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

492 HIPPOLYTUS..HIPPOLYTUS.
Wrpas IlAas' m q Ka 7reIpl'TO WravW5s. It was pub- of the Commentary of Hippolytus.on Genesis, published by Hoeschelius in his notes to Photius, and lished by Fabricius, from an Arabic Catena, in
by Le Moyne in his Varia Sacra, as well as by Fa- Syriac characters, from a MS. in the Bodleian
bricius. It appears to be the work described by Pho- Library, with a Latin version by Gagnier, is retius, under the title rIepI ro0 lrao'ds, or Thpl orTjs jected by Gallandius as not belonging to the subject
roV 7rawv' s aciarS, or QravrsE o0liGas. Its authorship of this article; and the short pieces, EPIIpl Tcv l'
was in his time very doubtful. At the head of his.dwroordA'Jw, De-Duodecim Apostolis, and Ilepl rdt,
Codex (No. 48) it was called a work of Josephus; o' dcrooTrAov, De Septuaginta Apostolis, given by
but he says it was variously ascribed to Justin Fabricius in the appendix to his first volume, are
Martyr, Irenaeus, and Caius, to which last he either of doubtful genuineness or confessedly
himself attributes it. The genuineness of this spurious.
fragment is admitted by Oudin. 5. Eizs T)v aipEotv Theje were several other works of Hippolytus
Noe'rou wrLVS, Contra Haeresin Noeti. This is enumerated by Jerome and other ancient writers
probably the concluding portion of his work npds now lost. (Euseb. H. E. vi. 20, 22, 23; and
drdo-ata Tr's aCpe'tELs, Adversus omnes IIaereses, Chronic. lib. ii.; Hieronym. De Viris Illust. c. 61;
mentioned by Eusebius and Jerome, and described Phot. Bibl. Cod. 48, 121, 202; Chron. Paschal,
by Photius as directed against thirty-two heresies, p. 6, ed. Paris, vol. i. p. 12, ed. Bonn; Le Moync,
beginning with the Dositheans, and ending with Diatribe de Hippolyto in the Prolegomena to his
Noetus, the contemporary of Hippolytus. 6. KaTc' Varia Sacra; Baron. Annal. ad ann. 229, iv.;
Bpcpwvos Kal VHALcos Trc aPETrIKW' 7rWEpl eoAoyTfa Tillemont,.Mm. vol. iii. p. 238, &c.; Lardner,
Kal orapc6Jaews, Dl)e Theologia et Incarnatione contra Credibility, &c., pt. ii. c. 35; Oudin, Comment. de
Beroneza et Heliconem (s. Helicem) haereticos. The Scriptor. Eccles. vol. i. p. 220, &c.; Basnage,
eight fragments given by Gallandius of this work, Animadversiones de S. Hippolyto, prefixed to his ediwhich is perhaps another portion of the work tion of Canisius, Let. Antiq.; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol.
against heresies, are preserved by Nicephorus of Con- vii. p. 183, &c., and Proleg. and Notes to his edit.
stantinople, in his Antirrhetica contra Iconomachos, of Hippolytus; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. i. p. 102, &c.
and were first published in a Latin version in the ed. Oxon, 1740-1743; Galland. Bibl. Patrem,
Lectiones Antiquae of Canisius, vol. v. p. 154 (4to. vol. ii. Prolegom. c. xviii.)
Ingolstadt, 1604), and in Greek by Sirmond, in his 2. Jerome mentions an Hippolytus whom (acCollectanea Anastasii Bibliothecarii, 8vo. Paris, cording to the common but perhaps a corrupt read1620. These pieces form the pars prima of the ing) he designates'a Roman senator, among the
writings of Hippolytus given by Gallandius.. writers who defended Christianity against the
The second part contains the following works: Gentiles. There is much difference of opinion
7. Fragmenta ex Commentario in Genesin, printed among critics as to the person meant. Some sup-by Fabricius from a MS. in the Imperial Library at pose that the bishop of the Portus Romanus (No. 1)
Vienna. 8. Fragmenta ex Commentariis in varios is intended, and that Jerome has converted him from
Sacrsae Scriptsurae Libros, viz. in Heiaemeron, in a bishop into a senator. Fabricius suggests that the
Genesis, in Numeros, in Psalmos, in Psalm II., in senator may be one of two Hippolyti recorded in
Psalmn XXIII., in Proverbia, in Canticum Canti- the Martyrologies as suffering in the persecution
corsum, in Isaiam, in Danielean, and in Canticum under Valerian. (Hieron. Epist. 83 (olim 84) ad
Tsizm Puerorum. These fragments were collected Magnum; Opera, vol. iv. pars ii. col. 656, ed.
by Fabricius from MSS. or from the citations of Benedictin. Paris, fol. 1693, &c.; Fabric. Bibl. Gr.
ancient writers.. The expository writings of Hip- vol. vii. p. 198.]
polytus are mentioned by Eusebius and Jerome, 3. Of THEBES, a writer of the tenth or eleventh
from whom we learn that he wrote several other centuries, of whose personal history nothing is
expositions besides those mentioned above. 10. known, and whose date can only be approximately
F?~agmenta alia, from the work Adversus Haereses, given. In his principal work, his Chronicle, he
from the work IIepi ToO ciyiov HlndoXa, De Sancto cites Symeon Metaphrastes, whom he calls, as if
Paseha, mentioned by Eusebius and Jerome; and speaking of a contemporary, o KJpLOS 1 vtEwJY; but
from the rlpos.Baathgia rtYa elr=ToAh, Epistola the age of Symeon himself (fixed by some in the
ad quamdam Reginam, which is thought to be the 10th century, by others in the 12th) is too doubtful
npoTpe7rTlaSr 7rpas:egpevyaY, Eaxlhortatorius ad to afford much aid in determining that of HippoSeverinam, of the inscription on the statue. 11. lytus. Hippolytus is quoted by Michael Glykas,
fIepI Xapiudr'Wv caroTroAhlcl 7rapd3borL, De Ckharis- a writer of the middle of the twelfth century, and
matibus Apostolica traditio, and some extracts from who confounds, as do some moderns, Hippolytus of
the Constitutiones Apostolicae, lib. viii. The author- Thebes with Hippolytus of Portus Romanus (Anship of these pieces is claimed for Hippolytus on nales, pars iii. p. 227, ed. Paris, p. 423, ed. Bonn),
the authority of the inscription on his statue, and and by Nicephorus Callisti, who died A. D. 1327.
of some MSS. 12. Narratio de Virgine Corin- (H. E. ii. 3.)
thiaca et de quodam MlIagistriano, from Palladius The principal work of Hippolytus is his Clhro(Hist. Lausiac. c. 148). 13. Canon Paschalis, or nicon,'Irr7roAvtov ~rnatiov XpOVIKcd6 46PraTy.Ya (or
Table for Calculating Easter, together with a cata- /v'yypa,.!Aa). A Latin version of a fragment of
logue of the works of Hippolytus, from the inscrip- this was published by Joannes Sambucus, 8vo.
tion on the statue. The Paschal Cycle of Hippo- Padua, 1556, under the title of Libellus de Ortu et
lytus was of sixteen years. The table appears to Cognatione Vibyinis Mariae; and a part in Greek,
have been part of his work Isp1I ToD IIc(dXa, men- with a Latin version, was given in the third volume
tioned by Eusebius, and of which an extract is of the Lectiones Antiquae of Canisius. Various
given among the Fragmenta mentioned in No. 10. fragments were given in the Commentarii de Biblioth.
The canon of Hippolytus has been illustrated by Caesar. of Lambecius; and some others were added
the labours of Joseph Scaliger, Dionysius Petavius, by Emanuel Schelstratenus in his Antiquitat. EcFranciscus Blanchinius, and others. The fragment clesiae llustratis, fol. Rome, 1692, in which he