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ERPENIUS (original name VAN ERPE), THOMAS (1584-1624), Dutch Orientalist, was born at Gorcum, in Holland, on the nth of September 1584. After completing his early education at Leiden, he entered the university of that city, and in 1608 took the degree of maste ...

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

EUGENIUS, the name of four popes. EUGENIUS L, pope from 654 to 657. Elected on the banishment of Martin I. by the emperor Constans II., and at the height of the Monothelite crisis, he showed greater deference than his predecessor to the emperor's wishes, and m

... ed in Arabic and Latin at Leiden in 1625. The Latin version is a translation by Erpenius, under the title, Historic, saracenica, and from this a French translation was made by Wattier as L'Histoire mahometane (Paris, 1657).

... to Gesner is due the credit of having formed, by discipline ERNESTI, J. C. G.— ERPENIUS and by example, philologists greater than themselves, and of having kindled the national enthusiasm for ancient learning. It is chiefly in hermeneutics that Ernest! has an ...