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 188 Journal of Philology. lessons even of Socrates 22. Besides, Socrates had not the oppor- tunity of forming his character, for Aristippus did not join his society at a very early age. This remark applies still more strongly to Antisthenes the o^i/xa^y ; who had moreover been a pupil of Gorgias before he came to Socrates. It certainly was not the proper application of Socrates' philosophical method for that is the foundation of true science which led Antisthenes to his sceptical doctrine; and no teacher can be held responsible for the abuse of his principles, but only for the deductions which may be logically and legitimately made from them. E. M. Cope. II. On the Martyrdom and Commemorations of Saint Hippolytus. The memory of St Hippolytus has had wonderful transitions from fame to obscurity and round again to glory. The splen- dour of his name has waxed and waned most strangely. He was the earliest and in his own time the only preacher at Rome; against two 1 popes he fought successfully for integrity in discipline and truth of doctrine ; he wrote on a great variety of the most interesting subjects in divinity, philosophy, chrono- logy ; his books were voluminous and widely spread. The "Abu- lides" of Ethiopia, the "Iflites" of Chaldeea, he framed the canons which are to this day the basis of church-order in those countries. Yet shortly after, Eusebius only knew that he had w In Memor. XX. I. a conversation with Urban) also, and that he and between them is reported in which Aris- Pontian were selected for banishment tippus asserts his peculiar opinions, and under Maximin as being the heads of Socrates combats them. The latter ob- the rival factions (p. 71.) Dr Words- tains the victory in the argument (lb. worth had drawn from this same banish- III. 8. 1) but fails to convince his anta- ment a pledge of the restored unity of gonist. the Church (p. 113.) At least as Hip- polytus wrote sometime after Callistus' 1 So says Hippolytus himself: Dr death we may judge that so heavy- Dollinger finds it necessary for his the- handed an antagonist would not have ory to presume that he prolonged the spared Pontian had he been a perpetua- strife with Pope Pontian (and hence tor of the Callistian heresies.