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Hyginus

[ hi-jahy-nuhs ]

noun

  1. Saint, died a.d. 140, pope 136–140.


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For instance, around the onset of the first millennium, Gaius Julius Hyginus, librarian for Roman emperor Augustus, noted that Betelgeuse was a yellow color comparable to Saturn.

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During the inter-Korean summit last month, Moon was accompanied by the South Korean archbishop, Hyginus Kim Hee-joong, and during a conversation Kim said he wanted the pope to know his desire for peace, according to a presidential spokesman.

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For example, Walter’s “fugue state” meant to provide an explanation for why he was missing after being kidnapped by Tuco brings to mind the story Hyginus told about Odysseus pretending to be insane in order to get out of going to the Trojan War.

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It is added that he himself was buried there; and the same is recorded of Linus and Cletus, and of Evaristus, Sixtus I., Telesphorus, Hyginus, Pius I., Eleutherius, and Victor, the last of whom was buried A.D.

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But in process of time, this figure became a lion, and Hyginus mentions both the lion’s skin and the club; while the right foot’s being just over the head of the Dragon, satisfied the mythologists that he was crushing the Lernæan hydra....

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