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

JULIANUS:. JULIANUS..64.3
enough to fill in with a belief which flattered the contains:seventy-one epigrams which bear his name,
pride and exalted the origin of the imperial familyv.and in which the author appears as an imitator of
Though it would seem that the Julii first came earlier poems of the same kind. They are mostly
to Rome in the reign of Tullus Hostilius, the name of a descriptive character, and refer to works of art.
occurs in Roman legend as early as the time of Julianus probably lived in the reign of Justinian,
Romulus. It was Proculus Julius who was said for among, his epigrams there are two upon Hyto have informed the sorrowing Roman people, patius, the nephew of the emperor Anastaafter the strange departure of Romulus from the sius, who was put to death A. D. 532, by the
world, that their king had descended from heaven command of Justinian. Another epigram is written
and appeared to him, bidding him tell the people upon Joannes, the grandson of Hypatius. (Brunck,
to honour him in future as a god, under the name Anal. ii. 493; Jacobs, Antihol. Graec. iii. 195;
of Quirinus. (Liv. i. 16; Ov. Fast. ii. 499, &c.) comp. xiii. p. 906.)
Some modern critics have inferred from this, that a 3. Of Caesareia in Cappadocia, was a contemfew of the Julii might have settled in Rome in the porary of Aedesius, and a disciple of Maximus of
reign of the first king; but considering the entirely Ephesus. He was one of the sophists of the time,
fabulous nature of the tale, and the circumstance and taught rhetoric at Athens, where he enjoyed a
that the celebrity of the Julia Gens in later times great reputation, and attracted youths from all
would easily lead to its connection with the earliest parts of the world, who were anxious to hear him
times of Roman story, no historical argument can and receive his instruction. It is not known
be drawn from the mere name occurring in this whether Julianus wrote any works or not. (Eunap.
legend. Vit. Sop/h. p. 68, &c. ed. Boisson., and WyttenThe family names of this gens in the time of the bach's notes, Ibid. p. 250, &c.)
republic are CAESAR, IULUS, MENTO, and Lauo, 4. A Greek grammarian, who, according to
of which the first three were undoubtedly patrician; Photius (Bibl. cod. 1.50), wrote a dictionary to the
but the only two families which obtained any ce- ten Attic orators, entitled AenLis - Tclv 7rapa T'ro7
lebrity are those of Iulus and Caesar, the former in a8&ca p4rToptr AewSov ICKaT a To0LXeo; but this,
the first and the latter in the last century of the like other similar works, is entirely lost. Farepublic. On coins the only names which we find bricius (Bibl. Gr. vo.. vi. p. 245) considers. its
are CAESAR and BURSIO, the latter of which does author to be the same as. the Julianus to whom
not occur in ancient writers. Phrynichus dedicates the fourth book. of his
In the times of the-empire we find an immense work. [L. S.]
number of persons of the name of Julius; but it JULIA'NUS, ANTO'NIUS, a friend and
must not be supposed that they were connected by contemporary of A. Gellius, who speaks of him as
descent in any way with the Julia Gens; for, in a public teacher of oratory, and praises him for his
consequence of the imperial family belonging to eloquence as well as for his knowledge of early
this gens, it became the name of their numerous literature. He appears to have also devoted himfreedmen, and may have been assumed by many self to grammatical studies, the fruits of which he
other persons out of vanity and ostentation. An collected in his Gommentarii, which, however, are
alphabetical list of the principal per'sons of the lost. (Gell. iv. 1, ix. 15, xv. 1, xviii. 5, xix. 9,
name, with their cognomens, is given below. [Ju- xx. 9.) [L. S.]
LIUs.] (On the Julia Gens in general, see Klan- JULIA'NUS, M. AQUI'LLIUS, was consul in
sen, Aeneas and die Penaten, vol. ii. p. 1059, &c.; A. D. 38, the second year of the reign of Doinitian.
Drumann's Rom, vol. iii. p. 114, &c.) (Dion Cass. lix. 9; Frontin. de Aquaed. 13. [L. S.]
JULIA'NUS, historical. 1. A Roman general, JULIA'NUS DI'DIUS. [DirIus.]
who distinguished himself in the war against the b cs"
Dacians in the reign of the emperor Domitian.
(DionCass. lxvii. 10.)
2. A distinguished Roman of the time of the l
emperor Commodus, who at first highly esteemed
him, and appointed him praefectus praetorio, but
afterwards treated him most disgracefully, and at
last ordered him to be put to death. (Dion Cass.COIN OF DIDIUS JULIANUS.
lxxii. 14; Lamprid. Commod. 7, 11.) [L. S.] JU'LIANUS, surnamed ECLANENSIS for the
JULIA'NUS ('IosAtavo's), literary. 1. A Chal- sake of distinction, is conspicuous in the ecclesidaean, surnamed Theurgus, i. e. the magician, lived astical history of the fifth century as one of the
in the time of the emperor M. Aurelius, whose army ablest supporters of Pelagius. His father, Memohe is said to have saved from destruction by a rius or Memor, who is believed to have presided
shower of rain, which he called down by his magic over the see of Capua, was connected' by close
power. Suidas (s. v.) attributes to him also several friendship with St. Augustine and Paulinus of
works, viz. aeovpytd, XeorTKad, and a collection Nola, the latter of whom celebrated the nuptials of
of oracles in hexameter verse. His pursuits show the son with la, daughter of Ae~milius, bishop of
that he was a New Platonist, and it would seem Beneventum, in a poem breathing the warmest aifthat he enjoyed a great reputation, since Porphy- fection towards the different members of the family.
rius wrote upon him a work in four books, which is Julianus early in life devoted himself to the duties
lost. A. Mai has discovered in Vatican MSS. of the priesthood, and after passing through the
three fragments relating to astrological subjects subordinate grades of reader, deacon, and probably
(Nova Script. Class. Collect. ii. p. 675), and attri- presbyter also, was ordained to the episcopal charge
buted to one Julianus of Laodiceia, whom Mai con- of Eclanum in Apulia, by Innocentius, about A. 1.
siders to be the same as Julianus the Magician. 416. No suspicion seems to have attached to his
2. Surnamed the Egyptian, because he was for a orthodoxy until he refused to sign the Tractoria or
time governor of Egypt. The Greek Anthology public denunciation of Coelestius and- Pelagius, forTT 2