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HYGINUS, GAIUS JULIUS

This article appears in Volume V14, Page 175 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HOR-I25
HYGINUS, GAIUS JULIUS , Latin author, a native of Spain (or
Alexandria
 ), was a pupil of the famous Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor and a freedman of
Augustus
 , by whom he was made superintendent of the Palatine library (Suetonius, De Grammaticis, 20). He is said to have fallen into
great
  poverty in his old age, and to have been supported by the historian Clodius Licinus. He was a voluminous author, and his works included topographical and biographical
treatises
 , commentaries on Helvius
Cinna
  and the poems of Virgil, and disquisitions on
agriculture
  and bee-keeping. All these are lost.
Under the name of Hyginus two school
treatises
  on mythology are extant: (I) Pabularum Liber, some 30o mythological legends and
celestial
  genealogies, valuable for the use made by the author of the works of Greek tragedians now lost; (2) De Astronomia, usually called Poetica Astronomica, containing an elementary treatise on astronomy and the myths connected with the stars, chiefly based on the Karaerpioot of Eratosthenes. Both are *abridgments and both are by the same hand ; but the style and Latinity and the elementary mistakes (especially in the rendering of the Greek originals) are held to prove that they cannot have been the
work
  of so distinguished a scholar as C.
Julius
  Hyginus. It is suggested that these treatises are an abridgment (made in the latter half of the 2nd
century
 ) of the Genealogiae of Hyginus by an unknown grammarian, who added a complete treatise on mythology.
EDITIOxs.Fabulae, by M. Schmidt (1872); De Astronomia, by B. Bunte (1875) ; see also Bunte, De C. Julii Hygini, Augusti Liberti, Vita et Scriptis (1846).


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