lies, the saint appeared to some Christians, and told them, if the primate himself did not come, they would never be found. Abul Faragius, hearing of this, would not believe it; and, feigning to be sick, shut himself up in his cell from Friday till the Sunday evening; when a glorified boy[1] appeared to him, and told him, the relics were deposited under the altar of the old church. Upon this the primate went immediately with his brother and two bishops in quest of those holy remains, which they found according to the boy's direction.
Intert.parte Chronici, p. 260, 261. The eastern nations are generally extravagant in their ap piaufe of men of learning; a circumstancre, which is either owing to the few learned men they have amongst them, or to the particular turn of their mines. They have accordingly bestowed the highest encomiums and titles upon Abul Faragius[2].
ACCIAIOLI (Donatus), a Florentine of great learning, who lived in the fifteenth century. He was honoured with many considerable employments in his native country; but notwithstanding his public engagements, he found means to devote part of his time to study. He had been a disciple of Argyropylus the Byzantine; and he published commentaries on this professor's Latin translation of Aristotle's Ethics. He acknowledges, in his epistle dedicatory to Cosino de Medicis, that he collected these conmentaries from the lectures of Argyropylus; and that he had only enlarged the explications which he had heard.
Simon Simoni Comment in Aristot. Eth. Nandei bibliograph. polit p. 16 Simen Simonius and Gabriel are therefore in the wrong, after such a declaration, when they accuse him of publishing in his own name a work of Argyropylus. He translated the lives of Alcibiades and Demetrius from Plutarch; to which were also added those of Annibal and Scipio, which some have imagined to be likewise from Plutarch; but this must be a mistake, since we find neither of these two generals in this author. He wrote an abridgementof
- ↑ Nor will Ass(illegible text)imanus allow this miracle; "This" says he, "must have been a dream of Abul Fragius, or story invented to raise the piety of the people." Ibid.
- ↑ Dr Pecock found what follows prefixed to a manuscript of Abul Faragius's, written in the 900th year of the Hegirah: "Dixit Domioniud noster pater sanctus, eximius, doctrina et eruditione insignis, doctorum rex, excellentium examplat, fæculi phænix, sapientum gloria, Doctor divind ope suffuitus Mar Gregorius, Abul Pharai, fillius excellentis sapientis Aaronis Medici Malatensis." That is, "TYhus sais Mar Gregotry, Abul Pharagus, son to the Skilful Aaron, physician of Malatia, our lord, our holy excellent father, famous for his learning and erudition, the prince of the learned, the most excellent of those whose most excel, the example of this time, the phoenix of his age, the glory of wise men, the doctor sustained by the divine assistance."
