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ST. jA^flfARlUS. 
for much learned discussion. Mr. Toland makes it appeal tibt ittiprdbk- 
ble that he was a Scotchman. If, says he’’, ** the Hebrides, or WesteM 
Isles of Scotland, were the Hyperboreans of Diodorus^ then the cele- 
baatediAbaris was of that country, and likewise a druid, having* been the 
priestof Apollo.” Suidas and some others make him a Scythian, though 
Diodorus has fixed his country in an island, and not on the continent. 
All agree, however, that he travelled over Greece, and thence into Italy ; 
atid that he conversed familiarly with Pythagoras, who favoured hint 
beyond all his other disciples. Hirnerius, the Sophist, who applauds hiih 
for speaking pure Greek, describes his person accurately, and gives 
him a good character. “ He came, says he, “ to Athens, holding a 
bow in his hand, having a quiver hanging over his shoulders, his bOdy 
wrapt up in a plaid, girt about the loins with a gilded belt, and wearr 
ing trowseis reaching from his waist downwards.” By this it is 
evident, says Mr. Toland, that he was not habited like the Scythians, 
who were always covered with skins, but in the native garb of an abbri- 
ginal Scot. “ Hirnerius adds, that he was affable, discreet, industrious^ 
quick-sighted, circumspect, a searcher after wisdom, desirous of friend- 
ship, trusting little to fortune, and braving every thing trusted to hi ill 
for his prudence.” Suidas reports, that he wrote several books, viz. 
Apollo’s Arrival in the Country of the Hyperboreans; the Nuptials of 
the River Hebrus ; the Generation of the Gods ; a Collection of 
Oracles, &c. 
Abdalonymus. ' 
This was a person of the royal line of Sidon, who, though descended 
from king Cyniras, was contented to live in obscurity, and get his 
subsistence by cultivating a garden, while Strato was in possession of 
the crown of Sidon. Alexander the Great having deposed Strato, 
inquired whether any of the race of Cyniras was living, that he might 
set him on the throne. It was generally thought that the whole race 
was extinct ; but at last Abdalonymus was thought of, and mentioned : 
to Alexander, who immediately ordered some of his soldiers to fetch 
him. They found the good man at work, happy in his poverty, and 
entirely a stranger to the noise of arms, with which all Asia was at 
that time disturbed ; and they could scarcely persuade him they were 
in earnest. Alexander was convinced of his high descent by the dig- 
nity that appeared in his person, but was desirous of learning from him 
in "what manner he bore his poverty. “ I wish,” said Abdalonymus, 
‘‘I may bear my new' condition as well. These hands have supplied 
my necessities ; I have had nothing, and I have wanted nothing.’V 
This answer pleased Alexander so much, that besides giving him all 
that w as Strata’s, he augmented his dominions, and gave him a large 
present out of the Persian spoils. 
St. Januarius. 
This is the patron saint of Naples, where his head is occasionally 
carried in procession, in order to stop the eruptions of Vesuvius.— 
ThCi diqnefaction of his blood is a famous miracle at Naples. - The 
sainf sulfeTed: martyrdom - about the: end^ of the third century. ^ Wheif^^ 
