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142 PAULINUS. PAPAULINUS.
seu Tomus ad Antiochenses, c. 9 I; Hieron. Epistol.i
ad Eustoch. No. 27, edit. vett., 86, ed. Benedict.,
no 108, ~ 6, ed. Vallars.; In Rufin. lib. iii. 22;
Chronicon, ed.Vallars.; Theophan. Chronog. pp. 47,
57, 59, ed. Paris, pp. 37, 45, 47, ed. Venice,
pp. 85, 104, 109, ed. Bonn; Le Quien, Oriens
- \W\E\H\)AN < > Cliristian. vol. ii. col. 715; Tillemont, Imoi'res,
\\>I)\\9 h ~ No a > ~vol. viii.; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. ix. p. 314.)
3. Of BITERRAE or BAETERRAE (the modern
Beziers), in Gaul, of which city he was bishop about
A.D. 420. Some have thought that the Acta S.
COIN OF PAULINA, WIFE OF MAXIMINUS I. Genesiinotarii Arelatensis are to be ascribed to this
Paulinus rather than to Paulinus of Nola, under
PAULLI'NUS or PAULI'NUS, a lengthened whose name they have been commonly published.
form of Paullus or Paulus, like Albinus of Albus. Paulinus of Biterrae wrote an encyclical letter,
[ALBINUS, p. 90.] This cognomen only occurs giving an account of several alarming portents which
under the empire. For the sake of uniformity we had occurred at Biterrae. This letter is lost. Oudin
adopt the form Paulinus, but respecting the ortho- has mistakenly said that it is cited in the Annales
graphy, see PAULLUS. of Baronius. Possibly Paulinus of Biterrae is the
PAULI/NUS (fIavA7vos), literary. I. Of Paulinus to whom Gennadius (De Viris IllusANTIOCH (1), better known as Paulinus of Tyre tribus, c. 68) ascribes several Tractatus de Initzo
[No. 9.] Quadrayesimae, &c. (Idatius, Chzron. ad ann. xxv.
2. Of ANTIOCH (2). Paulinus was ordained Arcad. et Honor.; Miraeus, Auctar. de Scriptorib.
presbyter by Eustathius, bishop of Antioch [Eu- Eccles. c. 63; Tillemont, Mlimoires, vol. v. p. 569;
STATHIUS], and was a leader among the Eus- Cave, Hist. Litt. ad ann. 410, vol. i. p. 389;
tathian party in that city. When Athanasius, Oudin, De Scriptorib. Eccles. vol. i. col. 923;
after his return from exile on the death of Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ix. p. 315, Biblioth. lIed.
the emperor Constantius II. and the murder of et Isfim. Latinit. vol. v. p. 205, ed. Mansi; Acta
George of Cappadocia, the Arian patriarch [GEOR- Sanctor. Aug. vol. v. p. 123, &c.; Galli Christliana,
Glus, No. 7], assembled a council at Alexandria, vol. vi. col. 295, ed. Paris, 1739; Histoire Lilt. de
Paulinus sent two deacons, Maximus and Cali- la France, vol. ii. p. 131.)
merus, to take part in its deliberation. He was 4. MEROPIUS PONTIUS ANICIUS PAULINUS.
shortly after ordained by the hasty and impetuous [See below].
Lucifer of Cagliari [LUCIFER] bishop of the Eu- 5. Of MEDIOLANUM or MILAN. [See below.]
stathians at Antioch; a step unwarrantable and 6. Of NOLA. [See below.]
mischievous, as it prolonged the schism in the 7. Of PELLA or POENITENS, the PENITENT.
orthodox party, which would otherwise probably A poem entitled Euchlaristicon de Vita Sua, by a
have been soon healed. His ordination took place writer of the name of Paulinus, has been twice pubin A. D. 362. He was held, according to Socrates lished. It appeared among the poems of Pau(H. E. iv. 2) and Sozomen (H. E. vi. 7), in such linus of Nola [see below] in the Appendix to
respect by the Arian emperor Valens as to be al- the first edition of De la Bigne's Bibliotiseca Palowed to remain when his competitor Meletius truan, which Appendix was published, fol. Paris,
[MELETIUS] was banished. Possibly, however, 1579, but was omitted in the following editions
the smallness of his party, which seems to have of the Bibliotheca, whether published at Paris,
occupied only one small church (Socrat. H. E. Cologne, or Lyon, and also in the Bibliotheca of
iii. 99; Sozom. v. 13), rendered him less obnoxious Galland. It was again printed by Christianus
to the Arians, and they may have wished to per- Daumius, with the works of Paulinus Petrocorius
petuate the division of the orthodox by exciting [PETrRocoRIus], 8vo, Leipzig, 1686. A full acjealousy. Paulinus's refusal of the proposal of count of the author may be gathered from the
Meletius to put an end to the schism is mentioned poem, which is in hexameters, not, as has been
elsewhere [MELETIUS, No. 1]; but he at length incorrectly stated, in elegiac verse. He was the
consented that whichever of them died first, the son of Hesperius, proconsul of Africa, who was the
survivor should be recognized by both parties. On son of the poet Ausonius. [AusoNIUS; HESPEthe death of Meletius, however (A. D. 381), this RIus.] He was born in A. D. 376, at Pella in
agreement was not observed by his party, and the Macedonia; and after being at Carthage, where he
election of Flavian [FLAvIAN us, No. 1] disap- remained a year and a half during his father's propointed the hopes of Paulinus, and embittered the consulship, he was taken at three years of age to
schism still more. In A. D. 382 Paulinus was Bourdeaux, where he appears to have been eduinpresent at a council of the Western Church, which cated. An illness at the age of fifteen interrupted
had all along recognised his title, and now ardently his studies, and the indulgence of his parents alsupported his cause; but the Oriental churches lowed him to pursue a life of ease and pleasure, in
generally recognised Flavian, who was de facto the midst of which, however, he kept up a regard
bishop of Antioch. Paulinus died A. D. 388 or to appearances. At the age of twenty he married
389. His partizans chose Evagrius to succeed him a lady of ancient family, and of some property.
[EVAGRIUS, No. 1]. A confession of faith by Pau- At thirty he lost his father, whose death was follinus is preserved by Athanasius and Epiphanius lowed by a dispute between Paulinus and his
in the works cited below. (Epiphanius, Haeres. brother, who wished to invalidate his father's will
lxxvii. 21, ed. Petavii; Socrates, H. E. iii. 6, 9, to deprive his mother of her dowry. In A. D. 414
iv. 2, v. 5, 9, 15; Sozomen, II. E. v. 12, 13, vi. he joined Attalus, who attempted to resume the
7, vii. 3, 10, 11, 15; Theodoret, H. E. iii. 5, v. purple in Gaul under the patronage of the Gothic
3, 23; Athanasius, Concil. Alexandrin. Epistol. prince Ataulphus [ATAULPHUS; ATTALUS], and