that
Mesopotamia
(Photius, cod.
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i.
8.
; was by him ordained Deacon (S.
Ath.
$ 38, transl.
Procop. Bell. Vand. i. 3, 4; Jomandes, de Reb. p. 136), though he declined the ordinary duties of
Get. 34, 36 ; Gibbon, Decline and Fall. c. 33, 35; the Diaconate and accepted that of teaching, A. D.
Herbert's Attila, p. 322. )
[A. P. S. ] 350. (Phil. ii. 17. ) The Catholic laymen,
A EʻTIUS ('Aétios), surnamed the Atheist
, from Diodorus and Flavian, protested against this or-
his denial of the God of Revelation (St. Athanas dination, and Leontius was obliged to depose him.
de Synod. g 6, p. 83, of the translation, Oxf. 1842; | (Thd. ii. 19. ) His dispute with Basil of An-
Socr. Hist. Ecd. ii. 35; Sozom. Hist. Eccl. iv. 29), cyra, A. D. 351 (fin. ), is the first indication of the
was born in Coele Syria ilostorg. Hist. Eccl. future schism in the Arian heresy. (Phil. iii. 15. )
iii. 15; St. Basil, adv. Eunom. i. p. 10) at Antioch Basil incensed Gallus (who became Caesar, March,
(Soc. ii. 35;* Suidas, s. o. 'Aétios), and became A. D. 351) against Aëtius, and Leontius' interces-
the founder of the Anomoean (avbnosov) form of sion only saved the latter from death. Soon
the Arian heresy. He was left fatherless and in Theophilus Blemmys introduced him to Gallus (S.
poverty when a child, and became the slave of a Gr. p. 294), who made him his friend, and often
vine-dresser 's wife (St. Gregory Nazianz. c. Eunom. sent him to his brother Julian when in danger of
p. 292, C, D; but see Not. Valesii ad Philost. ii. apostacy. (Phil. iii 17. ) There is a letter from
15), then a travelling tinker (S. Gr. ibid. ) or a Gallus extant, congratulating Julian on his ad-
goldsmith. (Phil. ibid. ) Conviction in a fraud or hesion to Christianity, as he bad heard from
ambition led him to abandon this life, and he ap Aëtius (Post. Epist. Juliani, p. 158, ed. Boisson.
plied himself to medicine under a quack, and soon Mogunt. 1828. ) Aëtius was implicated in the
set up for himself at Antioch. (Soc. jä. 15. ) murder of Domitian and Montius (see Gibbon,
From the schools of medicine being Arian, he ac- c. 19), A. D. 354 (S. Gr. p. 294, B), but bis
quired a leaning towards heresy. He frequented insignificance saved him from the vengeance of
the disputations meetings of the physicians (S. Gr. Constantius. However, he quitted Antioch for
p. 293, D) and made such progress in Eristicism, Alexandria, where St. Athanasius was maintain-'
that he became a paid advocate for such as wished ing Christianity against Arianism, and in A. D. 355
their own theories exhibited most advantageously. acted as Deacon under George of Cappadocia, the
On his mother's death he studied under Paulinus violent interloper into the See of St. Athanasius.
II. , Arian Bishop of Antioch, a. D. 331 ; but his (St. Ep. 76. & 1; Thdt. ü. 24. ) Here Eunomius
powers of disputation having exasperated some in- became his pupil (Phil. iii. 20) and amanuensis.
fluential persons about Eulalius, the successor of (Soc. ii. 35. ) He is said by Philostorgius (iii. 19)
Paulinus, he was obliged to quit Antioch for to have refused ordination to the Episcopate, be
Anazarbus, where he resumed the trade of a gold. cause Serras and Secundus, who made the offer,
smith, A. D. 331. (Phil ii. 15. ) Here a profes- had mixed with the Catholics ; in A. D. 358, when
sor of grammar noticed him, employed him as a Eudoxius became bishop of Antioch (Thdt. ii. 23),
he returned to that city, but popular feeling pre-
* After the first reference, the references in this vented Eudoxius from allowing him to act as Deacon.
article are thus abbreviated : St. Athanasius, The Aëtian (Eunomian, see Arius) schism now
de Synodis [S. Ath. ); St. Basil, adv. Eunomianos begins to develop itself. The bold irreligion of
[S. Bas. ); St. Gregory Nazianzen adv. Eunomian Aëtius leads a section of Arians (whom we may call
(S. Gr. ] The Histories of Socrates, Sozomen, here Anti-Aerians) to accuse him to Constantius
Theodoret, and Philostorgius, the Arian panegyrist (Soz. iv. 13); they allege also his connexion with
of Aëtius (Soc. , Soz. , Tbdt. , Phil. ); S. Epiphanius, Gallus, and press the emperor to summon a general
adv. Haereses (S. Ep. ).
Council for the settlement of the Theological
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AETIUS.
53
AETIUS.
gnestion. The Aëtian interest with Eusebius AETIUS ('Aétios, Aëtius), a Greek medical
(Soz. i. 16), the powerful Eunuch, divides the in- writer, whose name is commonly but incorrectly
tended council, but notwithstanding, the Aëtians spelt Aetius. Historians are not agreed about
are defeated at Seleucia, A. D. 359, and, dissolving his exact date. He is placed by some writers as
the council, hasten to Constantius, at Constanti- early as the fourth century after Christ; but it is
nople, to secure his protection against their op- plain from his own work that he did not write till
ponents. (S. Ath. transl
. pp. 73, 77, 88, 163, the very end of the fifth or the beginning of the
164. ) The Anti-Aëtians (who are in fact the sixth, as he refers (tetrab. iii. serm. i. 24, p. 464)
more respectable Semi-Arians, see ARIUS) follow, not only to St. Cyril
, Patriarch of Alexandria, who
and charge their opponents with maintaining a died 1. D. 444, but also (tetrub. ü. serm. iii. 110,
Difference in Substance (étepootolov) in the Trinity, p. 357) to Petrus Archiater, who was physician
producing a paper to that effect. A new schism to Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, and there
ensues among the Aëtians, and Aëtius is aban- fore must have lived still later ; he is himself
doned by bis friends (called Eusebians or Aca- quoted by Alexander Trallianus (xii
. 8, p. 346),
cians, see Arius) and banished (S. Bas. i. 4), who lived probably in the middle of the sixth
after protesting against his companions, who, century. He was a native of Amida, a city of
holding the same principle with himself (viz.
that Mesopotamia (Photius, cod. 221) and studied at
the Son was a creature, atlona), refused to ac- Alexandria, which was the most famous medical
knowledge the necessary inference (viz. that He school of the age. He was probably a Christian,
is of unlike substance to the Father, dybuotov). which may account perhaps for his being con-
(Thdt. i. 23; Soz. iv. 23; S. Greg. p. 301, D. ; founded with another person of the same name, a
Phil iv. 12. ) His late friends would not let him famous Arian of Antioch, who lived in the time of
remain at Mopsuestia, where he was kindly re the Emperor Julian. In some manuscripts he has
ceived by Auxentius, the Bishop there : Acacius the title of accouns Overior, comes obsequii, which
procures his banishment to Amblada in Pisidia means the chief officer in attendance on the em-
(Phil
. v. 1), where he composed his 300 blas peror (see Du Cange, Gloss. Med. et Inf. Latin. );
phemies, captious inferences from the symbol of this title, according to Photius (l. c. ), he attained
his irreligion, viz. that Ingenerateness (dyervola) at Constantinople, where he was practising medi-
is the essence (ovola) of Deity; which are refuted cine. Aëtius seems to be the first Greek medical
(those at least which St. Epiphanius had seen) in writer among the Christians who gives any speci-
S. Ep. ado. Hacr. 76. He there calls his op men of the spells and charms so much in vogue
ponents Chronites, ie. Temporals, with an apparent with the Egyptians, such as that of St. Blaise
allusion to their courtly obsequiousness. (Praefat. (tetrab. ii. serm. iv. 50, p. 404) in removing a
ap. S. Ep. ; comp. c. 4. )
bone which sticks in the throat, and another in re-
On Constantíus's death, Julian recalled the lation to a Fistula (tetrab. iv. serm. iii. 14, p. 762. )
various exiled bishops, as well as Aëtius, whom The division of his work Bubría 'latpind 'Ekraí-
he invited to his court (Ep. Juliani, 31, p. 52, deka,“ Sixteen Books on Medicine,” into four
ed. Boisson. ), giving him, too, a farm in Les tetrabibli (Tetpáb16101) was not made by himself,
bos. (Phil
. ix. 4. ) Euzoïus, heretical Bishop of but (as Fabricius observes) was the invention of
Antioch, took off the ecclesiastical condemnation some modern translator, as his way of quoting
from Aëtius (Phil. vii. 5), and he was made his own work is according to the namerical series
Bishop at Constantinople. (S. Ep. 76. p. 992, c. ) of the books. Although his work does not con-
He spreads his heresy by fixing a bishop of his tain much original matter, it is nevertheless one of
own imeligion at Constantinople (Phil viii. 2) and the most valuable medical remains of antiquity, as
by missionaries, till the death of Jovian, A. D. 364. being a very judicious compilation from the writ-
Valens, however, took part with Eudoxius, the ings of many authors whose works have been long
Acacian Bishop of Constantinople, and Aëtius re since lost. The whole of it has never appeared
tired to Lesbos, where be narrowly escaped death in the original Greek; one half was publish-
at the hands of the governor, placed there by ed at Venice, 1534, fol. “in aed. Aldi," with
Procopius in his revolt against Valens, A. D. 365, the title “ Aëtii Amideni Librorum Medicinalium
366. (See Gibbon. ch. 19. ) Again he took refuge tomus primus; primi scilicet Libri Octo nunc
in Constantinople, but was driven thence by his primum in lucem editi, Graecè :” the second
former friends. In vain he applied for protection volume never appeared. Some chapters of the
to Eudoxius, now at Marcianople with Valens ; ninth book were published Greek and Latin, by
and in a. D. 367 (Phil
. ix. 7) he died, it seems, at J. E. Hebenstreit, Lips. 4to. 1757, under the title
Constantinople, unpitied by any but the equally Tentamen Philologicum Medicum super Aëtë
irreligious Eunomius, who buried him. (Phil
. ix. Amideni Synopsis Medicorum Veterum, * &c. ; and
6. ) The doctrinal errors of Aëtius are stated again in the same year, “Aëtii Amideni AveKdótW
historically in the article on ARIUR. From the Specimen alterum. " Another chapter of the
Manichees he seems to have learned his licentious same book was edited in Greek and Latin by J.
morals, which appeared in the most shocking Soli- Magnus a Tengström, Abone, 1817, 4to. , with the
fidianism, and which he grounded on a Gnostic title “ Commentationum in Aëtii Amideni Medici
interpretation of St. John, xvii. 3. He denied, 'Avékdota Specimen Primum," etc. Another ex-
like most other heretics, the necessity of fasting tract, also from the ninth book, is inserted by
and self-mortification. (S. Ep. adv. Haer. 76. $ 4. ) Mustoxydes and Schinas in their “ Eurort
At some time or other he was a disciple of Euse- 'EXAMVIKwv 'Averðbtwv," Venet. 1816, 8vo. The
bius of Sebaste. (S. Bas. Epist. 223 [79] and twenty-fifth chapter of the ninth book was edited
244 [82]. ) Socrates (ii. 35) speaks of several in Greek and Latin by J. C. Hom, Lips. 1654,
letters from him to Constantine and others. His 4to. ; and the chapter (tetrab. i. serm. iii. 164)
Treatise is to be found ap. S. Epiphan, udv. Haer. “ De Significationibus Stellarum," is inserted in
76, p. 924, ed. Petav. Colon. 1682. {A. J. C. ) | Greek and Latin by Petavius, in his " Uranolo
## p. 54 (#74) ##############################################
54
AETOLUS.
AFRANIA.
9
sioni," p. 421, ed. Paris. Six books (namely, $ 6. ) According to Pausanias (v. i. & 2), his mo-
from the eighth to the thirteenth, inclusive), were ther was called Asterodia, Chromia, or Hyperippe.
published at Basel, 1533, fol. , translated into Latin He was married to Pronoë, by whom he had iwo
by Janus Cornarius, with the title “ Aëtii An- sons, Pleuron and Calydon. His brothers were
tiocheni Medici de cognoscendis et curandis Morbis Paeon, Epeius, and others. (Steph. Byz. 6. v. Nákos;
Sermones Sex jam primum in lucem editi," etc. In Conon. Narrat. 14; Schol. ad Pind. OL. I. 28. ) His
153. 5, the remaining ten books were translated and father compelled him and his two brothers Paeon
published at Basel, by J. B. Montanus, in two and Epeius to decide by a contest at Olympia as 10
volumes, so that the three volumes form together a which of them was to succeed him in his kingdom of
complete and uniform edition of the work. In Elis. F. peius gained the victory, and occupied the
1534, 4to. , a complete Latin translation was pub-throne after his father, and on his demise be was
lished at Venice by the Juntas. In 1542, Corna- succeeded by Aetolus. During the funeral games
rius completed and published a translation of the which were celebrated in honour of Azan, he ran
whole work (Basil. fol. ); which was reprinted at with his chariot over Apis, the son of Jason or
Basel, 1549, 8vo. ; Venice, 1543, 1544, 8vo. ; Salmoneus, and killed him, whereupon he was ex-
Lyons, 1549, fol. ; and in H. Stephens's “ Me pelled by the sons of Apis. (Apollod. I. c. ; Paus. v.
dicae Artis Principes," Paris. 1567, fol. Two 1. 86; Strab. viii. p. 357. ) After leaving Pelopon-
uscful works on Aëtius deserve to be mentioned ; nesnis, he went to the country of the Cureles, be-
one by C. Oroscius (Horozco), entitled “ Anno- tween the Achelous and the Corinthian gulf, where
tationes in Interpreus Aëtii," Basil. 1540, 4to. ; he slew Dorus, Laodocus and Polypoetes, the sons
the other an academical dissertion by C. Weigel, of Helios and Phthia, and gave to the country the
entitled “ Aëtiananım Exercitationum Specimen," name of Aetolia (Apollod. Paus. Il.
Procop. Bell. Vand. i. 3, 4; Jomandes, de Reb. p. 136), though he declined the ordinary duties of
Get. 34, 36 ; Gibbon, Decline and Fall. c. 33, 35; the Diaconate and accepted that of teaching, A. D.
Herbert's Attila, p. 322. )
[A. P. S. ] 350. (Phil. ii. 17. ) The Catholic laymen,
A EʻTIUS ('Aétios), surnamed the Atheist
, from Diodorus and Flavian, protested against this or-
his denial of the God of Revelation (St. Athanas dination, and Leontius was obliged to depose him.
de Synod. g 6, p. 83, of the translation, Oxf. 1842; | (Thd. ii. 19. ) His dispute with Basil of An-
Socr. Hist. Ecd. ii. 35; Sozom. Hist. Eccl. iv. 29), cyra, A. D. 351 (fin. ), is the first indication of the
was born in Coele Syria ilostorg. Hist. Eccl. future schism in the Arian heresy. (Phil. iii. 15. )
iii. 15; St. Basil, adv. Eunom. i. p. 10) at Antioch Basil incensed Gallus (who became Caesar, March,
(Soc. ii. 35;* Suidas, s. o. 'Aétios), and became A. D. 351) against Aëtius, and Leontius' interces-
the founder of the Anomoean (avbnosov) form of sion only saved the latter from death. Soon
the Arian heresy. He was left fatherless and in Theophilus Blemmys introduced him to Gallus (S.
poverty when a child, and became the slave of a Gr. p. 294), who made him his friend, and often
vine-dresser 's wife (St. Gregory Nazianz. c. Eunom. sent him to his brother Julian when in danger of
p. 292, C, D; but see Not. Valesii ad Philost. ii. apostacy. (Phil. iii 17. ) There is a letter from
15), then a travelling tinker (S. Gr. ibid. ) or a Gallus extant, congratulating Julian on his ad-
goldsmith. (Phil. ibid. ) Conviction in a fraud or hesion to Christianity, as he bad heard from
ambition led him to abandon this life, and he ap Aëtius (Post. Epist. Juliani, p. 158, ed. Boisson.
plied himself to medicine under a quack, and soon Mogunt. 1828. ) Aëtius was implicated in the
set up for himself at Antioch. (Soc. jä. 15. ) murder of Domitian and Montius (see Gibbon,
From the schools of medicine being Arian, he ac- c. 19), A. D. 354 (S. Gr. p. 294, B), but bis
quired a leaning towards heresy. He frequented insignificance saved him from the vengeance of
the disputations meetings of the physicians (S. Gr. Constantius. However, he quitted Antioch for
p. 293, D) and made such progress in Eristicism, Alexandria, where St. Athanasius was maintain-'
that he became a paid advocate for such as wished ing Christianity against Arianism, and in A. D. 355
their own theories exhibited most advantageously. acted as Deacon under George of Cappadocia, the
On his mother's death he studied under Paulinus violent interloper into the See of St. Athanasius.
II. , Arian Bishop of Antioch, a. D. 331 ; but his (St. Ep. 76. & 1; Thdt. ü. 24. ) Here Eunomius
powers of disputation having exasperated some in- became his pupil (Phil. iii. 20) and amanuensis.
fluential persons about Eulalius, the successor of (Soc. ii. 35. ) He is said by Philostorgius (iii. 19)
Paulinus, he was obliged to quit Antioch for to have refused ordination to the Episcopate, be
Anazarbus, where he resumed the trade of a gold. cause Serras and Secundus, who made the offer,
smith, A. D. 331. (Phil ii. 15. ) Here a profes- had mixed with the Catholics ; in A. D. 358, when
sor of grammar noticed him, employed him as a Eudoxius became bishop of Antioch (Thdt. ii. 23),
he returned to that city, but popular feeling pre-
* After the first reference, the references in this vented Eudoxius from allowing him to act as Deacon.
article are thus abbreviated : St. Athanasius, The Aëtian (Eunomian, see Arius) schism now
de Synodis [S. Ath. ); St. Basil, adv. Eunomianos begins to develop itself. The bold irreligion of
[S. Bas. ); St. Gregory Nazianzen adv. Eunomian Aëtius leads a section of Arians (whom we may call
(S. Gr. ] The Histories of Socrates, Sozomen, here Anti-Aerians) to accuse him to Constantius
Theodoret, and Philostorgius, the Arian panegyrist (Soz. iv. 13); they allege also his connexion with
of Aëtius (Soc. , Soz. , Tbdt. , Phil. ); S. Epiphanius, Gallus, and press the emperor to summon a general
adv. Haereses (S. Ep. ).
Council for the settlement of the Theological
## p. 53 (#73) ##############################################
AETIUS.
53
AETIUS.
gnestion. The Aëtian interest with Eusebius AETIUS ('Aétios, Aëtius), a Greek medical
(Soz. i. 16), the powerful Eunuch, divides the in- writer, whose name is commonly but incorrectly
tended council, but notwithstanding, the Aëtians spelt Aetius. Historians are not agreed about
are defeated at Seleucia, A. D. 359, and, dissolving his exact date. He is placed by some writers as
the council, hasten to Constantius, at Constanti- early as the fourth century after Christ; but it is
nople, to secure his protection against their op- plain from his own work that he did not write till
ponents. (S. Ath. transl
. pp. 73, 77, 88, 163, the very end of the fifth or the beginning of the
164. ) The Anti-Aëtians (who are in fact the sixth, as he refers (tetrab. iii. serm. i. 24, p. 464)
more respectable Semi-Arians, see ARIUS) follow, not only to St. Cyril
, Patriarch of Alexandria, who
and charge their opponents with maintaining a died 1. D. 444, but also (tetrub. ü. serm. iii. 110,
Difference in Substance (étepootolov) in the Trinity, p. 357) to Petrus Archiater, who was physician
producing a paper to that effect. A new schism to Theodoric, king of the Ostrogoths, and there
ensues among the Aëtians, and Aëtius is aban- fore must have lived still later ; he is himself
doned by bis friends (called Eusebians or Aca- quoted by Alexander Trallianus (xii
. 8, p. 346),
cians, see Arius) and banished (S. Bas. i. 4), who lived probably in the middle of the sixth
after protesting against his companions, who, century. He was a native of Amida, a city of
holding the same principle with himself (viz.
that Mesopotamia (Photius, cod. 221) and studied at
the Son was a creature, atlona), refused to ac- Alexandria, which was the most famous medical
knowledge the necessary inference (viz. that He school of the age. He was probably a Christian,
is of unlike substance to the Father, dybuotov). which may account perhaps for his being con-
(Thdt. i. 23; Soz. iv. 23; S. Greg. p. 301, D. ; founded with another person of the same name, a
Phil iv. 12. ) His late friends would not let him famous Arian of Antioch, who lived in the time of
remain at Mopsuestia, where he was kindly re the Emperor Julian. In some manuscripts he has
ceived by Auxentius, the Bishop there : Acacius the title of accouns Overior, comes obsequii, which
procures his banishment to Amblada in Pisidia means the chief officer in attendance on the em-
(Phil
. v. 1), where he composed his 300 blas peror (see Du Cange, Gloss. Med. et Inf. Latin. );
phemies, captious inferences from the symbol of this title, according to Photius (l. c. ), he attained
his irreligion, viz. that Ingenerateness (dyervola) at Constantinople, where he was practising medi-
is the essence (ovola) of Deity; which are refuted cine. Aëtius seems to be the first Greek medical
(those at least which St. Epiphanius had seen) in writer among the Christians who gives any speci-
S. Ep. ado. Hacr. 76. He there calls his op men of the spells and charms so much in vogue
ponents Chronites, ie. Temporals, with an apparent with the Egyptians, such as that of St. Blaise
allusion to their courtly obsequiousness. (Praefat. (tetrab. ii. serm. iv. 50, p. 404) in removing a
ap. S. Ep. ; comp. c. 4. )
bone which sticks in the throat, and another in re-
On Constantíus's death, Julian recalled the lation to a Fistula (tetrab. iv. serm. iii. 14, p. 762. )
various exiled bishops, as well as Aëtius, whom The division of his work Bubría 'latpind 'Ekraí-
he invited to his court (Ep. Juliani, 31, p. 52, deka,“ Sixteen Books on Medicine,” into four
ed. Boisson. ), giving him, too, a farm in Les tetrabibli (Tetpáb16101) was not made by himself,
bos. (Phil
. ix. 4. ) Euzoïus, heretical Bishop of but (as Fabricius observes) was the invention of
Antioch, took off the ecclesiastical condemnation some modern translator, as his way of quoting
from Aëtius (Phil. vii. 5), and he was made his own work is according to the namerical series
Bishop at Constantinople. (S. Ep. 76. p. 992, c. ) of the books. Although his work does not con-
He spreads his heresy by fixing a bishop of his tain much original matter, it is nevertheless one of
own imeligion at Constantinople (Phil viii. 2) and the most valuable medical remains of antiquity, as
by missionaries, till the death of Jovian, A. D. 364. being a very judicious compilation from the writ-
Valens, however, took part with Eudoxius, the ings of many authors whose works have been long
Acacian Bishop of Constantinople, and Aëtius re since lost. The whole of it has never appeared
tired to Lesbos, where be narrowly escaped death in the original Greek; one half was publish-
at the hands of the governor, placed there by ed at Venice, 1534, fol. “in aed. Aldi," with
Procopius in his revolt against Valens, A. D. 365, the title “ Aëtii Amideni Librorum Medicinalium
366. (See Gibbon. ch. 19. ) Again he took refuge tomus primus; primi scilicet Libri Octo nunc
in Constantinople, but was driven thence by his primum in lucem editi, Graecè :” the second
former friends. In vain he applied for protection volume never appeared. Some chapters of the
to Eudoxius, now at Marcianople with Valens ; ninth book were published Greek and Latin, by
and in a. D. 367 (Phil
. ix. 7) he died, it seems, at J. E. Hebenstreit, Lips. 4to. 1757, under the title
Constantinople, unpitied by any but the equally Tentamen Philologicum Medicum super Aëtë
irreligious Eunomius, who buried him. (Phil
. ix. Amideni Synopsis Medicorum Veterum, * &c. ; and
6. ) The doctrinal errors of Aëtius are stated again in the same year, “Aëtii Amideni AveKdótW
historically in the article on ARIUR. From the Specimen alterum. " Another chapter of the
Manichees he seems to have learned his licentious same book was edited in Greek and Latin by J.
morals, which appeared in the most shocking Soli- Magnus a Tengström, Abone, 1817, 4to. , with the
fidianism, and which he grounded on a Gnostic title “ Commentationum in Aëtii Amideni Medici
interpretation of St. John, xvii. 3. He denied, 'Avékdota Specimen Primum," etc. Another ex-
like most other heretics, the necessity of fasting tract, also from the ninth book, is inserted by
and self-mortification. (S. Ep. adv. Haer. 76. $ 4. ) Mustoxydes and Schinas in their “ Eurort
At some time or other he was a disciple of Euse- 'EXAMVIKwv 'Averðbtwv," Venet. 1816, 8vo. The
bius of Sebaste. (S. Bas. Epist. 223 [79] and twenty-fifth chapter of the ninth book was edited
244 [82]. ) Socrates (ii. 35) speaks of several in Greek and Latin by J. C. Hom, Lips. 1654,
letters from him to Constantine and others. His 4to. ; and the chapter (tetrab. i. serm. iii. 164)
Treatise is to be found ap. S. Epiphan, udv. Haer. “ De Significationibus Stellarum," is inserted in
76, p. 924, ed. Petav. Colon. 1682. {A. J. C. ) | Greek and Latin by Petavius, in his " Uranolo
## p. 54 (#74) ##############################################
54
AETOLUS.
AFRANIA.
9
sioni," p. 421, ed. Paris. Six books (namely, $ 6. ) According to Pausanias (v. i. & 2), his mo-
from the eighth to the thirteenth, inclusive), were ther was called Asterodia, Chromia, or Hyperippe.
published at Basel, 1533, fol. , translated into Latin He was married to Pronoë, by whom he had iwo
by Janus Cornarius, with the title “ Aëtii An- sons, Pleuron and Calydon. His brothers were
tiocheni Medici de cognoscendis et curandis Morbis Paeon, Epeius, and others. (Steph. Byz. 6. v. Nákos;
Sermones Sex jam primum in lucem editi," etc. In Conon. Narrat. 14; Schol. ad Pind. OL. I. 28. ) His
153. 5, the remaining ten books were translated and father compelled him and his two brothers Paeon
published at Basel, by J. B. Montanus, in two and Epeius to decide by a contest at Olympia as 10
volumes, so that the three volumes form together a which of them was to succeed him in his kingdom of
complete and uniform edition of the work. In Elis. F. peius gained the victory, and occupied the
1534, 4to. , a complete Latin translation was pub-throne after his father, and on his demise be was
lished at Venice by the Juntas. In 1542, Corna- succeeded by Aetolus. During the funeral games
rius completed and published a translation of the which were celebrated in honour of Azan, he ran
whole work (Basil. fol. ); which was reprinted at with his chariot over Apis, the son of Jason or
Basel, 1549, 8vo. ; Venice, 1543, 1544, 8vo. ; Salmoneus, and killed him, whereupon he was ex-
Lyons, 1549, fol. ; and in H. Stephens's “ Me pelled by the sons of Apis. (Apollod. I. c. ; Paus. v.
dicae Artis Principes," Paris. 1567, fol. Two 1. 86; Strab. viii. p. 357. ) After leaving Pelopon-
uscful works on Aëtius deserve to be mentioned ; nesnis, he went to the country of the Cureles, be-
one by C. Oroscius (Horozco), entitled “ Anno- tween the Achelous and the Corinthian gulf, where
tationes in Interpreus Aëtii," Basil. 1540, 4to. ; he slew Dorus, Laodocus and Polypoetes, the sons
the other an academical dissertion by C. Weigel, of Helios and Phthia, and gave to the country the
entitled “ Aëtiananım Exercitationum Specimen," name of Aetolia (Apollod. Paus. Il.
