. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... sto a rival. When Terence was young, andas yet unknown, his first piece was liberally Eraised, and recommended to public notice,y ^LIUS AURELIANUS, a Latinphysician, the founder, or at least the firstwriter, of the medical sect of the 3Ietho-dists, is said by some to have been born atAria in Asia, and by others, at Sicca inNumidia. Some fix his existence in thefifth century; while others make him acontemporary of Galen. Two of hisworks, on acute and chronic disorders, arest
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... sto a rival. When Terence was young, andas yet unknown, his first piece was liberally Eraised, and recommended to public notice,y ^LIUS AURELIANUS, a Latinphysician, the founder, or at least the firstwriter, of the medical sect of the 3Ietho-dists, is said by some to have been born atAria in Asia, and by others, at Sicca inNumidia. Some fix his existence in thefifth century; while others make him acontemporary of Galen. Two of hisworks, on acute and chronic disorders, arestill extant, and possess considerable system of the Methodists seems to havegiven rise to that of Brown. C^ESALPINUS, Andrew, an Italianphysician and botanist, was born at Arezzo,in 1519; became chief physician to PopeClement VIII.; and died at Rome in appears to have had an idea ofthe circulation of the blood, and was thefirst who invented a regular system ofplants. He is the author of an excellentLatin Treatise on Plants, and of variousmedical and philosophical works. CiES 141. CiESAR, Caius Julius, the first Ro-man emperor, the son of Lucius Caesar andAurelia, the daughter of Cotta, was bornat Rome, b. c. 100, and lost his father atthe age of sixteen. Being connected, byhis own marriage and that of his aunt,with the faction of Marius, his destructionwas resoUed upon by Sylla. By the inter-cession of friends, however, the dictator wasinduced to spare him; but he at the sametime told the intercessors that they wouldrepent of their interference, for that in theyouth who was the object of their solicitudehe foresaw many Mariuses. After havingmade a campaign in Asia Minor, and at-tended the lectures of Apollonius Molo atRhodes, Ceesar returned to Rome, and letslip no opportunity of winning the affectionof the people. He filled the offices of chiefpontiff and praetor, and then obtained thegovernment of Spain, in which he acquiredmoney sufficient to pay hi
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