The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge; V. 1-27 Volume 2

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 edition. Excerpt: ...Vet. Poet. Greet., of Brunck. Argent. 1744, and they are published separately by LiebeC Rtinfuur Archilorhi, Vienna, 1819, 8vo.; also in Gaisford -Vi" Greek Poets, vol. i.; and in Boissonnade's Collection, vol. xi For his merits as a writer the reader may consult Hurh. Vet such iiber die Verdientte des Archilochus um du Sn tyre, Wittenbach, 1767; Atemoires de I'Acad, des Imcn/J. torn. x. ARCHIMANDRITE, the title of a dignitary m the monastic orders of the Greek church, answering to that ' Father Provincial among the monks and friars of the R man Catholic church. The archimandrite is a urr abbot, having under his jurisdiction several convent of t. same district or province. The Russian church, uhirh i i branch of the Greek, has its archimandrites, as well at th: Gveck church in Hungary and other parts of the Austnar. empire. ARCHIME'DES, the most celebrated of the Greek geometers, and one of the few men whose writings form a standard epoch in the history of the progress of knowledge, was born in Sicily, in the Corinthian colony of Syracuse, in the year 287 B.c.: he was killed when that town was taken by the Romans under Marcellus, B.C. 212, aged seventyfive years. Euolid died about the time of the birth of Archimedes, and Apollonius of Perga was about forty years his junior. Eratosthenes was born about ten years before him. The life of Archimedes was written, according to Eutocius, bis commentator, by Hcraclides, but the work is not come down to us, and all that is known of him has been collected from various authors, of whom the principal are Polybius his contemporary. Livy, Plutarch, and Cicero. We, once for all, acknowledge our obligations to the life of Archimedes in Rivault's edition of his works, Paris, ...