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512 HOMERUS. H ONORATIJS.
8vo. This edition was reprinted at Glasgow, with He was one of the seven poets who formed the
WVolf's Prolegomena, in 1814, and again at Leipzig tragic Peilad. The number of his dramas is differin 1824. ently stated at 45, 47, and 57. His statue stood
A new period began with Wolf's second edition in the gymnasium of Zeiuxippus at Byzantium.
(Homeri et Homeridtarum Op. et Rel. Halis, 1794), His poems are entirely lost, with the exception of
the first edition (1784 and ]785) being merely a one title, Eurypyleia. (Suid. s. vv."QOuapos, Mvw';
copy of the vulgate. Along with the second edition Tzetz. COhil. xii. 209, ad Lycophr. p. 264, ed. Millwere published the Prolegomena. A third edition ler; Diog. Lairt. ix. 113; Christodor. Ecphrlasis,
was published from 1804-1807. It is very much 407-413, ap. Brunck. A.1al. vol. ii. p. 471;
to be regretted that the editions of Wolf are with- Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 307; Welcker, die
out commentaries or critical notes, so that it is im- G(riech. Tragid. pp. 1251-2.)
possible to know in many cases on what grounds 2. A grammarian, surnamed Sellius, who wrote
he adopted his readings, which differ from the vul- hymns and sportive and other poems, and in prose
gate. Heyne began in 1802 to publish the Iliad, IrEpl NorCwz Kcwlcc irpooa$rtWoY, and summaries (rewhich was finished in eight volumes, and was most pioXds) of the comedies of Menander. (Suid.
severely and unsparingly reviewed by Wolf, Voss, s. vv. "Olsnpos and iA~hhos; Fabric. Bibl. Graec.
and Eichstfadt, in the Jenaer Literatur Zeitung, vol. ii. p. 451.) [P. S.]
1803. A ninth volume, containing the Indices, HOMOLOEUS ('OuoAowe6s), a son of Amphion,
was published by Grifenhan in 1822. A curious from whom the Homoloian gate of Thebes was beand most ridiculous attempt was made by Payne lieved to have derived its name. (Schol. ad Eurip.
Knight, who published (London, 1820) the Ho- Phoen. 1126.) Others, however, derived the name
meric text cleared of all interpolations, so far at of the gate from the hill Homole, or from Homolois,
least as his judgment reached, and well crammed a daughter of Niobe. (Paus. ix. 8. ~ 3; Schol.
(by way of compensation) with digammas, it being ad Eurip. I. c.; Tzetz, ad Lycoph. 520.) [L. S.]
the intention of the editor to restore the genuine HONOR or HONOS, the personification of hospelling. This edition is a palpable confirmation nour at Rome. After the battle of Clastidium in
of the fact, that to restore the edition of Aristarchus Cisalpine Gaul, Marcellus vowed a temple, which
is all which modern critics can attempt to achieve. was to belong to Honor and Virtus in common;
The best recension of the text is that by I. Bekker, but as the pontiffs refused to consecrate one temple
Berlin, 1843. A very good edition of the Iliad, to two divinities, two temples, one of Honor and
with critical notes, was published by Spitzner, the other of Virtus, were built close together. (Liv.
Gotha, 1832-1836, but the author did not live xxvii. 25; Val. Max. i. 1. ~ 8.) C. Marius also
to publish his explanatory commentary. There is built a temple to Honor, after his victory over the
an excellent commentary to the two first books of Cimbri and Teutones (Vitruv. vii. Praef.; Serv.
the Iliad by Freytag, Petersburgh, 1837; but the ad Aen. i. 12); and, in addition to these, we may
best of all commentaries which have yet appeared mention an altar of Honor, which was situated outon the Homeric poems are those of Nitzsch on the side the Colline gate, and was more ancient than
Odyssey, Hannov. 1825, &c., of which the three either of the other temples. (Cic. de Leg. ii. 23.)
volumes now published extend only as far as the Persons sacrificing to him were obliged to have their
twelfth book. The most valuable of the separate heads uncovered. (Plut. Quaest. Rom. 13.) Honor is
editions of the Hymns are those by Ilgen, Hal., represented, especially on medals and coins, as a
1791, and Hermann, Lips. 1806. The Lexicon male figure in armour, and standing on a globe, or
Novum IHomericum (et Pindaricum) of Damm, ori- with the cornucopia in his left and a spear in his
ginally published at Berlin in 1765, and reprinted, right hand. (Hirt. Myt/sol. Bilderb. ii. p. 111.) It
London, 1827, is still of some value, though the should be observed that St. Augustin (de Civ. Dei,
author was destitute of all sound principles of iv. 21) calls the god Honorinus. [L. S.]
criticism; but a far more important work for the HONORA'TUS, bishop of Marseilles about the
student is Buttmann's Lexilogts, Berlin, 1] 825 and close of the fifth century, is generally considered
1837, translated by Fishlake, Lond. 1840, 2nd to be the author of the Vita S. Iitilarii Arelatensis,
edition. printed by Barralis in the Chronologia Sanctae InHomer has been translated into almost all the sulae Lerinensis, p. 103, and by Surius under 5th
modern European languages. Of these translations May. The piece in question is, however, ascribed
the German one by Voss is the best reproduction in the Arles MS. to a certain Reverentius or Raof the great original: the English translations by vennius, the successor of Hilarius in his episcopal
Chapman, Pope, and Cowper must be regarded as chair. (Gennad. De VFiis Il1ustr. 99.). [W. R.]
failures. HONORA'TUS ANTONI'NUS, bishop of
The most important works on the Homeric poems Constantia in Africa, flourished during the persecuand the controversy respecting their original have tion of the Catholics by the Vandal Genseric. He
been mentioned in the course of this article. A is the author of an impressive and graceful letter
complete account of the literature of the Homeric entitled Epistola ad Labores pro C/zristo ferendos
poems will be found in the Bibliotheca Homerica, Exhortatoria, written about A. D. 437-440 to a
Halis, 1837, and in the notes to the first volume certain Spaniard named Arcadius, who having been
of Bode's Geschichte der Hellenisheen Diclhtkunst. banished on account of his faith, is here comforted
An account of the present state of the controversy and encouraged to endure still greater hardships in
is given in an appendix to the first volume of the support of the truth.
new edition of Thirlwall's Hist. of Greece, London, This epistle was first published by Jo. Sichardus
1845. [W. I.] in his Antidot.-contra omnes Haereses, fol. Basil.
HOME'RUS (COiurlpos). 1. Agrammarian and 1528, and will be found in the Mlfagna Bibl. Patr.,
tragic poet of Byzantium, in the time of Ptolemy fol. Colon. 1618, vol. v. p. iii., in Bibl. Patr. fol.
Philadelphus (about B. C. 280), was the son of the Paris, 1644 and 1654, vol. iii., in the Bibl. Patr.
grammarian Andromachus and the poetess Myro. Mllax., Lugd. fol. 1677, vol. viii. p. 665, and in