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700 SALONIUS. SALVIANUS.
the most plausible is founded upon the supposition SA'LPION, an Athenian sculptor, of unknown
that, wnen left alone in Gaul, he was invested for date, whose name is inscribed upon a large vase of
the time being with the rank of Augustus, in order Parian marble, beautifully sculptured with figures
that he might command more respect during the in high relief, representing Hermes giving the
absence of his father, but that the rank thus con- infant Dionysus to the Nymphs to educate. This
ferred being intended to serve a temporary purpose vase was found at Cormia, on the Gulf of Gaeta,
only, was extinguished by his death. Zonaras and was applied to use as a font in the cathedral
(xii. 24), when speaking of Gallienus, remarks, in of Gaeta, but was afterwards removed to the Neapassing, that his son, who was besieged by Postu- politan Museum, where it now is. (Gruter, Thes.
mlus, bore the same name with his father, was Inscr. p. lxxvii. No. 7; Spon, Miscellan. vol. ii.
regarded as heir to the empire, and was a comely 1, p. 25; 11ils. Borbon.; Nagler, Kiinstler- Lexicon,
and talented youth. (Trebell. Poll. Salonin. Gal- s. v.) [P. S.]
lien.;;Zosim. i. 38; Gruter, Corp. Insc. cclxxv. SA'LTIIS, SEX., conducted with L. Con5; Brequigny, in the Mgmoires de l'Academie de sidius a colony to Capua, B. C. 83 (Cic. de Leg.
Sciences etBelles Lettres, vol. xxxii. p. 262; Eckhel, Agr. ii. 34). For details see CONSIDIJS, No. 3.
vol. vii. p. 421.) [W. R.] SA'LVIA GENS, was properly speaking no
Roman gens. A few insignificant persons of this
name are mentioned towards the end of the re//NS \tgA A/%4 28 public, but the name became of importance in the
imperial period from the emperor, M. Salvius
Otho, who was descended from an ancient and
a~~... noble family of the town of Ferentinum in
E truria.
SAILVIA TITISCEtNIA, a Roman female
mentioned by M. Antonius in a letter to Octavian.
COIN OF SALONINUS. (Suet. Aug. 69.)
SALVIA'NUS, an accomplished ecclesiastical
SALCONIUS. 1. P. SALONIUS, had been writer of the fifth century, who, although never
tribune of the soldiers, and first centurion for raised to the episcopal dignity, is styled by Genseveral alternate years, and was hated by the nadius, "the master of bishops." He was horn
soldiers because he had been opposed to their somewhere in the vicinity of Treves, a city with
mutinous projects in B. C. 342. (Liv. vii. 41.) which he was evidently well acquainted. It is
2. C. SALONIUS, one of the triumvirs who uncertain whether he was educated in the true faith,
founded the colony at Tempsa in B. c. 194. He but he certainly was a Christian at the period of
was appointed in B. C. 173 one of the decemvirs his marriage with Palladia, a pagan lady of Cologne,
for dividing certain lands in Liguria and Cisalpine the daughter of Hypatius and Quieta; for he not
Gaul among the Roman citizens and the Latins. only speedily convinced his wife of her errors, but
(Liv. xxxiv. 45, xlii. 4.) after the birth of a daughter, Auspiciola, persuaded
3. Q.- SALONIUS SARRA, praetor B. c. 192, ob- her to adopt some of the leading observances of a
tained Sicily as his province. (Liv. xxxv. 10, 20.) monastic life. Having, in consequence of this step,
4. M. SALONIUS, the father of the second wife incurred the displeasure of his father-in-law, whom,
of Cato the Censor. [SaLONIA.] however, after a lapse of seven years, he succeeded
SALO'NIUS, bishop of Genoa about the middle in appeasing, and eventually in converting, he
of the fifth century, was the son of Eucherius, removed to the south of France, and became a
bishop of Lyons, and the pupil of Salvianus [SAL- presbyter of the Church at Marseilles. Here he
VIANUS], who dedicated to him his two works, De passed the remainder of his life, enjoying the
Avaritia and De Providentia. He is supposed to friendship of the most distinguished among the holy
have died before A. D. 475, because in the acts of men of that country, among others of Eucherius,
the Council of Aries, held during that year, a bishop of Lyons, to whose sons, Salonius and Vecertain Theophlastus is spoken of as presiding over ranus, he acted as preceptor. The period of his
the see of Genoa. death is uncertain, but he was still alive when GenThere is still extant a work by Salonius, Ex- nadius compiled his biographies, that is, about A. n.
positio Mysticac in Parabolas Scadomonis et Ecclesias- 490.
ten, otherwise entitled In. Parabolas Salonnios The following works by this author are still
Dialogi II., or In Parabolas et Ecclesiasten S'lo- extant:2nonis Dialogi, in the form of a conversation be- I. Adversus Avaritiam Libri IV. ad Ecclesiamn
tween himself and his brother, Veranus. We have CGttholicam, published under the name of Timotheus,
also an Epistola, written in his own name, in that about A. D. 440. It was first printed in the Antiof his brother, and of Ceretus, addressed to Leo do/unm contra diverssas omniuan fere Saeculorum
the Great. Haereses of Io. Sichardus, fol. Basel, 1528, under
The Expositio was first printed at Haguenau the title Tinotllei Episcopi ad Ecclesiane C(atholicam
(Hagenoae), 4to. 1532. It will be found in the toto Orbe diffusao et Salviani EpiscopiAiassiliensis
Orthodoxographa of Heroldus, Basel, 1550; in the in Librum Timothei ad Saloniiumn Episcol.m proaesimilar collection of Grynaeus, Basel, 1569; and fatio.
in the Bibliotheca Patr-m Maxima, vol. viii. p. 11. De Providentia s. De Gubernatione Dei et!de
401, fol. Lugd. 1677. Justo Dei praesentique Judicio Libri. WVritten
The letter to Leo is included in the editions of during the inroads by the barbarians upon the
that pontiff's works by Quesnell, and by the Roman empire, A. D. 451-455. It was first
brothers Ballerini, being numbered lxxvi. in the printed by Frobenius, Basel, fol. 1530, with the
former, and lxviii. in the latter. (Schijnemann, title D. Salviani Massyliensis Episcopi de vero
Bibl. Patruan Lat. vol. ii. ~ 53.) [W. R.] Judicio et Providentia Dei ad S. Saloniurn Episco