Yet, notwithstanding
fered martyrdom in the persecution under Diocletian these tolerably clear intimations, Miraeus (Auclu-
and his successors in the East, perhaps about A.
fered martyrdom in the persecution under Diocletian these tolerably clear intimations, Miraeus (Auclu-
and his successors in the East, perhaps about A.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - b
A Stoic philosopher, a native of Pontus, men-
were sworn by the goddess of the hearth, and the tioned by Athenaeus (vi. p. 273 d. ). [C. P. M. ]
hearth itself was the sacred asylum where sup- IIESYCHIA ('Houxia), the personification of
pliants implored the protection of the inhabitants tranquillity and perce, is called a daughter of Dice,
of the house. (Hom. Od. xiv. 159 ; Eustath. ad that is, Justice. (Pind. Ul. iv. 18, Pyth. viji. 1,
Ilom. p. 1579. ) A town or city is only an ex. Fragm. 2:28. p. 669, ed. Boeckh. ).
(L. S. )
tended family, and therefore had likewise its sacred HESY'CHIUS, bishop of Salona in Dalmatin,
hearth, the symbol of an harmonious community of who flourished about the beginning of the fifth cen-
citizens and of a common worship. This public tury, maintained a friendly intercourse with St.
hearth usually existed in the prytaneium of a town, Augustin and St. Chrysostom, as we gather from
where the goddess had her especial sanctuary (sá- their works ; and a letter has been preserved ad-
Aapos), under the name of noutavites, with a dressed to him by Pope Zosimus in a. D. 418.
statue and the sacred hearth. There the prytanes The only epistle written by Hesychius himself now
offered sacrifices to her, on entering upon their extant will be found among the correspondence of
office, and there, as at a private hearth, Hestia pro- St. Augustin, and is numbered cxcvii. in the Bene-
tected the suppliants. As this public hearth was dictine edition. (Augustin, De Civ. Dei, xx. 5,
the sacred asylum in every town, the state usually Ep. cxcrii, cxcviii, cxcix. vol. ii. ed. Bened. ;
received its guests and foreign ambassadors there, Schönemann, Bill. Patrum Lat. vol. i. § 14;
and the prytanes had to act the part of hosts. Bähr, in his Geschichte der Römischen Litterut.
When a colony was sent out, the emigrants took suppl. band. II. abtheil. $ 141, by some mistake
the fire which was to burn on the hearth of their apparently names this prelate Hegesippus instead of
new home from that of the mother town. (Pind. Hesychius. )
(W. R. ]
Nem. xi. 1, &c. , with the Scholiast; Parthen. Erot. HESY'CHIUS ('Hoúxios).
18; Dion. Hal. ii. 65. ) If ever the fire of her 1. Libanius appears to have had two friends
hearth became extinct, it was not allowed to be and correspondents of this name about the middle
lighted again with ordinary fire, but either by fire of the fourth century: one a priest (Ep. 636), the
produced by friction, or by burning glasses drawing other a magistrate (Ep. 773, 914). One of them
fire from the sun. The mystical speculations of had two sons, Eutropius and Celsus, to whom
later times proceeded from the simple ideas of the Libanius was much attached, and who were possibly
ancients, and assumed a sacred hearth not only in his pupils, and several daughters, to one of whom
the centre of the earth, but even in that of the uni- a cousin of Libanius was married (Ep. 375). Li-
verse, and confounded Hestia in various ways with banius was anxious to promote the marriage of a
other divinities, such as Cybele, Gaea, Demeter, grandson of an Hesychius (perhaps one of the
Persephone, and Artemis. (Orph. Hymn. 83 ; Plut. two above mentioned ) by his son Calliopius, with a
de Plac. Philos. 3, 11, Numa, 11. ) There were daughter of Pompeianus (Ep. 1400). Possibly the
but few special temples of Hestia in Greece, as in niagistrate Hesychius, the correspondent of Liba-
reality every prytaneum was a sanctuary of the nius, may be the Hesychius or Esychius mentioned
goddess, and as a portion of the sacrifices, to what by Jerome (Epistola 33 (olim 101) ad Pammach. ;
ever divinity they were offered, belonged to her. Opera, vol. iv. pt. ii. col. 249, ed. Benedictin. ) as a
There was, however, a separate temple of Hestia at man of consular rank, bitterly hated by the patri-
Hermione, though it contained no image of her, but arch Gamaliel, and who was condemned to death
only an altar. (Paus. ii. 35. ♡ 2. ) Her sacrifices con by the emperor Theodosius for bribing a notary,
sisted of the primitiae of fruit, water, oil, wine, and and pillaging some of the imperial records. Fa-
cows of one year old. (Hesych. l. c. ; Hom. Hymn. bricius understands the notice in Jerome of He-
xxxi. 3, xxxii. 6; Pind. Nem. xi. 6. ) The Ro- sychius, who was proconsul of Achaia, under
mans worshipped the same goddess, or rather the Theodosius II. A. D. 435 (Cod. Theodos. 6. tit.
same ideas enibodied in her, under the name of 28. $ 8); but this is not likely, for if the Bene-
Vesta, which is in reality identical with Hestia ; dictine editors are right in fixing a. D. 396 as the
but as the Roman worship of Vesta differed in date of the letter to Pammachius, the Theodosius
several points from that of Hestia in Greece, we there mentioned must have been Theodosius I. the
treat of Vesta in a separate article. [L. S. ) Great ; and if Hesychius was executed (as Jerome
HESTIAEA ("Eotiaia), a learned Alexandrian seems to say) in his reign, he could not have been pro-
lady. Her literary efforts were directed to the consul in the reign of his grandson Theodosius II.
explanation of the Homeric poems. Strabo (xiii. The Hesychius of the Codex Theodosianus may
p. 894), on the authority of Demetrius of Scepsis, perhaps be the one mentioned in the letters of the
informs us that she wrote a treatise respecting the monk Nilus, the pupil of Chrysostom. (Libanius,
site of the Homeric city of Troy, and the position Epistolae, ll. cc. , and Ep. 1010; Cod. Theodos. l. c. ;
of the plain which formed the scene of the en- Hieron. I. c. ; Nili Ascetae Epistolae. Lib. ii. Ep.
counters described in the Iliad. She is mentioned 292, ed. Allatii ; Fabr. Bibl. Gr. vol. vii. p. 547. )
by the scholiasts on I. iii. 64, and by Eustathius, 2. A devoted disciple of St. Hilarion, whose
e Ris.
S]
38
be
s the
and
naked
ereny
مع ب
tead
Hic
Beará
## p. 446 (#462) ############################################
446
HESYCHIUS.
HESYCHIUS.
dead body he surreptitiously conveyed from the the year following, A. D. 415. He gives him no
isle of Crete, where he died, to the Holy Land. higher title when recording his death, A. M. 5926,
(Hieron. Vitu S. Hilarionis, passim ; Opera, vol. Alex. era,= A. D. 434. Photius, who bas described
iv. pars ii. col. 74, &c. ed. Benedict; Sozom. some of his works, also calls him “Hesychius,
H. E. iii. 14; Fabr. Bill. Gr. vol. vii. p. 552. ] presbyter of Jerusalem," but without mentioning
3. AEGYPTIUS. An Egyptian bishop, who suf- the time when he lived.
Yet, notwithstanding
fered martyrdom in the persecution under Diocletian these tolerably clear intimations, Miraeus (Auclu-
and his successors in the East, perhaps about A. D. rium de Scriptor. Eccles. No. clxxv. ), Possevinus
310 or 311. It is not clear whether he was ex- ( Apparatus Sacer, vol. i. p. 739, ed. Col. 1608 ),
ecuted at Alexandria or elsewhere. Hody and Cave, and Thorschmidt (Comment. de Hesychio
others regard him as identical wiih the Hesychius Milesio), consider Hesychius the writer to be iden-
who revised the Septungint, and whose revision was tical with the Isysius or Isacius ('loários), bishop or
commonly used in Egypt and the adjacent churches. patriarch of Jerusalem, to whom pope Gregory the
Fabricius, who thinks this identity probable, is also Great wrote an epistle (Epistol. xi. 40. ; Opera,
disposed to regard the martyr llesychius as the vol. ii. col. 1133, ed. Benedict. ), and whose death
same person as Hesychius of Alexandria, the author occurred, according to the Alexandrian or Paschal
of the Lexicon ; but Thorschmidius regards the au- chronicle, in A. D. 609. (Chron. Pasch. p. 382, ed.
thor of the Lexicon as a distinct person. (Hesy- Paris, vol. i. p. 699, ed. Bonn. ) But the absence of
chius of Alexandria, below. ) (Euseb. H. E. viii. any higher designation than presbyter in Photius
13; Hieronym. Praef. in Parulipom. and Pracfut. and Theophanes forbid the supposition that their
in Quatuor Evang. ; 'Opera, vol. i. col. 1023, 1429, Hesychius ever attained episcopal rank; and the
ed. Benedictin; Hody, De Biblior. Textibus Ori- want of any distinguishing epithet leads us to con-
ginal. , fol. Oxford, 1705, p. 303 ; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. clude that there was no other Hesychius of Jerusa-
vol. vii. 547; Thorschmidius, De Hesych. Miles. | lem who had acquired distinction as a writer. The
Illustr. Christian. Coinmentut. sect. i. apud Orellium, account of Hesychius in the Greek Menology is
Hesychii Opusc. )
probably correct in its general outline. According
4. Of ALEXANDRIA. See below.
to it, he was born and educated at Jerusalem,
5. Of Apameia, called, in the older editions of where, by meditating on the Scriptures, he ac-
Porphyry's life of Plotinus, JUSTINUS ('lovotivos) quired a deep acquaintance with divine things.
Hesychius, but in Creuzer's edition of Plotinus, | He afterwards left Jerusalem, and followed a mo-
to which the life by Porphyry is prefixed, Us nastic life “in the deserts” (it is not stated in
TILLIANUS (Oủotillards) Hesychius, was the what desert, but it was probably in Palestine),
adopted son of Amelius, one of the later Platonists gathering from the holy fathers there, with bee
in the latter half of the third century. [AMELIUS. ] like industry, the flowers of virtue. He was
Amelius gave or bequeathed to him a hundred books ordained presbyter, against his will, by the patri-
of commentaries, in which he had collected or re- arch of Jerusalem, and spent the rest of his life in
corded the instructions of the philosopher Nume that city, or in other places where the Lord Jesus
nius. (Porphyr. Vit. Plotini, c. 3, apud Creuzer. Christ had suffered. Trithemius, who calls him
Opera Plotini, 3 vols. 4to. Oxford, 1835; Fabric. Esytius (De Scriptor. Eccles. No. lxxxii), and Sir-
Bibl. Gr. vol. iii. p. 180, vol. vii. p. 152. )
tus of Sena (Bibl. Sanctu, lib. iv. p. 245, ed. Col.
6. Of CONSTANTINOPLE, a writer of unknown 1586), say, but we know not on what authority,
date, who wrote Eis xal koûv Đow do you d. Pho that he was a disciple of Gregory Nazianzen,
tius, from whom alone we learn any thing of this which is hardly probable.
writer, says that, “ so far as could be judged from His principal writings are, 1. In Leviticum Libri
this piece, he appeared to be orthodox. " Probably septem. A Latin version of this was published
he was the Hesychius, one of the clergy of Con- fol. Basel, 1527, and 8vo. Paris, 1581, and is re-
stantinople, who raised in that city the cry of printed in the Bibliotheca Patrum (vol. xii
. p. 52,
heresy against Eunomius, apparently about A. D. &c. , ed. Lyon. 1677). The authorship and original
360. [Eunomius. ] Thorschmidius thinks that language of this work have been much disputed.
he was perhaps the author of the Ecclesiastical In some passages the writer evidently speaks as
History, known by one or two citations, and ge- one to whom the Latin tongue was vernacular ;
nerally regarded as a work of Hesychius of Jeru- and in some of the MSS. he is called Isychius,
salem. (Hesychius HieroSOLYMITANUS, No. 7. ) | presbyter of Salona, not to be confounded with the
(Phot. Bibl. Cod. 51; Philostorg. H. E. vi. 1; Hesychius the correspondent of Augustin (Augus-
Fabric. Bibl. Gr, vol. vii. p. 547. )
tin, Ep. 197, 198, 199; Opera, vol. ii. col. 737, &c. ,
7. HierOSOLYMITANUS, or of JERUSALEM, an ed. Benedict. 1679, and vol. ii. p. 1106, ed. Paris,
early Christian writer of considerable repute in 1836), whom Augustin addresses as his coepisco-
his day, many of whose writings are extant. pus;” but Tillemont thinks that the original was in
The date of his life and his official rank in Greek, and that there are internal indications that
the church have been much disputed. Cyril of the writer lived at Jerusalem ; and Cave suggests
Scythopolis, in his life of St. Euthymius (Bios Tow that the passages in which the writer speaks as a
áziou natpòs ouwv Ejduulou, Cotel. Eccles. Graec. Latin are the interpolations of the translator, whom
Monum. vol. iv. p. 31), speaks of Hesychius, he supposes to have been Hesychius of Salona. The
* presbyter and teacher of the church," as being work is cited as the work of Hesychius of Jerusalem
with Juvenal patriarch of Jerusalem, when he de- by Latin writers of the ninth century. The Latin
dicated the church of the “ Laura," or monastery version is ancient, though subsequent to the time
of Euthymius, A. D. 428 or 429. Theophanes re- when the Latin version of the Scriptures by
cords the #pobolt), advancement (i. e. ordination ? ) Jerome came into general use in the church. Con-
of Hesychius, “ the presbyter of Jerusalem," A. M. siderable pains are taken in the work to confute
5906, Alex. era (=A. D. 414); and notices him again the opinions of Nestorius, and, as is thought by
as eminent for learning (ývoel tais didackaríais) | many, of Eutyches. Now, as the heresy of the
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latter was not denounced until A. D. 448, fourteen | Paris, 1648. 12. Luvaywrth dropiâv kal dihús
years after the death of Hesychius of Jerusalem, σεων εκλεγείσα εν επιτομή εκ της Ευαγγελικής
According to Theophanes, this circumstance would Lupowvias, Collectio Difficultatum el Solutionum,
appear fatal to his claims to the authorship. But excerpta per compendium er Erangelica Consonantia.
Tillemont thinks that the opinions controverted are An abridgment of No. 11, published in the Eccles.
not those of Eutyches, but the nearly similar errors Graec. Monum. of Cotelerius (vol. iii. p. 1). 13.
of the Apollinarists (APOLLINARIS or APOLLINA-In Canticum Habacuc et Jonae. Some fragments of
RIUS, No.
were sworn by the goddess of the hearth, and the tioned by Athenaeus (vi. p. 273 d. ). [C. P. M. ]
hearth itself was the sacred asylum where sup- IIESYCHIA ('Houxia), the personification of
pliants implored the protection of the inhabitants tranquillity and perce, is called a daughter of Dice,
of the house. (Hom. Od. xiv. 159 ; Eustath. ad that is, Justice. (Pind. Ul. iv. 18, Pyth. viji. 1,
Ilom. p. 1579. ) A town or city is only an ex. Fragm. 2:28. p. 669, ed. Boeckh. ).
(L. S. )
tended family, and therefore had likewise its sacred HESY'CHIUS, bishop of Salona in Dalmatin,
hearth, the symbol of an harmonious community of who flourished about the beginning of the fifth cen-
citizens and of a common worship. This public tury, maintained a friendly intercourse with St.
hearth usually existed in the prytaneium of a town, Augustin and St. Chrysostom, as we gather from
where the goddess had her especial sanctuary (sá- their works ; and a letter has been preserved ad-
Aapos), under the name of noutavites, with a dressed to him by Pope Zosimus in a. D. 418.
statue and the sacred hearth. There the prytanes The only epistle written by Hesychius himself now
offered sacrifices to her, on entering upon their extant will be found among the correspondence of
office, and there, as at a private hearth, Hestia pro- St. Augustin, and is numbered cxcvii. in the Bene-
tected the suppliants. As this public hearth was dictine edition. (Augustin, De Civ. Dei, xx. 5,
the sacred asylum in every town, the state usually Ep. cxcrii, cxcviii, cxcix. vol. ii. ed. Bened. ;
received its guests and foreign ambassadors there, Schönemann, Bill. Patrum Lat. vol. i. § 14;
and the prytanes had to act the part of hosts. Bähr, in his Geschichte der Römischen Litterut.
When a colony was sent out, the emigrants took suppl. band. II. abtheil. $ 141, by some mistake
the fire which was to burn on the hearth of their apparently names this prelate Hegesippus instead of
new home from that of the mother town. (Pind. Hesychius. )
(W. R. ]
Nem. xi. 1, &c. , with the Scholiast; Parthen. Erot. HESY'CHIUS ('Hoúxios).
18; Dion. Hal. ii. 65. ) If ever the fire of her 1. Libanius appears to have had two friends
hearth became extinct, it was not allowed to be and correspondents of this name about the middle
lighted again with ordinary fire, but either by fire of the fourth century: one a priest (Ep. 636), the
produced by friction, or by burning glasses drawing other a magistrate (Ep. 773, 914). One of them
fire from the sun. The mystical speculations of had two sons, Eutropius and Celsus, to whom
later times proceeded from the simple ideas of the Libanius was much attached, and who were possibly
ancients, and assumed a sacred hearth not only in his pupils, and several daughters, to one of whom
the centre of the earth, but even in that of the uni- a cousin of Libanius was married (Ep. 375). Li-
verse, and confounded Hestia in various ways with banius was anxious to promote the marriage of a
other divinities, such as Cybele, Gaea, Demeter, grandson of an Hesychius (perhaps one of the
Persephone, and Artemis. (Orph. Hymn. 83 ; Plut. two above mentioned ) by his son Calliopius, with a
de Plac. Philos. 3, 11, Numa, 11. ) There were daughter of Pompeianus (Ep. 1400). Possibly the
but few special temples of Hestia in Greece, as in niagistrate Hesychius, the correspondent of Liba-
reality every prytaneum was a sanctuary of the nius, may be the Hesychius or Esychius mentioned
goddess, and as a portion of the sacrifices, to what by Jerome (Epistola 33 (olim 101) ad Pammach. ;
ever divinity they were offered, belonged to her. Opera, vol. iv. pt. ii. col. 249, ed. Benedictin. ) as a
There was, however, a separate temple of Hestia at man of consular rank, bitterly hated by the patri-
Hermione, though it contained no image of her, but arch Gamaliel, and who was condemned to death
only an altar. (Paus. ii. 35. ♡ 2. ) Her sacrifices con by the emperor Theodosius for bribing a notary,
sisted of the primitiae of fruit, water, oil, wine, and and pillaging some of the imperial records. Fa-
cows of one year old. (Hesych. l. c. ; Hom. Hymn. bricius understands the notice in Jerome of He-
xxxi. 3, xxxii. 6; Pind. Nem. xi. 6. ) The Ro- sychius, who was proconsul of Achaia, under
mans worshipped the same goddess, or rather the Theodosius II. A. D. 435 (Cod. Theodos. 6. tit.
same ideas enibodied in her, under the name of 28. $ 8); but this is not likely, for if the Bene-
Vesta, which is in reality identical with Hestia ; dictine editors are right in fixing a. D. 396 as the
but as the Roman worship of Vesta differed in date of the letter to Pammachius, the Theodosius
several points from that of Hestia in Greece, we there mentioned must have been Theodosius I. the
treat of Vesta in a separate article. [L. S. ) Great ; and if Hesychius was executed (as Jerome
HESTIAEA ("Eotiaia), a learned Alexandrian seems to say) in his reign, he could not have been pro-
lady. Her literary efforts were directed to the consul in the reign of his grandson Theodosius II.
explanation of the Homeric poems. Strabo (xiii. The Hesychius of the Codex Theodosianus may
p. 894), on the authority of Demetrius of Scepsis, perhaps be the one mentioned in the letters of the
informs us that she wrote a treatise respecting the monk Nilus, the pupil of Chrysostom. (Libanius,
site of the Homeric city of Troy, and the position Epistolae, ll. cc. , and Ep. 1010; Cod. Theodos. l. c. ;
of the plain which formed the scene of the en- Hieron. I. c. ; Nili Ascetae Epistolae. Lib. ii. Ep.
counters described in the Iliad. She is mentioned 292, ed. Allatii ; Fabr. Bibl. Gr. vol. vii. p. 547. )
by the scholiasts on I. iii. 64, and by Eustathius, 2. A devoted disciple of St. Hilarion, whose
e Ris.
S]
38
be
s the
and
naked
ereny
مع ب
tead
Hic
Beará
## p. 446 (#462) ############################################
446
HESYCHIUS.
HESYCHIUS.
dead body he surreptitiously conveyed from the the year following, A. D. 415. He gives him no
isle of Crete, where he died, to the Holy Land. higher title when recording his death, A. M. 5926,
(Hieron. Vitu S. Hilarionis, passim ; Opera, vol. Alex. era,= A. D. 434. Photius, who bas described
iv. pars ii. col. 74, &c. ed. Benedict; Sozom. some of his works, also calls him “Hesychius,
H. E. iii. 14; Fabr. Bill. Gr. vol. vii. p. 552. ] presbyter of Jerusalem," but without mentioning
3. AEGYPTIUS. An Egyptian bishop, who suf- the time when he lived.
Yet, notwithstanding
fered martyrdom in the persecution under Diocletian these tolerably clear intimations, Miraeus (Auclu-
and his successors in the East, perhaps about A. D. rium de Scriptor. Eccles. No. clxxv. ), Possevinus
310 or 311. It is not clear whether he was ex- ( Apparatus Sacer, vol. i. p. 739, ed. Col. 1608 ),
ecuted at Alexandria or elsewhere. Hody and Cave, and Thorschmidt (Comment. de Hesychio
others regard him as identical wiih the Hesychius Milesio), consider Hesychius the writer to be iden-
who revised the Septungint, and whose revision was tical with the Isysius or Isacius ('loários), bishop or
commonly used in Egypt and the adjacent churches. patriarch of Jerusalem, to whom pope Gregory the
Fabricius, who thinks this identity probable, is also Great wrote an epistle (Epistol. xi. 40. ; Opera,
disposed to regard the martyr llesychius as the vol. ii. col. 1133, ed. Benedict. ), and whose death
same person as Hesychius of Alexandria, the author occurred, according to the Alexandrian or Paschal
of the Lexicon ; but Thorschmidius regards the au- chronicle, in A. D. 609. (Chron. Pasch. p. 382, ed.
thor of the Lexicon as a distinct person. (Hesy- Paris, vol. i. p. 699, ed. Bonn. ) But the absence of
chius of Alexandria, below. ) (Euseb. H. E. viii. any higher designation than presbyter in Photius
13; Hieronym. Praef. in Parulipom. and Pracfut. and Theophanes forbid the supposition that their
in Quatuor Evang. ; 'Opera, vol. i. col. 1023, 1429, Hesychius ever attained episcopal rank; and the
ed. Benedictin; Hody, De Biblior. Textibus Ori- want of any distinguishing epithet leads us to con-
ginal. , fol. Oxford, 1705, p. 303 ; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. clude that there was no other Hesychius of Jerusa-
vol. vii. 547; Thorschmidius, De Hesych. Miles. | lem who had acquired distinction as a writer. The
Illustr. Christian. Coinmentut. sect. i. apud Orellium, account of Hesychius in the Greek Menology is
Hesychii Opusc. )
probably correct in its general outline. According
4. Of ALEXANDRIA. See below.
to it, he was born and educated at Jerusalem,
5. Of Apameia, called, in the older editions of where, by meditating on the Scriptures, he ac-
Porphyry's life of Plotinus, JUSTINUS ('lovotivos) quired a deep acquaintance with divine things.
Hesychius, but in Creuzer's edition of Plotinus, | He afterwards left Jerusalem, and followed a mo-
to which the life by Porphyry is prefixed, Us nastic life “in the deserts” (it is not stated in
TILLIANUS (Oủotillards) Hesychius, was the what desert, but it was probably in Palestine),
adopted son of Amelius, one of the later Platonists gathering from the holy fathers there, with bee
in the latter half of the third century. [AMELIUS. ] like industry, the flowers of virtue. He was
Amelius gave or bequeathed to him a hundred books ordained presbyter, against his will, by the patri-
of commentaries, in which he had collected or re- arch of Jerusalem, and spent the rest of his life in
corded the instructions of the philosopher Nume that city, or in other places where the Lord Jesus
nius. (Porphyr. Vit. Plotini, c. 3, apud Creuzer. Christ had suffered. Trithemius, who calls him
Opera Plotini, 3 vols. 4to. Oxford, 1835; Fabric. Esytius (De Scriptor. Eccles. No. lxxxii), and Sir-
Bibl. Gr. vol. iii. p. 180, vol. vii. p. 152. )
tus of Sena (Bibl. Sanctu, lib. iv. p. 245, ed. Col.
6. Of CONSTANTINOPLE, a writer of unknown 1586), say, but we know not on what authority,
date, who wrote Eis xal koûv Đow do you d. Pho that he was a disciple of Gregory Nazianzen,
tius, from whom alone we learn any thing of this which is hardly probable.
writer, says that, “ so far as could be judged from His principal writings are, 1. In Leviticum Libri
this piece, he appeared to be orthodox. " Probably septem. A Latin version of this was published
he was the Hesychius, one of the clergy of Con- fol. Basel, 1527, and 8vo. Paris, 1581, and is re-
stantinople, who raised in that city the cry of printed in the Bibliotheca Patrum (vol. xii
. p. 52,
heresy against Eunomius, apparently about A. D. &c. , ed. Lyon. 1677). The authorship and original
360. [Eunomius. ] Thorschmidius thinks that language of this work have been much disputed.
he was perhaps the author of the Ecclesiastical In some passages the writer evidently speaks as
History, known by one or two citations, and ge- one to whom the Latin tongue was vernacular ;
nerally regarded as a work of Hesychius of Jeru- and in some of the MSS. he is called Isychius,
salem. (Hesychius HieroSOLYMITANUS, No. 7. ) | presbyter of Salona, not to be confounded with the
(Phot. Bibl. Cod. 51; Philostorg. H. E. vi. 1; Hesychius the correspondent of Augustin (Augus-
Fabric. Bibl. Gr, vol. vii. p. 547. )
tin, Ep. 197, 198, 199; Opera, vol. ii. col. 737, &c. ,
7. HierOSOLYMITANUS, or of JERUSALEM, an ed. Benedict. 1679, and vol. ii. p. 1106, ed. Paris,
early Christian writer of considerable repute in 1836), whom Augustin addresses as his coepisco-
his day, many of whose writings are extant. pus;” but Tillemont thinks that the original was in
The date of his life and his official rank in Greek, and that there are internal indications that
the church have been much disputed. Cyril of the writer lived at Jerusalem ; and Cave suggests
Scythopolis, in his life of St. Euthymius (Bios Tow that the passages in which the writer speaks as a
áziou natpòs ouwv Ejduulou, Cotel. Eccles. Graec. Latin are the interpolations of the translator, whom
Monum. vol. iv. p. 31), speaks of Hesychius, he supposes to have been Hesychius of Salona. The
* presbyter and teacher of the church," as being work is cited as the work of Hesychius of Jerusalem
with Juvenal patriarch of Jerusalem, when he de- by Latin writers of the ninth century. The Latin
dicated the church of the “ Laura," or monastery version is ancient, though subsequent to the time
of Euthymius, A. D. 428 or 429. Theophanes re- when the Latin version of the Scriptures by
cords the #pobolt), advancement (i. e. ordination ? ) Jerome came into general use in the church. Con-
of Hesychius, “ the presbyter of Jerusalem," A. M. siderable pains are taken in the work to confute
5906, Alex. era (=A. D. 414); and notices him again the opinions of Nestorius, and, as is thought by
as eminent for learning (ývoel tais didackaríais) | many, of Eutyches. Now, as the heresy of the
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latter was not denounced until A. D. 448, fourteen | Paris, 1648. 12. Luvaywrth dropiâv kal dihús
years after the death of Hesychius of Jerusalem, σεων εκλεγείσα εν επιτομή εκ της Ευαγγελικής
According to Theophanes, this circumstance would Lupowvias, Collectio Difficultatum el Solutionum,
appear fatal to his claims to the authorship. But excerpta per compendium er Erangelica Consonantia.
Tillemont thinks that the opinions controverted are An abridgment of No. 11, published in the Eccles.
not those of Eutyches, but the nearly similar errors Graec. Monum. of Cotelerius (vol. iii. p. 1). 13.
of the Apollinarists (APOLLINARIS or APOLLINA-In Canticum Habacuc et Jonae. Some fragments of
RIUS, No.
