Albinus Flaccus

He educated at York, and settled on the Continent in 782, on the invitation and under the protection of Charlemagne. He was master of the school of the palace and served as general superintendent of Charlemagne's schemes of ecclesiastical and educational reform. At the council of Frankfort in 794 he led the opposition to adoptionism, which the council condemned; and at the synod of Aachen (Aix-laChapelle) in 799 he persuaded Felix, the leader of the adoptionists, to recant (his second recantation). Alcuin wrote on a great variety of subjects, including theology, history, grammar, rhetoric, orthography, dialectics, etc. About 802 he revised the Vulgate. He was also a poet. Alcyone (al-sĩ'ō-nē). [Gr. Ἀλκυόνη.] 1. In cla ical mythology: ( a ) The daughter of Æolus and wife of Ceÿx. After the lo of her husband she cast herself into the sea and was changed into a kingfisher. (b) A Pleiad, daughter of Atlas and Pleione. 2. A greenish star of magnitude 3.0, the brightest of the Pleiades. Alcyonius (al-si-õ'ni-us), or Alcionius, Petrus. Born at Venice, 1487: died at Rome, 1527. An Italian scholar, corrector of the pre of Aldus Manutius, and profe or of Greek at Florence: author of "Medicis legatus, sive de Exilio" (1522), etc. Aldabella (äl-dä-bel'lä). 1. The wife of Orlando in Ariosto's poems, the sister of Oliviero and Brandimarte and daughter of Monodantes: in the old French and Spanish poems called Alda and Auda .-2. A character in Milman's play "Fazio": a handsome shamele woman who beguiles Fazio when he becomes rich, and after his execution is condemned to imprisonment in a nunnery for life through the interposition of Bianca, the wife of Fazio. gräf), He in rich. Born at Paderborn, Pru ia, 1502: died at Soest, Pru ia, 1562. A German engraver and painter. and in the attacks on Fort Fisher. at Doulting, near Wells, England, May, 709. An English scholar and prelate, made bishop of Sherborne in 705. His best-known works are "De virginum. laude virgin it at is," in prose, and a poem "De laudibus Aldiborontephoscophornio (al"di-bo-rontefos kō-fôr'ni-ō). A character in Henry Carey's burlesque "Chronon hot on tho logos." It was given as a nickname to James Ballan tyne the printer, on account of the solemn pomposity of his manner, by Sir Walter Scott. See Rigdumfunnidos . Aldiger (al'di-ger). In Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso," a Christian knight and the brother of the enchanter Malagigi. Aldine (al'din) Pre . The pre established at Venice by Aldus Manutius. See Manutius. Aldingar (al'ding-gär), Sir. A ballad concerning a false steward who sought to take away the honor of his queen. In the ballad with this title from the Percy MS. the queen's name is Elinore, the wife of Henry II., but the story occurs repeatedly in connection with historical personages of nearly all the European nations. Our conclusion would therefore be, with Grundtvig, that the ballads of Sir Aldingar, Ravengaard, and Me mering, and the rest, are of common derivation with the legends of St. Cunigund, Gundeberg, ., and that all these are offshoots of a story which, "beginning far back in the infancy of the Gothic race and their poetry, is continually Alden (al'den), James. Born at Portland, Maine, March 31, 1810: died at San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 6, 1877. An American naval officer, appointed captain Jan. 2, 1863, commodore July 25, 1866, and rear-admiral June 19, 1871, and retired March 31, 1872. He served in the Mexican war, and commanded the Richmond in the New Orleans campaign of 1862, and the Brooklyn in Mobile Bay, 1864, Alden, John. Born in England, 1599: died at Duxbury, Ma ., Sept., 1686. One of the "Pilgrim Fathers," a cooper of Southampton, who was engaged in repairing the Mayflower and became one of the party which sailed in her. He is said to have been the first to step on Plymouth Rock, Dauntle ." though this honor is also a igned to Mary Chilton. He settled at Duxbury and in 1621 married Priscilla Mullens. Aldini (al-de'nē), Count Antonio. Born at The incidents of their courtship form the theme of Long fellow's "Courtship of Miles Standish." He was a mag is trate in the colony for more than 50 years, and outlived all the other signers of the Mayflower compact. turning up, now here and now there without having a proper home in any definite time or a ignable place.