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year 367. His works have been many times publiilied ; 
but the laft and belt edition of them was given by the 
Benedi'dtines at Paris, in 1693. 
HILARO'DES, or HiLARO'ni,y. A fort of poets 
among the ancient Greeks,' who went about finging poems 
or fongs, accompanied with fome inftrument. From the 
ftreets they were at laft introduced into tragedy, as the 
magodi were into comedy. They appeared drefted in 
white, and wore gilded crowns. At firft they wore (hoes; 
but afterwards they aflumed the crepida, being only a 
foie tied over with a ftrap. 
HILARO'DIA, f. A cheerful irregular kind of poem 
fung by the h’ilarodes. 
HIL'ARO-TR AGE'DIA, f [from Gr. cheer¬ 
ful, and a tragedy.] A kind of comic or cheer¬ 
ful tragedy ; a tragi-comedy ; a mock-tragedy. 
HIL'ARY, or Hila'rius, pope, who is alfo deno¬ 
minated a faint, is faid in the Pontificals to have been a 
native of Sardinia. He fignalifed his zeal for the catholic 
faith, by oppofing a defign of the emperor Anthemius, 
to grant leave to the then various feds of Chriftians to 
aftemble publicly by themfelves, to own openly the 
dodtrines which they held, and to ferve God in any man¬ 
ner which was mod agreeable to themfelves. But Hilary, 
to whofe authority fuch a meafure muft ultimately have 
proved fatal, by his bold interference obliged the em¬ 
peror to relinquiih his defign, and to take an oath that 
lie would fufter no fchifmatieal aflemblies to be held at 
Rome. He died in the year 467, having filled the papal 
chair five years and ten months. Twelve of his Letters,' 
which are written with perfpicuity and elegance, may 
be found in the fourth volume of the Collett. Concil. 
HIL'ARY, bifliop of Arles in the fifth century, and 
a faint in the Roman calendar, was a native.of France, 
and born about the year 401. He received a liberal 
education, and diftinguiflied himfelf by his proficiency 
in the fciences, and the brightnefs of his genius. He was 
an eloquent and imprefiive preacher, and freely reproved 
the vices of the great, without being moved by any dread 
of their difpleafure. He fpent the bulk of his days in 
the laborious difcharge of his paftoral duties, and in the 
exercifeof religious aufterities, which wore out his con- 
ilitution, and haftened his death in 449, when he was 
about forty-eight years of age. In 439 he prefided at 
the council of Riez; and in 441 at that of Orleans. The 
only genuine remains of his writings ftill extant are, . 
The Life of St. Honoratus, his predeceflor; ‘An heroical 
Poem on the Beginning of the Book of Genefis; and a 
fiiort Letter to Eucherius, bifliop of Lyons; which are 
inferted in the feventh volume of the Biblioth. Patr.. 
HIL'ARY, furnamed the Deacon, a native of the 
ifland of Sardinia, and made deacon of the church at 
Rome in 354. Moft of the learned are agreed in opinion, 
that this Hilary was the author of the Commentaries on 
the Epiftles of St. Paul, which are inferted in the fifth 
volume of St. Ambrofe’s Works, excepting the Com¬ 
mentary on the Epiftle to the Hebrews, which is evi¬ 
dently borrowed from St. Chryfoftom. The date alligned 
to thefe Comipentaries is the year 384. Cave, and others, 
imagine that he was alfo the author of the Quaftiones in 
Vetus & Novum. Tejiamentum, inferted in the fourth volume 
of St. Ambrofe’s Works, and referred to the year 370. 
HIL'ARY POINT, a promontory of North Wales, 
in the ifland of Anglefea: nine miles north-weft of Beau¬ 
maris. 
HIL'ARY TERM. See Term. 
HIL'BERG, a town of Norway, in the diocefe of 
Drontheiin : forty-four miles weft of Romfdal. 
HIL'BERGHAUSEN, a town of Germany, in Upper 
Saxony, and capital of a principality belonging to a 
branch of the electorate houfe of Saxony, called Saxe- 
Hilburgiiaufen, feparated from Coburg in the year 1672. 
The town is fituated on the Werra, and is the ufual re- 
fidence of the duke: thirty-two miles fouth of-Erfur-t, 
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and twenty-eight north of Bamberg, Lat. 30. 19. N. 
Ion. 28. 19. E. Ferro. 
HIL'CHENB ACH, a town of Germany, in Weftpha- 
11 a, and principality of Naflau Siege'n : fix miles nortii- 
eaft of Siegen. 
HILD, in Elrick’s grammar, is interpreted a lord or 
lady: fo Hildebert is a noble lord ; hlatkild, a heroic lady, 
Gilfon. 
HIL'DEBERT, [Saxon.] A man's name, 
HIL'DEBRAND (Joachim), a German Lutheran 
divine, born at Walckenried, in Saxony, in 1623. He 
was educated in the univerfity of Jena; and in 164* 
removed to Leipfic, where he was crowned poet; and fit' 
1643 he went to the univerfity of Helmftadt. In this 
feminary he was appointed to fill the chair of theology 
and ecclefiaftical antiquities. In 1651, he was nominated 
profeflor of theology and ecclefiaftical hiftory of Wolf- 
enbuttel; and two years afterwards took his degree of 
doftor of divinity. In 1662, upon his refufal of ail in¬ 
vitation to accept of the paftoral charge in theGermarf 
church at Copenhagen, he Was appointed to the pdft of 
fuperintendant-gcneral at Zell, where he died in 1691. 
He was the author of, 1. De prifcec & primitive g EccltfiS 
Jacris pub lids, Templis & Diebus Fcftis. 2. De Precibus Vcte-_ 
rum Ckrijlianorum. 3. Rituale Orantium. 4. Ars bene mori- 
endi. 5. De Nuptiis Veterum Chrijlianorum. 6. De Natalitiis 
Vcterum Jacris (3 profanis. 7. Vita eeterna ex Lumine Natures 
oftenfa. 8. Theologia Dogmatica. 9. Sacra publica VeteriA 
Ecclefiec. 10. De Hkrarchia, &c. 
HIL'DEGARDE, a female faint in the Roman calen¬ 
dar, born in the county of Spanheim in Germany, in 
109S. When very young ftie was dedicated to the reli¬ 
gious life, and in procefs of time was c ho fen abbefs of 
St. Rupert’s Mount, near Bingen, when Ihe aftumed the' 
character of a prophefiefs, and was reforted to by all 
ranks, who confulted her as an oracle, and refpected her 
decifions as the commands of the Moft High. The popes- 
Eugenius III. Anaftafius IV. Adrian IV. and Alexan¬ 
der III. were either weak enough to believe that Ihe' 
was infpired, or thought it political to encourage that 
opinion. They were, accordingly, in the number of her 
correfpondents ; as were alfo the archbifliops of Mentz, 
Cologne, Treves, Saltzburg, and many other prelates 
of Germany; as well as the emperors Conrad and Fre¬ 
deric. To their letters Ihe returned anfwers, in-a myfti- 
cal and prophetical ftyle. She died in 1180. Her writings 
confift of, 1. Scivias,Jeu Vifonumfve Revelationum, Lib. III. 
1513, folio. 2. Vita S. Roberti Confejforis Bingiormn Ducis. 
3. Epijloles XXXVIII. 4. Quejliones Varies in Script. Sac. &c. 
4. Expofitio Regules S. Benedifii. With refpett to the Phy- 
Jicorum, feu de Rerum Natura, Lib. IV. which have been at¬ 
tributed to her by fome writers, Simler has Ihown that 
they were the production of another female, of the fame 
name. 
HIL'DESHEIM, a princely bilhopric of Germany, 
bounded on the north by the duchy of Luneburg, on the 
eaft by the duchy of Wolfenbuttel and tjie principality 
of Halberftadt, on the fouth by the principality of Ca- 
lenberg, and on the weft by Calenberg ; its greateft ex¬ 
tent from eaft to weft is about forty miles, and thirty- 
two'from north to fouth. The greateft part of the dio¬ 
cefe confifts of good land, proper for tillage, producing' 
large quantities of corn, flax, hops, and legumes; but 
the breed of cattle, horfes, Iheep, and fwine, is only fuf- 
ficient for the confumption of the inhabitants. The fouth 
part is hilly, but for the'moft part covered with timber, 
oak, beech, alh, and birch, and fuch of the mountains' 
as are bare of wood contain mines of iron ore. In this 
part, alfo, are fome falt-works, but not fufficient to fup- 
ply all the demands of the diocefe. The principal rivers 
are the-Leine, Innerfee, and Ocker: the’diocefe contains 
twelve towns, and 248 villages. The bilhopric of HiU 
defheim was founded in the year 822, by the emperor, 
Charlemagne. In the year 1519, bifliop John, with an. 
