Orosius

He translated Consolations of Philosophy from the Latin of Boethius, a Roman senator of the 6th century, the most remarkable literary effort of the declining days of the Roman Empire and highly prized in the Middle Ages.

He also translated Chronicle of the World by Orosius, a Spanish priest who lived in the early part of the 5th century, a work suggested by St. Augustine's City of God.

The Ecclesiastical History of Bede was also translated by Alfred.

He is said to have translated the Proverbs of Solomon and the Fables of Aesop.

He built more beautiful edifices than any of his predecessors.

He also had a knowledge of geography beyond his contemporaries and sent a Norwegian shipmaster to explore the White Sea.

He enriched his translation of Orosius by a sketch of the new geographical discoveries in the north.

In fact, there was scarcely any branch of knowledge then known in which Alfred was not well instructed, being a remarkably learned man for his age and as enlightened as he was learned.

Anyway, for the last time, back to the episode.

Now, the historian Orosius doesn't really weigh in here when it comes to the early life and career of Servius Tullius.

You can tell he really is summarising here.

Appian still has nothing, and he won't do until we get to the seventh king.

The argument on the epistle of Paul to the Colossians.

There were three neighboring cities in Phrygia, as made mention of by Paul in this epistle, Laodicea, Hierapolis, and Colossae, which, as Orosius informs us, were overthrown by an earthquake in the times of the emperor Nero.

accordingly not long after this epistle was written three churches of great renown perished by a mournful as well as horrible occurrence a bright mirror truly of divine judgment if we had but eyes to see it the colossians had been not indeed by paul but with fidelity and purity by epaphras and other ministers instructed in the gospel but immediately afterwards satan had with his tares crept in matthew thirteen twenty five according to his usual and invariable manner that he might there pervert the right faith some are of opinion that there were two classes of men that endeavoured to draw aside the colossians from the purity of the gospel that on the one hand the philosophers by disputing in reference to stars fate and trifles of a like nature and that the jews on the other hand by urging the observance of their ceremonies had raised up many myths with the view of throwing christ into the shade Those, however, who are of the opinion are influenced by a conjecture of exceedingly little weight, on the ground that Paul makes mention of thrones and powers and heavenly creatures.

For as to their adding also the term elements, it is worse than ridiculous.

The romantic story of Alexander might, in part at any rate, have been familiar to Alfred the Great.

He brings the Egyptian king Nectanebus the Wizard into his translation of Orosius.

Nectanebus, who is the father of Alexander in the apocryphal book from which the romances were derived.

But it was not till the French poets turned the story of Alexander into verse that it really made much impression outside of France.

He translated Consolations of Philosophy from the Latin of Boethius, a Roman senator of the 6th century, the most remarkable literary effort of the declining days of the Roman Empire and highly prized in the Middle Ages.

He also translated Chronicle of the World by Orosius, a Spanish priest who lived in the early part of the 5th century, a work suggested by St. Augustine's City of God.

The Ecclesiastical History of Bede was also translated by Alfred.

He is said to have translated the Proverbs of Solomon and the Fables of Aesop.

He built more beautiful edifices than any of his predecessors.

He also had a knowledge of geography beyond his contemporaries and sent a Norwegian shipmaster to explore the White Sea.

He enriched his translation of Orosius by a sketch of the new geographical discoveries in the north.

In fact, there was scarcely any branch of knowledge then known in which Alfred was not well instructed, being a remarkably learned man for his age and as enlightened as he was learned.

Four of these may be seen in the British Museum.

The translation into English of the History of the World by Orosius was probably the most difficult of all Alfred's literary labours.

This book had been written in Latin about the year 418 by Orosius, a young Spanish priest.

Many heathen writers of that time had declared that the introduction of Christianity had harmed the Roman Empire more than it had benefited it.

In reply to this statement, St. Augustine, the African Bishop of Hippo, had written a book called The City of God, in which he defended the Christian faith.

He then advised his friend Orosius to write a History of the World.

The book was an attempt to prove, as Augustine himself had done, that the decay of the Roman Empire and the wars of the world were not due, as the heathen declared, to Christianity.

This work of Orosius was the only History of the World existing in the Middle Ages, and though poorly written, contains much useful information.

All right, today's Henry.

We don't get extended things from Orosius, though.

He just says Priscus repeatedly beat the 12 Etruscan powers in battle.

That's all he has on him.