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Rh •J!) MAXIMUS. Conrad Gesner, foL Zurich, 1546; and a Latin version was given in the first edition of De la Bigness Bibliot/ieca rairum, iol Paris, 1579. 10. Uapaariixdwcns rrjs yevofxeyris ^TjTTjo-ewy, k. t. A., Acta Disputationis^ &c. ; a record of the discus- sion between Pyrrhus and Maximus in the presence of the patrician Gregory in Africa, already referred to. It was published by Baronius, with a liatin version by Turrianus, as an appendix to the 8th vol. of his Annates Ecclesiastid ; and reprinted from thence in the Concilia. 1 1 . JSpisiolae, partim comjnunes, partim dogmaticae et polemicae. The other works given in the edition of Coinb<?fis are shorter and of little value, except as materials for a history of the Monothelite controversy, to which several of them refer. The following works of Maximus, not included in the collection of Corabfcfis, have been published elsewhere: — 12. Fragments, incorporated in the Catenae of the Fathers on the Sacred Books, and especially on the expository paraphrase of Solo- mon's Song {Esrpositio Cantici Canticorum- per Paraphrasin cuUecta ex Gregorii Nyssmi, Nili, et Mawimi Commentariis), contained in the Auctarium of Ducaeus, vol. ii. fol. Paris, 1624, 13, Scholia on the works of the pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita, first published with the works of Uionysius, 8vo. Paris, 1562, and repeatedly reprinted, Maximus earnestly contends that these are the genuine works of the Areopagite converted by St. Paul, 14. 'E^i?7rja-js K€(paAaLccSr]s nepl tov Kara Xpicrrou TQU 060 f Tiyiwv acoT7]piov Tratrxa, to Ziaypacpev Kavoviov ip/iirivevovcTa, Brevis Enarratio Christiani Paschatis, qua' descripti Laterculi ratio declaratur, or Computus Ecclesiasticus. This calculation of Easter was drawn up by Maximus, according to his own declaration (pars iii, cap, 9), in the four- teenth indiction, in the thirty-first year of Heraclius (i. e. A, D. 640). Scaliger, in his Emendatio Tem- porum, lib. vii. p. 736, gave considerable extracts from the work, and it was first published entire in the Uranologion of Petavius, p. 313, fol, Paris, 1630. 15, "ATTopa, Amhigua sive Difficilia Loca in Orationibus quibusdam Gregorii Nazianzeni ex- planata., ad Joannem Cyzici Episcopum. These "Airopa were translated into Latin by Joannes Scotus Erigena about the middle of the ninth cen- tury ; and the work itself, with the version, or perhaps only a part of them, was edited by Thomas Gale, with some of the works of Erigena, folio, Oxford, 1681. It is preceded by a letter of Max- imus to Joannes of Cyzicus. Gale also added the following work of Maximus, 16, TLepl Sia(p6pwv dwopup Tuv dyiwv Aiovvaiov Koi rpiqyopiou, De variis Difficilihus Locis Dionys'd Areopagitae et Gregorii Nazianzeni, Avith a Latin version by the editor himself. 16. A Fragment, thought to be from the "Airopa just mentioned (No, 15), is given in the Appetidix to the fourteenth volume of Gal- land's Btbliotheca Patrum, fol, Venice, 1781. The fragment is entitled &ewpia avvrofj-os Trp6s rovs Xeyoyras Trpovndpx^tv koI fx^Qvirapx^iv rwu aroo- fidruv Tas puxds, Animadversio brevis ad eos qui dicunt Animas ante vel post Corpora eaoisterc. There are some other works of Maximus either lost, or at least unpublished, which are enumerated by Fabricius. (Combefis, S. Maonmi Opera; Phot, /. c, ; Cave, /. c. ; Fabric. Bibl. Grace, vol. viii. p. 430, vol, ix. pp. 599, &c., 635, &c., vol. x. pp. 238, 736, volxii. p. 707 ; Concilia, vol. v. ed. Labbe, vol. iii. ed. Hardouin, vol. x. ed. Mansi ; MAXIMUS. Oudin, De Scriptor. et Script. Ecrles. vol, i. col. 1635, &c. ; Ceillier, Auteurs Sicrts, vol, xvii, p. 689, &c, ; Galland, Biblioth. Patrum. Proleq. ad Ajypend. Vol. XIV. c, 10,) [J. C, M.] MA'XIMUS, Q. CORNE'LIUS, a Roman jurist, a contemporary of Servius Sulpicius, and the teacher of C. Trebatius Testa, who was the friend of Cicero. (Dig, 1, tit, 2. s. 2. § 45 ; Cic, ad Fam.vW. 8 and 17,) He is once quoted in the Digest and by Alfenus (33, tit. 7, s. 16), as having given an opi- nion on the meaning of the word "instrumentum," in a legacy of "a vineyard and the instrumontum thereof," Servius considered that the word instru- mentum had here no meaning, Maximus said that the term included the stakes, poles, rakes, and spades ; which Alfenus considers to be the better opinion, and so in fact it seems to be, [G. Ii.] MA'XIMUS, CORNE'LIUS DOLABELLA. [DOLABELLA, No, 1,] MA'XIMUS, DOMFTIUS CALVPNUS. [Calvinus, No, 2,] MA'XIMUS, EGNATIUS, is mentioned by Cicero in b, c. 45 {ad Att. xiii. 34), and the same person is probably intended in one or two other passages of Cicero, where the name of Egnatius occurs without any surname (ad Att. xiii. 45, &c). The acquaintance of Cicero may perhaps be the same as the C. Egnatius Cn. f, Cn, n, Maximus, whose name occurs on several interesting coins which seem to have been struck in the time of Julius Caesar, and of which three specimens are given below. The head of Venus which appears on the obverse of the first, and that of Cupid on the obverse of the second, probably have reference to the descent of Julius Caesar from Venus. An Egnatia Maximilla belonging to the family of the Egnatii Maximi is mentioned in the time of Nero. [Egnatia,] COINS OF EGNATIUS MAXIMUS. MA'XIMUS EPHE'SIUS, one of the teachers of the emperor Julian, who is not to be con- founded with Maximus Epirota, whose name is likewise conspicuous among the learned friends of that emperor, Maximus, the subject of this no- tice, was a native of either Ephesus or Smyrna, and belonged to a rich and distinguished family. He early embraced the doctrine of the Pytliagorean