
the text, and to have introduced many important enter a convent. His labours in the service of the
corrections in the arrangement and distribution of Church were so conspicuous that he was chosen
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