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

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of beasts, birds, insects, reptiles, and' fishes in Velt. Lat.:Script. Ciron. p. ii. p. 419, and in the
general; the thirteenth and fourteenth, of geo- Madrid edition of the collected works..graphy, mathematical, physical, and political, in- V.I. Historia Gothorum, a short account of the.cluding atmospheric phenomena; the fifteenth, Goths from their first collisions with the Romans
-of the origin of the principal states and kingdoms in the reigns of Valerian and Gallienus down to
in the world, of edifices both public and private, of the death of Sisebutus.
-land-surveying and of roads; the sixteenth, of the VII. Historia Vandalorum, from the time of
constitution of soils, of mineralogy, of weights and their entrance into Spain under Gunderic until
~measures; the seventeenth, of agriculture; the their final destruction upon the fall of Gelimer,
eighteenth of war, and of games and sports of embracing a' period of one hundred and twentyevery description; the nineteenth, of ships and three years and seven months, which is compretheir equipments, of architecture, of clothing and hended within the limits of a single folio page.
-the textile fabrics; the twentieth, of food, of do- VIII. Historiac Suevorum, equally brief, from
nmestic utensils and furniture, of carriages, of har- their entrance into Spain under Hernieric until
ness, and of rustic implements.' their final destruction, one hundred and twentyThe earliest edition of the Origines which.bears six years afterwards. These three tracts will be
a date is that published at Vienna by Gintherus found in their best form in the edition of the ChroZainer of Reutlingen, fol. 1472, but there are nicon by Garcia de Loaisa named above, in the
three editions in Gothic characters without date compilations of Labb6 and Florez, and in the Maand without name of place or printer, all of which drid edition of the collected works.
are supposed by bibliographers to be older than The following works belong to poetry: —
Athe first mentioned,. One, if not two, of these is be- IX. Poemats. Among the collected works we
lieved to have proceeded from the press of Ulric find a sacred song in trochaic tetrameters cat., enZell at Cologne, another from that of Mantelin at titled Lamentum Poenitentiae pro Indulgentia PeccaStrasbourg, while, in addition to the above, at least toruenl, and in the Acta Sanctorum under the fifth
six editions more belong to the fifteenth century,, of February, two hymns in. praise of St. Agatha.
ja sure evidence of the popularity of the work. Some assign to Isidorus an astronomical poem in
The most accurate is'that which forms the third heroic verse more commonly ascribed to Fulgen-,volume of the." Corpus Grammaticorum Veterum " tius, the fragments of which are included in the
of Lindemann, Lips. 4to. 1833. The second collection of Pithou published at Paris in 1590.
book was printed separately by Pithou in his The rest of the works of Isidorus are all of a' Antiqui Rhetores Latini." Paris, 4to. 1599, p. theological character. Two belong to Sacred Bio356. graphy.
The two following works belong to grammar: X. De Vita et Obitu Sanctortum qui Deo pla-:II. DeDiferentiiss. De Proprietate Verborum., in cuerunt. Short sketches of sixty-five holy men
two parts, of which the first is less purely gramma- belonging to the Old Testament history, and of
tical than the remainder, since it treats chiefly of twenty-two under the new dispensation, from
the precise meaning of various theological terms, Adam to the Maccabaean brothers, from Zacharias
many of'which involve abstruse questions of doc- to Titus.
trine. The second part is borrowed in great mea- XI. De Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis Liber, or
sure from Agroetius and other old writers upon the simply, De Viris Illustribus, or, as the title somesame subject. This treatise does not appear to have times appears at greater length, Isidori Additio ad
been ever printed in a separate form, but will be Libros S. Hieronymi et Gennadii de Scriptoribus
~found in editions of the collected works. Ecclesiasticis, a continuation of the biographical
III. Liber Glossarum Latinarum, a collection sketches of eminent divines by Hieronymus [HIEfrom ~various glossaries circulated under the name RONYM~us; GENNADIUS], upon the same plan,
of Isidorus. It was published along with the commencing in the older editions with Osius,
Graeco-Latin glosses of Philoxenus and others, by bishop of Cordova, and ending with Maximus,
Vulcanius, Lug. Bat. fol. 1600, and appears in its bishop of Saragossa,: including thirty-three indibest form at the end of the third edition of the viduals; but in the Madrid editions of the collected
Lexicon Philologicum of Martinius, which was works we find several new lives prefixed, from a
published under the superintendence of Graevius, MS. not before collated, reaching from Sixtus,
Traj. ad Rhen. 1698. bishop of Rome, down to Marcellinus.
The following work belongs to natural philo- The two following works belong to formal theosophy * logy:IV. De Rerum Natura, s. De Mundo, addressed XII. De Offciis Ecclesiasticis Libri II., with a
to king Sisebutus. It contains in forty-seven prefatory epistle addressed to Fulgentius. The
short' chapters discussions on sundry questions con- first book, which bears the separate title De Orinected with astronomy, meteorology and physical gine Officiorum, is devoted to the rites, ceremonies,
geography; such as the career of the sun. and of liturgies, and festivals of the church, with an exthe moon, eclipses, falling stars, clouds, rain, amination of the authority upon which each is
winds,:prognostics of the weather, earthquakes, founded, whether Scripture, apostolical tradition,
the ocean, the Nile, mount Aetna, and the great or uninterrupted and invariable practice; the
divisions of'the' earth. It will be found in the second book, with the title De Ori2ine Ministrorum,
collected works.: treats in like manner of the different orders among
The four following works belong to history: - the clergy, and of those persons among the laity, who
V.: Chronicon. Chronological tables from the cre- were more immediately connected with them, such
ation of the world to the fifth year of the emperor as holy maidens, widows, catechumens, and the
Heraclius, that is, A. -D. 627. It was'edited with like. This piece is of the greatest importance to
much care by Garcia de Loaisa, Taurin. 4to. 1593, those who employ themselves in investigating the
whose text has been followed by Roncalli in his ritual of the Romish Church. It was published in