‘HEL 
Eff. Ch. Anther two-lobed, eee the’ ftyle, witl a 
very fhort, rounded, terminal appendage. Inner limb of the 
corolla a fimple lip, with a sooth. < on each fide at the bafe. 
Capfule tay air brittle feeds with an arillus. 
This genus, eftablifhed by Retzius and Willdenow on no 
folid principles, the only clue to the diflinétion of Scitami- 
nean gener ages publifhed by Mr. Rofeoe, and founded 
on the fo the filament, eine then anknown, was by 
the i ingenione as laft named referred to A/pinia. He had 
not feen wi alive, and therefore had not detected the {mall 
appen o the filament, beyond the anther; which Mr. 
hieics ote pees out, as well as other marks, indicated 
above, all together — to ftamp it asa good genus. 
The original fpecies 
1. H. Allu aah Rete: Obf. fafe. 6. 17. t. 1. (Alughas ; 
Linn. Zeyl. ma —Lip cloven. Leaves es {mooth. 
oe deomnp. tyle {mooth.—Native of Ceylon.. About 
o feet high, with elliptic-oblong, {mooth, Pre leaves, a 
rine long or more ; their {talks theathing. Panicle terminal, 
branche , many-flowered, downy, with {mall downy bragieat 
at its fubi-diviions. Calyx downy, cloven. Corolla red, 
about an inch long, its lip divided half way 6 Ny obtufe, 
and spemner crenate. #ruit downy and britt 
s Mr. Brown has added pee following. 
- cerulea. Br. r —* Li 
Leaves entire, fmooth. Capfule Tnooth Style hairy.” 
Raine of New — within the tropics, and even of the 
rt Jackfon. 
ecifm; or a phrafe peculi- 
arly accommodated to the genius. said conttruétion of the 
Greek ton ue. 
mer is not applied to authors who have written in Greek ; 
their lan » it is evident, fhould be a continual hellenifm ; 
but it is applied to authors who, writing in fome other lan- 
guage, ufe terms and expreffions peculiar to the Gree 
are abundance of hellenifms in the vulgate verfion 
of ts ‘eripure. 
ENISM is alfo ufed in the fame fenfe with Heathen- 
Pas or - Gentilifm. 
to EAAny: or 
HELLENISTIC, or Hnuuasistic i 
among: the Hellenifts. . 
to this] veral of them, 
wks among the reit Drofue and hgsage pats it to be the 
language ufed — Grecian Jews. They add, that it 
is in this lan reek tranflation of the Septuagint 
was writen, and even the books of the New Teftame 
p emarginate. 
m is diftinguifhed from Grecifm, i in that the for- 
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tion is made; sas accidental, becaufe, even without de- 
fign, a perfon {pe 
m 
nce we a infer that 
New "Teftame nt carry, in the very ex- 
pre and idiom, an agen and inrelltible evidence of 
Cae pay eae They as, in refpedt of flyle, 
could not have been eter rs by Jews, and hardly even 
By — fuperior in rank and education to thofe whole names 
the 
Pe ie rejects the common opinion. of the learned 
touching the Helleniftic language, and has written two 
volumes on the fubje€t, in which there is not a little logo- 
machia. 
HELLENISTS, HELLENIsT, a term occurring in 
the Greek text of the New Teftament, and which in the 
Englith verfion is rendered Grecians. 
is term Grecians occurs only thrice in our Enghth ver- 
fion of the New Teftament, viz. Aéts, vi. 1. ch. ix. 29. an 
But it is well known to the learned, that i in the fe- 
the writing of the 
satin vulgate, pa feveral other verfions, whence it is 
oncluded — by ardner, that the fame perfons are 
nee intended in pe third and laft texts, as in the two former. 
The wees penne been much divided as to the fignification 
of the Some learned writers have enumerated ro 
efs —— feven different opinions. (See Fabr. Bib. Grae. 
l. iv. c. 6. t.. ili. p. 226. Wolfii Cure ad. er vi. 1) The 
mott Sete opinions, however, are thefe two. Some by 
2 appellation underftand Jews born out of Judea, who 
ke Greek, and ufed the Greek verfion of the Old Tefta- 
_ in their fynagogues, Ocecumenius, in his fcholia in 
A&ts, vi. 1. obferyes, that it is not to be underftod as Be & 
ing | thofe of the religion of the Greeks, but thofe als oke 
9 Tes EhAnyCE PSsygz zuevee. The authors of the vulgate 
i indeed, render it like ours ¢¢ on dee ? but Mefirs. Du 
Port Royal, “ Juifs.Grecs,” i. e. Gre r Grecian Jews: 
fappefing that the term refers to on — who {poke in 
» and who are thus diftinguithed from the Jews called 
* ‘Euan: i.e. thofe who fpoke the Hebrew tongue of that 
ae 
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ntcom- time. Thefe Grecian dere. or Helleniits, it is faid, were 
M. Simon calls it the language of the fynagégue. thofe who lived in Egypt and other parts,.where the Greek 
‘Tt anett not be imagined that this was any sy ars ts ‘ue prevailed ; an - whom me owe the ‘ich fi oe 
others, or even an r ( e o; Ww ce. Ce 
rahe Grek in the fame fenfe as the Attics Tonic, and easiness a eee 
the Doric, are called different dialects, for there are in it no _ Salmatius offius are of a different feniment with 
peculiarities in the inf ons OF. citi ouns or verbs. It gard to the Hellenifts. The lentes. sell os 
was thus denominated to fhew that it was Greek, mixed with who adhered to the Grecian int 
Hebraifms and Syriacifms ; or that the phrafeology is He- __ cali is reprefented, in : 
brew, whilft the words are Greck. ‘This fingular manner in Helleniits to be the Jews who lived in Ce = . are oe om rpl 
the ancient tranflators ia tobe confidered as partly intentional and who read the Greck bible in their fynagogues ana A 
and partly ac s-—partly intentional, | Some from. the the Greek language, in facris iu and thus they were were Opporee 
= and even foperiligjous, attachment of the Jews, tothe Hebrew Jews, who pi desc ys public 
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