De Viris
Illustribus
s.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
Ad Marcellinam et Anapsychiam 78
412
16 CXXVII. Ad Principiam, Marcellae viduae Epi-
taphium
96
413
12 CXXVIII. Ad Gaudentium de Pacatulae educa-
tione
98
414
129 CXXIX. Ad Dardanum de Terra Promissionis Inter Criticas, tom. 2. VI.
414
8 CXXX. Ad Demetriadem de servanda Virgin-
itate
97
415Vacat
CXXXI. Augustini ad Hieronymum de origine
Animae
Vacat,
415--Vacat
CXXXII. Augustini ad Hieron. de sententia
Jacobi Apostoli
Vacat.
415-Numero caret CXXXIII. Ad Ctesiphontem
43
416
94 CXXXIV. Ad Augustinum
79
417
CXXXV. Innocentii Papae ad Aurelium
417-Non habentur CXXXVI. Innocentii Papae ad Hieronymum
Non habentur.
417
CXXXVII. Innocentii Papae ad Joannem Hier-
osolym.
417
55 CXXXVIII. Ad Riparium
102
417
CXXXIX. Ad Apronium
103
418
139 CXL. Ad Cyprianum de Psalmo Lxxxix. Inter Criticas, tom. 2. XIIL
418
80
CXLI. Ad Augustinum
80
418
81 CXLII. Ad eumdem
77
419
79 CXLIII. Ad Alypium et Augustinum
81
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464
HIERONYMUS.
HIERONYMUS.
A. D.
.
.
.
deos
o se
16. DES
East
Ords Vaterum
Ordo Editinis
Editiunum.
Ordo Editionis Vallarsianae.
Benedictinae.
420-Desideratur CXLIV. Augustini ad Optatum de Hieronymo Desideratur.
Inccrt.
35
CXLV. Ad Exsuperantiuin
99
Incert.
85
CXLVI. Ad Evangelum
101
Incert.
48 CXLVII. Ad Sabinianuni
103
Falso adscriptae
14 CXLVIII. Ad Celantium
. 109
Inedita
CXLIX. De solennitatibus Paschae
Inedita
Non habetur
CL. Procopi, Graece et Latine
Ultima absque numero.
tical doctrines of the Gnostic Basilides, but his
VOL. II. Par. 1
chief crime seems to have been an attempt to check
II. OPUSCULA 8. TRACTATUS. These in the superstitious observances, and to resist the encroach-
older editions are mixed up at random with the ing spirit of monachism (Milman, History of Chris-
epistles. Erasmus, Victorinus, and the Benedictiunily, vol. iii. p. 332), which was now seeking to
tines, although not agreeing with each other, have tyrannise over the whole church. Written about
sought to establish some sort of order, by attaching A. D. 393. (Ed. Bened. vol. ir. p. ii. p. 141.
the tracts to such epistles as treat of kindred sub- These editors have subjoined, p. 229, the epistle of
jects, but unfortunately this is practicable to a Jerome, entitled Apulopticus ad Pammachium pro
very limited extent only. Vallarsi has merely col- Libris adversus Jorinianum. )
lected them together, without attempting any regu- 10. Contra l'igilantium Liber. The alleged he-
lar classification.
resies of Vigilantius were of the same character
1. Vila S. Puuli primi Eremitae, who at the age with those of Jovinianus ; in particular, he denied
of sixteen fled to the deserts of the Thebaid to that the relics of martyrs ought to be regarded as
avoid the persecutions of Decius and Valerian, and objects of worship, or that vigils ought to be kept
lived in solitude for ninety-eight years. Written at their tombs. Written about A. D. 406. (Ed.
about A. D. 375, while Jerome was in the desert of Bened. vol. iv. p. ii. p. 280. )
Chalcis. (Ed. Bened. vol. iv. p. ii. p. 68. )
11. Contra Joannem Hierosolymitanum. John,
2. Vita S. Hilarionis Eremitae, a monk of Pa- bishop of Jerusalem, was accused of having adopted
lestine, a disciple of the great St. Anthony. some of the views of Origen. Written about a. D.
Written about A. D. 390. (Ed. Bened. vol. iv. 399. (Ed. Bened. vol. iv. p. ii. p. 336, where it
p. ii. p. 74. )
is considered as an Epistola ad Pammachium, and
3. Vita Malchi Monachi captivi. Belonging to numbered xxxvii. of the series. )
the same period as the preceding. A certain So- 12. Apologetici adversus Rufinum Libri III. See
phronius, commemorated in the De Viris Illustribus Rufinus. Written about A. D. 402. (Ed. Bened.
(c. 13+) wrote a Greek translation, now lost, of the vol. iv. p. ii. p. 319. )
lives of St. Hilario and St. Malchus, a strong
proof of the estimation in which the biographies
VOL. II. PAR. 2.
were held at the time they were composed. (Ed. 13. Dialogi contra Pelagianos, in three books.
Bened. vol. iv. p. ii. p. 90. )
See PELAGIUS. Written about A. D. 415. (Ed.
4. Regula S. Pachomii, the founder of Egyptian Bened. vol. iv. p. ii. p. 483. )
monasticism. Written originally in Syriac, trans- 14.
De Viris Illustribus s. De Scriptoribus Ec-
lated from Syrian into Greek by some unknown clesiasticis (see Epist. cxii. ), a series of 135 short
hand, and translated from Greek into Latin by sketches of the lives and writings of the most dis-
Jerome about A. D. 405, after the death of Paula. tinguished advocates of Christianity, beginning
5. S. Pachomü et S. Theodorici Epistolae et with the apostles Peter and James, the brother (or
Verba Mystica. An appendix to the foregoing. cousin) of our Lord, and ending with Hieronymus
6. Dilymi de Spiritu Sancto Liber III. This himself, who gives a few particulars with regard to
translation from the Greek was commenced at his own life, and subjoins a catalogue of the works
Rome in 382, at the request of Damasus, but not which he had published at the date when this tract
finished until 384, at Jerusalem. See Praef. and was concluded, in the fourteenth year, namely, of
Ep. xxxvi. (Ed. Bened. vol. iv. p. i. App. p. Theodosius, or A. D. 392. The importance of these
493. )
biographies, as materials towards a history of the
7. Altercatio Luciferiani et Orthodoxi. The church, has always been acknowledged, and can
followers of Lucifer of Cagliari (LUCIFER] main- scarcely be overrated, since they form the only
tained that the Arian bishops, when received into source of accurate information with regard to many
the church, after an acknowledgment of error, persons and many books connected with the early
ought not to retain their rank, and that the baptism history of Christianity. A Greek version was
administered by them while they adhered to their printed for the first time by Erasmus, professing to
heresy was null and void. Written at Antioch be taken from an ancient MS. , and to have been
about a. D. 378. (Ed. Bened. vol. iv. p. ii. p. executed by a certain Sophronius, who is com-
289. )
monly supposed to be the same with individual
8. Adversus Helvidium Liber. A controversial of that name mentioned in the De l'iris Illustribus
tract on the perpetual virginity of the mother of (c. 134), but certain barbarisms in style, and errors
God, against a certain Helvidius, who held that in translation, have induced many critics to assign
Mary had borne children after the birth of our a much later date to the piece, and have eren led
Saviour. Written at Rome about A. D. 382. (Ed. some, among whom is Vossius, to imagine that Eras-
Bened. vol. iv. p. ii. p. 130. )
mus was either imposed upon himself or wilfully
9. Adversus Jovinianum Libri II. Jovinianus sought to palm a forgery upon the literary world.
was accused of baving revived many of the here-|(Fabric. Bild. Graec. lib. v. c. 10. )
zde the
carry on
frá margo
Ed. Bened.
toe bote pro
Rott
rare force
a vasca
A to
سنحت لك انا
We Dow CoE
kind the
ter preceding
bec,
TIL Coxu
bial and en
I. Quaestion
Durativas te
Erica the Late
Po with the
the real be
w bis tears
i Hebradary
were ad id lact
est Practise
per all the
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HIERONYMUS.
465
HIERONYMUS.
p. 715. )
a
a
;
The original of Hieronymus is to be found in a plan which, however, he never executed, and
vol. iv. p. ii. p. 98, of the Benedictine edition, which, in fruct, was in a great measure superseded
while both the original and the translation are by his more elaborate commentaries, and by his
given by Vallarsi. It was published separately, translation of the whole Bible. Written about
along with the catalogues of Gennadius, Isidorus, 388. (Ed. Bened. vol. ii. p. 505. )
&c. Colon. 8vo. 1500, Antw. fol. 1639, and with 2. Commenturi in Ecclesiasten, frequently re-
the commentaries of Miraeus and others, Helmst. ferred to in his Apology against Rufinus. Written
4to. 1700.
at Bethlehem about A. D. 300. (Ed. Bencd. vol.
ii.
VOL. IIT.
3. In Ca cum Canticorum Tractatus II. From
15. De Nominibus Ilebraicis. An explanation the Greek of Origen, who is strongly praised in the
of all the Hebrew proper names' which occur in preface addressed to Pope Damasus. Translated
the Scripturcs, those in cach book being con. at Rome in A. D. 383. (Ed. Bened. vol. ii. p. 807;
sidered separately, in alphabetical order. Many comp. vol. v. p. 603. )
of the derivations are very forced, not a few evi-
VOL. IV.
dently false, and several words which are purely
Greek or purely Latin, are explained by reference
4. Commentarü in lesaium, in eighteen books.
to Semitic roots.
The most full and highly finished of all the labours
Philo Judaeus had previously executed a work of Jerome in this department. It was commenced
of the same description for the Old Testament, and apparently as early as A. D. 397, and not com-
Origen for the New, and these formed the basis of pleted before A. D. 411. Tillemont considers that
the present undertaking ; but how much is original there is an allusion to the death of Stilicho in the
and how much borrowed from these or other similar preface to the eleventh book. (Ed. Bened. vol. iu.
compilations we cannot determine accurately. (Vid. p. i. )
Praef. ) Written about 388 or 390, while he was
ö. Homiliae norcm in T'isiones lesaiae ex Gracco
still an admirer of Origen, who is pronounced in Origenis. Rejected by Vallarsi in his first edition
the preface to be second to the Apostles only. (Ed. as spurious, but admitted into the second, upon
Bened. vol. ii. p. 1. )
evidence derived from the Apology of Rufinus.
16. De Situ et Nominibus locorurn Hebraicorum. (See Vallarsi, vol. iv. p. ii. p. 1093. ) This must
Eusebius was the author of a work upon the geo-
not be confounded with a short tract which Jerome
graphy of Palestine, in which he first gave an wrote upon the visions of Isaiah (Comment, in les.
account of Judaea and of the localities of the twelve c. vi. ), when he was studying at Constantinople in
tribes, together with a description of Jerusalem 381, under Gregory of Nazianzus, and in which he
and of the temple ; and to this was appended a seems to have called in question the views of
dictionary of the names of cities, villages, moun- Origen with regard to the Seraphim. (Ep. xviii.
tains, rivers, and other places mentioned in the ad Dumasum. )
Bible. Of the last portion, entitled Ilepi TV TO 6. Commentarü in Jeremiam, in six books, ex-
πικών ονομάτων των εν τη θεία γραφή, which is | tending to the first thirty-two chapters of the
still extant in the original Greek, we are here pre- prophet, one or two books being wanting to com-
sented with a translation, in which, however, we plete the exposition which was commenced late in
find many omissions, additions, and alterations. life, probably about A. D. 415, frequently inter-
The names found in each book are placed sepa- rupted, and not brought down to the point where
rately, in alphabetical order. Written about 388. it concludes until the year of the author's death.
(Ed. Bened. vol. ii. p. 382. )
(Ed. Bened. vol. iii. p. 526. )
In the present state of our knowledge, neither of
Vol. V.
the above productions can be regarded as of much
importance or authority ; but in so far as purity of
7.
412
16 CXXVII. Ad Principiam, Marcellae viduae Epi-
taphium
96
413
12 CXXVIII. Ad Gaudentium de Pacatulae educa-
tione
98
414
129 CXXIX. Ad Dardanum de Terra Promissionis Inter Criticas, tom. 2. VI.
414
8 CXXX. Ad Demetriadem de servanda Virgin-
itate
97
415Vacat
CXXXI. Augustini ad Hieronymum de origine
Animae
Vacat,
415--Vacat
CXXXII. Augustini ad Hieron. de sententia
Jacobi Apostoli
Vacat.
415-Numero caret CXXXIII. Ad Ctesiphontem
43
416
94 CXXXIV. Ad Augustinum
79
417
CXXXV. Innocentii Papae ad Aurelium
417-Non habentur CXXXVI. Innocentii Papae ad Hieronymum
Non habentur.
417
CXXXVII. Innocentii Papae ad Joannem Hier-
osolym.
417
55 CXXXVIII. Ad Riparium
102
417
CXXXIX. Ad Apronium
103
418
139 CXL. Ad Cyprianum de Psalmo Lxxxix. Inter Criticas, tom. 2. XIIL
418
80
CXLI. Ad Augustinum
80
418
81 CXLII. Ad eumdem
77
419
79 CXLIII. Ad Alypium et Augustinum
81
•
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
56
.
.
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464
HIERONYMUS.
HIERONYMUS.
A. D.
.
.
.
deos
o se
16. DES
East
Ords Vaterum
Ordo Editinis
Editiunum.
Ordo Editionis Vallarsianae.
Benedictinae.
420-Desideratur CXLIV. Augustini ad Optatum de Hieronymo Desideratur.
Inccrt.
35
CXLV. Ad Exsuperantiuin
99
Incert.
85
CXLVI. Ad Evangelum
101
Incert.
48 CXLVII. Ad Sabinianuni
103
Falso adscriptae
14 CXLVIII. Ad Celantium
. 109
Inedita
CXLIX. De solennitatibus Paschae
Inedita
Non habetur
CL. Procopi, Graece et Latine
Ultima absque numero.
tical doctrines of the Gnostic Basilides, but his
VOL. II. Par. 1
chief crime seems to have been an attempt to check
II. OPUSCULA 8. TRACTATUS. These in the superstitious observances, and to resist the encroach-
older editions are mixed up at random with the ing spirit of monachism (Milman, History of Chris-
epistles. Erasmus, Victorinus, and the Benedictiunily, vol. iii. p. 332), which was now seeking to
tines, although not agreeing with each other, have tyrannise over the whole church. Written about
sought to establish some sort of order, by attaching A. D. 393. (Ed. Bened. vol. ir. p. ii. p. 141.
the tracts to such epistles as treat of kindred sub- These editors have subjoined, p. 229, the epistle of
jects, but unfortunately this is practicable to a Jerome, entitled Apulopticus ad Pammachium pro
very limited extent only. Vallarsi has merely col- Libris adversus Jorinianum. )
lected them together, without attempting any regu- 10. Contra l'igilantium Liber. The alleged he-
lar classification.
resies of Vigilantius were of the same character
1. Vila S. Puuli primi Eremitae, who at the age with those of Jovinianus ; in particular, he denied
of sixteen fled to the deserts of the Thebaid to that the relics of martyrs ought to be regarded as
avoid the persecutions of Decius and Valerian, and objects of worship, or that vigils ought to be kept
lived in solitude for ninety-eight years. Written at their tombs. Written about A. D. 406. (Ed.
about A. D. 375, while Jerome was in the desert of Bened. vol. iv. p. ii. p. 280. )
Chalcis. (Ed. Bened. vol. iv. p. ii. p. 68. )
11. Contra Joannem Hierosolymitanum. John,
2. Vita S. Hilarionis Eremitae, a monk of Pa- bishop of Jerusalem, was accused of having adopted
lestine, a disciple of the great St. Anthony. some of the views of Origen. Written about a. D.
Written about A. D. 390. (Ed. Bened. vol. iv. 399. (Ed. Bened. vol. iv. p. ii. p. 336, where it
p. ii. p. 74. )
is considered as an Epistola ad Pammachium, and
3. Vita Malchi Monachi captivi. Belonging to numbered xxxvii. of the series. )
the same period as the preceding. A certain So- 12. Apologetici adversus Rufinum Libri III. See
phronius, commemorated in the De Viris Illustribus Rufinus. Written about A. D. 402. (Ed. Bened.
(c. 13+) wrote a Greek translation, now lost, of the vol. iv. p. ii. p. 319. )
lives of St. Hilario and St. Malchus, a strong
proof of the estimation in which the biographies
VOL. II. PAR. 2.
were held at the time they were composed. (Ed. 13. Dialogi contra Pelagianos, in three books.
Bened. vol. iv. p. ii. p. 90. )
See PELAGIUS. Written about A. D. 415. (Ed.
4. Regula S. Pachomii, the founder of Egyptian Bened. vol. iv. p. ii. p. 483. )
monasticism. Written originally in Syriac, trans- 14.
De Viris Illustribus s. De Scriptoribus Ec-
lated from Syrian into Greek by some unknown clesiasticis (see Epist. cxii. ), a series of 135 short
hand, and translated from Greek into Latin by sketches of the lives and writings of the most dis-
Jerome about A. D. 405, after the death of Paula. tinguished advocates of Christianity, beginning
5. S. Pachomü et S. Theodorici Epistolae et with the apostles Peter and James, the brother (or
Verba Mystica. An appendix to the foregoing. cousin) of our Lord, and ending with Hieronymus
6. Dilymi de Spiritu Sancto Liber III. This himself, who gives a few particulars with regard to
translation from the Greek was commenced at his own life, and subjoins a catalogue of the works
Rome in 382, at the request of Damasus, but not which he had published at the date when this tract
finished until 384, at Jerusalem. See Praef. and was concluded, in the fourteenth year, namely, of
Ep. xxxvi. (Ed. Bened. vol. iv. p. i. App. p. Theodosius, or A. D. 392. The importance of these
493. )
biographies, as materials towards a history of the
7. Altercatio Luciferiani et Orthodoxi. The church, has always been acknowledged, and can
followers of Lucifer of Cagliari (LUCIFER] main- scarcely be overrated, since they form the only
tained that the Arian bishops, when received into source of accurate information with regard to many
the church, after an acknowledgment of error, persons and many books connected with the early
ought not to retain their rank, and that the baptism history of Christianity. A Greek version was
administered by them while they adhered to their printed for the first time by Erasmus, professing to
heresy was null and void. Written at Antioch be taken from an ancient MS. , and to have been
about a. D. 378. (Ed. Bened. vol. iv. p. ii. p. executed by a certain Sophronius, who is com-
289. )
monly supposed to be the same with individual
8. Adversus Helvidium Liber. A controversial of that name mentioned in the De l'iris Illustribus
tract on the perpetual virginity of the mother of (c. 134), but certain barbarisms in style, and errors
God, against a certain Helvidius, who held that in translation, have induced many critics to assign
Mary had borne children after the birth of our a much later date to the piece, and have eren led
Saviour. Written at Rome about A. D. 382. (Ed. some, among whom is Vossius, to imagine that Eras-
Bened. vol. iv. p. ii. p. 130. )
mus was either imposed upon himself or wilfully
9. Adversus Jovinianum Libri II. Jovinianus sought to palm a forgery upon the literary world.
was accused of baving revived many of the here-|(Fabric. Bild. Graec. lib. v. c. 10. )
zde the
carry on
frá margo
Ed. Bened.
toe bote pro
Rott
rare force
a vasca
A to
سنحت لك انا
We Dow CoE
kind the
ter preceding
bec,
TIL Coxu
bial and en
I. Quaestion
Durativas te
Erica the Late
Po with the
the real be
w bis tears
i Hebradary
were ad id lact
est Practise
per all the
VOL. 1
## p. 465 (#481) ############################################
HIERONYMUS.
465
HIERONYMUS.
p. 715. )
a
a
;
The original of Hieronymus is to be found in a plan which, however, he never executed, and
vol. iv. p. ii. p. 98, of the Benedictine edition, which, in fruct, was in a great measure superseded
while both the original and the translation are by his more elaborate commentaries, and by his
given by Vallarsi. It was published separately, translation of the whole Bible. Written about
along with the catalogues of Gennadius, Isidorus, 388. (Ed. Bened. vol. ii. p. 505. )
&c. Colon. 8vo. 1500, Antw. fol. 1639, and with 2. Commenturi in Ecclesiasten, frequently re-
the commentaries of Miraeus and others, Helmst. ferred to in his Apology against Rufinus. Written
4to. 1700.
at Bethlehem about A. D. 300. (Ed. Bencd. vol.
ii.
VOL. IIT.
3. In Ca cum Canticorum Tractatus II. From
15. De Nominibus Ilebraicis. An explanation the Greek of Origen, who is strongly praised in the
of all the Hebrew proper names' which occur in preface addressed to Pope Damasus. Translated
the Scripturcs, those in cach book being con. at Rome in A. D. 383. (Ed. Bened. vol. ii. p. 807;
sidered separately, in alphabetical order. Many comp. vol. v. p. 603. )
of the derivations are very forced, not a few evi-
VOL. IV.
dently false, and several words which are purely
Greek or purely Latin, are explained by reference
4. Commentarü in lesaium, in eighteen books.
to Semitic roots.
The most full and highly finished of all the labours
Philo Judaeus had previously executed a work of Jerome in this department. It was commenced
of the same description for the Old Testament, and apparently as early as A. D. 397, and not com-
Origen for the New, and these formed the basis of pleted before A. D. 411. Tillemont considers that
the present undertaking ; but how much is original there is an allusion to the death of Stilicho in the
and how much borrowed from these or other similar preface to the eleventh book. (Ed. Bened. vol. iu.
compilations we cannot determine accurately. (Vid. p. i. )
Praef. ) Written about 388 or 390, while he was
ö. Homiliae norcm in T'isiones lesaiae ex Gracco
still an admirer of Origen, who is pronounced in Origenis. Rejected by Vallarsi in his first edition
the preface to be second to the Apostles only. (Ed. as spurious, but admitted into the second, upon
Bened. vol. ii. p. 1. )
evidence derived from the Apology of Rufinus.
16. De Situ et Nominibus locorurn Hebraicorum. (See Vallarsi, vol. iv. p. ii. p. 1093. ) This must
Eusebius was the author of a work upon the geo-
not be confounded with a short tract which Jerome
graphy of Palestine, in which he first gave an wrote upon the visions of Isaiah (Comment, in les.
account of Judaea and of the localities of the twelve c. vi. ), when he was studying at Constantinople in
tribes, together with a description of Jerusalem 381, under Gregory of Nazianzus, and in which he
and of the temple ; and to this was appended a seems to have called in question the views of
dictionary of the names of cities, villages, moun- Origen with regard to the Seraphim. (Ep. xviii.
tains, rivers, and other places mentioned in the ad Dumasum. )
Bible. Of the last portion, entitled Ilepi TV TO 6. Commentarü in Jeremiam, in six books, ex-
πικών ονομάτων των εν τη θεία γραφή, which is | tending to the first thirty-two chapters of the
still extant in the original Greek, we are here pre- prophet, one or two books being wanting to com-
sented with a translation, in which, however, we plete the exposition which was commenced late in
find many omissions, additions, and alterations. life, probably about A. D. 415, frequently inter-
The names found in each book are placed sepa- rupted, and not brought down to the point where
rately, in alphabetical order. Written about 388. it concludes until the year of the author's death.
(Ed. Bened. vol. ii. p. 382. )
(Ed. Bened. vol. iii. p. 526. )
In the present state of our knowledge, neither of
Vol. V.
the above productions can be regarded as of much
importance or authority ; but in so far as purity of
7.
