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688 SABINUS. SAB1IN US.
further, and assert with certainty that they were 3. A bishop of Hleracleia in Thrace, and a folwritten by a modern scholar, Angelus Sabinus, about lower of the heresy of Macedonius, was one of the
the year 1467. The other passage of Ovid, in earliest writers on ecclesiastical councils. His
which Sabinus is mentioned (ex Pont. iv. 16. 13- work, entitled ZvvaOO70y Tor3r:U',O&v, is fre16) alludes to one of the answers already spoken of, quently quoted by Socrates and other ecclesiastical
and likewise informs us of the titles of two other historians. (Soc. H. t. i. 5, ii. 11, 13, 16;
works of Sabinus: - Sozom. IIH. E. Praef.; Niceph. Call. ix.; Epiphan.
"Quique suam Troezena, imperfectumque dierum Haer. ii. 8, 9, 17.) He appears to have lived
Deseruit celeri morte Sabinus opus." about the end of the reign of Theodosius II., who
reigned from A. D. 424 to 450. (Vossius, de Hist.
It has been conjectured by Gliser that the Troezen Graec. pp. 307, 314, 494; Fabric. Bibl. Grace. vol.
here spoken of was an epic poem, containing a his- xii. pp. 182,183.) [P.S.]
tory of the birth and adventures of Theseus till his SABI'NUS (a~7vos), a physician, and one of
arrival at his father's court at Athens, so called the most eminent of the ancient commentators on
from Troezen being the birth-place of Theseus, and Hippocrates, who lived before Julianus (Galen,
that the Dierum Opus was a continuation of Ovid's Adv..Julian. c. 3. vol. xviii. pt. i. p. 255), and
Fasti. As the letter from Pontus in which the was tutor to Metrodorus (id. Coinment. in Hipdeath of Sabinus is mentioned was written in A. D. pocr. "Epid. III." i. 4. vol. xvii. pt. i. p. 507, 8),
15, he probably died shortly before this year. For and Stratonicus (id. de Atra Bile, c. 4. vol. v. p.
further discussion respecting this poet, see an essay 119), and must therefore have lived about the end
by Glaser, entitled Der Dichter Sabinus in the of the first century after Christ. Galen frequently
Rheinisciles Museum for 1842, p. 437, &c. quotes him, and controverts some of his opinions,
2. P. SABINUS, was appointed by Vitellius, on but at the same time allows that he and Rufus
his accession to the empire in A. D. 69, praefect of Ephesius (who is commonly mentioned in conthe praetorian troops, although he was at the time junction. with him) comprehended the meaning of
only praefect of a cohort. (Tac. Hist. ii. 92, iii. 36.) Hippocrates better than most of the other comHe must not be confounded with his contemporary mentators (Galen, de Ord. Libror. sueor. vol. xix.
Flavius Sabinus, the praefect of the city [SABINUS, p. 58: comp. Comment. in Hippocr. "Epid. VI."
FLAVIUS]. ii. 10. vol. xvii. pt. i. p. 849.) It is not known
SABI'NUS, a consularis under Antoninus whether Sabinus commented on the whole of the
IHeliogabalus, on whose writings Ulpianus com- Hippocratic Collection; the quotations, &c. in
mented according to Aelius Lampridius (Anton. Galen only relate to the Aphorisms, Epidenzics,
Heliogab. c. 16). I-Ieliogabalus, in a low tone of de Nratura Hominis, and de Humnoribus; and
voice, ordered a-centurion to put Sabinus to death Aulus Gellius has preserved a fragment of his
for staying inthe city; but the centurion, who was commentary on the treatise de Alimento (iii.
rather deaf, thought that the order was to drive 16). See Littr6's Oeuvres d'Hippocr. vol. i. p. 101,
him out of Rome, which he did, and thus saved &c. [W. A. G.]
the life of Sabinus. The statement of Ulpianus SABI'NUS, A LBIUS, was a coheres with Cicommenting on a work of this Sabinus, is appa- cero. It is in reference to him that Cicero speaks
rently a blunder of Lampridius. In his life of of the Albianunm negotium. (Cic. ad Att. xiii. 14,
Alexander Severus (c. 68) Lampridius mentions xiv. 18, 20.)
among the consiliarii of Alexander, Fabius Sabi- SABI'NUS, ASE'LLIUS, received a magnifinus, a son of Sabinus, an illustrious man, the Cato cent reward from Tiberius for a dialogue, in which
of his time. Fabius may have been a jurist, but he had introduced a contest between a mushroom,
nothing is known of him. There is no reason for a fidecula, an oyster, and a thrush. (Suet. Tib. 42.)
calling Sabinus one, for Lampridius is no authority, SAB['NUS, ASI'DIUS, a rhetorician menand there is no other. (Grotius, Vitae Jurisconsul- tioned by the elder Seneca (Suas. 2).
torum, p. 189.) [G. L.] SABI'NUS, M. CAE'LIUS, a Roman jurist,
SABI'NUS, a consularis- and praefect of the who succeeded Cassius Longinus. He was not
city, under Maximinus I., was slain while en- the Sabinus from whom the Sabiniani took their
deavouring to quell the insurrection which burst name. Caelius Sabinus was named consul by Otho;
forth when intelligence arrived of the elevation of and Vitellius, on his accession to power, did not
the Gordians in Africa. (Capitolin. Maximin. duo, rescind the appointment. His consulship belonged
14, Gordian. tres, 13; Herodian. vii. 15.) [W. R.] to A. D. 69, in which year Vitellius was succeeded
SABI'NUS (eagYzos), Greek, literary. 1. A by Vespasianus. He wrote a work, Ad Edictum
sophist and rhetorician, who flourished under Ha- Aedilium Curulium (Gell. iv. 2, vii. 4). In the
drian, and wrote a work in four books, entitled first of these two passages Gellius mentions the
Eioaywyr) Kail troOeoels geXev7IT1tKp s v'XrS, and work of Caelius (in libro queme de Edicto Aediliumn
also Commentaries on Thucydides, Acusilaus, and Curulizum composuit); and Caelius here quotes
some other authors, as well as other exegetical Labeo. Nearly the same words are given by
works. (Suid. s.v.) He seems to have been a Ulpian (DeAedilicioEdicto, Dig. 21. tit.l.s. 1. ~7),
native of Zeugma, as Suidas tells us that Sergius but he quotes only Sabinus, and omits Labeo's
of Zeugma wrote an epitaph for his brother, Sa- name. In the second passage Gellius quotes the
binus the sophist. (Suid. s. v. 24pylos.) words of Caelius as to the practice of slaves being
2. The author of a single epigram in the Greek sold with the pileus on the head, when the vendor
Anthology, in imitation of Leonidas of Tarentum. would not warrant them; and though the work onil
It is not known with certainty whether he was the Edict is not quoted there, it seems certain that
the same person as the sophist. (Brunck, Anal. this extract must be from this book of Caelius. It
vol. ii. p. 304; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. p. 18, appears that Caelius must also have written other
vol. xiii. p. 948, Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. works. (Dig. 35. tit. 1. s. 72. ~ 7.) There are
494.) no extracts from Caelius in the Digest, but he is