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SENECA, an eminent Stoic philosopher, born at Corduba near the commencement of the Christian era. He was distinguished at once as an orator, philosopher, poet, and historian. He put himself to death in the year 65, by opening his veins at the command of Nero. Diss. viii. 93. xiii. 21. xvi. 27.

SILVESTER I. a Bishop of Rome, who was elected 314, and held the pontificate nearly twenty-two years. xvi. 10.

SIMEON, the son of Jochai, a celebrated man among the Jews in the 2d Century, who wrote Sohar, being a cabbalistic explanation of the Pentateuch, and a book De Muis varia sacra.

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SIXTUS of SIENNA, a city in Tuscany, a converted Jew, and a Dominican, who died 1569. He wrote a book entitled Bibliotheca Sancta. i. 5.

SMALCIUS, a leader among the Socinians. vi. 21.

SOCINUS, FAUSTUS, or, in the vernacular language, Soccini Fausto, the proper founder of the sect of the Socinians, who was born 1539, and died 1604. He was early embued with the sentiments of his uncle Lelio, and discovered great zeal in the defence and propagation of his tenets. He is the author of the Racovian Catechism; and his works form collectively two volumes folio. iv. 14, 21. viii. 44. ix. 15. xii. 19. xiv. 12, 13. xv. 8. xxi. 7. xxvi. 34.

SOCRATES, the most eminent of the Grecian moralists, born at a village near Athens B. C. 469, and compelled to drink poison in his 70th year. xxvi. 80.

SOCRATES, surnamed the Scholastic, a native of Constantinople, an exact and judicious Historian in the 5th Century. His Ecclesiastical History commences from the year 309, where that of Eusebius terminates, and comes down to 440. xii. 15. xvi. 9. xviii. 7. xx. 14.

SOPHOCLES, the most eminent of the tragic Poets of Greece, born B. C. 497. viii. 46.

SOZOMENUS, HERMIAS, an Ecclesiastical Historian of the 5th Century. He frequented the bar as a pleader at Constantinople. His History of the Church consists of nine books, and extends from the year 324 to 439. xvi. 9, 33. xx. 14.

SPONDANUS, Henry de Sponde, a French Prelate, author of an abridgment and continuation of the annals of Baronius, in which he brings down the history to 1640. He was born 1568. and died 1643. xvi. 16.

STRADA, FAMIANO, a learned Jesuit in the 17th Century, Professor of eloquence in the Roman college. He was born at Rome

1572, and died 1649. His most celebrated book is his History of the Wars in the Low Countries, which, though lively, is a partial work. Diss. xi. 27.

SUETONIUS, TRANQUILLUS, CAIUS, a Roman historian and miscellaneous writer, probably a teacher of grammar and rhetoric, and for some time Secretary to the Emperor Adrian. His Lives of the first twelve Roman Emperors down to Domitian inclusively are singularly curious and interesting. x. 3. xvi. 5. xxi. 8, 10.

SULPITIUS SEVERUS, by birth a Gaul, an Ecclesiastical Historian of the 5th Century. His " Sacred History" is written in a pure Latin style, but it is cursory, and, according to Dupin, abounds with errors. xvi. 8. xx. 13.

SYNESIUS, Bishop of Ptolemais in the 5th Century. He wrote Homilies; 155 Greek Epistles; and Hymns on the Trinity, in which he adapts the Triad of the schools to that subject. He was immoderately attached to the doctrines of Plato. iv. 17. vi. 27.

TACITUS, the celebrated Roman Historian, who flourished in the time of Nero, and several succeeding Emperors. He wrote the History of Rome, the Life of Agricola, &c. xi. 9. xvii. 9.

TAVERNIER, JOHN BAPTIST, a celebrated French traveller, who employed forty years in six journeys in eastern countries, of which he gives an account in three volumes, and died at Moscow 1689, aged 84. xxi. 33.

TEELING, WILLIAM, a Dutch Divine in the 17th Century, whose writings relate to Christian morality, and are composed in the vernacular language of Holland. xvii. 27.

TERTULLIAN, QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENS, a celebrated writer of the 2d Century, considered as the most ancient Latin Father whose writings are extant. He was a native of Carthage, where he almost constantly resided, a presbyter of the church, and a man of great genius, learning and eloquence. He became a Montanist. Besides a most excellent Apology for Christians during the persecution of Severus, he wrote books on the Soul, Baptism, Idolatry, Monogamy, Public Spectacles, Fasts, Patience, Charity, &c. i. 14. iv. 27. x. 2. xi. 4, 9, 15, 23, 28, 32, 36. xiii. 19. xiv. 11. xxiv. 48. xxvi. 5.

THEODORET, Bishop of Cyrus a city in Syria, a Greek writer of distinguished elegance and learning, and eminent for the sanctity and simplicity of his manners. He was born at Antioch 386, con4 L

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secrated Bishop 420, and died about 457. He wrote Expositions of Scripture, an Ecclesiastical History as a supplement to Socrates and Sozomen, a treatise on Monastic Life, &c. Diss. x. 9. xii. 15. xvi. 9. xx. 14.

THEOPHYLACT, a native of Constantinople, Archbishop of Acris in Bulgaria in the 11th Century. He wrote 75 Epistles, and learned Greek Commentaries on the New Testament, and the Minor Prophets. iv. 29. vii. 6. ix. 4. xii. 15. xiii. 4. xvi. 34. xviii. 3. xxi. 6.

THERAMENES, an Athenian philosopher and orator, one of the thirty Tyrants established at Athens B. C. 404. He was condemned by Critias to drink poison. xix. 26.

TRISMEGISTUS, a very ancient Egyptian philosopher, called also Hermes. vi. 5.

TURNEBUS, a learned French critic, and Professor of Greek in the university of Paris. He was born 1512, and died 1565. He published, amongst other works, Adversaria, or Miscellaneous Remarks on Writers. xxi. 4.

TURRETINE, FRANCIS, an eminent Protestant Divine. He was born at Geneva 1623, some time pastor of the Church at Lyons, but chosen Professor of Theology at Geneva 1653, which place he held during the remainder of his life. He died 1687. His Father was Benedict, a native of Zurich, and pastor and Professor of theology at Geneva. His son John Alphonso was also chosen Professor of Theology there 1705. His principal work is Institutionum Theologiæ Elenchtica Partes Tres, 4 tom. xiv. 37.

VATABLUS, FRANCIS, the restorer of the study of the Hebrew language in France in the 16th Century. He was appointed Regius Professor of Hebrew at Paris 1531, and delivered Lectures on the Old Testament with great applause. Some notices of these Lectures were collected ard printed by R. Stephens. He died 1547. vii. 15. viii. 20.

VICTOR, AURELIUS, the Latin Historian, who wrote the Lives of the Emperors. xvi. 2.

VIGILIUS, Bishop of Tapsus in Africa in the 5th Century. He published Five Books against Eutyches; and to him, as well as to Hilary Bishop of Arles, is attributed the Creed of Athanasius. xxi. 30.

ULPIANUS, DOMITINO, a native of Tyre, an eminent Lawyer in the reign of Alexander Severus, but a determined enemy to

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