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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Beryllus (search)
Beryllus （*Berullo/s), bishop of Bostra in Arabia, A. D. 230, maintained that the Son of God had no distinct personal existence before the birth of Christ, and that Christ was only divine as having the divinity of the Father residing in him, communicated to him at his birth as a ray or emanation from the Father. At a council held at Bostra (A. D. 244) he was convinced by Origen of the error of his doctrine, and returned to the Catholic faith. Works He wrote Hymns, Poems, and Letters, several of the latter to Origen, thanking him for having reclaimed him. A work was extant in the time of Eusebius and of Jerome, in which was an account of the questions discussed between Beryllus and Origen. None of his works are extant. Further Information Euseb. Hist. Eccl. 6.20, 33; Hieron. de Vir. Illuslr. 100.60; Socrates, H. E. 3.7.[P.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
r. They reach from Hadrian to the death of Carinus, that is, from A. D. 117 to A. D. 284, extending over a space of 167 years, and forming a sort of supplement to the Caesars of Suetonius, which terminate with Domitian. No immediate connexion, however, is established with the last-named work, since Nerva and Trajan are passed over; nor is the series absolutely complete, even within its own proper limits, for there is a gap of nine years, front the third Gordian to Valerianus, that is, from A. D. 244 to A. D. 253, including the reigns of Philippus, Decius, Gallus, and Aemilianus. It is by no means unlikely, indeed, that these, as well as Nerva and Trijan, may originally have formed a part of the whole, and that the existing blanks are owing to the mutilation of the MS. which formed the archetype; but this is merely a probable conjecture. The authors of the collection are commonly classed together under the title Historiae Augustae Scriptores sex, their names being Aelius Spartianus,
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ge'mina (search)
Ge'mina one of the ladies who attended the philosophical instructions of Plotinus when he was at Rome in the early part of the reign of the emperor Philip, A. D. 244. Her affluence is indicated by the circumstance that the philosopher resided and taught in her house, and her age by the circumstance that her daughter, of the same name with herself, was also one of his zealous disciples. (Porphyr. Vit. Plotin. 100.3, 9.) [J.C.M]
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
e cannot belong to an earlier date than the beginning of A. D. 238. 2. Upon receiving intelligence of the proceedings in Africa, the senate at once acknowledged the Gordians, threw down the statues of Maximinus, and declared him a public enemy. Hence it is manifest that they would issue no money bearing his effigy after these events, which must therefore belong to some period later than the beginning of A. D. 238. 3. It is known that the third Gordian was killed about the month of March, A. D. 244, and numerous coins are extant, struck in Egypt, commemorating the seventh year of his reign. But since the Egyptians calculated the commencement of their civil year, and consequently the years of a sovereign's reign, from the 29th of August, they must have reckoned some period prior to the 29th of August, A. D. 238, as the first year of the third Gordian's reign. Hence the elevation of the first two Gordians, their death, the death of Maximinus, the accession and death of Balbinus with
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Ori'genes (search)
ear, i. e. in A. D. 245, and Eusebius (Euseb. Hist. Eccl. 6.32) says it was finished at Athens; but Tillemont infers from the order of events in the narrative of Eusebius that the journey took place before the death of the emperor Gordian III. (A. D. 244). If Tillemont's inference is sound, we must reject the statement of Suidas; and we must also place before the death of Gordian, the visit which Origen made to Bostra in Arabia (Euseb. Hist. Eccl. 6.33), and his restoration to the then orthodox belief of Beryllus, bishop of Bostra, who had propagated some notions respecting our Lord's pre-existent nature, which were deemed heretical. [BERYLLUS.] During the reign of Philippus the Arabian (A. D. 244-249), Origen wrote his reply to the Epicurean Celsus, and his commentaries on the twelve minor prophets, and on the Gospel of Matthew; also a number of letters, among which were one to the emperor Philippus, one to the empress Severa his wife, and others to Fabianus, bishop of Rome, and oth
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Peregri'nus, L. Arme'nius consul A. D. 244 with A. Fulvius Aemilianus, the year in which Philippus ascended the throne.
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Philippus I., M. Ju'lius> Roman emperor A. D. 244-249, was an Arabian by birth, a native of Trachonitis, according to Victor; of the colony of Bostra, according to Zonaras. Of his early history we know nothing, except that he is said to have been the son of a celebrated robber captain, and we are equally ignorant of the various steps in his military career. Upon the death of the excellent Misitheus [MISITHEUS; GORDIANUS III.], during the Persian campaign of the third Gordian, Philippus was at once promoted to the vacant office of praetorian praefect. The treacherous arts by which he procured the ruin of the young prince his master, and his own elevation to the throne, are detailed elsewhere [GORDIANUS III.]. The senate having ratified the choice of the troops, the new sovereign proclaimed his son Caesar, concluded a disgraceful peace with Sapor, founded thecityof Philippopolis, and then returned to Roine. These events took place in the early part of A.D. 244. The annals of this perio
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
Philippus Ii., M. Ju'lius> son of the foregoing, was a boy of seven at the accession (A. D. 244) of his father, by whom he was forthwith proclaimed Caesar, and three years afterwards (247) chosen consul, being at the same time admitted to share the purple with the title of Augustus. His second consulship (248) corresponds with the celebration of the secular solemnities, and in the autumn of 249 he was slain, according to Zosimus, at the battle of Verona, or murdered, according to Victor, at Rome by the praetorians, when intelligence arrived of the defeat and death of the emperor. Nothing has been recorded with regard to this youth, who perished at the age of twelve, except that he was of a singularly serious and stern temperament, so that from early childhood he could never be induced to smile, and on perceiving his father indulging in hearty merriment, called forth by some buffoonery at the games, he turned away his head with a marked expression of disgust. His names and titles we
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Philo'stratus (search)
he was called Atheniensis, to distinguish him from his younger namesake. The account given by Suidas of his having been alive in the time of the emperor Philip (A. D. 244-249), tallies precisely with what we find written in his own works. Clinton conjectures the time of his birth to be A. D. 182 (Fast. Rom. p. 257), but this seemsis account is palpably inconsistent with itself, as it makes a man who lived in the time of Nero, A. D. 54-168, the father of another who was alive under Philip, A. D. 244-249. Besides, the connection between the second and the third Philostratus is unintelligible, and, if we are to take every thing as it stands, is contradicted bydly possible that he can have been a grandson of the biographer, as Kayser in his preface supposes, as the latter was writing vigorously in th>e reign of Philip (A. D. 244-249), when, according to the computation already given, the Lemnian, born in 191, would have been between 53 and 58 years old. We have already seen that the biog
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Philo'stratus (search)
m Philostratus speaks (V. S. 2.33.4) as his intimate friend, was his colleague. It is true that Suidas speaks of this Philostratus as tw=| prw/tw|, but the time, that of Severus, fixes it to be Philostratus the biographer. As he was called Lemnius from his birth-place, so on his arrival at Rome from Athens, or while teaching there, he was called Atheniensis, to distinguish him from his younger namesake. The account given by Suidas of his having been alive in the time of the emperor Philip (A. D. 244-249), tallies precisely with what we find written in his own works. Clinton conjectures the time of his birth to be A. D. 182 (Fast. Rom. p. 257), but this seems too late a period, and we may fix on A. D. 172 as not improbable. We have no notice of the time of his removal from Athens to Rome, but we find him a member of the circle (ku/klon) of literary men, rhetoricians especially, whom the philosophic Julia Domna, the wife of Severus, had drawn around her. (V. Ap. 1.3.) It was at her desi
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