HIPPOLYTUS, CANONS OF

a work preserved only in an Arabic trans. of a Coptic trans. of the original Gk., written in the name of H., and dealing with Church order, ordination, sacraments, prayer, almsgiving, etc.; date and authorship are uncertain, but it probably appeared in Egypt in the IV. cent. Its exact connection with the Egyptian Church Order, Apostolic Constitutions, and Testament of the Lord, with which it undoubtedly has some relation, is a complicated literary problem. Probably the canons and the Egyptian Order are derived from the same source. satirical poet; inventor of parody and the choliamb us metre. horse), the sole member of a family of artiodactyle ungulate mammals. Today it is found only in Africa, but fo ils of a larger breed of hippopotami have been found in England, the rest of Europe, and in India, etc. The common species, H. amphibius, inhabits rivers in all parts of Africa, but the smaller, AH. liber i ens is, is restricted to the W. of that continent. In size of H. is only a little inferior to the elephant; its legs are very stunted, so that its belly touches the ground when it walks on mud or other yielding surfaces; there is often as much as 2 in. of skin on the back and flanks, but no hair covers its dark brown hide; its small eyes are set high in the huge, ungainly head with its great snout and enormous rounded muzzle; the tail is quite short, and on each foot there are four even and hoofed toes. The animal is aquatic, nocturnal, and voracious. It is a good swimmer and diver, and as its respiration is slow, it can stay a long while under water. By day it is sleepy and languid, but by night it often comes out of the water to graze on the banks, or if it lives in a cultivated region, it will make substantial inroads into crops and cause terrible destruction. It is this bad habit which accounts for its disappearance from the fertile plains of the lower Nile. It is gregarious by na~ ture and usually playful and good tempered, but persistent pursuit often provokes a dangerous pa ion. When angered it emits a loud and piercing noise, which has been likened to the grating sound of a creaking door. Hunters chase it in a variety of ways, sometimes it is ensnared in pits, sometimes it is shot, harpooned, or pierced with spears from a canoe. The teeth are valuable as ivory, the tongue, the fat, and the jelly from the feet are favorite articles of diet, whilst the hides find many markets. city, formerly capital of a kingdom on the Persian Gulf. mountainous island, lying off W. coast of Japan.