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A detailed account of the methods of the Inquisition by Cironne, inquisitor-general for Castile, in 1356. 85:24 Pomponius Mela. Spanish geographer in the first century A.D. Author of "De Chorographia," the earliest extant account of the geography of the ancient world. 85:25 Oegipans. An epithet applied to Pan. 85:30 Vigiliae Mortuorum. No such book is known. 90:30 Mad Trist. No such book is known.

This poet, who is by later writers often confounded with Varro Reatinus, was much more finished in his style, and therefore more read by the Augustan writers. Frequently when they speak of Varro it is to him that they refer. We append some passages from his Chorographia.

Only two of any importance are extant; one of these, the Chorographia of Pomponius Mela, a geographical manual based on the best authorities and embellished with descriptions of places, peoples, and customs, is valuable as the earliest and one of the most complete systems of ancient geography which we possess; but in literary merit it falls far short of the other, the elaborate work on agriculture by Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella.

The good folk of Newcastle with willing voice rendered the latter Psalm, doubtless to the discomfiture of the preacher. Gray, who published his Chorographia, or Survey of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, just three years after this, describes St.

His remaining philosophical works, viz.: the Hortensius, which was a defence of philosophy; De Gloriâ; De Consolatione, written upon Platonic principles on his daughter's death; De Jure Civili, De Virtutibus, De Auguriis, Chorographia, translations of Plato's Protagoras, and Xenophon's OEconomics, works on Natural History, Panegyric on Cato, and some miscellaneous writings, are, except a few fragments, entirely lost.