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Hyginus
 
  Hyginus can refer to:
  • Gaius Julius Hyginus
    Gaius Julius Hyginus

    Gaius Julius Hyginus was a Latin author, though whether a native of Spain or of Alexandria it is not clear, a pupil of the famous Alexander Cornelius, and a freedman of Caesar Augustus, by whom he was made superintendent of the Palatine library, according to Suetonius' minor works, De Grammaticis, 20....
     (c. 64 BC - 17 AD), Roman poet, author of Fabulae, reputed author of Poeticon astronomicon
    Poeticon astronomicon

    Poeticon astronomicon is a star atlas whose text is attributed to "Hyginus", though the true authorship is disputed. During the Renaissance, the work was attributed to the Rome historian Gaius Julius Hyginus who lived during the first century B.C....
  • Hyginus Gromaticus
    Hyginus Gromaticus

    Hyginus Gromaticus, was a Latin writer on land-surveying, who flourished in the reign of Trajan . Fragments of a work on legal boundaries attributed to him will be found in C....
    , Roman surveyor
  • Pseudo-Hyginus, author of De Munitionibus Castrorum formerly attributed to Hyginus Gromaticus
  • Hyginus of Cordova, bishop of present-day Cordoba, 4th-century opponent of Priscillian
    Priscillian

    Priscillian, bishop of ?vila , a theology from Ancient Rome Gallaecia , was the first person in the history of Christianity to be executed for heresy ....
  • The Hyginus cleft, a surface feature of Earth's moon
    Moon

    The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the List of natural satellites by diameter satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth....
  • Hyginus
    Hyginus (crater)

    Hyginus is a small moon caldera located at the east end of the Sinus Medii. Its rim is split by a long, linear rille that branches to the northwest and to the east-southeast for a total length of 220 kilometers....
    , a crater on the Moon
    Moon

    The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the List of natural satellites by diameter satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is km, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth....
  • Pope Hyginus
    Pope Hyginus

    Pope Saint Hyginus was pope from about 138 to about 140. He was born in Athens, Greece at an unknown date. During his papacy, he determined the different prerogatives of the clergy, and defined the grades of the ecclesiastical hierarchy....
    , saint