a father of the church, bishop of Olympus or Patara in Lycia, and afterward of Tyre in Palestine, suffered martyrdom at Chalcis in Greece toward the end of Diocletian's persecution in the year 302. He composed many works in a clear and elaborate style, which were extant in Jerome's time. Father Combeuf collected several considerable fragments of this writer, cited by Epiphanius, Photius, and others; and printed them with notes of his own, together with the works of Amphilochius, and Andreas Cretenis, in folio, Paris 1644.

METTIUS (James), of Alkmaer, in Holland, the inventor of telescopes with glaisses, one of which he presented to the States General in 1609. Tubes extended, by uniting them, to a great length, were known to the ancients; but Metius was the first who added glaisses, and he was indebted to chance for the discovery: he had frequently observed some schoolboys playing upon the ice, who made use of their co- py books rolled up in the shape of tubes, to look at each other, to which they sometimes added pieces of ice at each end, to view distant objects; this led him to the invention of optic glases.