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great pleasure and profit from these studies, and cluded by Schutz, 6 vols. 8vo. Hal. 1770. Of
although his style bears evident marks of this these the most desirable is the Venice edition of
familiar intercourse, on no single occasion does he 1744, although it unfortunately abounds with typoever name Tertullian, or give a quotation from his graphical errors.
works, a sure indication that although he found There is an excellent edition of the De Palliob
him an agreeable companion, he considered him as by Salmasius, 8vo. Lutet. 1622, 8vo. Lug. Bat.
no safe guide for himself or others, and was by no 1 656, and of the Apologeticus, by Havercamp, 8vo.
means desirous to proclaim his intimacy with a Lug. Bat. 1710, reprinted in the Venice ed. of
personage of such doubtful reputation. 1744.
In addition to the list given above Tertullian (Lactant. v. 1; Euseb. H. E. ii. 2; Hieron. de
was the author of several works, some of which Viris I1. 53, Epist. ad lagyn. Orat., Epist. ad
had been lost even in the time of Jerome. The Paulin.; Euseb. Chiron. s. ann. xii. Severi; Praedestitles only of the following have been preserved, tinat. adv. Haeres. ed. Sirmond; Augustin. de Haeres.
and some of them are doubtful. 1. De Vestibus 86; Vincent. Lirin. Commonit. 24; Vita Tertullian.
Aaron. 2. AdA7nicumltPhilosophum. 3. De Censu edit. Pamelian. praemiss.; Allix, Dissertatio de
Aninmae. 4. De Spe fidelienm. 5. De Paradiso. Tertullian. Vit. et Script. 8vo. Par. 1680; Sihramm,
6. De Ecstasi. 7. De A nimae Suoimissione. 8. Analysis Operum SS. Patrum, dc. vol. iii. pp. 1De Superstitione Saeculi. 9. De Carne et Anima. 636; No{esselt, de Aetat. Script. Tertullian. Dissert.
10. Adversus Apelliacos. (See De Carene Chlristi, iii. Hal. 1757-59; Schonemann, Bibliotheca Pac. 8). 11. De Incommodis Nuptiarum. The fol- trun Lat. vol. i. cap. 2; Oelrich, de Scriptorr. Eccles.
lowing have sometimes been erroneously ascribed Lat. sexpriorum Seculoruma; Neander, Antignosticmus,
to Tertullian: 1. De Trizitate. 2. De Cibis Ju- k~c. 8vo. Berl. 1825; Miinter, Primordia Eccles.
daicis, both of which belong to Novatianus. 3. De African. 4to. Hafn. 1 829; Bishop of Bristol (now
Ifaeresibus, frequently appended to the tract De of Lincoln), " The Ecclesiastical Historv of the
Praesceriptione Hereticoruoe. 4. De Definitionibus Second and Third Centuries, illustrated from the
Fidei, together with several poems- Sodolma; De Writings of Tertullian," 2nd ed. Camb. 8vo.
Iigno Vitae; De Judicio Dozini; Carmen ad Sena- 1829.) [W. R.]
torem; Adversus MAarcionenl Libri V. &c. TERTULLI'NUS, VOLCA'TIUS, tribune of
The Apologia was printed before any other work the plebs at the end of A. D. 69. (Tac. Hist.
by Tertullian, having been published at Venice iv. 9.)
by Bernardinus Benalius, fol. 1483. TERTULLUS CORNU'TUS. [CORNUTUS.]
The first edition of the collected works was TERTULLUS, Q. FLAVIUS, consul suffectus
printed at Basle, by Frobenius, under the editorial in A. D. 162. (Fasti.)
inspection of Beatus Rhenallns, fol. 1521, and TERTULLUS, SCA'PULA, consul in A. D.
contained, I. De PatieJntia Liber. 2. De Clarne 1 95, with Tineius Clemens. (Dig. 27. tit. 9. s. 1 I
CJl'risi. 3. De Resurrectione Carnis. 4. De Prae- Cod. 9. tit. 1. s. 1).
scriptione Hereticuoruz. 5. Adversus omnes Ilaereses. TERTULLUS, SEX. SULPI'CIUS, consul
6. Adversus Judaeos. 7. Adversus M1arcionzem A. D. 158, with C. Tineius Sacerdos. (Fasti.)
Libri V. 8. Adversus Hermogenem. 9. Adverssls TESTA, C. TREBA'TIUS, a contemporary of
Valentinianos. 10. Adversus Praxeamn. 11. De Cicero and of the scholars of Servius Sulpicius, was
(orola Militis. 12. Ad ll/artyres. 13. De Poenzi- a pupil of Q. Cornelius Maximus (Cic. ad Fam. vii.
tentia. 14. De Vir)ginibus velandis. 15. De Ilabitu 8 and 17; and Dig. 33. tit. 7. s. 16. ~ 1.) Cicero reMsulieris. 16. De CltuFeminarum. 17. AdUxorenz commended Testa to C. Julius Caesar (ad Fasts. vii.
Libri II. 18. De Fupa in Persecutione. 19. Ad 5), during his proconsulship of Gallia, and in his
Sciapulamz. 20. De Ehowrlatione Castitatis. 21. De letter to Caesar he spoke of him as an honest man,
Alonoasi)ia. 22. De Pallio. 23. Apologeticus and as possessing a great knowledge of the Jus
adversous gentes. Of the above the Adversus omnes Civile. (As to the expression " familiam ducit " in
I[aereses, s. De Flaeresibus is, as we have already Cicero's Letter to Caesar, see the note of Zimmern,
remarked, spurious, and the two tracts De Habitu p. 298, n. 7: " quod familiam ducit," means " quod
Iluliebri and De Cultu Feminarumz, are frequently praecipuum est)." Trebatius had little taste for
regarded as a division of the same piece, and both military matters, but still he kept with Caesar, and
included under the latter title. The edition of he wrote to Cicero and received from Cicero various
Gagnaeus, fol. Paris. 1545, contained eleven addi- letters while he was in Gaul (Cic. Ep. ad Faro. lib.
tional pieces. 1. De Trinilate. 2. De Animae vii.). It appears that Caesar offered him the pay
Testimonio. 3. De Animna. 4. De Spectaculis. 5. of a tribune without requiring the discharge of the
De Baptismo. 6. Contra Gnosticos Scorpiacum. duties, and that Trebatius declined it. He did not
7. De Idololat'ria. 8. De Pudicitita. 9. De Jejunio accompany Caesar in his second British expedition,
adversus Psychicos. 10. De Cibis Judaicis Epistola. but he probably got a little inured to military
11. De Oratione. Of these time De Trinitlate, and service at last. Trebatius followed Caesar's party
D)e Cibis Judaicis, belong to Novatianus, but the after the civil war broke out; and he wrote to
collection was snow complete with the exception of Cicero to tell him that Caesar thought Cicero ought
the two books zAd Nationes, which were first pub- to join Caesar's side, or, if he would not do that,
lished by Jac. Gothofredus (4to. Genev. 1625) from he ought to go to Greece and stay out of the way
the Codex Agobardi, the most ancient MS. of (Plutarch, Cicero, c. 37). Suetonius (Caesar, c.
Tertullian, and the only one which conltailns this 18) tells an anecdote, that when all the senate
piece. approached Caesar, who was sitting in front of the
The best editions are those of Pamclius, fol. temple of Venus Genetrix, with the decrees which
Antv. 1579, and, in an improved form, revised by conferred extraordinary honours on him, Trebatius
Franciscus Junius, Franeck. 1] 597; of Rigaltius advised Caesar to lise up to receive the senate, for
fol. Lutet. 1634, improved by Priorius, fol. Lutet. which advice Caesar by his countenance showed
1664, 1675, fol. Venet. 1744; and of Semler, con- his displeasure. Cicero dedicated to Trebatius his