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The world of affairs had not extinguished his love of learning. He was an intimate friend of Bohuslaus of Hassenstein, scholar and traveller, and corresponded with him in elegant Latin. Attracted by the reputation for eloquence won by the notorious Hieronymus Balbus, he had persuaded him c. 1499 to come and teach in Prague a step which in view of Balbus' bad life he afterwards deeply regretted.
IV. III. Democratic Agitation under Carbo and Flaccus, IV. III. Overthrow of Gracchus The only figures known between these two those of the census of 668, which according to Hieronymus gave 463,000 persons probably turned out so low only because the census took place amidst the crisis of the revolution.
Such a booty never remained unoccupied, until, coming into the possession of Hieronymus, count of Ferraris, in 1685, his descendants gradually permitted it to fall into ruin, its evil days culminating under the present count, who sold the estate a few years since to a speculating company, who merely value it for the timber.
The definite testimony of Hieronymus, who places the betrothal of the Syrian princess Cleopatra with Ptolemy Epiphanes in 556, taken in connection with the hints in Liv. xxxiii. 40 and Appian. Syr. 3, and with the actual accomplishment of the marriage in 561, puts it beyond a doubt that the interference of the Romans in the affairs of Egypt was in this case formally uncalled for.
After the assassination of Hieronymus, at first a tumult had taken place among the soldiery in the territory of the Leontines. They exclaimed furiously that the manes of the king should be appeased with the blood of the conspirators.
But I seek one wiser than myself, and go through the woods in search of him, my master." And Hilarion said: "Tarry thou here, and thou shalt see, if I mistake not, him whom thou seekest." So the old man, whose name was Hieronymus, tarried in the forest and built himself a hut of stones.
He studied Jacob Friedheim's treatise until he knew the characteristics of all the great violin models, from the Amatis, Hieronymus, Antonius, and Nicolas, to those of Stradivarius, Guarnerius, and Steiner. It was in this year, also, that he made a very precious discovery.
The name of this one was NICOLAUS HIERONYMUS; ours is JAKOB PAUL, the senior brother, once the hope of the House, it is likely, and a fond Father's pride, in that poor old Nurnberg Parsonage long ago!
The statement of Hieronymus that Catullus died in 697-698 requires therefore to be altered only by a few years.
Now that some writers have omitted to mention our nation, not because they knew nothing of us, but because they envied us, or for some other unjustifiable reasons, I think I can demonstrate by particular instances; for Hieronymus, who wrote the History of Alexander's Successors, lived at the same time with Hecateus, and was a friend of king Antigonus, and president of Syria.
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