The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . equent editions. The copious marginalnotes added by Jean de Leusden, professor at Utrecht,are of little value. The 1667 edition was bitterlyattacked by the Protestant savant, Samuel Des-marets; Athias answered the charges in a work whosetitle begins: Caecus de coloribus. He published,also, some other works of importance, such as theTikkun Sepher Torah, or the Order of the Bookof the Law, and a Judaeo-German translation of theBible. The latter i
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 2); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . equent editions. The copious marginalnotes added by Jean de Leusden, professor at Utrecht,are of little value. The 1667 edition was bitterlyattacked by the Protestant savant, Samuel Des-marets; Athias answered the charges in a work whosetitle begins: Caecus de coloribus. He published,also, some other works of importance, such as theTikkun Sepher Torah, or the Order of the Bookof the Law, and a Judaeo-German translation of theBible. The latter involved Athias in a competitionwith Uri Phoebus, a question that has been discussedbut cannot be fully cleared up at this late date. Heurtebize in Vig., Diet, de la Bible (Paris, 1895); TheJewish Encyclopedia (New York and London, 1903), II. A. J. , Mount.—Athos is a small tongue of landthat projects into thejEgean Sea, being the eastern-most of the three strips in which the great moun-tainous peninsula of Chalcidice ends. It is almostcut off from the mainland, to which it is bound onlyby a narrow isthmus dotted with lakes and swamps. Monastery of Esphigmenon, Mount Athos interspersed with alluvial plains. It has been wellcalled a Greece in miniature, because of the variedcontour of its coasts, deep bays and inlets, bold cliffsand promontories, steep wooded slopes, and valleyswinding inland. Several cities existed here in pre-Christian antiquity, and a sanctuary of Zeus (Jupiter)is said to have stood on the mountain. The isthmuswas famous for the canal (3,950 feet in length) whichXerxes had dug across it, in order to avoid theperilous turning of the limestone peak immemoriallyknown as Mount Athos, in which the small penin-sula ends, and which rises to a height of some 6,000feet. From the summit of this peak on a clear day ATHOS 48 ATHOS are visible the coasts of Macedonia and Thrace, eventhe entire .Kseaii from Mount Olympus in Thessalylo Mount Ida in Asia Jlinor. I
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