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# Cur Deus Homo/Book First/Chapter 6
### CHAPTER VI

How infidels find fault with us for saying that God has redeemed us by his death, and thus has shown his love towards us, and that he came to overcome the devil for us.
Boso. This they greatly wonder at, because we call this redemption a release. For, say they, in what custody or imprisonment, or under whose power were you held, that God could not free you from it, without purchasing your redemption by so many sufferings, and finally by his own blood? And when we tell them that he freed us from our sins, and from his own wrath, and from hell, and from the power of the devil, whom he came to vanquish for us, because we were unable to do it, and that he purchased for us the kingdom of heaven; and that, by doing all these things, he manifested the greatness of his love towards us; they answer: If you say that God, who, as you believe, created the universe by a word, could not do all these things by a simple command, you contradict yourselves, for you make him powerless. Or, if you grant that he could have done these things in some other way, but did not wish to, how can you vindicate his wisdom, when you assert that he desired, without any reason, to suffer things so unbecoming? For these things which you bring up are all regulated by his will; for the wrath of God is nothing but his desire to punish. If, then, he does not desire to punish the sins of men, man is free from his sins, and from the wrath of God, and from hell, and from the power of the devil, all which things are the sufferings of sin; and, what he had lost by reason of these sins, he now regains. For, in whose power is hell, or the devil? Or, whose is the kingdom of heaven, if it be not his who created all things? Whatever things, therefore, you dread or hope for, all lie subject to his will, whom nothing can oppose. If, then, God were unwilling to save the human race in any other way than that you mention, when he could have done it by his simple will, observe, to say the least, how you disparage his wisdom. For, if a man without motive should do, by severe toil, a thing which he could have done in some easy way, no one would consider him a wise man. As to your statement that God has shown in this way how much he loved you, there is no argument to support this, unless it be proved that he could not otherwise have saved man. For, if he could not have done it otherwise, then it was, indeed, necessary for him to manifest his love in this way. But now, when he could have saved man differently, why is it that, for the sake of displaying his love, he does and suffers the things which you enumerate? For does he not show good angels how much he loves them, though he suffer no such things as these for them? As to what you say of his coming to vanquish the devil for you, with what meaning dare you allege this? Is not the omnipotence of God everywhere enthroned? How is it, then, that God must needs come down from heaven to vanquish the devil? These are the objections with which infidels think they can withstand us.
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Acacesius

​ACACE'SIUS (Ἀκακήσιος), a surname of Hermes (Callim. Himn. in Dian. 143), for which Homer (Il. xvi. 185; Od. xxiv. 10) uses the form ἀκάκητα (ἀκακήτης). Some writers derive it from the Arcadian town of Acacesium, in which he was believed to have been brought up by king Acacus; others from κακὸς, and assign to it the meaning: the god who cannot be hurt, or who does not hurt. The same attribute is also given to Prometheus (Hes. Theog. 614), whence it may be inferred that its meaning is that of benefactor or deliverer from evil. (Compare Spanh. ad Callim. I. c; Spitzner, ad Il. xvi. 185.) [L. S.]
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Absimarus

​ABSIMARUS. [Tiberius Absimarus.]
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Acacallis

​ACACALLIS (Ἀκακαλλίς). daughter of Minos, by whom, according to a Cretan tradition, Hermes begot Cydon; while according to a tradition of the Tegeatans, Cydon was a son of Tegeates, and immigrated to Crete from Tegea. (Pans. viii. 53. §2.) Apollo begot by her a son Miletus, whom, for fear of her father, Acacallis exposed in a forest, where wolves watched and suckled the child, until he was found by shepherds who brought him up. (Antonin, Lib. 30.) Other sons of her and Apollo are Amphithemis and Garamas. (Apollon. iv. 1490, &c.) Apollodorus (iii. 1. § 2) calls this daughter of Minos Acalle (Ἀκάλλη), but does not mention Miletus as her son. Acacallis was in Crete a common name for a narcissus. (Athen, XV. p. 681; Hesych. s. v.)[L. S.]
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Abydenus

​ABYDE'NUS (Ἀβυδηνός), a Greek historian, who wrote a history of Assyria (Ἀσσυριακά). The time at which he lived is uncertain, but we know that he made use of the works of Megasthenes and Berosus ; and Cyrillus (adv. Julian, pp. 8, 9) states, that he wrote in the Ionic dialect. Several fragments of his work are preserved by Eusebius, Cyrillus and Syncellus: it was particularly valuable for chronology. An important fragment, which clears up some difficulties in Assyrian history, has been discovered in the Armenian translation of the Chronicon of Eusebius. The fragments of his history have been published by Scaliger, "De Emendatione Temporum," and Richter, "Berosi Chaldaeorum Historiae," &c., Lips. 1825.
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Abrupolis

​ABRU'POLIS, an ally of the Romans, who attacked the dominions of Perseus, and laid them waste as far as Amphipolis, but was afterwards driven out of his kingdom by Perseus. (Liv. xlii. 13. 30. 41.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Aburnus Valens

​ABURNUS VALENS. [Valens.]
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Aburia Gens

​ABU'RIA GENS, plebeian. On the coins of this gens we find the cognomen Gem., which is perhaps an abbreviation of Geminus. The coins have no heads of persons on them.
1. C. Aburius was one of the ambassadors sent to Masinissa and the Carthaginians, b. c. 171. (Liv. xlii. 35.)
2. M. Aburius, tribune of the plebs, b. c. 187, opposed M. Fulvius the proconsul in his petition for a triumph, but withdrew his opposition chiefly through the influence of his colleague Ti. Gracchus. (Liv. xxxix. 4. 5.) He was praetor peregrinus, b. c. 176. (Liv. xli. 18. 19.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Abseus

​ABSEUS. [Gigantes.]
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Abulites

​ABULI'TES (Ἀβουλίτης), the satrap of Susiana, surrendered Susa to Alexander, when the latter approached the city. The satrapy was restored to him by Alexander, but he and his son Oxyathres were afterwards executed by Alexander for the crimes they had committed in the government of the satrapy. (Curt. v. 2 ; Arrian, Anah. iii. 16. vii. 4; Diod. xvii. 65.)
# Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Absyrtus

​ABSYRTUS or APSYRTUS (Ἄψυρτος), a son of Aeetes, king of Colchis, and brother of Medeia. His mother is stated differently: Hygi​Hyginus (Fab. 13) calls her Ipsia, Apollodorus (i. 9. §23) Idyia, Apollonius (iii. 241) Asterodeia, and others Hecate, Neaera, or Eurylyte. (Schol. ad Apollon. I. c.) When Medeia fled with Jason, she took her brother Absyrtus with her, and when she was nearly overtaken by her father, she murdered her brother, cut his body in pieces and strewed them on the road, that her father might thus be detained by gathering the limbs of his child. Tomi, the place where this horror was committed, was believed to have derived its name from τέμνω, "cut." (Apllod. i. 9. §24; Ov. Trist. iii. 9; compare Apllon. iv. 338, &c. 460, &c.) According to another tradition Absyrtus was not taken by Medeia, but was sent out by his father in pursuit of her. He overtook her in Corcyra, where she had been kindly received by king Alcinous, who refused to surrender her to Absyrtus. When he overtook her a second time in the island of Minerva, he was slain by Jason. (Hygin. Fab. 23.) A tradition followed by Pacuvius (Cic. de nat. deor. iii. 19), Justin (xlii. 3), and Diodorus (iv. 45), called the son of Aeëtes, who was murdered by Medeia, Aegialeus. [L. S.]
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Badcock, Sir Alexander Robert

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​BADCOCK, SIR ALEXANDER ROBERT (1844–)
Born Jan. 11, 1844: educated at Elstree and Harrow: entered the Indian Army, 1861: served in the Bhutan Campaign, 1864–5: Hazara, 1868: Perak, 1875–6: Afghanistan, 1878–80, in the Commissariat Department: at the Peiwar Kotal, and in the engagements at Kabul: Chief Commissariat officer of Sir F. Roberts' force on the Kabul-Kandahar march in Aug. 1880, and in the battle of Kandahar: made C.B.: was Q.M.G. in India, 1900: C.S.I.: K.C.B. in 1902: Member of the Council of India in 1901.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Baden Powell, Baden Henry

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​BADEN POWELL, BADEN HENRY (1841–1901)
I.C.S.: born 1841: son of Professor Baden Powell of Oxford: educated at St. Paul's School: in the Civil Service in the Panjab, 1861–89: served in the Indian Forest Department: was an authority on Indian land tenures: for some years a Judge of the Chief Court of the Panjab: wrote Land Systems of British India, The Indian Village Community: helped to establish the Lahore University: M.A. Oxford, 1894: C.I.E.: died Jan. 2, 1901.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Aylmer, Fenton John

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​AYLMER, FENTON JOHN (1862–)
Born April 5, 1862: son of Captain F. J. Aylmer, 97th regt.: educated privately and at R.M.A., Woolwich: entered the Royal Engineers, 1880: served in India since 1883: in the Burma war, 1886–87: the Hazara expedition ​1891: in the Hunza expedition, 1891–2: Isazai expedition, 1892: Chitral expedition, 1895: at the storming of the Nilt Fort in 1891–2: he obtained his V.C., and Brevet Majority: Colonel R.E.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Aylmer, Hon. Rose Whitworth

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​AYLMER, HON. ROSE WHITWORTH (1779–1800)
Born Oct., 1779: only daughter of Henry, fourth Baron Aylmer, and his wife Catherine, who was sister to Lord Whitworth, Ambassador to Buonaparte in 1803. Walter Savage Landor wrote verses to her at Swansea about 1796–7, and she lent him the book which suggested the subject of his poem "Gebir." She went to India in 1878 with her aunt (née Whitworth) wife of Sir Henry Russell (q.v.), Puisne judge, afterwards Chief Justice of Bengal, and became engaged to Sir Henry's son, afterwards second Baronet, but died of cholera on March 2, 1800, at her uncle's house in Calcutta. Landor's elegy on her death was published in 1806. She was buried in the cemetery in South Park Street, Calcutta, the inscription on her tomb being taken from Young's Night Thoughts, iii. 70.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Baba, Sir Khem Singh Beda

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​BABA, SIR KHEM SINGH BEDA (1830–)
Fourteenth in direct descent from Sikh Guru, the great reformer: Member of Legislative Council of the Panjab for two years: K.C.I.E.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Ayrton, Acton Smee

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​AYRTON, ACTON SMEE (1816–1886)
Born 1816: son of Frederick Ayrton, barrister at Bombay: practised as a solicitor at Bombay, 1836–50, when he returned to England: Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway: called to the bar from the Middle Temple, 1853: M.P. for the Tower Hamlets, 1857–74: Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury in Gladstone's Administration, 1868–9: Privy Councillor: First Commissioner of Works, 1869–73: Judge Advocate General, 1873–4: defeated in his candidatures for the Tower Hamlets, 1874, and for the Mile End Division, 1885: died Nov. 30, 1886.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Badger, Rev. George Percy

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​BADGER, REV. GEORGE PERCY (1815–1888)
Born in April, 1815: spent his youth at Malta, and 1835–36 at Bairut to learn Arabic: ordained in 1841: for his knowledge of the East and of Arabic was sent as a delegate to the Eastern Churches, ​including the Nestorians, in Kurdistan, 1842–5 and 1850: appointed a Chaplain under the Bombay Government, 1845: his knowledge of Arabic was utilised at Aden and under Outram in the Persian expedition of 1856–7: in 1860 he helped to settle the troubles in Oman: was Secretary to Sir Bartle Frere's mission to Zanzibar, 1872: D.C.L. in 1873: died Feb. 21, 1888: wrote The Nestorians and their Rituals, A History of the Imaums and Sayyids of Oman, 1871: on Muhammad and Muhammadanism: and an English-Arabic Lexicon, besides other works: F.Z.S.: F.S.A.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Ayub Khan

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​AYUB KHAN, (1849–)
Fourth son of Shir Ali, Amir of Afghanistan, brother of Yakub Khan (q. v.): was long a fugitive in Persia, but was appointed Governor of Herat by Yakub in 1879: he advanced thence upon Kandahar in July, 1880, and atMaiwand, on the 27th, defeated General Burrows and his force: besieged Kandahar: on Sep. 1. he fought the battle of Kandahar against Sir F. Roberts (q. v.), who had marched thither from Kabul, and was routed, fleeing towards Herat: in July, 1881, he defeated Amir Abdur Rahman's troops and captured Kandahar, but, being defeated there by the Amir, fled to Persia, where he was made a prisoner of state: he escaped and tried to cross the Afghan frontier in 1887, but was repulsed, and surrendered to the British Agent at Mashad: eventually he was made over to the Government of India and interned in India, being kept at Rawul Pindi.
# Dictionary of Indian Biography/Baigrie, Robert

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​BAIGRIE, ROBERT ( ? –1877)
Colonel: son of John Baigrie: joined the E. I. Co.'s Bombay Infantry, 1848: served in the Panjab campaign, 1848–9: at Multan, Gujarat, the pursuit and surrender of the Sikhs, the occupation of Peshawar: at the siege of Sebastopol, 1855: in the Persian war, 1856–7: at the Khushab, Muhamra, Ahwaz: in Sir H. Rose's force in the mutiny: Bombay Staff Corps, 1861: A.Q.M.G. at Mhow, 1865: and in Abyssinia, 1867–8: Brevet Lt-Colonel: Q.M.G. of the Bombay Army: C.B., 1873: died at Poona, Sep. 25, 1877: an accomplished artist.
# Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Sozopolis

From volume 14 of the work.
Sozopolis, titular see in the Balkans, suffragan of Adrianopolis. The town, at first called Antheia, was founded in Thrace on the shore of the Pontus Euxinus, principally on a little island, by Anaximander (born 610-609 B. C.) at the head of Milesian colonists. The name was soon changed to Apollonia, on account of a temple to Apollo in the town, containing a statue of the god 30 cubits high, transported later to Rome by Lucullus and placed in the Capitol. The coins, which begin in the fourth century B. C., bear the name Apollonia and the image of Apollo; the imperial coins, which continue to the first half of the third century A. D., and the "Tabula Peutinger" also contain the name Apollonia; but the "Periplus Ponti Euxini", 85, and the "Notitiæ episcopatuum" have only the new name Sozopolis. In 1328 Cantacuzene (ed. Bonn, I, 326) speaks of it as a large and populous town. The islet on which it stood is now connected with the mainland by a narrow tongue of land. Sozopolis, in Turkish Sizebolou, in Bulgarian Sozopol, is in the Department of Bourgas, Bulgaria. Its 3000 inhabitants, almost exclusively Greeks, lived by fishing and agriculture. Le Quien (Oriens christianus, I, 1181) knows only eight of its bishops: Athanasius (431); Peter (680); Euthymius (787); Ignatius (869); Theodosius (1357); Joannicius, who became Patriarch of Constantinople (1524); Philotheus (1564); Joasaph (1721). This list might be easily lengthened, the see still existing among the Greeks. From being suffragan to Adrianopolis it became in the fourteenth century a metropolis without suffragan sees; it disappeared perhaps temporarily with the Turkish conquest, but reappeared later; in 1808 it was united to the See of Agathopolis and has remained so. The titular resides at Agathopolis, now Akhtébolou, in the vilayet of Adrianopolis, in Turkey. Its relations to the new Bulgarian kingdom are not yet settled. Eubel (Hierarchia catholica medii ævi, I, 194) mentions four Latin bishops of the fourteenth century.
SMITH, Dict. of Greek and Roman Geog., s. v. Apollonia; PAULY AND WISSOWA, Real-Encyclopädie, s. v. Apollonia; TOMASCHEK, Zur Kunde der Hämus-Halbinsel (Vienna, 1887), 23; BOUTYRAS, Dict. of Hist. and Geog. (Greek), VII, 1148.
S. Pétridès.
# Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Sozusa

From volume 14 of the work.
Sozusa, a titular see of Palestina Prima, suffragan of Cæsarea. The town, at first called Apollonia, is mentioned by Pliny, "Hist. nat.", V, 14, and Ptolemy, V, xv, 2, between Cæsarea and Joppa, and by other geographers. According to Josephus, "Ant. jud.", XIII, xv, 4, it belonged at first to the Phœnicians. From Appianus, "Hist. rom. Syr.", 57, it seems to have been founded by a King Seleucus, whose name it was given, but the history of this maritime city and the date of its establishment; are entirely unknown. The Roman proconsul, Gabinius, found it ruined in 57 B. C. and had it rebuilt (Josephus, "Bel. jud.", I, viii, 4). On the arrival of the Crusaders it was called Arsur or Azuffium, and was protected by strong walls; Godfrey de Bouillon attempted to capture it, but failed for want of ships (William of Tyre, IX, x). King Baldwin I took it in 1102, after a siege by land and sea, allowing the inhabitants to withdraw to Ascalon. Occupied in 1191 by Saladin, the town was captured by Richard Cœur de Lion after his victory at Rochetaillée. In 1251 St. Louis re-erected its ramparts, and fourteen years later, in 1265, after a siege of forty days, it was stormed by the sultan Bibars; the inhabitants were killed or sold as slaves and the town completely razed. It never recovered, and in the fourteenth century the geographer Abulfeda said it contained no inhabitants ("Tabula Syriæ", 82). Its name Apollonia was replaced by Sozusa at an early period; in 449 at the Robber Council of Ephesus Baruchius signs with this title; its bishops, Leontius in 518, and Damianus in 553, are also known (Le Quien, "Oriens christianus", III, 595). Under the name of Sozusa it occurs in the Byzantine geographers Hierocles and George of Cyprus. In the Middle Ages it was confused with Antipatris, situated more inland, and it is under this name that some of its titular bishops are to be sought. To-day its ruins may be seen at Arsûf, north of Jaffa.
SMITH, Dict. of Greek and Roman Geog., s. v. Apollonia; RELAND, Palœstina ex monumentis veteribus illustrata, II (Utrecht, 1714), 1023; GUÉRIN, Description de la Palestine, Samarie, II (Paris, 1875), 375-82; PAULY AND WISSOWA, Real-Encyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, s. v. Apollonia.
S. VAILHÉ.
# Daddy-Long-Legs (Webster)/Letter 65

Lock Willow,
April 4th.
Dear Daddy,
Do you observe the postmark? Sallie and I are embellishing Lock Willow with our presence during the Easter vacation. We decided that the best thing we could do with our ten days was to come where it is quiet. Our nerves had got to the point where they wouldn't stand another meal in Fergussen. Dining in a room with four hundred girls is an ordeal when you are tired. There is so much noise that you can't hear the girls across the table speak unless they make their hands into a megaphone and shout. That is the truth.
We are tramping over the hills and reading and writing, and having a nice, restful ​time. We climbed to the top of "Sky Hill" this morning where Master Jervie and I once cooked supper—it doesn't seem possible that it was nearly two years ago. I could still see the place where the smoke of our fire blackened the rock. It is funny how certain places get connected with certain people, and you never go back without thinking of them. I was quite lonely without him—for two minutes.
What do you think is my latest activity, Daddy? You will begin to believe that I am incorrigible—I am writing a book. I started it three weeks ago and am eating it up in chunks. I've caught the secret. Master Jervie and that editor man were right; you are most convincing when you write about the things you know. And this time it is about something that I do know—exhaustively. Guess where it's laid? In the John Grier Home! And it's good, Daddy, I actually believe it is—just about the tiny little things that happened every day. I'm ​a realist now. I've abandoned romanticism; I shall go back to it later though, when my own adventurous future begins.
This new book is going to get itself finished—and published! You see if it doesn't. If you just want a thing hard enough and keep on trying, you do get it in the end. I've been trying for four years to get a letter from you—and I haven't given up hope yet.
Good-by, Daddy dear,
(I like to call you Daddy dear; it's so alliterative.)
Affectionately,
Judy.
P. S.I forgot to tell you the farm news, but it's very distressing. Skip this postscript if you don't want your sensibilities all wrought up.
Poor old Grove is dead. He got so that he couldn't chew and they had to shoot him.
​Nine chickens were killed by a weasel or a skunk or a rat last week.
One of the cows is sick, and we had to have the veterinary surgeon out from Bonnyrigg Four Corners. Amasai stayed up all night to give her linseed oil and whisky. But we have an awful suspicion that the poor sick cow got nothing but linseed oil.
Sentimental Tommy (the tortoise-shell cat) has disappeared; we are afraid he has been caught in a trap.
There are lots of troubles in the world!
# Daddy-Long-Legs (Webster)/Letter 66

May 17th.
Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,
This is going to be extremely short because my shoulder aches at the sight of a pen. Lecture notes all day, immortal novel all evening, make too much writing.
Commencement three weeks from next Wednesday. I think you might come and make my acquaintance—I shall hate you if you don't! Julia's inviting Master Jervie, he being her family, and Sallie's inviting Jimmie McB., he being her family, but who is there for me to invite? Just you and Mrs. Lippett, and I don't want her. Please come.
Yours, with love and writer's cramp.
Judy.