TZITZIS.
 

LLVSSES.
 

 l150.  His writings bear evident traces of the

 ?xtent of his learning, and  not less of the inor¬

 dinate self-conceit with which they had filleo

 him.  He  wrote a vast number  of woiks, of

 which several are still extant.   Of these  the

 two following are the most important: 1. Iliaca,

which consists properly of three poems, collect¬

 ed into one under the titles Tu irpb 'Oprjpov, rd

 'Our/pov, Kal rdptd'"Opripov.  The whole amounts

to one thousand six hundred and seventy-six

lines, and  is written in hexameter metre.   It is

a very dull  composition.  Edited by Bekker,

Beilin, 1816.  2 Chiliades, consisting in its pres¬

ent form of twelve thousand six hundred and

si\ty-one lines.  This name was  given to it by

 the fiist editor, who divided it, without refer¬

 ence to the contents, into thirteen divisions of

 one thousand lines, the last being incomplete.

 Its subject-matter is ofthe most miscellaneous

 Kind, but embraces chiefly mythological and his¬

 torical narratives, arranged under separate ti¬

 tles, and without any further connection.  The

following  are a few of them, as they occur:

Crcesus, Midas, Gyges. Codrus, Alcmaeon, &c

 It is written in bad Greek, in that abominable

 make believe of a metre called political verse.

 Edited by Kiessling, Lips, 1826. — 2. Isaac,

brother of the preceding, the author  of a val¬

uable commentary on the  Cassandra  of Lyco¬

phron, printed in most of the editions of Lyco¬

phron ; [best edit,  by Muller, Lips. 1811,3 vols ]

  Tzitzis  orTzuTzis (rums south of Debout), a

 •jUy in the north of the Dodecaschoenus, that is,

 the part of iEthiopia immediately dbove Egypt,

 a little south of Parembole, and considerably

 north of Taphis



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  Ubii, a German people, who originally dwelt

 on the right bank  ofthe Rhine, but were trans¬

 ported across the river by Agrippa in B.C. 37,

 at their own request, because they wished to es¬

 cape  the hostilities of the  Suevi   They  took

 the name  of Agrippenses,  from their town  Co¬

 lonia Agrippina.

  Ucalegon (OvicaXiyav), one of the elders at

 Troy, whose house was burned at the destruc¬

 tion of the city

  Ucubis, a town  in Hispania Baetica, near Cor¬

 duba.

  Ufens (now Uffente), a liver in Latium, flow¬

 ing from Setia, and falling  into the Amasenus.

  Upfugum, a town in Bruttium, between Scyl-

 lacium and Rhegium.

   Ugernum (now Beaucaire), a town  in Gallia

 Narbonensis, on the road from  Nemausus to

 Aquae Sextiae, where Avitus was proclaimed

 emperor.

  Ulia (now Montemayor), a Roman municip¬

 ium in Hispania Baetica, situated upon a hill,

 and upon the road from Gades to Corduba.

   Uliaeus or Olaeionensis Insula (now Ole-

 ron), an island off the western coast of Gaul, in

 me Aquitanian Gulf.

   Ulpianus.   1 Domitius Ulpianus, a celebra¬

 ted jurist, derived his origin from Tyre in Phoe¬

 nicia, but was probably not a native of Tyre

 himself.  The  time of his birth is  unknown.

 The greater part of his juristical works were

 written during the sole reign of Caracalla, es-

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i pecially the two great works Ad Ediclum anc

. the Libri ad Sabinum.  He was banished or de.

 prived  of his functions under Elagabalus,  wh(

 became emperor 217 ;  but on the accession of

 Alexander Severus, 222, he became the emper¬

 or's chief adviser.  The emperor conferred ofs

 Ulpian  the office of Scriniorum magister, an'<

 made him a consiliarius.  He also held the of

 tice of Praefectus Annonae, and he was likewise

 made Praefectus Praetorio.  Ulpian perished in

 the reign of Alexander by the hands ofthe sol¬

 diers, who forced their way into the palace at

 night, and killed him in the presence of l.e em

 peror and his mother, 228   His promotion tc

 the office of praefectus praetorio was probably

 an unpopular measure.  A great part of tbe nu¬

 merous writings of Ulpian were still extant in

 the time of Justinian, and a much greater quan¬

 tity is excerpted from him by the compilers of

 the Digest  than fiom any other jurist   Tho

 number of excerpts from Ulpian is said to be

 two thousand four hundred and sixty-two ; and

 many of the excerpts are of great length, and

 altogether they form  about  one third  of  the

 whole body of the Digest  The exceipts from

 Paulus and Ulpian together make about one,

 half of the Digest.  Ulpian's  style is perspicu¬

 ous, and presents fewer difficulties than that of

 many of the Roman jurists who are excerpted

 in the Digest.  The gieat legal knowledge, tho

 good sense,  and the industry of Ulpian place

 him among the first ofthe Roman .jurists ; and

 he has exercised a great influence on the juris¬

 prudence of modern Europe  through the copi¬

 ous extracts from his writings which have been

 preserved by the compilers of Justinian's  Di¬

 gest.   We possess a fragment of a work under

 the title of Domitii Ulpiani Fiagmcnta ;  it  con¬

 sists of twenty nine titles, and is a valuable

 source for the history ofthe Roman law.  The

 best  editions are by Hugo, Berlin, 1834,  and by

 Docking, Bonn, 1836.—2. Of Antioch, a soph¬

 ist, lived in the time of Constantine the Great,

 and wrote several rhetorical woiks.  The name

 of Ulpianus is prefixed to extant Commentaries

 in Greek on eighteen ofthe orations of Demos¬

 thenes, and it is usually stated that they we;t>,

 written by Ulpianus of Antioch.  But the Com

 mentaries have  evidently received numerous

 additions and interpolations from  some gram¬

 marian of a very late period.   They are printed

 in several editions of the Attic orators.

    Ulpius Trajanus.  Vid. Trajanus.

    Ultor, " the avenger," a surname of Mars,

 to whom Augustus built a temple at Rome in

 the Forum,  after taking  vengeance upon  the

 murderers of his great-uncle, Julius Caesar.

    ULihsRiE (Ulubranus,  Ulubrensis), a small

 town in  Latium, of uncertain site, but in the

 neighborhood of the Pontine Marshes.

    Ulysses, Ulyxes, or  Ulixes, called Odys-

 seus ('Obvooevg) by the Greeks, one of the prin¬

 cipal Greek heroes in the Trojan war.   Ac-

 cording to the Homeric account, he was a son

 of Laertes and Anticlea, the daughter  of Au-

 tolycus,  and was  married  to  Penelope,  tho

 daughter of Icarius, by  whom he became the

 father of Telemachus.  But, according to a lat

 er tradition, he was a son of Sisyphus and An¬

 ticlea, who, being with child by Sisyphus, was

 married to Laertes, and thus gave birth to him