DEXIPPUS, Pi•nt.it•s I IERENNI t'S ( ?-e.2S0 A.n.). A Greek rhetorician, historian. and sol dier. Ile was horn at Athens, and after holding the Ilioli•st otlh•es in his native city. commanded the army against the Goths when they invaded Greece and captured Athens in A.D. 262. l'hotius describes three of his historical works: Ti a history of :Macedonia from the time ui .klexander the I:reat : y7op.ov larnartible for tpo ro51);(770pia),a chronological history from the earli est times down to the accession of the Emperor Claudius IL. A.m. •6`4: and Itivlioai, an account of the war against the S•ythians or Goths. ill which Dexippli: himself had fought. Though Plinth's looks upon 1)exippus as a second Thucy dides, the extant fragments of his works, which are numerous, show that he had most of the faults of the later Greek rhetoricians. For these fragnn•nts. consult : Bekker and Niebuhr, Scrip Dere s Histo•ier By:ant iner IS29) ; and II istorieorum I l';e0+ 5:31. .1 public statue was erected in his the base of which with its in scription has been preserved.
DEX'TER. 111:xnv ( 1821-90). An American clergyman and historian. Ile was horn in Plymplon. Mass.; graduated at Yale in l lie Andover Theological Seminary in i I-I: and was pastor of a Congregational church at )1.incliest•r. N. IL. from 1844 to Is t9. and of the Berkeley Street Congregational Church in Boston from ISI9 until 15117. Ile edited the co mr, gotionaiisi from 1R51 to IS66, the congr,aational Quarterly from 1q59 to IS611, and in het editor-in-ehief of the k• corder. in which the Conan t lomais t had I wen
merged. Ile held a pastorate at Don•hester, Mass., from 1s69 to 1S71, and from 1s77 to 1Sso delivered annual courses of lectures on Congre gationali•m at the Andover Theological :semi nary. 11c devoted 'mall of his time to the study of the history of the Congregational Church and of ecclesiastical history of New England, and seN•ral valuable works on these subjects. Among his publications are: The Voice of the Bible and the I erdict of Beason ( IS5S); Conyre go/Moo/kw: What it is, Whence it is, How it ll'orks, Why it is Better than Any Other I'o•m of hu•eh Goy( non at, and its Cons, quo nt Demands IS651, which passed into many editions; The Church Polity of the Pilgrims the Polity of the A( le Testotmat (1870) ; Bog, r II illiams and Ilis Banishnecnt from the ilassackusetts Colony (1!...761; The Congregationalism of the Last Three Hundred Years, with a Bibliographical Appen dix (of 7250 titles) ( RN] )—his most valuable work ; handbook of 'ongregot icoodism (ISSN) ; The True e!.:nosy of dohn Nmyth, the. Sc Baptist ; Common Sense as to Woman (ISS5): and Early English Exiles in Amsterdam (IS90). Ile also edited Cluireh's Eastern rxpodifions and Entertaining Passages Relating to King Philip's War, and Molars Re lation; and left in MSS, .1 Bib/Mgr-a/di!, of the Church Struggle in England During the Six teenth Century and the Pre-Ilistory of Plymouth Colony, with the English and Dutch Life of the Plymouth Men.