an eminent Greek historian, who spent the greatest part of his life at Rome, flourished in the third century, in the reigns of Severus, Caracalla, Heliogabalus, Alexander, and Maximin. His history begins from the death of Marcus Aurelius the Philosopher; and ends with the death of Balbinus and Maximin, and the beginning of the reign of Gordian. It is written in very elegant Greek; and there is an excellent translation of it into Latin, by Angelus Politianus. Herodian has been published by Henry Stephens in 4to, in 1581; by Boecler, at Strasburg, in 1662, 8vo; and by Hudson, at Oxford, in 1699, 8vo.