vii. written about 416, extending from the creation to his own time ; Cassiodoetts, about 550 : Hist, tripartita, 1. xii. a mere extract from the works of the Greek church • /O ifei^Mv. historians, but, with the work of Eufinus, the chief source of historical Ic^*" ^^r\ ^ knowledge through the whole middle age ; and Jeeome (t 419) : De '^i/juWw-'®^ viris illustribus, or Oatalogus scriptorum eccles., written about 392, continued under the same title by Gennadius, about 495, and by IsiDOE of Seville, about 630. (f) For chronology, the Greek Ilao-xn^tor, or CnRbNicox Paschale '■ (wrongly called Alexatidrmuni), primarily a table of the passovers from the beginning of the world to a. d. 854 under Oonstantius, with later additions down to 628. (Ed. Car. du Fresne Dom. du Oange. Par. 1688, and L. Dindorf, Bonn. 1832, 2 vols.) The Chronicle of EusEBiTJS and Jeeome {XpoviKa (rvy-ypdixfiaTa, iravTohaiTTf la-Topia), con- taining an outline of universal history down to 325, mainly after the chronography of Julius Africanus, and an extract from the universal chronicle in tabular form down to 379, long extant only in the free Latin translation and continuation of Jerome (ed. Jos. Scaliger. Lugd. Batav. 1606 and later), since 1792 known also in an Armenian trans- lation (ed. J. Bapt. Aucher. Ven. 1818, and Ang. Mai, Script, vet. nov. coll. 1833. Tom. viii). In continuation of the Latin chronicle of Jerome, the chronicle of Peospee of Aquitania, down to 455 ; that of the Spanish bishop Idatius, to 469 ; and that of Marcellinus Comes, to 534. Comp. Chronica medii aevi post Euseb. atque Hieron., etc. ed. Eoesler^ Tub. 1798. n. HEATHEN SOURCES : Ammiajojs Maecellinus (officer under Julian, honest and impartial) : Eerum gestarum libri xiv-xxxi, a.d. 353-378 (the first 13 books are lost), ed. Jac. Gronov. Lugd. Batav. 1693 fol., and J. A. Ernesti, Lips. 1773 and 1835. Eunapius (philosoi)her and historian; bitter against the Christian emperors) : XpoviKfj la-Topia, a.t>. 268-405, extant only in fragments, ed. Bekker and Nicbuhr, Bonn. 1829. ZosiMXJS (court officer under Theodosius IL, likewise biassed) : 'lo-ro/jia vca, 1. vi, A.D. 284-410, ed. Cellarius 1679, Reitemeier 1784, 1 LATER LITEKATHKE. and Imm. Bekker, Bonn. 1837. Also the writings of Julian the Apostate (against Christianity), Libanius and Symmachus (philosoph- ically tolerant), &c. Comp. the literature at § 2 and 4. LATER LITERATURE. Besides tlie contemporary histories named above vmder 1 (e) among the sources, we should mention particularly Baronitjs (R. C. of the Ultramontane school, 1 1607) : Annales eccles. vol. iii.-viii. (a heavy and unreadable chronicle, but valuable for reference to original documents). TiLLEMONT (R. C. leaning to Jansenism, 1 1698) : M^-moires, etc., vol. vi.- xvi. (mostly biographical, minute, and conscientious). Gibbow (t 1794) : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, from ch. xvii. onward (unsur- passed in the skilful use of sources and artistic compo.sition, but skeptical and destitute of sympathy with the genius of Christianity). Scheoceii (moderate Lutheran, tl808): Christl. Kirchengesch. Theil v.-xviii, (A simple and