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

464 HIERONYMUS. HIERONYMUS.
Ordo Veterum - Ordo Editionls
A.D. Editionum. Ordo Editionis Vallarsianae Benedictinae.
420-Desideratur CXLIV. Augustini ad Optatum de Hieronymo Desideratur.
Incert. 35 CXLV. Ad Exsuperantium.. 99
Incert. 85 CXLVI. Ad Evangelum... 101
Incert. 48 CXLVII. Ad Sabinianu n. 103
Falso adscriptae
14 CXLVIII. Ad Celantiam. 109
Inedita CXLIX. De solennitatibus Paschae. Inedita.
Non habetur CL. Procopii, Graece et Latine.. Ultima absque numero.
tical doctrines of the Gnostic Basilides, but hli
VOL. II. PAR. 1 chief crime seems to have been an attempt to check
II. OPUSCULA s. TRACTATUS. These in the superstitious observances, and to resist the encroacholder editions are mixed up at random with the ing spirit of monachism (Milman, History of Chrisepistles. Erasmus, Victorinus, and the Benedic- tianity, vol. iii. p. 332), which was now seeking to
tines, although not agreeing with each other, have tyrannise over the whole church. Written about
sought to establish some sort of order, by attaching A. D. 393. (Ed. Bened. vol. iv. p. ii. p. 144.
the tracts to such epistles as treat of ikindred sub- These editors have subjoined, p. 229, the epistle of
jects, but unfortunately this is practicable to a Jerome, entitled Apoloyeticus ad Pammachiumr pro.
very limited extent only. Vallarsi has merely col- Libris adversus Jovinianusn.)
lected them together, without attempting any regu- 10. Contra Vigilantium Liber. The alleged helar classification. resies of Vigilantius were of the same character.
1. Vita S. Pauliprimi Eremitae, who at the age with those of Jovinianus; in particular, he denied
of sixteen fled to the deserts of the. Thebaid to that the relics of martyrs ought to be regarded as
avoid the persecutions of Decius and Valerian, and objects of worship, or that vigils ought to be kept.
lived in solitude for ninety-eight years. Written at their tombs. Written about A. D. 406. (Ed.
about A. D. 375, while Jerome was in the desert of Bened. vol. iv. p. ii. p. 280.)
Chalcis. (Ed. Bened. vol. iv. p. ii. p. 68.) 11. Contra Joannem Hierosolymitanumn. John,
2. Vita S. Hilarionis Eremitae, a monk of Pa- bishop of Jerusalem, was accused of having adopted.
lestine, a disciple of the great St. Anthony. some of the views of Origen. Written about A. D.
Written about A. D. 390. (Ed. Bened. vol. iv. 399. (Ed. Bened. vol. iv. p. ii. p. 336, where it
p. ii. p. 74.) is considered as an Fpistola ad Pammacium, and
3. Vita Malcii Monachi captivi. Belonging to numbered xxxviii. of the series.)
the same period as the preceding. A certain So- 12. Apologetici adversus Rufinum Libri III. See.
phronius, commemorated in the De Viris Illustribus RUFINUS. Written about A. D. 402. (Ed. Bened.
(c. 134) wrote a Greek translation, now lost, of the vol. iv. p. ii. p. 349.)
lives of St. Hilario and St. Malchus, a strong
proof of the estimation in which the biographies VOL. II. PAR. 2.
were held at the time they were composed. (Ed. 13. Dialogi contra Pelagianos, in three books.
Bened. vol. iv. p. ii. p. 90.) See PELAGIUS. Written about A. D. 415. (Ed.
4. Regula S. Pachomii, the founder of Egyptian Bened. vol. iv. p. ii. p. 483.)
monasticism. Written originally in Syriac, trans- 14. De Viris llustribus s. De Scriptoribus Eclated from Syrian into Greek by some unknown clesiasticis (see Epist. cxii.), a series of 135 short
hand, and translated from Greek into Latin by sketches of the lives and writings of the most disJerome about A. D. 405, after the death of Paula. tinguished advocates of Christianity, beginning
5. S. Pachomii et S. Tiheodorici Epistolae et with the apostles Peter and James, the brother (orVerba Mystica. An appendix to the foregoing. cousin) of our Lord, and ending with Hieronymus
6. Didymi de Spiritu Sancto Liber III. This himself, who gives a few particulars with regard to
translation from the Greek was commenced at his own life, and subjoins a catalogue of the works
Rome in 382, at the request of Damasus, but not which he had published at the date when this tract
finished until 384, at Jerusalem. See Praef. and was concluded, in the fourteenth year, namely, of
Ep. xxxvi. (Ed. Bened. vol. iv. p. i. App. p. Theodosius, or A. D. 392. The importance of these493.) biographies, as materials towards a history of the
7. Altercatio Luciferiani et Orthodoxi. The church, has always been acknowledged, and can
followers of Lucifer of Cagliari (LUCIFER] main- scarcely be overrated, since they form the only
tained that the Arian bishops, when received into source of accurate information with regard to many
the church, after an acknowledgment of error, persons and many books connected with the early
ought not to retain their rank, and that the baptism history of Christianity. A Greek version was
administered by them while they adhered to their printed for the first time by Erasmus, professing to
heresy was null and void. Written at Antioch be taken from an ancient MS., and to have been
about A. D. 378. (Ed. Bened. vol. iv. p. ii. p. executed by a certain Sophronius, who is com289.) monly supposed to be the same with the individual
8. Adversus Helvidium Liber. A controversial of that name mentioned in the De Viris Illustribus
tract on the perpetual virginity of the mother of (c. 134), but certain barbarisms in style, and errors
God, against a certain Helvidius, who held that in translation, have induced many critics to assign
Mary had borne children after the birth of our a much later date to the piece, and have even led
Saviour. Written at Rome about A. D. 382. (Ed.. some, among whom is Vossius, to imagine that ErasBened. vol. iv. p. ii. p. 130.) mus was, either imposed upon himself or wilfully
9. Adversus Jovinianum Libri II. Jovinianus sought to palm a forgery upon the literary world.
was accused of having revived many of the here- (Fabric. Bibl. Grace. lib. v. c. 16.)