a benevolent promoter of learning in the early church, is said to have been born at Berytus in the latter half of the third century. After studying under Perius at Alexandria, he settled as a presbyter at Cesarea in Palestine, and began to devote his life to the advancement of Scriptural knowledge. He formed a valuable ecclesiastical library, founded a theological school, and multiplied the copies of the Holy Scriptures. At the same time, all these appliances were used by him with the most liberal-minded philanthropy. All who were animated by a love for sacred learning were kindly welcomed into his library or his school; and all the poor who were eager to read the Divine word for themselves, were presented with a copy of the Bible from his hands. This self-sacrificing life was nobly brought to a close in 309 by a brave endurance of the pains of martyrdom. Pamphilus was the author of an Apology for Origen, in five books, a work which was continued by his pupil and admirer Eusebius in a sixth book. The first book alone is extant in a Latin version by Rufinus, and has been inserted in Delarue's edition of Origen.

one of the most distinguished of Greek painters, was born at Amphipolis in the fourth century B.C., and studied at Sicyon under Europomps. The high opinion which he entertained of the requirements of an artist became the most prominent feature of his career. While studying as a pupil, he thought it necessary to make himself a proficient in all the general learning of the day. After he had succeeded his master as head of the Sicyonian school, he established a comprehensive system of artistic training. All sciences that related either directly or indirectly to painting were included in the subjects of study; the duration of the course was extended over ten years; and the art of delineation was laid down as the fundamental element in the education of all those who were free-born. The result of this thorough-going method soon became palpable. The master and some of his pupils outstripped all other artists in the composition of their pictures; such painters as Apelles were attracted by the growing reputation of the school; and the above-mentioned principle touching delineation came to be adopted throughout the rest of Greece. The close attention which Pamphilus devoted to tuition must have left him little time for the private practice of his art. Accordingly, the only pictures of his whose names are recorded are the "Heracleidae," "The Battle of Philins," "Ulysses on the Raft," and the "Cognition" or "Relationship." The last is supposed to be a family group.