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

HIPPOLYTUS. HIPPOLYTUS. _ 491
many others (ypd'oPrsre efs KdcAAos) to write out a from being a V'alentinian, that Epiphanius mentions
fair transcript. But although the acquaintance of him (Panar. Haeres. xxxi. c. 33), with Irenaeus.Hippolytus with Origen is confirmed by the asser- and Clement, as having written against them. The
tion of Hippolytus himself, who stated (according Acta are so corrupt, if indeed they are not spurious,
to Jerome) that he had Origen among his'hearers that they cannot be relied on; and if the memory
when preaching, the other particulars given by of our Hippolytus (for he himself had'been long
Photius are founded on a misunderstanding of a dead) incurred'any censure at the council, it was
-passage in Jerome, who asserts that Ambrosius of probably for differing from the Roman church in
Alexandria, a Marcionite, whom Origen had con- the calculation of Easter, to which subject he had
verted, induced by the reputation which Hippoly- given great attention.
tus had acquired as a commentator, engaged Origen Several of the works of Hippolytus are enumein the exposition of Scripture, and supplied him'rated by Eusebius, Jerome, and Photius, and are
with the amanuenses already described. known by citations in ancient writers. Various
The martyrdom Of Hippolytus is not mentioned portions of them are extant, most of which were
by Eusebius; but Jerome calls him martyr (Praef. collected and published by J.-A. Fabricius, under
ad Matlhaelem); and Photius and subsequent the title of S. Hippolyti Episcopi et Martyris
writers commonly so designate him. His name is Opera, 2 vols. fol. Hamb. 1716-18. Mills, the
found in the Roman, Greek, Coptic, and Abys- editor of the N. T., had contemplated an edition of
sinian martyrologies; but the variations in the Hippolytus, and after his death his papers were
calendars are such, that we must suppose them to transmitted to Jo.. Wil. Janus, of Wittemburg,
record the martyrdom of several Hippolyti. Pru- who was also prevented by death from bringing out
dentius, a Christian poet of the earlier part of the the work. The collections of Mills and Janus confifth century, has a long poem (Liber 7repl're d- tained some pieces or fragments not included by,Oco, seu De Coronis: Hymn. ix.) on the martyrdom Fabricius; and further collections appear'to have
of Hippolytus; but this is a different person from been made by Grabe and others. The genuineness
the subject of the present article, unless we sup- of the extant writings of Hippolytus has been dispose, with "some critics, that Prudentius has con- puted. Semler doubts the genuineness of the
fused three Hippolyti, and made them' one. The whole:; and Oudin and Mills (Proleg. ad N. T,
date of the martyrdom of our Hippolytus is doubt- p. lxii.) of nearly the whole. The extant works
ful. Alexander Severus, under whom it has been and fragments were reprinted by Gallandius (Bibl.
commonly placed, was not apersecutor; and if we Patr. vol. ii. fol. Venet. 1766), who arranges
suppose, with some of the best critics, that the them -in the following order: —.'A7r'eatcLs irepl
Ex.lortatorius ad Severinam, enumerated among 7TO Xpaov Kaical'AVTYXP~Laf'U, Demonstratio de
the writings of Hippolytus, is the work noticed by C'hristo et Antichristo. This was first published by
Theodoret as addressed rpds.,BaAlba s'da, "to a Marquardus Gudius, 8vo. Paris, 1661, and was
certain queen" -or " empress," and that Severina given by Comb(efis in his Auctar. Novissim. vol. i.
was the wife of the emperor Philip the Arabian, fol. Paris, 1672, with a Latin version, which was
we must bring his death down to the persecution reprinted in the Biblioth. Patr. vol. xxvii. ed. Lyon.
of Decius (about A. D. 250), if not later; in which 1677. Mills makes this work the only exception
case Hippolytus, if a disciple of Irenaeus, who died to his judgment that the extant works of Hippoin or near A. D. 190, must have been a very old lytus are spurious: he admits that it is " perhaps"
man. The place of his martyrdom was probably genuine. The work published with a Latin version
near Rome, perhaps the mouth of the Tiber or the by Joannes Picus as a work of Hippolytus, rIepl
adjacent sea, and the mode drowning, with a stone rSsr TrvrVseias T'oO Kryov ie Kal repI Tro'ATn'round his neck. In this case he must have left Xptarov a cl irs T'V Beuv'rpav rapovuo[aev'o0 Kuthe East and come to Rome; and there may be plov isc~v'Irho'o Xpir-rov, De Consummations
some truth in the statement of Peter Damiani, Mundi et de Antichlristo, et- secundo adventu Do7nini
cardinal bishop of Ostia, near Rome, a writer of the nostri Jesu Clhristi, is pronounced by Combefis to
eleventh century (Opera, vol. iii. p. 217, Opuscul. be spurious, and as such is, in the edition of Faxix. c. 7, ed. Paris, 1743), that after converting bricius, given in an Appendix to the first vol. The
many of the Saracens (a circumstance which accords work of Hippolytus, De Antichristo, is mentioned
with the supposition that his diocese was in Arabia) by Jerome and Photius. 2. Eirs 7v'Wo'Cvvav, In
he resigned his bishopric, came from the East to S&sannam. This was also published by Combhefis,
Rome, where he suffered martyrdom by drowning, as above, with a Latin version, which was reprinted
and was buried by the pious care of his fellow- in the Biblioth. Patrum, with the foregoing. It is
Christians. In 1551 the statue of a man seated in a apparently part of the commentary on Daniel menmonastic habit, and with a' shaven crown, was dug tioned by Jerome, of which some other parts reup in the neighbourhood of Rome; some of our main. Hippolytus interprets the history of Susanna
authorities say near a church of St. Laurence, others allegorically: Susanna is a type of the church. 3.
say of St. Hippolytus (perhaps the church was dedi-'A7rO8eC'KTKC r7rpas'Iovsaeovr, Demonstratio adver,
cated to both, as their names are united in the sus Judaeos. Fabricius gave in his 1st vol. a Latin
Martyrologies): on the sides of the seat were in- version of this fragment, by Franciscus Turrianus,
scribed the Canon of Hippolytus, and a list of his which Possevinus had printed (Appar. Sac. vol. i.
works. Three plates of the statue are given in the p. 763, &c.),' and in his 2nd vol. the original Greek,
edition of the works of Hippolytus published by which Montfaucon had communicated to him. As
Fabricius. the piece appears to be a paraphrase of Psalm lxix.
In the Acta of a'council held at Rome under Fabricius suspects it is part. of Hippolytus's Compope Sylvester, A. D. 324 (Labbe, Concilia, vol. i. mentary on the Psalms. 4. rIpas "EArvasr AdJyor.
col. 1547, &c.), the deacon Hippolytus was con- This is only a fragment. Its authorship is claimed
demned for the Valentinian heresy. It is very for Hippolytus, on the authority of the inscription
doubtful if this is our Hippolytus, who was so far on his statue, where it is called nlpas "EAAipaf KX4