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492 irpns TlaTwt'a f} Kal Trepl rod iravros. It was pulj- lished by Hoeschelius in his notes to Photius, and by Le Moyne in his Varia Sacra, as well as by Fa- bricius. It appears to be the work described by Pho- tius, under the title Hepl tuv iravTOS, or Uepl ttjs Tov iraurds airlas, or iravros ovcias. Its authorship was in his time very doubtful. At the head of his Codex (No. 48) it was called a work of Josephus ; but he says it was variously ascribed to Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, and Caius, to which last he himself attributes it. The genuineness of this fragment is admitted by Oudin. 5. Els t7)i/ aLfjeaiv Noerou tiv6s. Contra Haeresin Noeti. This is probably the concluding portion of his work Upos dirdcras ras alpecrfis, Adversus omnes Iluereses, mentioned by Eusebiiis and Jerome, and described by Photius as directed against thirty-two heresies, beginning with the Dositheans, and ending with Noetus, the contemporary of Hippolytus. 6. KaroL hTJpwvos Koi "HKiKos Twv alpeTiKuu trepl ^eoo'yias Kal aapKoiaeoos, De Tiieologia et Incarnaiione contra Beronem et Hdiconem (s. Helicem) haereticos. The eight fragments given by Gallandius of this work, which is perhaps another portion of the work against heresies, are preserved by Nicephorus of Con- stantmople, in his Anth'rMtica contra Iconomachos, and were first published in a Latin version in the Lectiones Antiquae of Canisius, vol. v. p. 154 (4to. Ingolstadt, 1604), and in Greek by Sirmond, in his Collectanea Anastasii BibliotJiccarii, 8vo. Paris, 1620. These pieces form the pars prima of the writings of Hippolytus given by Gallandius.

The second part contains the following works: 7. Fragmenta ex Commentario in Genesin^ printed by Fabricius from a MS. in the Imperial Library at Vienna, 8. Fragmenta ex Commentariis in varios Sacrae Scripturae Libros, viz. in Hex'demero7i, in Genesin, in Numeros, in Psalmos, in Psalm II., in Psalm XXIII.^ in Proverbia, in Canticum Canti- corum, in Isaiam, in Danielem, and in Canticum Trium Puerorum. These fragments were collected by Fabricius from MSS. or from the citations of ancient writers. The expository writings of Hip- polytus are mentioned by Eusebius and Jerome, from whom we learn that he wrote several other expositions besides those mentioned above. 10. Fragmenta alia, from the work Adversus Haereses, from the work IlepI roO ayiov Ilao-xo, De Sancto Pasclux, mentioned by Eusebius and Jerome ; and from the Ylpbs $a(niSa tipcL eTricrToArf, Epistola ad quamdam lieginam, which is thought to be the npoTpeiTTiKds irp6s 2,€§T^p€tvav, Exhortatorius ad Severinam, of the inscription on the statue. 11. YiepX xapKrixarwv dno(XToiKr) irapdBocris, De Charis- matibus Apostolica traditio, and some extracts from the Constitutiones Apostolicae, lib. viii. The author- ship of these pieces is claimed for Hippolytus on the authority of the inscription on his statue, and of some MSS. 1*2. Narratio de Virgine Corin- thiaca et de quodam Magistriano, from Palladius {^Hist. Lausiac. c. 148). 13. Canon Pascludis, or Table for Calculating Easter, together with a cata- logue of the works of Hippolytus, from the inscrip- tion on the statue. The Paschal Cycle of Hippo- lytus was of sixteen years. The table appears to have been part of his work Ilepl toD Ilacrxa, men- tioned by Eusebius, and of which an extract is given among the Fragmenta mentioned in No. 10. The canon of Hippolytus has been illustrated by the labours of Joseph Scaliger, Dionysius Petavius, Franci^us Blanchiuius, and others. The iragment of the Commentary of Hippolytus on Genesis, pub- lished by Fabricius, from an Arabic Catena, in Syriac characters, from a MS. in the Bodleian Library, with a Latin version by Gagnier, is re- jected by Gallandius as not belonging to the subject of this article ; and the short pieces, TLepX twv i6' diroaToKwv, De Duodecim Apostolis, and TlepX tuv o' dirocTToKoiv, De Septuaginta Apostolis, given by Fabricius in the appendix to his first volume, are either of doubtful genuineness or confessedly spurious.

There were several other works of Hippolytus enumerated bv Jerome and other ancient writers now lost. (Euseb. H. E. vi. 20, 22, 23; and Chronic, lib, ii. ; Hieronym. De Viris Illust. c. 61; Phot. Bibl Cod. 48, 121, 202 ; Chron. Paschal, p. 6, ed. Paris, vol. 1. p. 12, ed. Bonn ; Le Moyne, Diatribe de Hippolyto in the Prolegomena to his Varia Sacra; Baron. Annal. ad ann. 229, iv. ; Tillemont, Mtm. vol. iii. p. 238, &c. ; Lardner, Credibility, &c., pt. ii. c. 35 ; Oudin, Commeiit. de Scriptor, Eccles. vol. i. p. 220, &c. ; Basnage, Animadversiones de S. Hippolyto, prefixed to his edi- tion of Canisius, Lect. Antiq. ; Fabric. Bibl. Gr. vol. vii. p. 183, &c., and Proleg. and Notes to his edit, of Hippolytus ; Cave, Hist. Litt. vol. i. p. 102, &c. ed. Oxon, 1740—1743; Galland. BM. Patrum, vol. ii. Prolegom. c. xviii.)

2. Jerome mentions an Hippolytus whom (ac- cording to the common but perhaps a corrupt read- ing) he designates a Roman senator, among the writers who defended Christianity against the Gentiles. There is much difference of opinion among critics as to the person meant. Some sup- pose that the bishop of the Portus Romanus (No. 1 ) is intended, and that Jerome has converted him from a bishop into a senator. Fabricius suggests that the senator may be one of two Hippolyti recorded in the Martyrologies as suffering in the persecution under Valerian. (Hieron. Epist. 83 (olim 84) ad Magnum ; Opera, vol. iv. pars ii. col. 656, ed. Benedictin. Paris, fol. 1693, &c. ; Ya^onc. Bibl. Gr, vol. vii. p. 198.]

3. Of Thebes, a writer of the tenth or eleventh centuries, of whose personal history nothing is known, and whose date can only be approximately given. In his principal work, his Chronicle, he cites Symeon Metaphrastes, whom he calls, as if speaking of a contemporary, 6 Kvpios 'S.vfxedv ; but the age of Symeon himself (fixed by some in the 10th century, by others in the 12th) is too doubtful to afford much aid in determining that of Plippo- lytus. Hippolytus is quoted by Michael Glykus, a writer of the middle of the twelfth century, and who confounds, as do some moderns, Hippolytus of Thebes with Hippolytus of Portus Romanus (J^^- nales, pars iii. p. 227, ed. Paris, p. 423, ed. Bonn), and by Nicephorus Callisti, who died A. D. 1327. (/f. ^. ii. 3.)

The principal work of Hippolytus is his Cliro- nicon, 'IttttoAutou &ri§aiov XpoviKov ^vvrayixa (or 2vyypaixixa). A Latin version of a fragment of this was published by Joannes Sambucus, 8vo. Padua, 1556, under the title of Libellus de Oriu et Cognatione Virginis Mariae ; and a part in Greek, with a Latin version, Avas given in the third volume of the Lectiones Antiquae of Canisius. Various fragments were given in the Commentarii de Biblioth. Caesar, of Lambecius ; and some others were added by Emanuel Schelstratenus in his Antiquitat. Ec- desiae JUustralis, fol. Rome, 1692, in which he