See his Sy admitted him again into the church, and gave him a place in the affembly. The works of this author are inferted in the fupplement to the Bibliotheque des Peres, of the Paris edition in 1624. Γ ABUL FARAGIUS (Gregory) (a) fon to Aaron a Phoenician, born in 1226, in the city of Malatia, near the fource of the Euphrates in Armenia. He followed the profeffion of his father, and practifed with great fuccefs, numbers of people coming from the moft remote parts to ask his advice. However, he would hardly have been known at this time had his knowledge been confined to phyfic; but he applied himself to the ftudy of the Greek, Syriac, and Arabic languages, as well as philofophy and divinity; and he wrote a history which does honour to his memory. It is written in Arabic, and divided into dynafties. It confifts of ten parts, being an epitome of univerfal hiftory from the creation of the world to his own time. Dr. Pocock published it with a Latin tranflation in 1663, and added, by way of fupplement, a fhort continuation relating to the Hiftory of the Eaftern Princes. Abul Faragius was ordained bishop of Guba at twenty years of age, by Ignatius, the patriarch of the Jacobites. In 1247 he was promoted to the fee of Lacabena, and fome years p. ii. f. 322. after to that of Aleppo. About the year 1266 he was elected Affem. Bib. primate of the jacobites in the Eaft (b). As Abul Faragius Orient, tom. fived in the thirteenth century, an age famous for miracles, it 11. p. 245. would feem ftrange if fome had not been wrought by him, or in his behalf: he himself mentions two. When, in the Eafter holidays, he was confecrating the chrifm or holy ointment, which though before the confecration it did not fill the veffet in which it was contained, yet encreafed fo much after In tert. parte confecration, that it would have run over the veffel, had they not Chronici. p. immediately poured it into another (c). The other happened in 263. 1285. The church of St. Barnagore having been deftroyed by fome robbers, Abul Faragius built a new one, with a monaftery, (a) Pocock mentions two paffages wherein our author is called Mar Gregorius, and another where he has the name of Mor Gregorius. Others have called him Mark Gregory. Mr. Bayle fays, they have mistaken Mar, a title of honour answering to fir, for Mark. (b) The Affyrians called Chaldea and Affyria the Eaft, and Syria and Mefopotamia the Weft, Affemanus Biblioth. Orient. tom. II. p. 344. (c) Affemanus endeavors to account for this miracle in a natural way : "The temple being little, fays he, and full of people, this, with the wax tapers and burning of incenfe, might heat the air to fuch a degree as to dilute and rarify the bal-, fam, that it might run over the vesfel without any miracle." Affeman. Biblioth, p. 250, in a more fecure place, and dedicated it to the fame faint; and, as he defired the relics of the faint fhould be kept in the new church, he fent fome perfons to dig them out of the ruins of the old one; but they not finding the relics, the faint appeared to fome Chriftians, and told them, if the primate himfelf did not come, they would never be found. Abul Faràgius hearing of this would not believe it, and, feigning to be fick, fhut himfelf up in his cell from Friday till the Sunday evening, when a glorified boy (d) appeard to him, and told him, the relics were depofited under the altar of the old church. Upon this the primate went immediately with his brother and two bifhops in queft of thofe holy remains, which they found according to the boy's direction. In ter. parte The eastern nations are generally extravagant in their ap- 260, 261. Chronici. P. plaufe of men of learning, a circumftance which is either owing to the few learned men they have amongst them, or to the particular turn of their minds. They have accordingly beftowed the highest encomiums and titles upon Abul Faragius(e). (d) Nor will Affemanus allow this miracle: “This, says he, must have been a dream of Abul Faragius, or a ftory invented to raise the piety of the people." Ib. (e) Dr. Pocock found what follows prefixed to a manuscript of Abul Faragius's, written in the gooth year of the Hegirah: "Dixit Dominus nofter pater fanctus, eximius, doctrina et eruditione infignis, doctorum rex, excellentium excellentiffimus, temporum fuorum exemplar, fæculi phænix, fapientum gloria, Doctor divina ope fuffultus Mar Gregorius, Abul- ACCA, bishop of Haguftald, or Hexam, in Northumberland (a), fucceeded Wilfrid in the year 709. He was a monk of the Benedictine order, an Anglo-Saxon by birth, and had his education under Bofa bishop of York. He was afterwards taken under the patronage of Wilfrid, whom he accompanied to Rome, where he improved himself in feveral (a) This epifcopal fee has been long extinct. Camden gives the following account thereof: "And now the whole Tine being well grown, and ftill encreasing, preffes forward in one channel for the ocean by Hexam, which Bede calls Haguftald. This was the Axelodunum of the Romans, things where the first cohort of the Spaniards were in garrifon, as the name implies, as alfo its fituation on a rifing hill; for the Britons called fuch a mount Dunum. But take an account of this place from Richard, its prior. "Not far from the fouthern "bank of the river Tyne, ftands a D 3 66 town Baleus de Script. Brit. cer tur. I. . 99. things relating to ecclefiaftical ufage and difcipline. Acca adorned and ornamented his cathedral in a most beautiful and magnificent manner. He furnished it also with plate and holy vestments, and erected a noble library, confifting chiefly of ecclefiaftical learning, and a large collection of the lives of the faints, which he was at great pains to procure. He was accounted a very able divine, and was famous for his skill in church mufic (b). The following pieces are faid to have been wrote by him: 1. Paffiones Sanctorum; the Sufferings of the Saints. 2. Officia fuæ ecclefiæ; the Offices of his own church. 3. Epiftolæ ad amicos; Letters to his friends. 4. Pro illuftrandis fcripturis ad Bedam; For explaining the fcriptures, addreffed to Bede. In the year 733 he was forced from his fee into exile, but for what reafon is not certainly known. He died in 740 (c), having enjoyed the fee of Hexam twenty-four years, under Egbert king of the Northumbrians. runs by, and fometimes fuddenly "overflows it. In the year 675, "Etheldreda, wife of king Egfrid, "affigned it for an epifcopal fee to "St. Wilfrid, who built here a epifc. Haguftald. Eccl. c, 1. Camd. Brit. by bp. Gibson,vol. II. col. 1c83, (b) Bede tells us, that he kept in his fervice, for twelve years, one Maban, an excellent finger, by whose help he revived the use of church mufic, and finging of anthems. This Maban had been taught to fing by the fucceffors of the difciples of pope Gregory in Kent. Bed. Hift. Ecclef, &c. 20. (c) His body was buried with great church, which, for the curioufnefs folemnity in the church of Haguftald, and beauty of the fabric, furpaffed and two ftone croffes, of exquifite "all the monafteries in England." workmanship, were placed, the one Ricardus Prior Hagustald. de ftatu &at his head, and the other at his feet, ACCARISI (Francis) a famous civilian, born in the city of Ancona, in Italy. He ftudied at Sienna, under Bargalio and Benevolenti, who taught the law there with great reputation. He had a great intimacy with both thefe profeffors, efpecially with the former, who had been extremely communicative, and greatly affifted him in his ftudies. This profeffor had alfo applauded him highly in a speech which was printed, containing elogiums on the family of the Accarifi; and upon his death-bed left him the care of printing his famous difpute De dolo. The firft public employment which Accarifi obtained was, to explain the inftitutes (a) at Sienna, (a) A book wherein the elements and principles of the Roman or Civil Law are contained and digefted, by order of the emperor Juftinian. which he did for fix years. He was afterwards defired to explain the pandects (b); and as feveral foreigners reforted to Sienna; to pursue their ftudies, the grand duke Ferdinand ordered a profeffor to be appointed to explain the civil law, after the manner of Cujacius. Accarifi was chofen, and acquitted himself with great honour. Some time after he was nominated to the chair of law-profeffor in ordinary, vacant by the death of Bargalio, which he filled with great reputation for twenty years. His fame fpread fo much, that all the univerfities in Italy wifhed to have him, and made him advantageous offers; but he lived fo agreeably in Sienna, that he long 'refifted thefe folicitations; but he was at laft brought to quit the refolution he had formed, of dying in the chair which he first enjoyed. Rainuccio Farnefe, Duke of Parma, was the person that prevailed upon him, who made him many great promifes, and appointed him his counfellor. The grand duke, however, would not fuffer Accarifi to remain long in the service of another prince, and he accordingly brought him back, by appointing him firft law-profeffor in the university of Pifa. Accarifi cajoyed this profefforfhip till his death, which happened about four years after he had got the chair at Sienna, on the 4th of October, 1622. (b) The digefts or body of laws compiled in the reign of the emperor Juftinian, in the year 534, contain ing the answers of the ancient law yers to all law-queries. ACCARISI (James) of Bologna in Italy, a doctor of divinity, and profeffor of rhetoric, which he taught at Mantua, in the academy founded there by duke Ferdinand, in the year 1627. He published a volume of orations, spoken by him in Rome, Colen, Mantua, and other places; another of Letters; a Hiftory of the propagation of the faith; and a Latin tranflation of the hiftory of the troubles of the Low Countries, written by cardinal Bentivolio. ACCIAIOLI (Donatus) a Florentine of great learning, who lived in the fifteenth century. He was honoured with many confiderable employments in his native country; but notwithstanding his public engagements, he found means to devote part of his time to ftudy. He had been a disciple of Argyrophylus, the Byzantine; and he published commentaries on this profeffor's Latin translation of Aristotle's Ethics. He acknowledges, in his epiftle dedicatory to Cofmo de Medicis, that he collected thefe commentaries from the lectures of Argyrophylus, and that he had only enlarged the explications D 4 which ment. in polit. p. 16. Simon Si- which he had heard. Simon Simonius and Gabriel are moni com- therefore in the wrong, after fuch a declaration, when they Ariftot. Eth, accufe him of publifhing, in his own name, a work of ArNanderi bi- gyrophylus. He tranflated the lives of Alcibiades and Debliograph. metrius from Plutarch; to which were alfo added thofe of Annibal and Scipio, which fome have imagined to be likewife from Plutarch; but this must be a mistake, fince we find neither of these two generals in this author. He wrote also an abridgement of the life of Charlemain, and some other works are alfo afcribed to him (a). He was fent to France by the Florentines, to fue for fuccour from Lewis XI. against pope Sextus IV. but died on his journey at Milan; his body was carried to Florence, and Jovius in buried in the church of the Carthufians. The small fortune elogiis, c.16. he left his children is a proof of his probity and difinterestednefs. His daughters, like thofe of Ariftides, were married at the public expence, as an acknowledgment of his fervices. His funeral elogium was fpoke by Chriftopher Landini, and the following epitaph, by Politian, was infcribed on his tomb: Ibid. Iftoria de gli fcrittori Florentini. Del P Gui lio Negri in Ferra. 1722. folio. Donatus nomen, patria eft Florentia, gens mi Sic vitam impendi patriæ; quæ me inde relatum "Donatus was my name, my country Florence, (a) The following are mentioned by the author of the history of the Florentine writers: 1. Libri tres de anima. Three books treating of the foul. 2. Laudatio ab ipfo habita in funere Francifci Vaivodæ, qui in bello contra Turcas obierat. A funeral elogium on Francis Vaivoda, who was killed in the war against the Turks. 3. Orationes eloquentiffimæ, quas ingenti auditorum plaufu, habuit ad Paulum II. ad Sixtum IV. ad Francorum regem, &c. Orations which he delivered as embaffador from his republic to Paul II. Sixtus IV. the French king, &c, 4. Rei familiaris cura. A treatife on private oeconomy, dedicated to John Oricellarius. 5. Tractatus de bono et malo opere. Concerning good and bad works; addreffed likewise to John Oricellarius. He also translated into his native language Leonardo Aretino's twelve books of the hiftory of Florence, which was dedicated to the magiftrates of that city, and printed at Venice in 1476. In the library belonging to the Strozzi family in Florence, there is preferved a manufcript folio volume of original Latin letters, by Acciaioli. By |