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verse: whence it is inferred that he must have 3.
verse: whence it is inferred that he must have 3.
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Helenus there as king of the island, to which as ginus (P’oct. A str. ii. 2, 13) calls her a daughter of
grandson of Agathocles he appeared to have a sort Olenus, and says that she brought up Zeus.
of hereditary claim. (Just. xviii, 1, xxiii. 3. ) But 2. A daughter of Selinus, and the wife of Ion.
the tide of fortune soon turned ; and when Pyrrhus The town of Helice, in Achaia, was believed to
saw himself compelled to abandon both Sicily and have derived its name from her. (Paus vii. 1. $ 2;
Italy, he left Helenus at Tarentum, together with Steph. Byz. s. r. )
Milo, to command the garrison of that city, the 3. A daughter of Danaus, mentioned by Hye
only place in Italy of which he still retained pos- ginus. (Fab. 170. )
(L. S. ]
session. It was not long before he recalled them HELICON ('EÁikár), a native of Cyzicus, a
both from thence, in consequence of the unex- friend and disciple of Plato. He was for some
pected views that had opened to his ambition in time a resident at the court of Dionysius the
Macedonia and Greece. Helenus accompanied his Younger, and was presented by him with a talent
father on his expedition into the Peloponnese of silver for having correctly predicted an eclipse of
(B. c. 272), and after the fatal night attack on the sun. (Plut. Dion. p. 966. ) According to Sui-
Argos, in which Pyrrhus himself perished, he fell | das (s. v. ), he wrote a work entitled 'ATOTENé Ouara
into the hands of Antigonus Gonatas, who how- and a treatise lepi Aloonueiav. [C. P. M. )
ever behaved towards him in the most magnani- HE’LICON ('EALKWY), the son of Acesas, of
mous manner, treated him with the utmost dis- Salamis, in Cyprus, was a celebrated artist in
tinction, and sent him back in safety to Epeirus, weaving variegated garments and hangings. He
bearing with him the remains of his father. (Just. made the war cloak (ÉTITOPTQua) which the Rho-
xxv. 3, 5; Plut. Pyrrh. 33, 34. ) After this we dians presented to Alexander the Great (Plut.
hear no more of him.
Aler. 32. ) Plutarch's addition to his name of the
2. A freedman of Octavian, who enjoyed a high words toỦ Talaloù, makes it probable that he lived
place in his favour. He was taken prisoner in about the time of Phidias, under whose direction
Sardinia by Maenas, the lieutenant of Sext. we know that artists of his class (TOLKATA)
Pompey (B. C. 40), but the latter set him at liberty wrought. (Plut. Peric. 12. ) The celebrated works
without ransom, in order to curry favour with Au- of Helicon and his father are mentioned under
gustus. (Dion Cass. xlviii. 30. ) According to Acesas. (Müller, Archäol. d. Kunst. $ 114, n. 1,
Appian (B. C. v. 66), he was employed as a and Nachträge, p. 706. )
[P. S. )
general by Octavian, and had reduced Sardinia not HELICO'NIUS ('ÉAlkavios), a Byzantine
long before ; but Dion Cassius represents M. Lurius writer, lived in the fourth century, and did not die
as the commander in the island at the time of its before A. D. 395, since it was down to this year
capture.
[E. H. B. ) that his work extended. This work was a chronicle
HE'LENUS ("Elevos), a veterinary surgeon, from Adam to Theodosius the Great, divided into
who may perhaps have lived in the fourth or fifth ten books. (Suidas, s. v. 'EAKÓv ; Fabric. Bibl.
century after Christ. Of his writings only some Graec. vol. xi. p. 633. )
(W. P. )
fragments remain, which are to be found in the HEʼLIO or HEʻLION ('HAíw), magister offi-
Collection of Writers on Veterinary Surgery, first ciorum, A. D. 4144417, 424-427, under Theodo-
published in Latin by Joannes Ruellius, Paris, sius II. He is also called Patricius by Olympio-
1530, fol. , and afterwards in Greek by Simon Gry- dorus. (Comp. Cod. Theod. 6. tit. 27. s. 20. and 7.
naeus, Basil. 1537, 4to.
(W. A. G. ) tit. 8. s. 14. ) He was commissioned by Theodosius
HELIADAE and HELIADES ('Hráda, and to invest with the robe of Caesar, at Thessalonica,
'Haddes), that is, the male and female descendants A. D. 424, the boy Valentinian III. , then in exile
of Helios, and might accordingly be applied to all [Galla, No. 3]; and after the overthrow and
his children, but in mythology the name is given death of the usurper Joannes, he invested Valen-
more particularly to the seven sons and the one tinian at Rome, A. D. 425, with the robes and
daughter of Helios by Rhode or Rhodos. Their crown of Augustus. Helio had, before these trans-
names are, Cercaphus, Actis, Macareus, Tanages, actions (A. D. 422), been engaged by Theodosius,
Triopas, Phaëton, Ochimus, and Electryone. These by whom he was much esteemed, in negotiating a
names, however, as well as their number, are not peace with the Persian king Varanes. (Cod. Theod.
the same in all accounts. (Diod. v. 56, &c. ; Schol. 13. tit. 3. 6. 17; 6. tit. 27. ss. 17, 18, 19, 20; 7.
ad Pind. Ol. vii. 131, &c. ) It should be observed tit. 8. 8. 14 ; Gothofred. Prosop. Cod. Theod. ; Olym-
that the sisters of Phaëton are likewise called piod. apud Phot. Bibl. Cod. 80 ; Socrat. H. E. vi.
p.
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373
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:
p. 262. )
20, 24 ; Theophan. Chronog. vol. i. p. 134, ed. / by Apollonius and Hesychius. Iriarte mentions
Bonn ; Tillemont, Hist. des Emp. vol. vi. ) [J. C. M. ] some grammatical MSS. by a certain Heliodorus in
HELIOCLES ('HALOKAñs), a king of Bactria, the Royal Library at Madrid. (Villoison, Proleg.
or of the Indo-Bactrian provinces south of the in Apollon. Let. Hon. pp. 24, 61; Fabric. U. cc. ;
Paropamisus, known only from his coins. Many Ritschl, l. C. , who considers the Heliodorus who
of these are bilingual, having Greek inscriptions wrote scholia to the téxon ypapuatuch of Dionysius
on the one side, and Arian characters on the re- Thrax, to be a different person.
)
verse: whence it is inferred that he must have 3. A rhetorician at Rome in the time of Au-
flourished in the interval between the death of gustus, whom Horace mentions as the companion
Eucratides and the destruction of the Greek king- of his journey to Brundisium, calling him " by far
doin of Bactria, B. c. 127. It appears probable the most learned of the Greeks. ” (Sal. i. 5. 2, 3. )
also, from one of his coins, that he must have 4. A Stoic philosopher at Rome, who became a
reigned at one time conjointly with, or subordinate delator in the reign of Nero. Among his victims
to Eucratides: and Lassen, Mionnet, and Wilson, was his own disciple, Licinius Silanius. He was
conceive him to be the son of Eucratides, who is attacked by Juvenal (Sat. i. v. 33, 35, and
mentioned by Justin as being at first associated schol. ).
with his father in the sovereign power, and who
5. A rhetorician, and also private secretary to
afterwards put him to death. (Justin. xli
. 6 ; Las the emperor Hadrian. He was a contemporary
sen, Gesch. der Bactr. Könige; Wilson's Ariana, and rival of Dionysius of Miletus, who, we are
[E, H. B. ) told, once said to him, “ The emperor can give
HELIODOʻRUS ('H^tóbwpos), the treasurer you money and honour, but he cannot make you
of Seleucus Philopator, king of Syria, murdered an orator. " He was probably the same person as
his master, and attempted to seize the crown Heliodorus of Syria, who, as the reward of his
for himself, but was expelled by Eumenes and skill in rhetoric, was made praefect of Egypt, and
Attalus, of Pergamus, who established Antiochus whose son, Avidius Cassius, attempted to usurp the
Epiphanes in the kingdom, B. C. 175. (Ap- purple in the reign of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
pian, Syr. 45; Liv. xli. 24. ) The well-known Cassius Avidius. ] (Dion, lxix. 3, lxxi. 22, and
story of his being sent by Seleucus to rob the Reimarus ad loc. ) Reimarus confounds Heliodorus
temple at Jerusalem, and of his miraculous punish with Hadrian's other secretary, Celer. That they
ment (2 Maccab. iii. ), is rendered somewhat were not the same person is proved by the distinct
suspicious by the silence of Josephus. The author mention of both of them in an oration of Aristeides.
of the anonymous work on the Maccabees tells the (Orat. Sac. iv. pp. 595, 602. ) There can be little
story of Apollonius, instead of Heliodorus, and doubt that this is also the Heliodorus whom Aelius
says nothing about the miraculous part of it. (De Spartianus mentions as a philosopher and friend of
Maccab. 4. )
(P. S. ] Hadrian, but who, the same writer tells us, suffered
HELIODOʻRUS, praefectus urbi at Constanti- the usual fate of Hadrian's friends, and was abused
nople, A. D. 432, is probably the Heliodorus men- by the emperor "famosissimis literis. ” (Spart.
tioned with a high encomium by Theodoric, king Had. 15, 16. ) It is doubtful whether this Helio-
of the Ostrogoths in Italy, in a letter included in dorus or the preceding (No. 3) is the grammarian
the works of Cassiodorus. A person of the same who is satirically alluded to by the epigrammatists
name, possibly the same person, was comes sacra- of the Greek Anthology. (Brunck, Anal. vol. i.
rum largitionum, A. D. 468. (Cod. Theod. 6. tit. p. 11, vol. ii. pp. 327, 332. )
24, $ 11, with the note of Gothofredus; Cassiodor. 6. Philostratus relates the life of an Arabian
Variar. i. 4. )
(J. C. M. ] sophist, Heliodorus, who lived under Caracalla,
HELIODOʻRUS ('HA16owpos), literary :- and gained the favour of the emperor in a curious
I. POETS. 1. Of Athens. A tragedian, and way, and who, after his patron's death, was made
author of a poem entitled StoAutiká, from which the praefect of a certain island. (Vit. Sophist.
Galen quotes some verses about poisons. (De An- 22. )
tidot. ïi. 7, vol. xiv. p. 145; Welcker, die Griech. III. HISTORIAN. An Athenian, surnamed Slepi-
Tragöd. p. 1323. )
months, wrote a description of the works of art in
2. The author of a poem entitled Protesilaus, the Acropolis at Athens, which is quoted under the
from which Stephanus Byzantinus, (σ. ο. Φυλάκη) various titles, Περί ακροπόλεως, Περί των 'Αθήνησι
quotes an hexameter verse.
τριπόδων, 'Αναθήματα, and de Atheniensium Anaile-
3. The author of a poem entitled 'Italıkd Oed- matis. This work was one of the authorities for
pata, from which Stobaeus (Floril. tit. 100, c. 6) Pliny's account of the Greek artists. Heliodorus
quotes six verses. He probably lived after Cicero. lived after the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, at
(Meineke, Comm. Misc. Spec. i. 3, p. 38. ) least if he be the person meant in the first passage
II. PHILOSOPHERS, RHETORICIANS, and Gram- of Athenaeus now referred to. (Athen. ii. p. 45, c.
1. A writer op metres, whose 'EyXer- vi. p. 229, e. ix. p. 406, c. ; Suid. , Phot. , Harpocrat.
ρίδιον is often quoted by Hephaestion, Rufinus, and | 8. το. Θετταλός, Νίκη, Όνήτωρ, Προπύλαια ; Plin.
others, and who also wrote Nepl Movoukais. (Pris Elench. in Lib. xxxiii. xxxiv. xxxv. ) He is also
cian, de Fig. Num. i. 396, ed. Krehl) He was the apparently mentioned in a passage of Plutarch as
father of the grammarian Irenaeus, and the teacher the author of a work Nepi uvnuátwr (Vit. X. Orat.
of Minutius Pacatas. He probably lived shortly p. 849, c), but in that passage we should probably
before the time of Augustus. (Suid. s. v. Eipnvaios; read Adboupus for 'Halóowpos. (Vossius, de Hist.
Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 512, vol. vi. pp. 206, Graec. p. 448, ed. Westermann. )
344, 368, vol. viii. p. 126; Ritschl, Die Alexandr. IV. ROMANCE-WRITER, the author of the oldest
Bibl. pp. 138, &c. )
and by far the best of the Greek romances. Helio-
2. Perhaps the same as the preceding, a gram-dorus, the son of Theodosius, was a native of
marian, whose commentaries on Homer are quoted Syria, and was born, not, as Photius says, at
by Eustathius and other scholiasts on Honner, and Aminda, but at Emesa, as he himself tells us at the
a
MARIANS.
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HELIODORUS.
end of his romance :-Tobvde répas koxe od | with the best of later Greek romances, that of
σύνταγμα των περί Θεαγένην και Χαρίκλειαν | Achilles Tatius for example, has the superiority of
Αιθιοπικών και συνέταξεν ανήρ Φοίνιξ Εμεσηνός, greater nature, less artificial and rhetorical elabora-
των αφ' Ηλίου γένος, Θεοδοσίου παίς Ηλιόδωρος. | tion, with more real eloquence, less improbability in
The words tūv dp' 'Halov gyévos no doubt mean its incidents, and greater skill in the management
that he was of the family of priests of the Syrian of the episodes, and, in short, the superiority of a
god of the Sun (Elagabalus). He lived about work of original talent over an imitation. It
the end of the fourth century of our era, under formed the model for subsequent Greek romance
Theodosius and his sons. He wrote his romance writers. It is often quoted by the title of Xapi.
in early life. He afterwards became bishop of kneca, just as the work of Achilles is quoted by
Tricca in Thessaly, where he introduced the regu- that of Aevkitty, from the names of the respective
lation, that every priest who did not, upon his heroines.
ordination, separate himself from his wife, should In modern times the Aethiopica was scarcely
be deposed. (Socrat.
Helenus there as king of the island, to which as ginus (P’oct. A str. ii. 2, 13) calls her a daughter of
grandson of Agathocles he appeared to have a sort Olenus, and says that she brought up Zeus.
of hereditary claim. (Just. xviii, 1, xxiii. 3. ) But 2. A daughter of Selinus, and the wife of Ion.
the tide of fortune soon turned ; and when Pyrrhus The town of Helice, in Achaia, was believed to
saw himself compelled to abandon both Sicily and have derived its name from her. (Paus vii. 1. $ 2;
Italy, he left Helenus at Tarentum, together with Steph. Byz. s. r. )
Milo, to command the garrison of that city, the 3. A daughter of Danaus, mentioned by Hye
only place in Italy of which he still retained pos- ginus. (Fab. 170. )
(L. S. ]
session. It was not long before he recalled them HELICON ('EÁikár), a native of Cyzicus, a
both from thence, in consequence of the unex- friend and disciple of Plato. He was for some
pected views that had opened to his ambition in time a resident at the court of Dionysius the
Macedonia and Greece. Helenus accompanied his Younger, and was presented by him with a talent
father on his expedition into the Peloponnese of silver for having correctly predicted an eclipse of
(B. c. 272), and after the fatal night attack on the sun. (Plut. Dion. p. 966. ) According to Sui-
Argos, in which Pyrrhus himself perished, he fell | das (s. v. ), he wrote a work entitled 'ATOTENé Ouara
into the hands of Antigonus Gonatas, who how- and a treatise lepi Aloonueiav. [C. P. M. )
ever behaved towards him in the most magnani- HE’LICON ('EALKWY), the son of Acesas, of
mous manner, treated him with the utmost dis- Salamis, in Cyprus, was a celebrated artist in
tinction, and sent him back in safety to Epeirus, weaving variegated garments and hangings. He
bearing with him the remains of his father. (Just. made the war cloak (ÉTITOPTQua) which the Rho-
xxv. 3, 5; Plut. Pyrrh. 33, 34. ) After this we dians presented to Alexander the Great (Plut.
hear no more of him.
Aler. 32. ) Plutarch's addition to his name of the
2. A freedman of Octavian, who enjoyed a high words toỦ Talaloù, makes it probable that he lived
place in his favour. He was taken prisoner in about the time of Phidias, under whose direction
Sardinia by Maenas, the lieutenant of Sext. we know that artists of his class (TOLKATA)
Pompey (B. C. 40), but the latter set him at liberty wrought. (Plut. Peric. 12. ) The celebrated works
without ransom, in order to curry favour with Au- of Helicon and his father are mentioned under
gustus. (Dion Cass. xlviii. 30. ) According to Acesas. (Müller, Archäol. d. Kunst. $ 114, n. 1,
Appian (B. C. v. 66), he was employed as a and Nachträge, p. 706. )
[P. S. )
general by Octavian, and had reduced Sardinia not HELICO'NIUS ('ÉAlkavios), a Byzantine
long before ; but Dion Cassius represents M. Lurius writer, lived in the fourth century, and did not die
as the commander in the island at the time of its before A. D. 395, since it was down to this year
capture.
[E. H. B. ) that his work extended. This work was a chronicle
HE'LENUS ("Elevos), a veterinary surgeon, from Adam to Theodosius the Great, divided into
who may perhaps have lived in the fourth or fifth ten books. (Suidas, s. v. 'EAKÓv ; Fabric. Bibl.
century after Christ. Of his writings only some Graec. vol. xi. p. 633. )
(W. P. )
fragments remain, which are to be found in the HEʼLIO or HEʻLION ('HAíw), magister offi-
Collection of Writers on Veterinary Surgery, first ciorum, A. D. 4144417, 424-427, under Theodo-
published in Latin by Joannes Ruellius, Paris, sius II. He is also called Patricius by Olympio-
1530, fol. , and afterwards in Greek by Simon Gry- dorus. (Comp. Cod. Theod. 6. tit. 27. s. 20. and 7.
naeus, Basil. 1537, 4to.
(W. A. G. ) tit. 8. s. 14. ) He was commissioned by Theodosius
HELIADAE and HELIADES ('Hráda, and to invest with the robe of Caesar, at Thessalonica,
'Haddes), that is, the male and female descendants A. D. 424, the boy Valentinian III. , then in exile
of Helios, and might accordingly be applied to all [Galla, No. 3]; and after the overthrow and
his children, but in mythology the name is given death of the usurper Joannes, he invested Valen-
more particularly to the seven sons and the one tinian at Rome, A. D. 425, with the robes and
daughter of Helios by Rhode or Rhodos. Their crown of Augustus. Helio had, before these trans-
names are, Cercaphus, Actis, Macareus, Tanages, actions (A. D. 422), been engaged by Theodosius,
Triopas, Phaëton, Ochimus, and Electryone. These by whom he was much esteemed, in negotiating a
names, however, as well as their number, are not peace with the Persian king Varanes. (Cod. Theod.
the same in all accounts. (Diod. v. 56, &c. ; Schol. 13. tit. 3. 6. 17; 6. tit. 27. ss. 17, 18, 19, 20; 7.
ad Pind. Ol. vii. 131, &c. ) It should be observed tit. 8. 8. 14 ; Gothofred. Prosop. Cod. Theod. ; Olym-
that the sisters of Phaëton are likewise called piod. apud Phot. Bibl. Cod. 80 ; Socrat. H. E. vi.
p.
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373
HELIODORUS.
:
p. 262. )
20, 24 ; Theophan. Chronog. vol. i. p. 134, ed. / by Apollonius and Hesychius. Iriarte mentions
Bonn ; Tillemont, Hist. des Emp. vol. vi. ) [J. C. M. ] some grammatical MSS. by a certain Heliodorus in
HELIOCLES ('HALOKAñs), a king of Bactria, the Royal Library at Madrid. (Villoison, Proleg.
or of the Indo-Bactrian provinces south of the in Apollon. Let. Hon. pp. 24, 61; Fabric. U. cc. ;
Paropamisus, known only from his coins. Many Ritschl, l. C. , who considers the Heliodorus who
of these are bilingual, having Greek inscriptions wrote scholia to the téxon ypapuatuch of Dionysius
on the one side, and Arian characters on the re- Thrax, to be a different person.
)
verse: whence it is inferred that he must have 3. A rhetorician at Rome in the time of Au-
flourished in the interval between the death of gustus, whom Horace mentions as the companion
Eucratides and the destruction of the Greek king- of his journey to Brundisium, calling him " by far
doin of Bactria, B. c. 127. It appears probable the most learned of the Greeks. ” (Sal. i. 5. 2, 3. )
also, from one of his coins, that he must have 4. A Stoic philosopher at Rome, who became a
reigned at one time conjointly with, or subordinate delator in the reign of Nero. Among his victims
to Eucratides: and Lassen, Mionnet, and Wilson, was his own disciple, Licinius Silanius. He was
conceive him to be the son of Eucratides, who is attacked by Juvenal (Sat. i. v. 33, 35, and
mentioned by Justin as being at first associated schol. ).
with his father in the sovereign power, and who
5. A rhetorician, and also private secretary to
afterwards put him to death. (Justin. xli
. 6 ; Las the emperor Hadrian. He was a contemporary
sen, Gesch. der Bactr. Könige; Wilson's Ariana, and rival of Dionysius of Miletus, who, we are
[E, H. B. ) told, once said to him, “ The emperor can give
HELIODOʻRUS ('H^tóbwpos), the treasurer you money and honour, but he cannot make you
of Seleucus Philopator, king of Syria, murdered an orator. " He was probably the same person as
his master, and attempted to seize the crown Heliodorus of Syria, who, as the reward of his
for himself, but was expelled by Eumenes and skill in rhetoric, was made praefect of Egypt, and
Attalus, of Pergamus, who established Antiochus whose son, Avidius Cassius, attempted to usurp the
Epiphanes in the kingdom, B. C. 175. (Ap- purple in the reign of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.
pian, Syr. 45; Liv. xli. 24. ) The well-known Cassius Avidius. ] (Dion, lxix. 3, lxxi. 22, and
story of his being sent by Seleucus to rob the Reimarus ad loc. ) Reimarus confounds Heliodorus
temple at Jerusalem, and of his miraculous punish with Hadrian's other secretary, Celer. That they
ment (2 Maccab. iii. ), is rendered somewhat were not the same person is proved by the distinct
suspicious by the silence of Josephus. The author mention of both of them in an oration of Aristeides.
of the anonymous work on the Maccabees tells the (Orat. Sac. iv. pp. 595, 602. ) There can be little
story of Apollonius, instead of Heliodorus, and doubt that this is also the Heliodorus whom Aelius
says nothing about the miraculous part of it. (De Spartianus mentions as a philosopher and friend of
Maccab. 4. )
(P. S. ] Hadrian, but who, the same writer tells us, suffered
HELIODOʻRUS, praefectus urbi at Constanti- the usual fate of Hadrian's friends, and was abused
nople, A. D. 432, is probably the Heliodorus men- by the emperor "famosissimis literis. ” (Spart.
tioned with a high encomium by Theodoric, king Had. 15, 16. ) It is doubtful whether this Helio-
of the Ostrogoths in Italy, in a letter included in dorus or the preceding (No. 3) is the grammarian
the works of Cassiodorus. A person of the same who is satirically alluded to by the epigrammatists
name, possibly the same person, was comes sacra- of the Greek Anthology. (Brunck, Anal. vol. i.
rum largitionum, A. D. 468. (Cod. Theod. 6. tit. p. 11, vol. ii. pp. 327, 332. )
24, $ 11, with the note of Gothofredus; Cassiodor. 6. Philostratus relates the life of an Arabian
Variar. i. 4. )
(J. C. M. ] sophist, Heliodorus, who lived under Caracalla,
HELIODOʻRUS ('HA16owpos), literary :- and gained the favour of the emperor in a curious
I. POETS. 1. Of Athens. A tragedian, and way, and who, after his patron's death, was made
author of a poem entitled StoAutiká, from which the praefect of a certain island. (Vit. Sophist.
Galen quotes some verses about poisons. (De An- 22. )
tidot. ïi. 7, vol. xiv. p. 145; Welcker, die Griech. III. HISTORIAN. An Athenian, surnamed Slepi-
Tragöd. p. 1323. )
months, wrote a description of the works of art in
2. The author of a poem entitled Protesilaus, the Acropolis at Athens, which is quoted under the
from which Stephanus Byzantinus, (σ. ο. Φυλάκη) various titles, Περί ακροπόλεως, Περί των 'Αθήνησι
quotes an hexameter verse.
τριπόδων, 'Αναθήματα, and de Atheniensium Anaile-
3. The author of a poem entitled 'Italıkd Oed- matis. This work was one of the authorities for
pata, from which Stobaeus (Floril. tit. 100, c. 6) Pliny's account of the Greek artists. Heliodorus
quotes six verses. He probably lived after Cicero. lived after the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, at
(Meineke, Comm. Misc. Spec. i. 3, p. 38. ) least if he be the person meant in the first passage
II. PHILOSOPHERS, RHETORICIANS, and Gram- of Athenaeus now referred to. (Athen. ii. p. 45, c.
1. A writer op metres, whose 'EyXer- vi. p. 229, e. ix. p. 406, c. ; Suid. , Phot. , Harpocrat.
ρίδιον is often quoted by Hephaestion, Rufinus, and | 8. το. Θετταλός, Νίκη, Όνήτωρ, Προπύλαια ; Plin.
others, and who also wrote Nepl Movoukais. (Pris Elench. in Lib. xxxiii. xxxiv. xxxv. ) He is also
cian, de Fig. Num. i. 396, ed. Krehl) He was the apparently mentioned in a passage of Plutarch as
father of the grammarian Irenaeus, and the teacher the author of a work Nepi uvnuátwr (Vit. X. Orat.
of Minutius Pacatas. He probably lived shortly p. 849, c), but in that passage we should probably
before the time of Augustus. (Suid. s. v. Eipnvaios; read Adboupus for 'Halóowpos. (Vossius, de Hist.
Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 512, vol. vi. pp. 206, Graec. p. 448, ed. Westermann. )
344, 368, vol. viii. p. 126; Ritschl, Die Alexandr. IV. ROMANCE-WRITER, the author of the oldest
Bibl. pp. 138, &c. )
and by far the best of the Greek romances. Helio-
2. Perhaps the same as the preceding, a gram-dorus, the son of Theodosius, was a native of
marian, whose commentaries on Homer are quoted Syria, and was born, not, as Photius says, at
by Eustathius and other scholiasts on Honner, and Aminda, but at Emesa, as he himself tells us at the
a
MARIANS.
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HELIODORUS.
HELIODORUS.
end of his romance :-Tobvde répas koxe od | with the best of later Greek romances, that of
σύνταγμα των περί Θεαγένην και Χαρίκλειαν | Achilles Tatius for example, has the superiority of
Αιθιοπικών και συνέταξεν ανήρ Φοίνιξ Εμεσηνός, greater nature, less artificial and rhetorical elabora-
των αφ' Ηλίου γένος, Θεοδοσίου παίς Ηλιόδωρος. | tion, with more real eloquence, less improbability in
The words tūv dp' 'Halov gyévos no doubt mean its incidents, and greater skill in the management
that he was of the family of priests of the Syrian of the episodes, and, in short, the superiority of a
god of the Sun (Elagabalus). He lived about work of original talent over an imitation. It
the end of the fourth century of our era, under formed the model for subsequent Greek romance
Theodosius and his sons. He wrote his romance writers. It is often quoted by the title of Xapi.
in early life. He afterwards became bishop of kneca, just as the work of Achilles is quoted by
Tricca in Thessaly, where he introduced the regu- that of Aevkitty, from the names of the respective
lation, that every priest who did not, upon his heroines.
ordination, separate himself from his wife, should In modern times the Aethiopica was scarcely
be deposed. (Socrat.
