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Himerius

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Himerius (Ancient Greek: Ἱμέριος; c. 315 – c. 386) was a Greek sophist and rhetorician. 24 of his orations have reached us complete, and fragments of 12 others survive.

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  1. 153, 168, 172, 279. Hicetes, his opinion of the earth, iii. 154. Hiero, his sayings, i. 190; anecdote of, 291. Hiero the Spartan, statue of, iii. 76. Hiero the Tyrant, statue of, iii. 75. Hieronymus, saying of, i. 38, 50, 462. Himerius, an Athenian parasite, ii. 126. Hippasus, opinions of, iii. 111. Hippocrates, saying of, i. 40; quoted, 261, 292; ii. 165, 185; his magnanimity, ii. 466. Hippocratidas, apothegm of…

    Plutarch, Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 1

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  2. Hiĕro, the Lacedaemonian (killed in the battle of Leuctra 371), 88. Himĕra, a town of Sicily, 140. Hipparchus, the astronomer, of Rhodes and Alexandria, native of Nicaea in Bithynia (fl. from 160), 98, 261. Hipparchus (son of Pisistratus), 189. Hippocrătes, 182. Hippostheneidas, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 44, 51. Hippys, of Rhegium, an early Greek historian, 140. Homer, 41, 63, 70, 76, 77, 85, 86, 87, 88, 93, 102, 126…

    Plutarch, Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. II.

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  3. The granting of this jurisdiction to the Pope gave several Bishops occasion to write to him for his resolutions upon doubtful cases, whereupon he answered by decretal Epistles; and henceforward he gave laws to the _Western_ Churches by such Epistles. _Himerius_ Bishop of _Tarraco_, the head city of a province in _Spain_, writing to Pope _Damasus_ for his direction about certain Ecclesiastical matters, and the Letter…

    Isaac Newton, Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John

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