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Epist. v. 83, 84, ed.
of the East, in which he succeeded Hermogenes. Genev. 1587, v. 85, 86, ed. Paris, 1604 ; Tille-
Ammianus places his appointment a little before the mont, Hist. des Emp. vol. v. p. 409. ) (J. C. M. ]
death of the emperor Constantius II. ; and from the HELPI'DIUS or ELPI'DIUS, sometimes
Codex Theodosianus it appears that it took place written Helfrilius, was a Christian poet, who fion-
only just before A. D. 359. Ammianus speaks of rished towards the close of the fifth century, was
him as a man of mean appearance and address, but physician to the Gothic monarch Theodoric, and is
of mild and upright disposition, and averse to blood- believed by many to be the Rusticus Helpidius
shed. Libanius was intimate with Helpidius, and commemorated in an inscription with the title of
addressed many letters to him. Some dispute, Esquaestor. The following compositions, still ex-
however, appears to have taken place between tant, are ascribed to this author :--
them; and Libanius, in one of his letters to the 1. Historiarum Testamenti Veteris et Novi Tris-
emperor Julian (Ep. 652. ed. Wolf), complains ticha XXIV. , twenty-four epigrammatic narratives,
that Helpidius, "the unjust,” had stopped his taken from Bible history, each comprised in three
salary, which, however, Sallustius, “the kind," who dactylic hexameters, with titles descriptive of the
succeeded Helpidius in the praefecture of the East, subjects, such as “ Eva a diabolo seducta," " Joseph


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HELVIUS.
HEMINA.
.
n fratribus venditur," " Lazarus a morte revocatus," | 189. (Liv. YYYTİN, 20, 21, 22 ; Polyb. xxi. 17.
Christus in monte docet," and the like.
$ 3, &c. )
(W. B. D. )
2. De Christi Jesu Beneficiis, a song of praise and HE'LVIUS PERTINAX. [PERTINAX. )
thanksgiving, comprised in 150 hexameters, not HELVI'DIA GENS. The name Helvidius does
altogether destitute of elegance, and certainly very not occur in Roman history until the latter half of
superior in every respect to the weak and pointless the first century B. C. (Cic. pro Cluent. 70. ) Under
tristichs.
Nero and the Flavian Caesars it was renowned for
It would appear from an allusion, somewhat am- earnest, but fruitless, patriotism. The connection
biguous, however, contained in the last-named piece of P. Helvidius Rufus with Larinum (Cic. 1. c. ), a
(1. 43, &c. ), that Helpidius had written a poem to Frentanian municipium (Plin. H. N. i. 12), makes
comfort himself while in sorrow, but, if such a pro- it probable that the family was originally Sabellian.
duction was ever published, it is now lost. The Helvidii had the surnames Priscus and Rufus.
Both of the above works are given in the Poet- The only Helvidius who had no cognomen, or
arum veterum Eccles. Opera Christiana of G. Fa- whose cognomen has, perhaps, dropped out of the
bricius, fol. Basil. 1564 ; in the Bibl. Magn. Patr. MSS. , is the following:
fol. Paris, 1644, vol. viii. , and in the Bill. Patr. HELVI'DIUS, son of the younger Helridius
Max. fol. Lugdun. 1677, vol. ix. p. 462. (Cassi- Priscus (PRISCUS HELVIDIUS, 2] by his first wife.
odor. Var. iv. 24 ; Ennod. Ep. ix. 21, xi. 19, and He had the title of consularis, but his name does
notes of Sirmond. )
(W. R. ] not appear on the Fasti. Wamed by the fate of
HEʻLVIA. 1. Daughter of L. Helvius, a Roman his father and his father's friends, under Nere and
eques, who, on her return from Rome to Apulia, his successors, Helvidius concealed equal talents
B. c. 114, was struck from her horse by lightning, and similar principles in retirement. But he had
and killed, on the Stellatine plain. The circum- written an interlude (exodium), entitled “Paris
stances of her death were sufficiently remarkable and Oenone,” and the informers of Domitian's
to attract the notice of the Haruspices, who pre- reign detected in the nymph and the faithless
dicted from them impending disgrace to the vestal Trojan the emperor's divorce from one of his many
priesthood and to the equestrian order. (Plut. wives. Helvidius was accused, condemned, and
Quaest. Rom. 83; Oros. v. 15; Obseq. de Prod. even dragged to prison, by the obsequious senate
97. ) For the speedy accomplishment of the pre-(Tac. Agric. 45), whither the order for his ex-
diction see Dion Cass. Fr. 91, 92; Liv. Epit. lxiii
. ecution soon followed. After Domitian's decease,
2. Wife of M. Annaeus Seneca, of Corduba, the the younger Pliny, an intimate friend of Helvidios,
rhetorician, and mother of his three sons, M. An- avenged his death and the cause of public justice
naeus Novatus, L. Annaeus Seneca, the philosopher, at once, by impeaching Publicius Certus, a senator
und L. Annaeus Mela. (Sen. Consol. ad Helo. 2. ) of praetorian rank, who had been the foremost in
Helvia was probably a native of Spain, and followed seconding the delators. The account of the im-
her husband to Rome, about A. D. 3—5, while her peachment, which was afterwards published, and
second son was an infant. (Ibid. 17. ) The life of was written, in imitation of Demosthenes against
Helvia is contained in Seneca's address of condo- Meidias, is given by Pliny in a letter to Quadratus.
lence to his mother (Consolatio ad Helviam) on bis (Ep. ix. 13. ) A death, so timely as to be deemed
exile to Corsica, in the reign of Claudius, A. D. voluntary, released Certus from condemnation.
47-9. Through the rhetorical amplifications of this Helvidius married Anteia, daughter of P. Anteius,
address we discover that Helvia had borne her full put to death by Nero in A. D. 57. (P. ANTBIUS,
share of the sorrows of life. Her mother died in p. 183, a. ] By her he had a son, who survived
giving birth to her. She was brought up by a step- him, and two daughters, who died very young in
mother. She had lost her husband and a most in- childbed. (Plin. Ep. iv. 21, ix. 13; Suet. Dom.
dulgent uncle within a month of each other ; and 10; Tac. Agric. 45. )
(W. B. D. ]
her grief for the untimely decease of one of her HELVI'DIUS PRISCUS. (PRISCUS. )
grandsons was embittered by the exile of her son. HELVI'DIUS RUFUS. [Rurus. )
Helvia had at least one sister (Cons. ad Helv. 17), HEMERE'SIA ('Huepnola), i. e. the soothing
but her name is unknown. [W. B. D. ) goddess, a surname of Artemis, under which she
HE'LVIA GENS, plebeian, occurs only once was worshipped at the well Lusi (Aovool), in Ar
in the Fasti—the ovation of M. Helvius Blasio, cadia (Paus. viii. 18. 3; Callim. Hymn. in Dian
B. C. 195 [BLASIO]—and was first rescued from 236. )
[L. S. ]
obscurity by the election of P. Helvius Pertinax to HEMINA, L. CA'SSIUS, an historian of
the empire, A. D. 193. The Helvia gens contained Rome, who wrote at the beginning of the second
in the time of the republic the surnames Blasio, century of the city.
According to Censorinus (De
CINNA, MANCIA. A few are mentioned without a Die Nai. 17), Hemina was alive in B G 146, a
cognomen.
(W. B. D. ) year memorable for the destruction of Carthage and
HE'LVIUS. 1. Cn. , tribune of the soldiers, Corinth, and for the fourth celebration of the se-
was slain, B. c. 204, in battle with the Gauls and cular or centenary games of Rome. His praenomen,
Carthaginians, in the territory of Milan. (Liv. Lucius, rests on the sole authority of Priscian (ix.
xxx. 18. )
p. 868, ed. Putsch. ; comp. Intpp. ad Virg. Aen. ii.
2. Co was aedile of the plebs with M. Porcius 717, ed. Mai). If Nepos (ap. Suet. de Člar. Rhet.
Cato the elder, in B. C. 199, and, in the next year, 3) be correct in stating L. Otacilius Pilitus to have
one of his colleagues in the praetorship. As prae- been the first person not of noble birth who wrote
tor, Helvius had no province regularly assigned to the history of Rome, Hemina, who lived much
him ; but he accompanied the consul, Sext. Aelius earlier than Pilitus, must have belonged to a well-
Paetus, into Cisalpine Gaul, and received from him born family. Hemina was the author of a work,
the command of one of the consular armies. (Liv. styled indifferently by those who mention is, an-
xxxii. 7, 9, 26. ) He afterwards served in Galatia nals or history, which comprised the records of
as legatus to Ćn. Manlius Vulso, consul in B. c. Rome from the earliest to his own times. We
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HENRICUS.
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know the title and contents of the fourth book orator in the time of Demosthenes. (Meineke,
alone- Bellum Punicum posterius (Priscian. Frag. Com. Graec. vol. i. p. 421, vol. iii. p. 560;
vii. p. 767, ed. Putsch); those of the preceding Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. p. 448. ). [P. S. ]
books are merely matter of conjecture. Priscian, HENRICUS ('Evpixos), HENRY, a Greek
however, cites from a fifth book (super xü. ver. emperor (A. D. 1206–1216), the second son of
Aen. vi. p. 1254), and there were probably even Baldwin VIII. , count of Flanders and Hainaut,
more. (Niebuhr, Lectures on Rom. Hist
. vol. i. p. was born about 1176, and succeeded his elder
37. ) Pliny (H. N. xiii. 13, xxix. 1) calls Hemina brother Baldwin on the throne of Constantinople
“ vetustissimus auctor," and " auctor ex antiquis. " in 1206. (BALDUINUS I. ] Henry was one of the
He derived his information from genuine sources, leading chiefs in the great expedition of the Latin
and synchronised with the Greeks, placing the age barons against Constantinople, in 1204, and in the
of Homer more than 160 years after the Trojan division of the empire was rewarded with territories
war. (Gellius, xvii. 21. ) Hemina had read, and in Asia, which, however, he had first to wrest
probably borrowed, from Cato's Origines (comp. from Theodore Lascaris and the other leaders of
Priscian, x. p. 903, with Serv. ad Aen. i. 421); the rebellious Greeks. He defeated Lascaris in a
and, on the other hand, Sallust, whose propensity bloody battle near Adramyttium in Mysia, in
for archaisms is obvious, seems to have studied 1205, and the conquest of Bithynia was the fruit
Hemina, since the words “ omnia orta occidunt, et of his victory. The emperor's campaign against
aucta senescunt," in the prooemium of the Jugur- the Bulgarians obliged him to repair to the other
thine war, singularly resemble a fragment, “ quae side of the Bosporus, and he left Asia at the head
nata sunt, ea omnia denasci aiunt,” of the second of 20,000 Armenian mercenaries, with whom he
book of Hemina's annals, quoted by Nonius (de marched upon Adrianople. Before he had reached
nasci, decrescere). It is, however, remarkable, that that town, he was informed that Baldwin, without
neither Livy, Dionysius, nor Plutarch, mention waiting for the arrival of his brother, had impru-
Hemina by name among their several authorities ; dently engaged a pitched battle with the Bulgarian
nor does Cicero include him in his catalogue of the king, Joannicus or Calo-Joannes, that the imperial
early annalists and historians of Rome. (De Or. troops had suffered a severe defeat, and that no-
ii. 12, De Leg. 1, 2. ) From the frequent citations body knew what had become of the emperor (15th
of Hemina by the grammarians Nonius, Priscian, of April, 1205). In this emergency, Henry left
and Servius, his diction would seem to bave been his army, and hastening alone to the field of battle
at least idiomatic, and he furnished the antiquarians near Adrianople, arrived in time to save the im-
and encyclopaedists, Macrobius (Sat. i. 13, 16, iii. perial army from utter destruction. The fate of
4), Gellius (xvii
. 21. 9 3), Pliny (H. N. xii. 13, Baldwin being entirely unknown, Henry was
xviii
. 2, xix. 1, xxix. 1, xxxii. 2), and Solinus (8), chosen regent, and he conducted his forces back to
with some curious traditions of the past. The Constantinople. The Bulgarian king followed in
fragments of Hemina's history are collected and his steps, burnt Philippopolis, and ravaged all
arranged by Krause (Vit. et Fragm. Vet. Hist. Thrace in a most savage manner. He reckoned
Rom. pp. 155–166).
(W. B. D. ] upon the assistance of the discontented Greeks,
HEMI'THEON ('Huibéwr), a Sybarite of the and, had they joined him, the fate of the new
vilest character, and the author of an obscene work. Latin empire of Constantinople would have been
He is mentioned by Lucian (Adv. Indoctum, c. 23, sealed; but his unheard-of cruelties showed the
and, according to the conjecture of Solanus, Pseu-Greeks that among their foreign masters the Bul-
dolog. c. 3). It is thought that he is the writer re- garian was the worst ; and the inhabitants of
ferred to in a passage of Ovid (Trist. ii. 417), and, Adrianople, after having defended their town
if the common reading of the passage is correct, he against Henry as an usurper and tyrant, now
appears to have flourished not long before that poet. opened their gates, and received him within their
But Heinsius (ad loc. ) conjectures that for nu- walls with acclamations of joy. This was in
per” we should read “ turpem," in which case, the 1206. It was then known that the emperor Bald-
age of Hemitheon remains undetermined. If it is win was a prisoner of the king of Bulgaria, and in
to him that Ovid refers, it may be gathered that the summer of 1206 the news came of his melan-
his work was a poem, entitled Sylaritis. (Politian, choly death. Henry, known as a skilful general,
Miscellanea, c. 15; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. viii. p. endeared to most of the Latin barons for having
159. )
[J. C. M. ] saved them after the defeat of Adrianople, and
HENI'OCHE ("Hv16X), a daughter of Creon moreover next of kin to his brother, was unani-
of Thebes, to whom, and to whose sister Pyrrha, mously chosen emperor, and crowned at Constanti-
statues were erected at the entrance of the temple nople on the 20th of August, 1206. At the same
of the Ismenian Apollo at Thebes. (Paus. ix. 10. time Theodore Lascaris was recognised by a large
$ 3. ) The wife of Creon, whom Sophocles calls number of towns and villages as lawful emperor,
Eurydice, is likewise called by Hesiod (Scut. 83) and took up his residence at Nicaea. From that
Henioche.
(L. S. ] time down to 1261, there was a Latin-Byzantine
HENI'OCHUS ("Hvíoxos), an Athenian comic and a Greek-Byzantine empire, to which we must
poet of the middle comedy, whose plays, as men- add a third, the Greek empire of the Comneni at
tioned by Suidas, were: Tpoxiaos, Erikampos, Trebizond. An alliance between the king of Bul-
Γοργόνες, Πολυπράγμων, Θωρύκιον, Πολύευκτος, garia and Theodore Lascaris placed Henry in great
Pétaipos, als étatatouevos, a few fragments of danger. He kept the field in Thrace and Asia
which are preserved by Athenæus (vi. p. 271, a. with great bravery, and found additional strength
ix. p. 296, d. p. 408, a. xi. p. 483, e. ) and Stobaeus in an alliance with the Marquis of Montferrat, lord
(Serm. xlii. 27). Suidas (s. v. TOUEUKTOS) has or king of Thessalonica, whose daughter Agnes he
made a curious blunder, calling Heniochus a play married ; but he lost her soon afterwards. In
by the comic poet Polyeuctus. The Polyeuctus, 1207 Joannicus died, and Henry concluded a po-
who gave the title to the play of Heniochus, was an litical marriage with his daughter, which led to a



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