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802 SEVERUS. SEVERUS.
a se puellae amore correpti. Morel himself published served some rather large extracts from the writings
it complete, under the name of the sophist Aristides; of Severus. These may possibly belong to the
5. Achillis, apud inferos edocti captain a Pyrrho other Severus; but upon the whole it seems better
Trojam esse. The foregoing, but in a more ample to attribute them to this one, and to suppose that
form and in a different order, were included, with a those passages where mention is made of Archinew Latin version, in theEixcerpta varia Graecorum genes (iii. 1. 34, pp. 480, 481), Oribasius (ii. 3.
Sophistarutm ac Rhetorum of Allatius, 8vo. Paris, 102, iii. 1. 34. pp. 348, 481), and Severus (ii. 3.
1641. Gale included those already published, 43, 98, 102, pp. 319, 341, 342, 347), were written
with these additional ones, 6. Aeschinis, cue by Aetius himself. If the places where Antonius
deprehenderetPhilippi imayinem apud Demosthenem, Musa (ii. 3. 30. p. 312), Apollonius (ibid. and ii.
7. Ejusdemn, in exilium abeuntis, cues ei Demosthenes 3. 43, p. 319), and Asclepiades Pharmacion (ii. 3.
viaticum daret. 8. Briseis, cuRe Praecones eam 85, p. 334), are quoted, belong to Severus, he
abducerent; in his Rhetores Selecti, 8vo. Oxford, must have lived towards the end of the first century
1676. No. 7 had been published in the collection after Christ. One of his medical formulae is quoted
of Allatius, but under the name of Theodorus by Alexander Trallianus (ii. 5, p. 174.). Fabricius
Cynopolites. Gale added a new Latin version of mentions (Bibl. Gr. vol. xiii. p. 394, ed. vet.) a
his own, and gave a revised, at least a different, physician named Severianus, as quoted by A'tius;
text. The whole eight are included in the Rhe- but this is probably a mistake either in the Greek
tores Graeci of Walz, vol. i. p. 539, 8vo. Stuttgard text or in the Latin translation. He also menand Tubingen, 1832. II. A1ry7Lar'a, Narrationes. tions a physician named Theodosius Severus; but
1. De Viola; 2. De Hyacintho; 3. De Narcisso; "Theodotium" is only the title given by Severus
4. De Arione; 5. De Icaro; 6. De Oto et to one of his medicines. (See Bibl. Gr. vol. viii.
Ephialte. These were first published by Iriarte. p. 329.)
(Regiae Biblioth. Matritensis Codd. Graeci MSti, 2. The author of a short Greek treatise lIepI
vol. i. p. 462, fol. Madrid, 1769), and are reprinted'EVeT77-pWV'ot KXufcrTrpwv, De Clysteribus, which
by Walz in the collection just cited, p. 357. They was first published by F. R. Dietz, 8vo. Regim.
are very short. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. p. Pruss. 1836. He is called by the title of Iatro53.) [J. C. M.] sophista, and from some of the words he uses (e. g.
SEVE'RUS, bishop of Mileum in Numidia, dvcArhVraoeudos) may be supposed to have lived in
the friend and ardent admirer of St. Augustine, the sixth or seventh century after Christ. There
composed in the fervour of overflowing affection a is nothing in the work itself that deserves partipanegyrical epistle still extant, inscribed Venerabili cular notice here. [ W. A. G.]
ac desiderabili et toto sinu c/haritatis amplectendo SEVE'RUS, the architect, with Celer, of Nero's
episcopo Augustino. It will be found among the golden house. (Tac. Ann. xv. 42; Suet. Ner. 31;
correspondence of the bishop of Hippo, n. cix. ed. CELER.) [P. S.]
Bened. From Ep. cx. of the same collection it SEVE'RUS, ACI'LIUS, consul A. D. 323,
appears that Severus died before the object of his with Vettius Rufinus, in the reign of Constantius.
love and reverence. [W. R.] (Fasti.)
SEVEiRUS, was bishop of Minorca in the SEVE'RUS, T. ALLE'DIUS, a Roman eques,
early part of the fifth century, at a time when a married his own niece to please Agrippina, because
great number of the Jews settled in that island she married her uncle the emperor Claudius. (Tac.
were suddenly converted to Christianity. This Ann. xii. 7; comp. Suet. Claud. 26.)
happy change was ascribed by the prelate to the SEVE'RUS, A'NNIUS, father of Fabia Orespresence of the relics of St. Stephen, the proto- tilla, who was great grand-daughter of Antoninus,
martyr, which had been deposited in the church and wife of the elder Gordian. (Capitolin. Gorat Mago (Ma/hon) by Orosius, upon his return dian. tres, c. 6,) [W. R.]
from the East [ORosIvs], and the event was SEVE'RUS, AQUILLIUS, a Spaniard, lived
solemnly announced to all ecclesiastics throughout under Valentian, and wrote a work, partly in
the world in a circular letter written A. D. 218, prose and partly in poetry, which is thus described
and inscribed Epistola ad omnnes orbis terraruns by Hieronymus (de Vir. Ill. c. 3): "volumen,
Episcopos, Presbyteros, et Diaconos. This piece quasi'OWoTroplKiv, totius suae vitae statum conwas first brought to light from among the MSS. tinens, tam prosa, quam versibus, quod vocavit
in the Vatican by Baronius, who published it in KarTaarpoqpniv, sive JIIEpav." (Wernsdorf, PoEtae
his annals, and it will be found also in the Ap- Latini Minores, vol. v. p. 1491.)
pendix to the seventh volume of the Benedictine SEVE'RUS, M. AURE'LIUS ALEXANedition of St. Augustine, under the title of Severi DER, usually called ALEXANDER SEVERUS,
Epistola ad omnera EcclesiamL de Virtutibus in MIi- Roman emperor, A. D. 222-235, the son of
noricensi insula factis per reliquias Sancti Steplcani Gessius Marcianus and Julia Mamaea, and first
Mart/yris. [W. R.] cousin of Elagabalus [see genealogy under CARASEVE'RUS (~e~Wpos or aevjpos), the name of CALLA], was born at Arce, in Phoenicia, in the
two physicians, who have been supposed to be the temple of Alexander the Great, to which his parents
same person by Bandini, in his excellent catalogue had repaired for the celebration of a festival. There
of the Library at Florence (see the Index), and is some doubt as to the year and day of his birth;
one of whom (probably the former) is mentioned but the Ist of October, A. D. 205, is probably the
in a list of those who were most eminent in medical correct date, although Herodian places the event so
science. (Cramer's Anecd. Graeca Paris. vol. iv.) low as A. D. 208. His original name appears to
i. A physician who is mentioned by Archigenes have been Alexianzus Bassianus, the latter appel(ap. Gal. De Cocmpos. Medicace. see. Loc. iii. i. lation having been derived from his maternal grandvol. xii. p. 623), and in terms which seem to imply father. Upon the elevation of Elagabalus, he
that he was dead when Archigenes wrote. The accompanied his mother and the court to Rome,
name occurs several times in Aitius, who has pre- a report having been spread abroad, and having