. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... written till 1742, and heinjured the poem by substituting Cibber asthe hero in place of Theobald. He diedMav 30, 1744. PORPHYRY, or PORPHYRIUS, aphilosopher, whose original name wasMalchiis, was born, a. d. 233, at Tyre;studied under Origen and Longinns; be-came a disciple of Piotinus; and died, in304, at Rome. His works against theChristians, to the number of fifteen, arelost. Among his extant productions are,A Life of Pythagoras; A Treatise on Ab-stinence from Animal Food; and Questi
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... written till 1742, and heinjured the poem by substituting Cibber asthe hero in place of Theobald. He diedMav 30, 1744. PORPHYRY, or PORPHYRIUS, aphilosopher, whose original name wasMalchiis, was born, a. d. 233, at Tyre;studied under Origen and Longinns; be-came a disciple of Piotinus; and died, in304, at Rome. His works against theChristians, to the number of fifteen, arelost. Among his extant productions are,A Life of Pythagoras; A Treatise on Ab-stinence from Animal Food; and Questionson Homer. PORSON, Richard, an eminent hel-lenist and critic, was born, in 1759, at East RustoD, in Norfolk; was educated atEton, and at Trinity College, Cambridge;was elected Greek professor in 1793; be-came librarian of the London Institution;and died September 19,1808. In profoundknowledge of Greek, critical powers, andacuteness, Porson had few equals. Amonghis works are. Letters to Archdeacon Tra-vis; editions of iEschylus, and some ofthe plays of Euripides; and Tracts andMiscellaneous PORTEUS, Beilby, an eminent pre-late, was born, in 1731, at York, andentered as a sizer at Christs College,Cambridge, where he obtained a fellow-ship. After having been chaplain toArchbishop Seeker, he was, successively,rector of Hunton, prebendary of Peterbo-rough, rector of Lambeth, kings chaplain,and master of St. Cross Hospital, nearWinchester. In 1776, through the queensinfluence, he obtained the bishopric ofChester, whence, in 1787, he was trans-lated to that of London. He died in his works are. Sermons; a Life ofSeeker; and a Seatonian prize poem onDeath. POSTHUMUS, Marcus CassianusLatinius, a Roman emperor, one of thethirty tyrants, was of obscure birth, butrose rapidlv in the army till he obtainedthe command in Gaul. He assumed theimperial title in ; ruled Gaul and apart of Spain, and obtained various suc-cesses against the Germans ; and was mur-dered by
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