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manner the letters to Ausonius are distributed into still be regarded as the standard. It contains the
two; three, or four, according to the conflicting text corrected by a collation of all the best MSS.,
views of critics. voluminous commentaries, dissertations, indices, a
3. The authenticity of the Passio S. Genesii has new life of Paulinus, and a variety of documents
been called in question by Rosweyd, but is vindi- requisite for the illustration of his works. The
cated by the concurring testimony of many MSS. first volume of Muratori's Anecdota (4to. MedioAmong the lost works we may notice the fol- lan. 1697) exhibited in a complete form, fiom a
lowing: —. Ad Theodosium Panegyricus, a con- MS. in the Ambrosian library, three of the Cargratulatory address composed in honour of the minalVatalitia (xi. xii. xiii.), which had previously
victory gained over Eugenins and Arbogastes. appeared as disjointed fragments, and they are
Although this piece is distinctly described by accompanied by twenty-two dissertations on all
Honorius of Autun (De Script. Eccles. ii. 47; the leading events in the history of Paulinus and
comp. Rufin. ITist. i. 27), Funccius maintains that all the persons with whom he was in any way conan error has been committed as to the subject, and nected. These poems were afterwards republished,
argues from the expressions of Paulinus himself with emendations, by Mingarelli in his Anecdoto(Ep. 9, and 28), that it was a funeral oration rums Fasciculus (4to. Ronm. 1756), and by Galland
delivered after the death of the emperor. (See in his Bibliothecal' Patrum, vol. viii. (fol. Ven. 1772)
also Hieronym. Ep. 13; Cassiodor. L. S. c. 21; p. 211. There is a reprint of Le Brun with the
Gennadius, 48; Trithem. 117.) 2. De Poenitentia additional matter from Muratori, fol. Veron. 1736.
et de Laudegenerali ononi2mn Alartyrunz, affirmed by The two elegies contributed by Mai are to be
Gennadius to be the most important of all his pro- found in " Episcoporum Nicetae et Paulini Scripta
ductions. Here again we might conjecture that ex Vaticanis Codicibus edita," fol. Rom. 1827.
there was some confusion, and that the titles of two (Auson. Ep. 19, 23, 24; Paulin. Ep. ad Auson. i.
treatises, one De Poenitentia, the other De Laude 75; Ambros. Eg). 36; Anagustin. De Civ. Dei, i.
A yfartiynum, have been mixed up together. 3. Epis- 10; HIieronym. Ep). xiii. lviii. ed. Vallarsi; Castolae ad Sororem, on contempt of the world. siodor. L D. ii.; Gennad. De Script. Eccles. 48;
4. Epistolae ad Anzicos. 5. Suetonii Libri [II. de Honor. August. ii. 47; Trithem. 117; Idat.
Regibus in epitomen versibus redacti, loudly com- Cliron.; Gregor. Dialog. iii. 1; Surins, de Ipomended by Ausonius, who has preserved nine batis SS. llistoriis, vol. xxii.; Pagi, Ann. 431,n. 53;
lines. 6. A translation of Recognitiones, attributed Schinemann, Bib/. Patrnum Lat. vol. i. cap. 4.
to Clemens [CLEMENS ROMANUS]. We hear also ~ 30; Biihr, Ceschic/te der Rocn. Litterat. Suppl.
of a Sacranzentarium and a Hynnariumn. Band, Ite Abtheil. ~ 23-25, 2te Abtheil. ~
The Epistles Ad alarcellam and Ad Celantiasn, 100.) [W. R.]
together with the poems, Exhortatio ad Co&njnem, PAULI'NUS, ANI'CIUS, consul in A. D. 498
De Nomine Jesu, and a Vita S. Martini in six with Joannes Scytha (Chron. Pasch.; Cod. Just.
hooks, do not belong to this father. 5. tit. 30. s. 4.
The enthusiastic commendations bestowed upon PAULL'NUS, M. AURE'LIUS, consul A. D.
the learning and genius of Paulinus by his con- 277 with the emperor M. Aurelius Probus. (Cod.
temporaries, and repeated by successive generations Just. 8. tit. 56. s. 2.)
of ecclesiastical critics, if not altogether unmerited, PAULI'NUS, LO/LLIUS. [LoLr,Ivs, No. 5.]
have at least been too freely lavished. Although PAULI'NUS, POMPEIUS, commanded in
well versed in the works of the Latin writers, his Germany along with L. Antistins Vetus in A.D. 58,
knowledge of Greek was very imperfect, and he and completed the damn to restrain the inundations
occasionally betrays much ignorance regarding the of the Rhine, which Drusus had commenced sixtycommon facts of history. The quotations from three years before. In A.D. 62 he was appointed,
Scripture so frequently adduced in support or along with L. Piso and Ducennius Geminus, to
illustration of his arguments, will be found in many the superintendence of the public revenues. On
instances to be strangely twisted from their true sig- this occasion Tacitus calls him consularis; but his
nification, while his allegorical interpretations are in name does not occur in the consular fasti (Tac.
the highest degree far-fetched and fantastic. His Ann. xiii. 53, xv. 18; Senec. de Brev. Vitae, 18).
poetry, although offending grievouslyagainst thelaws Seneca dedicated to him his treatise De Brevitate
of prosody and metre, is in every respect far superior Vitae; and the Pompeia Paulina, whom the
to his prose. The purity of the language proves philosopher married, was probably the daughter of
how deeply he had studied the best ancient models; this Paulinus. It is uncertain, however, whether
the descriptions are lively, the pictures vivid, but the subject of this notice is the same as the Pomthere is no creative power, no refined taste, no peius Paulinus, the son of a Roman eques of
sublimity of thought, no grandeur of expression. Arelate of whom Pliny speaks (I. N. xxxiii. 11.
The early impressions of Paulinus, commencing s. 50).
with that printed at Paris by Badius Ascensius, PAULI'NUS, C. SUETO'NIUS, is first men8vo. 1516, present the text in a most mutilated, tioned in the reign of the emperor Claudius, A. n.
corrupt, and disordered condition. Considerable 42, in which year he was propraetor in Mauriimprovements were introduced by the jesuit Her- tania; he conquered the Moors who had revolted,
bert Rosweyd (8vo. Antv. 1622), who compiled and advanced as far as Mount Atlas (Dion Cass.
some useful annotations and prefixed a biographical Ix. 9; Plin. H. N. v. 1.) In the reign of Nero,
sketch by his friend Sacchini; but the first really A. n. 59, Paulinus was appointed to the command
valuable materials were furnished by another jesuit, of Britain. For the first two years all his underPeter Francis Chifflet, whose Paulinus Iltustratus takings were successful; lie subdued several nawas published at Dijon, 4to. 1662. This was fol- tions, and erected forts in various parts of the
lowed after a lapse of more than twenty years by country; but when at length in A. D. 61 he
the very elaborate and complete edition of Jean crossed over to Mona (Anglesey), which was the
Baptiste Le Brun, 4to. Paris, 1685, which may great strong-hold of the Britons who still resisted
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