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146 PAITLUS. PAULUS.
the Roman arms, the other Britons took advantage in many gentes, but best known as the name of a
of his absence to rise in open rebellion, and led cn family of the Aemilia gens. [See below.] This
by Boadicea, the heroic queen of the Iceni, they surname was no doubt originally given to a memcaptured the Roman colony ot Camalodunum and her of the Aemilia gens on account of the smallness
defeated Petilius Cerealis, the legate of the ninth of his stature. The name seems to have been
legion. The return of Paulinus, however, soon originally written with a double l, which is the
changed matters; and he at length finally de- form found on the republican denarii and in earlier
feated Boadicea with great slaughter, though not inscriptions; but on the imperial coins, as ill that
till Londinium and Verulamium had also fallen of Paula [see above], and in later inscriptions,
into the hands of the Britons. For further details the word occurs with only one 1. Paulus is also
see BOADIcEA. IHe returned to Rome in the fol- the form used by the Greek writers. As the
lowing year, and was succeeded by Petronius Tur- name of many persons mentioned below is always
pilianus. (Tac. Ann. xiv. 29-37, Agrir. 5, 14 written Paulus, and not Paullus, it is thought
-16; Dion Cass. lxii. 1-12; Suet. lVer. 39.) better for the sake of uniformity to adopt in all
In A. D. 66 Seutonius Paulinus was consul with cases the former orthography, though in some inC. Lucius Telesinus (Tac. Ann. xvi. 14; Dion stances the latter would be the preferable form.
Cass. lxiii. 1.) Paulinus was now looked upon as PAULUS (lavdAos), literary and ecclesiastical.
one of the first generals of the time, and while in 1. AEGINETA, a physician. [See below.]
Britain he was regarded by the people as the rival 2. Of ALEXANDRIA, a Greek writer on astroof Corbulo in military glory. His services were logy, who lived in the latter part of the fourth cenaccordingly called into exercise ill the civil wars tury. He wrote, according to Suidas (s.v. IIagwhich followed Nero's death. He was one of Aos lptXoSPos), two works, Eioaywo-ys ar-poXAo-yas,
Otho's generals and chief military advisers, al- Introductio jstrolooyiae, and'AroreAeopE-uaTcd, Apothough he was not able to overcome the intrigues telesiaticac. Fabricius suggests the reading 1 d7oroeand influence of Licinius Proculus, in whom Otho AsheotatIcd instead of Seal d7 XroXe-rtLKcad, and unplaced most reliance. The German legions, who derstands the passage not of two works, but of two
had proclaimed Vitellius, were advancing into titles of one work; and his correction is rendered
Italy, and Otho set out to meet them in the spring probable by the title of the only published work
of A. D. 69, taking with him Paulinus and other of Paulus, which is entitled Eilaycwy7) Els T?3}
generals of experience. The plain of the Po was d7roreAeou/arKc'rV, ]?Nlimelnta in Doctrinam depraethe field of operation; an account of which is dictis Nrtalitiis, 4to. Wittenberg, 1586. It was
given under OTHO, p. 67. As far as respects Pau- edited by Andreas Schatus or Schato, from a MS. in
linus, it is only necessary to mention here, that he the library of Count Rantzau. The work appears
and Marius Celsus defeated Caecina, one of the to have gone through two editions in the autlhor's
Vitellian generals, near Cremona; but as Paulinus life-time: for in the printed text, which probably rewould not allow his men to follow up their ad- presents the second edition, it is preceded by a short
vantage, he was accused of treachery by his troops, preface addressed to the author's son Cronamon
though his conduct was probably the result of (Kpovacicuv), who had noticed some errors in the
prudence. When Valens, the other general of former edition. The time when the author lived is
Vitellius, had joined his forces to those of Caecina, inferred with probability from a passage in the
Paulinus strongly recommended Otho not to risk work. In exemplifying a rule given for finding
a battle; but his advice was overruled, and the the days of the week, he chooses the year 94 of the
result was the defeat at Bedriacum, and the ruin era of Diocletian (= A. D. 378), which is therefore
of Otho's cause. After the battle Paulinus did supposed to be the year in which the work was
not venture to return to his own camp. He fell written. If this inference is correct, Paulus must
into the hands of Vitellius, and obtained his par- be distinguished from another astrologer of the same
don by pleading, says Tacitus, " the necessary but name mentioned by Suidas (s. v.'Iovurrmadl's O
not honourable excuse," that the defeat of Otho's'PLvo,~rmros), as having predicted the accession of
army was owing to his treachery; for which self- the emperor Leontius [LEONTIUS II.], and from
accusation, however, there was certainly no foun- a third Paulus, an astrologer, whom Ricciolus (apud
dation. This is the last time that the name of Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 140, note z) states
Suetonius Paulinus occurs. (Tac. Hist. i. 87, 90, to have written an introduction to Astrology in the
23-26, 31-41, 44, 60). ninth century after Christ. The work of Paulus
PAULI'NUS, M. VALE'RIUS, was a native of Alexandria is accompanied by Greek Scholia,
of Forum Julii, where he possessed considerable written by a Christian in the year 867 of the era ot
estates. He was a friend of Vespasian's before Diocletian, = A. D. 1151. Fabricius conjectured
his accession; and having previously served as that they were by Stephanus of Athens (Fabric.
tribune of the praetorian tribunes, he was able to Bibl. Graec. vol. xii. p. 693, ed. vet.), or by the
collect for Vespasian many of the Vitellian troops Apomasar (Ahmed Ben Seirim) whose Oneirocriin Narbonnese Gaul, of which province he was tica was published by Rigaltus: but the date asappointed procurator, A.D. 69. He also served in signed to the Scholia is too late for these writers
the Jewish war, and was eventually raised to the (see Biog. Diet. of U. K. Soc. s. v. Ahmed). If, on
consulship in the reign of Trajan, A.D. 101. He was the authority of the text of Suidas, two works are
a friend and correspondent of the younger Pliny, ascribed to Paulus, the one published by Schatus
who has addressed five of his letters to him (Tac. will be the former of the two, the Introductio AsHist. iii. 42, 43; Joseph. B. J. iii. (14), 7. ~ 1; trologiae. (Suidas, /1. cc.; Fabric. Bibl. G'raec. il. cc.)
Plin. Ep. ii. 2, iv. 16, v. 19, ix. 3, 37.) 3. ANTIOCHENUS. [No. 17.]
PAU'LLULUS or PAU'LULUS, an agno- 4. APOSTOLus. The life of the Apostleand his
men of Sp. Postumius Albinus, consul B. C. 174. genuine works do not come within our plan, but the
[ALBINus, No. 14.] following indisputably spurious works require notice.
PAULLUS or PAULUS, a Roman cognomen 1. At Ila Aov.rpoaers Acta Pauli, of which cita,