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See also:HYGINUS, See also:GAIUS See also:JULIUS , Latin author, a native of See also:Spain (or See also:Alexandria), was a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of the famous See also:Cornelius See also:Alexander Polyhistor and a freedman of See also:Augustus, by whom he was made See also:superintendent of the See also:Palatine library (Suetonius, De Grammaticis, 20). He is said to have fallen into See also:great poverty in his old See also:age, and to have been supported by the historian See also:Clodius Licinus. He was a voluminous author, and his See also:works included topographical and See also:biographical See also:treatises, commentaries on Helvius
See also:Cinna and the poems of See also:Virgil, and disquisitions on See also:agriculture and See also:bee-keeping. All these are lost.
Under the name of Hyginus two school treatises on See also:mythology are extant: (I) Pabularum See also:Liber, some 30o mythological legends and See also:celestial genealogies, valuable for the use made by the author of the works of See also:Greek tragedians now lost; (2) De Astronomia, usually called Poetica Astronomica, containing an elementary See also:treatise on See also:astronomy and the myths connected with the stars, chiefly based on the Karaer€pioµot of Eratosthenes. Both are *abridgments and both are by the same See also:hand ; but the See also:style and Latinity and the elementary mistakes (especially in the rendering of the Greek originals) are held to prove that they cannot have been the See also:work of so distinguished a See also:scholar as C. Julius Hyginus. It is suggested that these treatises are an abridgment (made in the latter See also:half of the 2nd See also:century) of the Genealogiae of Hyginus by an unknown grammarian, who added a See also:complete treatise on mythology.
EDITIOxs.—Fabulae, by M. See also:Schmidt (1872); De Astronomia, by B. Bunte (1875) ; see also Bunte, De C. Julii Hygini, See also:Augusti Liberti, Vita et Scriptis (1846).
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