Nazarenus of Nazareth, it ſignifieth a man dedicated onely to the ſeruice of God, in the time of the perſecution of the Chriſtians, there was one Nazarius conuerted to the faith by Linus Biſhop of Mediolanum (ye cheife citie in Lumbardie called Millane) and after dyed a martyr about Anno Domini. 70. Another Nazarius a Rethoritian, in Anno Domini. 334. ſome take Mediolanium, for Mediolamum, which is the name of Orlyance in France: alſo a citie in Weſtphalia in Almaine, called Munſter.
Ninus Delphicus of Delphos, in Greece, from whence was heard the Oracle of Apollo, it maye bée the name of ſome writer, not lately recorded.
Origen called alſo Adamantius, (borne at Alexandria in Aegypt) was ſonne of Leonides ye Martir, a man of moſt excellent doctrine and vertue from his childhood, (Saint Hierome writeth, that Origen wrote, 6000, bookes, which he teſtifieth himſelfe to haue ſéene) when he came to the age of. 79. yeares (as Nitephorus writeth) he dyed, it ſéemeth he dyed in great miſerie and pouertie at the Citie of Tyrus, and was there buryed.
Oroſius the Hiſtoriographer flouriſhed about Anno Chriſti. 400. a reuerend Prieſt, borne in Spaine, expert in Hiſtories, he wrote. 7. bookes againſt them that ſaid, that the decaye of the common wealth of Rome, hapned by the doctrine of Chriſt, he was ſent by S. Auguſtine to S. Hierome, who was then in Iudea, to learne of him the reaſon of the ſtate of the ſoule.
Ouidius, ſurnamed Naſo, borne in Sulmo (a towne in the country of Peligna) in Italy, brought up in Rome, and diligently inſtructed in Latine letters from his tender age, he gaue moſt diligent ſtudie to the making of vearſes, from the which he was withdrawen by his Father, and put to learne Rethorike, wherin he ſo profited, that hée ſhortlye after became equall with the beſt Orators of that time, and was aduaunced to be Senator, notwithſtanding be gaue his ſtudie to Poetry: wherin by nature he was excellent, he was in good fauour with the Emperour Auguſtus, of whom at the laſt he was exiled ſo Pontus, where hee ſpent the reſt of his life, in a towne called Tomos, the cauſe of his exile, was for abuſing Iulia the Emperours daughter, as ſome ſuppoſe, and for making of the booke of the craft of love, wherby young mindes might be ſtirred to wantonnes: he liued at the time that Chriſt our Sauiour was conuerſant with vs heere on Earth.
Oribaſius Medicus of the Country of Sardus or Pergamus, which flouriſhed in the yeare after Chriſt. 369. when Auſonius the Poet, Eutropius, Sextu, Rufus, and Ammianus, Hiſtoriographers, were likewiſe in eſtimation.
Petrus Seuerus, whether the Apoſtle, or Alexandrinus, that vertuous Biſhop and Martir, or anye of the 60. Peters, whereof the laſt is called Petrus Medices, I referre at this preſent.
Pamphilius (the name of Neocles ſon) a Philoſopher of Athens, Platos Scholler. Alſo a Prieſt of Caeſaria, which was martired about Anno Chriſti. 280. a very eloquent man, in life a true Philoſopher, he was the famouſeſt man in that time, a Grecian borne.
Patricius borne in Wales,[1] for a time had his above in Scotland, and was after Biſhop in Ireland: the firſt yt brought the Iriſh men to the Chriſtian ſayth. Ther is another named Patricius, Saint Martines ſiſters ſonne, which I ſuppoſe is but the onely Patricke, becauſe the author in Superli. & Sebaſtian Munſter agree both on one computation, Anno Chriſti. 429. This Patricke was a zealous Chriſtian, and died at Glaſtonbury in Somerſet ſhéere, notwithſtanding many fabulous and ſuperſtitious toyes the wicked haue fathered on that good man. Cheſter ſayth in Policronicon, that Saint Patricke in his time was borne, whoſe Father had to name Calprum, which was a Prieſt & a Deacons ſonne, that was named Fodun, Patriks mothers name was Couches, Martines ſiſter of Gallia, that is France, he was called Patricke for his temperance and wiſdome, that is to ſay, father of Citizens, hée liued the age of. 122. yeares, vntill the time of Aurelius Ambroſe, king of ye Britans.
- ↑ At Pendiae.
