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688 SABINUS. further, and assert with certainty that they were written by a modern scholar, Angelus Sabinus, about the year 1467. The other passage of Ovid, in which Sabinus is mentioned {ex Pont. iv. 16. 13 — 16) alludes to one of the answers already spoken of, and likewise informs us of the titles of two other works of Sabinus : — " Quique suam Troezena^ imperfectumque dierum Deseruit celeri morte Sabinus opus.^'* It has been conjectured by Glaser that the Troezen here spoken of was an epic poem, containing a his- tory of the birth and adventures of Theseus till his arrival at his father's court at Athens, so called from Troezen being the birth-place of Theseus, and that the Dierum Opus was a continuation of Ovid's Fasti. As the letter from Pontus in which the death of Sabinus is mentioned was written in A. D, 15, he probably died shortly before this year. For further discussion respecting this poet, see an essay by Glaser, entitled Der Didder Sabinus in the Klieinisehes Mfiseum for 1842, p. 437, &c. 2. P. Sabinus, was appointed by Vitellius, on his accession to the empire in a. d. QQ^ praefect of the praetorian troops, although he was at the time only praefect of a cohort. (Tac. Hist. ii. 92, iii. 36.) He must not be confounded with his contemporary Flavius Sabinus, the praefect of the city [Sabinus, FlaviusJ. SABPNUS, a consularis under Antoninus Heliogabalus, on whose writings Ulpianus com- mented according to Aelius Lampridius {Anton. Heliogd). c. 16). Heliogabalus, in a low tone of voice, ordered a centurion to put Sabinus to death for staying in the city ; but the centurion, who was rather deaf, thought that the order was to drive him out of Rome, which he did, and thus saved the life of Sabinus. The statement of Ulpianus commenting on a work of this Sabinus, is appa- rently a blunder of Lampridius. In his life of Alexander Severus (c. 68) Lampridius mentions among the consiliarii of Alexander, Fabius Sabi- nus, a son of Sabinus, an illustrious man, the Cato of his time. Fabius may have been a jurist, but nothing is known of him. There is no reason for calling Sabinus one, for Lampridius is no authority, and there is no other. (Grotius, Vitae JuHiconsul- torwm, p. 189.) [G. L.] SABI'NUS, a consularis and praefect of the city, under Maximinus I., was slain while en- deavouring to quell the insurrection which burst forth when intelligence arrived of the elevation of the Gordians in Africa. (Capitolin. Maximin. duo^ 14, Gordian. tres, 13 ; Ferodian. vii. 15.) [W. R.] SABI'NUS (Sa&Tj/os), Greek, literary. 1. A sophist and rhetorician, who flourished under Ha- drian, and wrote a work in four books, entitled Eiaraywyrj koI vnodkffeLS iJ.eeTT)TiK7Js uArjs, and also Commentaries on Thucydides, Acusilaus, and some other authors, as well as other exegetical works. (Suid. «. V.) He seems to have been a native of Zeugma, as Suidas tells us that Sergius of Zeugma wrote an epitaph for his brother, Sa- binus the sophist. (Suid. s.v. ^epyios.) 2. The author of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology, in imitation of Leonidas of Tarentum. It is not known with certainty whether he was the same person as the sophist. (Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 304 ; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. p. 18, vol. xiiL p. 948 , Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 4^4.) SABINUS. 3. A bishop of Heracleia in Thrace, and a fol- lower of the heresy of Macedonius, was one of the earliest writers on ecclesiastical councils. His work, entitled 'Swayuy-^ rwu Sui'oScSf, is fre- quently quoted by Socrates and other ecclesiastical historians. (Soc. H. E. i. 5, ii. 11, 13, 16 ; Sozom. H. E. Praef. ; Niceph. Call. ix. ; Epiphan. Haer. ii. 8, 9, 17.) He appears to have lived about the end of the reign of Theodosius II., who reigned from a. d. 424 to 450. (Vossius, de Hist. Graec. np. 307, 314, 494 ; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. xii.pp.182,183.) [P.S.] SABI'NUS {XaSlvos)^ a physician, and one of the most eminent of the ancient commentators on Hippocrates, who lived before Julianus (Galen, Adv. .Julian, c, 3. vol. xviii. pt. i. p. 255), and was tutor to Metrodorus (id. Comment, in Hip- pocr. '"'Epid. III.' i. 4. vol. xvii. pt. i. p. 507, 8), and Stratonicus (id. de Atra Bile, c. 4. vol. v. p. ] 19), and must therefore have lived about the end of the first century after Christ. Galen frequently quotes him, and controverts some of his opinions, but at the same time allows that he and Rufus Ephesius (who is commonly mentioned in con- junction with him) comprehended the meaning of Hippocrates better than most of the other com- mentators (Galen, de Ord. Libror. suor. vol. xix. p. 58: comp. Comment, in Hippocr. ""^ Epid. F7." ii. 10. vol. xvii. pt. i. p. 849.) It is not known whether Sabinus commented on the whole of the Hippocratic Collection ; the quotations, &c. in Galen only relate to the Aphorisms, Epidemics, de Naiura Hominis, and de Humoribus ; and Aulus Gellius has preserved a fragment of his commentary on the treatise de Alimento (iii. 16). See Littre's Oeuvres d"" Hippocr. vol. i. p. 101, &c. [W. A. G.] SABI'NUS, A LBIUS, was a coheres with Ci- cero. It is in reference to him that Cicero speaks of the Albianum neyotium. (Cic. ad Att. xiii. 14, xiv. 18,20.) SABI'NUS, ASE'LLIUS, received a magnifi- cent reward from Tiberius for a dialogue, in which he had introduced a contest between a mushroom, a fidecula, an oyster, and n thrush. (Suet. Tib. 42.) SABI'NUS, ASI'DIUS, a rhetorician men- tioned bv the elder Seneca {Suas. 2). SABI'NUS, M. CAE'LIUS, a Roman jurist, who succeeded Cassias Longinus. He was not the Sabinus from whom the Sabiniani took their name. Caelius Sabinus was named consul by Otho ; and Vitellius, on his accession to power, did not rescind the appointment. His consulship belonged to A. D. QQ, in which year Vitellius was succeeded by Vespasianus. He wrote a work. Ad Edictum Aedilium Curulium (Gell. iv. 2, vii. 4). In the first of these two passages Gellius mentions the work of Caelius {in libra quern de Edicto Aedilium Curulium composuit) ; and Caelius here quotes Labeo. Nearly the same words are given by Ulpian (DeAedilicio Edicto, Dig. 21, tit.l . s. 1. § 7), but he quotes only Sabinus, and omits Labeo's name. In the second passage Gellius quotes the words of Caelius as to the practice of slaves being sold with the pileus on the head, when the vendor would not warrant them ; and though the work on the Edict is not quoted there, it seems certain that this extract must be from this book of Caelius. It appears that Caelius must also have written other works. (Dig. 35. tit. 1. b. 72. § 7.) There are no extracts from Caelius in the Digest, but l^e is