's privy purse, and composed his chief work, A Trajedy or Dialogue of the unjust usurped Primacy of the Bishop of Rome (1549) This remarkable performance, originally written in Latin, is Late in life he wrote a work on the great Roman families, wrongly identified with an When the Parthian War (162-5) broke out, Polyaenus, too old to share in the campaign, dedicated to the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus a work, still It is divided into eight books (parts of the sixth and seventh are lost), and originally contained nine hundred anecdotes, of which eight hundred and thirty-three are He never mentions his authorities, but amongst authors still A translation of the Andria and three original comedies from his pen are The adventures of Blanchefleur, wife of Charlemagne, form a variation of the common tale of the innocent wife falsely accused, and are told in Macaire and in the Michelant (same series, 1859); Mainet (fragments only cannot be pressed so far as to exclude the possibility that the He wrote several philosophical dialogues: (I) Concerning virtue, whether it can be taught; (2) Eryxias, or Erasistratus; concerning riches, whether they are good; (3) Axiochus: concerning death, whether it is to be feared, - but those He was the author of a lost work De Accentibus, and of an south of Prague, and partly at Krakowitz in the immediate neighbourhood of the capital, occasionally giving a course of open-air preaching, but finding his chief employment in maintaining that copious correspondence of which some precious fragments still are In the middle ages Aire belonged to the counts of Flanders, from whom in 1188 it received a charter, which is still Many letters and other short productions of his pen are There was introduced into it a courtly element, clear traces of which, with all its accompaniments, are found in the The chief source of information is a life written by St Jerome; it was based upon a letter, no longer These are the walls of which the remains are still (I) Basil, bishop of Ancyra from 336 to 360, a semiArian, highly favoured by the emperor Constantine, and a great polemical writer; none of his works are the Iliad and other works on the Homeric poems are still The fresco paintings in the galleries are perhaps the most interesting of the Thomas Blackwell' has collected some Homeric references: a work by Melampus of Alexandria is There are also early Hebrew works, of which one by Gedaliah is Of the Greek translations by Capito Lycius and Paeanius, the version of the latter is But it revived, and most of its fine Moslem mosque and fortress architecture, still And of this elemental mode of apprehension and root-truth, the Johannine Gospel is the greatest literary document and incentive On this occasion the defence was undertaken by Cicero in the Finally, in 1571, as he tells us in an inscription still The task is one of extraordinary difficulty, for the textual problems of the various writings are complex and confused: the Greek original is The recovery of its concluding sections in the same MS. which brought the Didache to light, proves beyond question that we have here the earliest Ebed Jesu in the 14th century mentions it together with Letters and Homilies, as well as the Tragedy, or a Letters to Cosmas, the Theopaschites (of which some fragments are still Hegesippus wrote in the 2nd century a collection of memoirs containing accounts of the early days of the church, only fragments of which are In the 14th century Nicephorus Callisti undertook a complete church history which covers in its Before writing his history Eusebius produced a world chronicle which was based upon a similar work by Julius Africanus and is now If this supposition be correct, Arno was the first Michel in his Tristan (1835), a collection of all the He also edited Hesiod and Pindar, Euripides and Aristophanes, besides composing brief introductions to the several plays, parts of which are still The twenty-one plays of Plautus accepted by Varro are doubtless the twenty now His contemporary Asconius is best known as the author of an 391, aroused in his own immediate circle an interest in Livy, the whole of whose history was still The Renaissance theory of a humanistic education is illustrated by several treatises still In Rome he lectured on rhetoric and philosophy, and collected around him many eminent pupils, amongst whom Cicero was the most famous and the most enthusiastic.
But he has carefully consulted the best authorities, and his work and that of Livy are the only connected and detailed extant accounts of early Roman history. In the eyes of the later Moslems he was remarkable for learning and wisdom, and there are This view is supported by consideration of the few answers to them which are versions into Greek, Armenian, Coptic, Arabic and Ethiopic.
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