Asterius, Turcius Rufus was a patrician who, in 494, enjoyed the consular dignity together with Flavius Prsesidius. He is plainly different from Flavius Asturius, who was consul in 449, although sometimes confounded with him. When out of office he edited some poems of Sedulius, and among them a Collection of the Old and New Testaments, in elegiac verse, which has sometimes appeared under the name of Asterius himself, as in the Bibl. Patr. 9:464, and which some writers maintain to be the actual work of Asterius. See Cave, Hist. Lit. i, 464.
The Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature was edited by John McClintock and James Strong. It contains nearly 50,000 articles pertaining to Biblical and other religious literature, people, creeds, etc. It is a fantastic research tool for broad Christian study.
John McClintock was born October 27, 1814 in Philadelphia to Irish immigrants, John and Martha McClintock. He began as a clerk in his father's store, and then became a bookkeeper in the Methodist Book Concern in New York. Here he converted to Methodism and considered joining the ministry. McClintock entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1832 and graduated with high honors three years later. Subsequently, he was awarded a doctorate of divinity degree from the same institution in 1848.WikipediaRead More