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ARMINIUS, the Latinized form of the name of HERMANN, or more probably ARMIN (17 B.C.-A.D. 21), the German national hero. He was a son of a certain Segimer, a prince of the tribe of the Cherusci, and in early life served with distinction as an officer in the Ro ...

ARCTINUS, of Miletus, one of the earliest poets of Greece and contributors to the epic cycle. He flourished probably about 744 B.C. (Ol. 7). His poems are lost, but an idea of them can be gained from the Chrtstomathy written by I'roclus the Neo-Platonist of th

ARNOBIUS (called Afer, and sometimes " the Elder "), early Christian writer, was a teacher of rhetoric at Sicca Venerea in proconsular Africa during the reign of Diocletian. His conversion to Christianity is said by Jerome to have been occasioned by a dream; a

ARSENIUS (c. 354-450), an anchorite, said to have been born of a noble Roman family, who achieved a high reputation for his knowledge of Greek and Roman literature. He was appointed by Theodosius the Great, tutor of the young princes Arcadius and Honorius, but

... s passing into astrolabes are figured in his Aslronmtiae Inslaurolae Hechenica. ARMINIUS The armillary sphere survives as useful for teaching, and may be described as a skeleton celestial globe, the series of rings representing the great circles of the heavens ...

... at earlier lectures of G. Hill are dry. Arminianism is less fully worked put by Arminius than by later Dutch divines, of whom the " conciliatory " Limborch is sometimes used as a Methodist text-book. The theologian of English Methodism, apart from John Wesley ...