ECUNDUM, Pharus Alexandrina super quatuor cancros vitreos per passus viginti sub mari fundata est. Hoc namque mirum quomodo tam magni cancri fieri pos sent, vel quomodo deportari et non frangi valerent, qualiter funda menta cementitia desuper hærere potuerint, vel quomodo sub aqua cementum stare valeat, et quare cancri non franguntur, et quare non lubricant desuper jacta fundamenta. TERTIUM, in Rhodo insula Colossi imago ærea centum triginta sex pedum fusilis facta: hoc mirum, qualiter tam immensa moles fundi potuisset, vel erigi et stare. SYBA QUARTUM miraculum, simulacrum Bellerophontis ferreum cum equo suo in summa civitate suspensum, in aëre sistere, nec catenis penditur, nec desuper ullo stipite sustentatur, sed magni lapides magnetum in archivolis habentur, et hinc et inde in assumptionibus trahitur, et in mensura æquiparata consistit: est autem estimatio ponderis circa quinque millia librarum ferri. QUINTUM miraculum, Theatrum in Heraclea, de uno marmore ita sculptum est, ut omnes cellulæ et mansiones muri et antra bestiarum, ex uno solidoque lapide factum sit super septem cancros de ipso lapide sculptos appendens sustinetur; et nemo in gyro ipso tam secrete aut solus aut cum aliquo loqui potest, quod ipsum non audiant qui in gyro ædificii sistunt. : HE second is the Light-house of Alexandria, which was founded on four glass arches, twenty paces deep beneath the sea. The wonder is, how such large arches could be made, or how they could be conveyed without breaking; how the foundations, which are ce mented together above, could adhere to them, or how the cement could stand firm under the water; and why the arches are not broken, and why the foundations cast in above do not slip off. THE third is the figure of the Colossus in the island of Rhodes, a hundred and thirty-six feet long, and cast of melted metal. The wonder is how such an immense mass could be cast, or how it could be set up and not fall. THE fourth wonder is the iron figure of Bellerophon on horseback, which hangs suspended in the air over the city, and has neither chains nor any thing else to support it; but great magnetic stones are placed in vaults, and so it is retained in assumption (position), and remains in balanced measure. Now the calculation of its weight is about five thousand pounds of iron. THE fifth wonder is the Theatre of Heraclea, carved out of one piece of marble, so that all the cells and rooms of the wall, and the dens of the beasts, are made out of one solid stone. It is supported on four arches carved out of the same stone; and no one can whisper in the whole circle so low, either to himself or to another, without being heard by every one who is in the circle of the building. SEXTUM miraculum, balneum quod Apollotaneus cum.ha candela consecrationis incendit, Thermas perpetuo igne sine ulla administratione calentes facit. SEPTIMUM miraculum, templum Dianæ, super quatuor columnas. Prima fundamenta percussa sunt arcuum, deinde paulatim succrescens super quatuor arcus eminentiores lapides arcubus prioribus suppositi. Super quatuor, octo columnæ et octo arcus positi: inde tertio ordine æqua ponderatione per quatuor partes succrescens, super eminentiores lapides positi. Super octo, sexdecim fundati sunt; super sexdecim, triginta duo: iste quartus est in quinto ordine: sexaginta quatuor columnæ finem faciunt tam mirabilis edificii. THE sixth wonder is the Bath, which is such, that when Apollotaneus has lighted it with one candle of consecration, it keeps the hot baths continually burning without being attended to. THE seventh wonder is the Temple of Diana, on four pillars. Its first foundations are arched drains; then it increases gradually, upper stones being placed on the former arches. Thus: upon these four are placed eight pillars and eight arches; then in the third row it increases in a like proportion, and stones still higher are placed thereon. On the eight are placed sixteen, and on the sixteen thirty-two; the fourth row of stones is on the fifth row of arches, and sixty-four pillars complete the plan of this remarkable building. MARTYROLOGIUM DE NATALITIIS SANCTORUM; CUM AUCTARIO FLORI ET ALIORUM. JANUARIUS. 1 KALENDIS. Octavæ Domini, et secundum carnem circumcisio ejus. Et natalis Almachii; qui jubente Alypio urbis præfecto, cum diceret, Hodie Octava Dominicæ diei sunt, cessate a superstitionibus idolorum et sacrificiis pollutis, a gladiatoribus hac de causa occisus est. 2 A. T. L. C. Eodem die natalis S. Basilii episcopi. Et passio S. Martinæ virginis. A. Et S. Euphrosynæ. L. Eodem die in Ethiopia Rutuli. Hierosolyma natale S. Stephani. IV. NONAS. Vacat Beda. Florus in A. T. L. Romæ natale S. Telesphori papæ et martyris: is ex anachoreta cum per XII. annos Ecclesiæ Romanæ præesset, jejunium septem hebdomadarum ante Pascha, et missam in nocte Natalis Domini, sed et ante sacrificium hymnum angelicum, videlicet Gloria in excelsis Deo, decantandum instituit: passusque est temporibus Antonini et Marci martyrium. D. Apud Antiochiam passio B. Isidori episcopi. Et in Ponto civitate Tomis trium fratrum, Argei, |