DIDACHE, THE

name given to an early Christian moral treatise, also called The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, the MS. of which was discovered at Constantinople, 1873. author and encyclopz edist; refused to adopt either the law or med. as profe ion. After producing much work of a varied but ephemeral character, he was app. to the editors hi p of a projected Encyclopedia, the first vol. of which was pub. in 1751, and the last in 1772. During some portion of this long period he was a isted by D’Alembe rt, but a great part of it was written by himself. | D - also wrote plays, novels, philosophical works, and art criticisms; he was one of the greatest thinkers, writers, ae conversat i on a lists of the XVIII. cent. CUS, Rom. emperor for brief period during year 193 A.D.; supplanted by Septimius Severus.