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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Celsus (search)
Celsus （T. Cornelius), one of the thirty tyrants enumerated by Trebellius Pollio. [Comp. AUREOLUS.] In the twelfth year of Gallienus, A. D. 265, when usurpers were springing up in every quarter of the Roman world, a certain Celsus, who had never risen higher in the service of the state than the rank of a military tribune, living quietly on his lands in Africa, in no way remarkable except as a man of upright life and commanding person, was suddenly proclaimed emperor by Vibius Passienus, proconsul of the province, and Fabius Pomponianus, general of the Libyan frontier. So sudden was the movement, that the appropriate trappings of dignity had not been provided, and the hands of Galliena, a cousin it is said of the lawful monarch, invested the new prince with a robe snatched from the statue of a goddess. The downfall of Celsus was not less rapid than his elevation: he was slain on the seventh day, his body was devoured by dogs, and the loyal inhabitants of Sicca testified their devotion
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Diony'sius (search)
of three years, an edict of Gallienus in favour of the Christians enabled him to return to Alexandria, where henceforth he was extremely zealous in combating heretical opinions. In his attacks against Sabellius he was carried so far by his zeal, that he uttered tlings which were themselves incompatible with the orthodox faith; but when he was taken to accountby Dionysius, bishop of Rome, who convoked a synod for the purpose, he readily owned that he had acted rashly and inconsiderately. In A. D. 265 he was invited to a synod at Antioch, to dispute with Paulus of Samosata, but being prevented from going thither by old age and infirmity, he wrote a letter to the synod on the subject of the controversy to be discussed, and soon after, in the same year, he died, after having occupied the see of Alexandria for a period of seventeen years. The church of Rome regards Dionysius as a saint, and celebrates his memory on the 18th of October. We learn from Epiphanes (Haeres. 69), that at Alexandr
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), (search)
eventeen persons who were not Christians, notwithstanding the two calamities of the Decian persecution, about A. D. 250, and the invasion of the northern barbarians, about A. D. 260, from which the church of Neocaesareia suffered severely during his bishopric. In the Decian persecution he fled into the wilderness, not, as it really appears, from fear, but to preserve his life for the sake of his flock. He was a warm champion of orthodoxy, and sat in the council which was held at Antioch in A. D. 265, to inquire into the heresies of Paul of Samosata. He died not long afterwards. The very probable emendation of Kuster to Suidas, substituting the name of Aurelian for that of Julian, would bring down his life to A. D. 270. This is not the place to inquire into the miracles which are said to have been performed by Gregory at every step of his life. One example of them is sufficient. On his journey from the wilderness to his see he spent a night in a heathen temple. The mere presence of t
A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith), Maca'rius MAGNES. (search)
he termed MAGNETES, were given in a Latin version by Franciscus Turrianus, in his tract De Sanctissima Elchlaristia contra Volanumn Polonzhm, Florence, 1575; but nothing was at that time known of the writer, of whom there was not any ascertained notice in the writers of the first eight centuries after Christ. Cave found in a MS. work of Gerimanus of Constantinople (he does not say which Germanus), mention of " one MAGNES, a presbyter of Jerusalem," who was present at the synod of Antioch, A. D. 265, at which Paul of Samcsata was deposed and excommunicated; and he identified this Magnes, but without reason, with the writer of the Apologia. Tillemont (Hist. des Empéreurs, vol. iv. p. 308, &c.) has devoted a section to this obscure writer, and Maganus Crusius of Göttingen has most fully discussed the subject in two dissertations, Notitia Macarii Magnetis, and De *Deololoume/nois Macarii Magnetis, 4to. Gottingen, 1737 and 1745. The name of the author is found in the various forms of MACA