Polyhistor

Immediately after he went to Rome, and studied there the Latine tongue, with such labour and continuall study, that he achieved to great eloquence, and was known and approved to be excellently learned, whereby he might worthily be called Polyhistor, that is to say, one that knoweth much or many things.

The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

Immediately after he went to Rome, and studied there the Latine tongue, with such labour and continuall study, that he achieved to great eloquence, and was known and approved to be excellently learned, whereby he might worthily be called Polyhistor, that is to say, one that knoweth much or many things.

The Golden Asse 1566

Solinus has of course no allusion to St. Patrick's Purgatory; but in his celebrated work, 'Polyhistor', compiled, it is thought, chiefly from Pliny's Natural History, he has a remarkable chapter on Ireland.

The Purgatory of St. Patrick Pedro Calder��n de la Barca 1640

Julian the Apostate, etc. His keen and versatile literary activity won him the name of "Polyhistor" (Sozomen, op. cit.,

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

Morhof, who always attributed it to Isaac Vossius (see Polyhistor, vol.i. p. 74., edit. 1747), was thoroughly versed in the literary history, including the English, of the period, and was not likely to have been mistaken.

Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 Various

Polyhistor, and which is in reality an apocryphal composition of the first century of our era.

The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont

Polyhistor who borrowed from Berossus direct, in part from Abydenus who apparently borrowed from Juba who borrowed from Alexander

Assyrian Historiography

He closely and carefully imitated Cornelius Alexander [890], a Greek grammarian, who, for his antiquarian knowledge, was called by many Polyhistor, and by some

De vita Caesarum Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

Although his Polyhistor account is in general to be preferred, Eusebius seems to have used a poor manuscript of that author.

Assyrian Historiography

To make a worse confusion, Eusebius has in some cases not recognized the fact that Abydenus is only a feeble echo of Polyhistor, and has quoted the accounts of each side by side!

Assyrian Historiography