Hĭĕrōnymus, i, m., = Ἱερώνυμος.
- I. a ruler of Syracuse, the grandson and successor of the younger Hiero, Liv. 24, 4 sq.
- II. A Greek peripatetic philosopher of Rhodes, Cic. Fin. 2, 3, 8; 5, 5, 14; id. Tusc. 2, 6, 15; 5, 30, 84; 5, 31, 87 sq.; 5, 41, 118.
- III. Jerome, a celebrated father of the Church in the fifth century of the Christian era, Sulp. Sev. Dial. 1, 8.