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468 HIEROPHILUS.'HILARIO.
tion of Appuleius, and the barbarous obscurity of HIERO'THEUS ('Iepo'Oeos), the author of a;
Ammianus, to say nothing of the ecclesiastical Greek poem, consisting of 233 barbarous Iambic
writers. But the diction in which he embodied lines on alchemy, entitled Iepl Tri Odeas Kal
his own compositions, where he was called upon to'Iepds T'Xvvls, De Divina et Sacra Arte (sc. Ckrysupply the thoughts as well as the words, although sopoeia). He appears to have been a Christian,
so much vaunted by Erasmus, and in reality always but nothing more is known of him; and, with reforcible and impressive, is by no means worthy of spect to his date, it can only be said that the poem
high praise. is evidently the work of a comparatively recent
A most minute account of the editions of writer. It was published for the first time in the
Hieronymus is given by Schbnemann. (Bibliotheca second volume of Ideler's Physici et Medici Graeci
Patrum Latinorum, vol. i. c. 4. ~ 3.) It will be Minores, Berol. 1842, 8vo. [W. A. G.]
sufficient here to remark, that as early as 1467 a HIERO'THEUS ('IepdOSoe),aByzantine monk,
folio volume, containing some of his epistles and who lived probably in the beginning of the fifteenth
opuscula, was printed at Rome by Ulric Han, century, wrote a work entitled AtLiypappa, a strange
constituting one of the earliest specimens of the sort of dissertation, in which he endeavours to extypographical art. Two folio volumes were printed plain the nature of God by means of geometrical
at Rome in 1468, by Sw.eynheim and Pannartz, figures. There are several other Byzantine writers
" S. Hieronymi Tractatus et Epistolae," edited by of that name, but they are of no importance. (FaAndrew bishop of Aleria, which were reprinted in bric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xi. pp. 636, 637.) [W. P.J
1470; in the same year " Beati Ieronimi Episto- HILAEIRA ('Ihaepa), one of the fair daughters
lae," 2 vols. fol. issued from the press of Schoffer, of Leucippus of Mycenae, was carried off with her
at Mayence; and from that time forward innu- sisters by the Dioscuri. (Apollod. iii. 10. ~ 3;
merable impressions of various works poured forth comp. Ov. Fast. v. 700; Hygin. Fab. 80; Tzetz.
from all parts of Italy, Germany, and Gaul. ad Lycopl. 511.) The name occurs also as a surThe first critical edition of the collected works name of Selene. (Hesych. s. v.) [L. S.].
was that superintended by Erasmus, Bas. 9 vols. HILARIA'NUS,- MECI'LIUS or MECH~I'fol. 1516; reprinted in 1526 and 1537, the last LIUS or MECILIA'NUS. The Codex Theodobeing the best; and also at Lyons, in 8 vols. fol. sianus contains frequent notice of this magistrate,
1530. Next comes that of Marianus Victorinus, who appears to have been Corrector Lucaniae et
Rom. 9 vols. fol. 1566; reprinted at Paris in 1578, Bruttiorum under Constantine the Great, A. D. 316.
in 1608, 4 vols. and in 1643, 9 vols. An edition (12. tit. 1. s. 3), proconsul of Africa in the same
containing the notes of Erasmus and Victorinus ap- reign, A. D. 324 (12. tit. 1. s. 9), consul with Paca-:
peared at Francfort and Leipsic, 12 vols. fol. 1684, tianus, A. D. 332, and praefectus praetorio, or, as
succeeded by the famous Benedictine edition, Par. Gothofredus thinks, praefectus urbi, sc. Romae,
5 vols. fol. 1693-1706, carried as far as the end of under the sons of Constantine, A. D. 339 (6. tit. 4.
the first volume by Pouget, and continued after his s. 3, 4, 7). An Hilarian appears, but without any'
death by Martianay, which is, however, superseded note of his office, in a law of A. D. 341. This is:
by the last and best of all, that of Vallarsi, V-eron. probably Mecilius Hilarian; but the Hilarianus or
11 vols. fol. 1734-1742; reprinted, with some im- Hilarius (if indeed he be one person) who appears
provements, Venet. 11 vols. 4to. 1766. [W. R.] in the laws of the time of Gratian and Valentinian
HIERO'PHILUS ('IepdqhAos), a name which II., and of Honorius, as praefectus urbi, A. D. 383,
has been supposed by Marx (De Herophili Vita, and as praefectus praetorio, A. D. 396, must have
&c. pp. 7, 13) and others to be a corruption of been a different person. Perhaps the last is the
Herophilus, but probably-without sufficient reason. Hilarius mentioned by Symmachus. (Symmachus,
1. A physician at Athens, whose lectures were Epist. lib. ii. 80, iii. 38, 42, ed. Paris, 1604; Go,
attended bf;-igAnodice disguised in male attire. If thofred. Prosop. Cod. Theodos.) [J. C. M.]
the story is not wholly apocryphal (for it rests only HILA'RIO, or HILARIA NUS, Q. JU'LIUS,
on the authority of Hyginus, Fab. 274), Hierophi- an ecclesiastical writer belonging to the close of
lus may be conjectured to have lived in the fifth or the fourth century, of whose history we know nosixth century B. c. Some of the reasons which thing since his works convey no information upoar
render it unlikely that Herophilus is the true read- the subject, and he is not mentioned by any aning in this passage of Hyginus, are given in the cient authority whatever, Two works bear his
article AGNODICE. name,
2. The author of a short Greek medical treatise, 1. Expositum de Die Paschae et IAensis, on the
entitled'ISepoptAov Zocplr-TOV repl TpopBcv KKicAos' determination of Easter, finished, as we are told in
7roiiq af XpaeOBaL EKWEOTV El1, Kal drofoes dws'Xeo- the concluding paragraph, on the fifth of March,
Oat, Hiierophili Sophistae de A2limentis Circulzs; A. D. 397. It was first published from a MS. in
quibusnam uti, et a qaeibesnan abstinere oporteat. the Royal Library at Turin, by C. M. Pfaff, and
This was for some time, while still in MS., sup- attached to the edition of the Divine Institutions of
posed to be the work of Herophilus, but as soon Lactantius, printed at Paris in 1712. It will be
as it was examined and published, it plainly ap found under its most correct form in the Bibliotheca
peared to belong to some late writer of the eleventh Patrum of Galland, vol. viii. Append, ii. p. 745
or twelfth century after Christ, It contains diet- Venet. fol. 1172.
etical directions for every month in the year, and 2. De Alundi Duratione, or, according to a
is full of words unknown to the older Greek Vienna MS., De CursZ Temporum, composed, as
writers. It was first published by Boissonade in we learn from the commencement, after the piece
the eleventh volume of the Notices et Extraits des noticed above. It was first published by Pithou.Manuserits de la Biblioth. du Roi (Paris, 1827), in the appendix to the Bibliotheca Patrunm, printed
p. 178, &c.; and is inserted in the first volume of at Paris in 1579. It was inserted also in the subs
-Ideler's Physici et Medici Graeci Minores, Berol. sequent edition of the same collection, in many
1841. 8vo. [W. A. G. similar compilations, and appears under its best