Treatise of Religion and Learning, Book 5

Treatise of Religion and Learning · Book 5

p. 269THE FIFTH BOOK. Of such as were Famous for ZEAL IN THE True RELIGION, Or in any Kinde of Learning.

CHAP. I.

CN. Naevius, A famous ancient Poet.Laus est Naevii, quòd primus carmine signarit bellum Romanum & luculentè quidem. Voss. De Histor. Lat. l. 1. c. 2. Comicus illustris est habitus, Campanus fuit, ut à Gellio traditur in Atticis noctibus. Scripsit praeter Punicum bellum Comaedias ac Tragaedias stilo inprimis erudito & gravi, ut veteres testantur. Boxhorn. Monum. illust. virorum & Elog.

Naevius in manibus non est: & mentibus haeret

Poene recens: adeo sanctum est vetus omne Poema.

Horat. l. 2. Ep. 1.

Petrus Nannius a general Scholar, thought worthy to succeed Conradus Goclenius in Collegio trilingui at Lovain.

He died there Anno 1557. he hath written much.

His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life.

p. 270Franciscus Nansius. Vossius in his Book De Constructione c. 62. cals him Doctissimum praeceptorem suum, and quotes his Notes on Nonnus.

John Napier a Scot. L. of Marcheston younger.

He was the inventer of the Logarithmes.

He hath written well upon the Revelation.

Scripsit mythologiae, sive explicationum fabularum libros 10. In quibus omnia propè naturalis Philosophiae dogmata sub antiquorum fabulis contenta fuisse demonstratur Venet. 1568. Gosner. Biblioth.Natalis Comes, Venetus, a most learned Writer.

He composed thirty Books of History in a learned and grave style, and wrote ten Books of Mythology, a learned and laborious Work, in which he demonstrates, that almost all the opinions of Natural Philosophy was contained under the fables of the Ancients.

R. Mardochai **Scripsit librum hoc titulo Illuminans semitam, id est, Concordantias Hebraicas, in quibus juxta scriem alphabeti singulorum vocabulorum radices, & significationes posuit, & his exempla omnia, quae in Bibliis reperiuntur, subjecit. Alsted Encyclop. l. 32. c. 10.Nathan.

Inscriptis Talmudicis versatissimus L' Empereur Talmud. Babyl. Cod. mid. cap. 4. Sect. 1.

There is

His Hebrew Concordance of the Bible.

Gabriel Naudaeus Parisius, nominis inter literatos magni. Gassend. De vita Peireskii. lib. 4.Gabriel Naudaeus, a learned Frenchman.

He wrote Advis pour dresser une Bibliotheque: De Studio Liberali Syntagma.

Joannes Nauclerus, nobilis Suevus, fuit filius Joannis Vergae, vulgo Verganhaus, quod nantam notat; unde Nauclerus Graeca appellatione **Quomodo Joannes Reuchlinus ab Hermolao Barbaro Graeco nomine dictus Capnio, & Philippus, cujus familia à nigro solo vocatur, Graecum Melanchthonis nomen à Reuchline accepit, & retinuit. Voss. ibid.vocatus. Voss. De Hist. Lat. l. 3. p. 581.

Joannes Reuclinus was his Scholar.

Andreas Navagerius.Navagerius tantam in Latina lingua puritatem acquisivit, ut inter primos sui saeculi Oratores jure numerari possit, maximo in honore in Senatu Veneto semper habitus. Boissardi Bibliotheca.

A most compleat Poet, Orator and Historian.

He hath written a History De rebus Venetis.

Two most elaborate Orations, and divers Poems.

Annotations upon all Ovids works.

Gregorii Nazianzeni pietas propemodum ex aequo certat cum facundia. Sed amat significantes argutia…, quas eò difficilius est Latine reddere, quòd pleraeque sint in verbis fitae. Tota verò phrasis nonnihil accedit ad structuram Isocraticam. Adde quòd de rebus divinis, quae vix ullis verbis humanis explicari possunt. libenter ac frequenter philosophatur. Eras. Epist. l. 26. Epist. 33. Vide l. 28. Ep. 7. Sanctus Gregorius, Episcopus Nazianzenus, cognomento Theologus, S. Basilii aequalis, & studiorum comes, floruit sub Valente, & anno 11. Theodosii obiit, teste Sancto Hieronymo de Scriptoribus Ecclesiasticis Multa scripsit, in quibus sapientiam cum eloquentia mirificè copulavit. Bellarm. De Script. Eccles. Ab omnibus Graecis ob singularem autoritatis suae excellentiam primus post Divi Joannis Evangelistam Theologi ac magni cognomentis illustratus, vir fuit tam Philosophiae quam Theologiae opibus affluens, & omnium sui temporis soluta ac pedestri oratione eloquentissimus. Hic Basilio magno arctissima fuit necessitudine conjunctus, & divum Hieronymum in divinarum Scripturarum studiis auditorem ac discipulum habuit. Obtinuit etiam in Ecclesia Graeca tantum autoritatis pondus, ut quicunque testimonio ejus refragari auderet, statim vel haereticus haberetur, vel haereseos suspicione notaretur. Sixt. Senens. Biblioth. l. 4.Gregory Nazianzene, Anno Dom. 370.361. Helv. Chron.

He was famous for his piety and learning, zeal and patience.

He was Jeroms Master.

It is generally received that he was Bishop of Nazianzum, by Jerome himself in Catal. Bellarm. De Script. Eccles. Camerarius. Yet by Gregorius who wrote Nazianzens Life, and indeed by Nazianzen himself in his Epistles, it appears that he was there an assistant to his Father being old and weak, and thereupon it is commonly thought that he himself enjoyed the place.

p. 271That Gregory which bears the name of the place where his Father was Bishop, though he never enjoyed the Bishoprick it self. M^r Gatak 2^d Answ. to Lilie.

Constantinopolitanam sedem ab Arianis Episcopis purgavit. Geneb. Chronol. lib. 3.

Aelius Antonius Nebrissensis.Angelus Politianus & Hispanus noster, qui pro varia, ac latè patenti eruditione, quum esset diligenter in omni scriptorum genere versatas, potuisset quodcunque nomen usurpare, non solum cum magna professorum ejusce artis venia, sed cum magna etiam laetitia, quod non parum gloriae professioni suae accesturum ex hujusmodi nominis splendore & celebritate existimassent, nihil tamen dici & haberi maluit quam Grammaticus. Lud. Viv. De Caus. corrupt. Art. l. 2. Hic ille est, qui bonas literas primus in Hispania excitarit. Idem ex Grammatico, & Rhetore regio, factus est Historiographus regius. Variae omnino eruditionis vir erat; eoque illum nomine etiam Erasmus laudat in Ciceroniano suo. Moriens opera sua castiganda testamento reliquit Ario Barbose, Lusitano, Politiani discipulo, qui primus literas Graecas in Hispaniam intulit, ac bonas literas viginti annis Salamanticae publicè docuit. Voss. De Histor. Lat. l. 3 p 590.

There is a Dictionary of his.

Nicander.

A Physician and most excellent Poet.

There are his

Theriaca.

Alexipharmaca.

Poemata Gr. & Lat.

Nicephorus Callistres.Anno Aerae Christianae 1298. Helv. Chron. Floruit circa annum Domini 1400. Illyr. Catal.

He hath written an Ecclesiastical History in two Tomes, consisting of eighteen Books.

Nicephorus Gregoras, Anno Dom. 1340.1385. Historiam suam Ecclesiasticam à Christi nativitate ad annum 625. decurrentem confocit. Geneb. Chronol. lib. 4.

There are these Works of his,

Hist. Gr. & Lat.

Hist. Byzantinae.

Nicetes Choniates, Anno Dom. 1210.

There are these Works of his,Purum rectumque ingenium, si aliud illo aevo. Stilus ejus operosus, Poetas & Pomerum saepe resipiens; at res & narratio ipsa distincta, composita, sine vanitate, sine ineptiis, brevis quod satis sit, & fida. Crebra apud eum & opportuna monita: judicia non libera solum sed sana. Laps. Notae ad 1. lib. Polit.

De ordine qui observatur cum quis à Saracenismo ad Christianam fidem venit.

Thesauri orthodoxae fidei.

Contra Judaeos cum notis.

Nicolaus quintus, Papa.Nicolaus aevi sui decus. In Vaticana Bibliotheca missis undique viris doctissimis qui optimos quosque libros perquirerent, tria millia librorum condidit. Nicolao Peroto, Guareto Veronensi, Theodoro Gazae, Pogio & Vallae ut plurimos Graecorum libros latinirate donarent author suit. Quinque ducatorum millia Matthaei Evangelium hebraica lingua conscriptum proferenti pollicitus est. Reique literariae intermortuae & extremas horas ducenti in tempore suppetias tulit. Nomenclat. Sanctae Romanae Eccles. Cardinalium. Laudatur quidem ejus liberalitas, qua in omnes usus est, maxime erga litteratos, quos & pecunia, & officiis curialibus, & beneficiis mirifice juvit. Eos enim praemiis nunc ad lectiones publicas, nunc ad componendum de integro aliquid, nunc ad vertendos Graecos auctores in Latinom ita pepulit, ut litterae Graecae & Latinae, quae sexcentis jam antea annis in situ at tenebris jacuerant, tum demum splendorem aliquem adeptae sint. Misit & litteratos per omnem Europam, quorum industria libri conquirerentur, qui majorum negligentia & barbarorum rapinis jam perierant. Platina De vitis Pontificum Romanorum.

He was a great favourer and Patrone of Learning and learned men, therefore many great Scholars flocked to him, as Georgius Trapezuntius, Georgius Valla, Demetrius Graecus, Nicolaus Perottus, and others, by whose help many Authours were brought out of darknesse and illustrated, and turned out of Greek into Latine.

p. 272He incouraged learned men also by rewards to the study of Learning, they easily obtaining the chiefest places of honour: Of whom that might well be verified, Sint Maecenates, non decrunt Flacce Marones.

When it was told him that there was some at Rome, which would make good Verses, he denied that they were good. Cum enim (inquit) ad me non veniunt, qui Poetis etiam malis pateo. Molestè tulit homo sapiens in urbe sua esse qui literas scirent & nescirentur. Polit. Epist. l. 12. Epist. 119.

His holinesse is reported to be such, that he never sold to any one the Magistrates place for money.

Singulos Homeri libros ducentis aureis, latinis versibus reddendos curavit. Waynfleti foreign.

Jo. Nider.

He hath written Consolatorium Conscientia timoratae, A Consolation of an affrightted Conscience.

Doctor Hall and Doctor Twisse mention this Book sometimes, at least the later.

He acknowledgeth there, that every childe of God hath the direction of the Spirit to lead him into all truth necessary to salvation.

He hath also written,

De Reformat. Religiosorum.

Decalogi Explicatio.

And other Works.

Qui tribus Papis amanuensis & à Secretis fuit. Molin. Hyperaspistes. l. 1. c. 33. Aliquot Paparun… intim… scriba, vixit ante annos 150. vir bonus & mediocriter doctus. Descripsit bona fide historiam schism…is inter Papas, quod ante Constantiense Concilium per annos 39. duravit. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. l. 19. Scripsit De Schismate quod in Ecclesia Romana inter Vrbanum Papam, & Clementem antipapam, corumque successores per 39. annos, ab anno Christi 379. usque ad Concilium Constantiense duravit, in tres libros diviso, quibus non solum Pontisi…, verum etiam Regum, Principum, ac totius Imperii res gestae ejus temporis magna ex parte continentur. Toto a…em eo tempore hujus operis author semper alterius partis Pontificibus familiaris atque à literis fuit. Gesn. Biblioth.Theod. à Niem.

He was Secretary to three Popes, He lived at Rome under Vrban the sixth, Boniface the ninth, Innocent the seventh, Gregory the twelfth.

Vixit in aula quinque Paparum, intimus eorum Scriba & tandem Episcopus Verdensis factus. Gerh. Confess. Cathol. l. 2. Spec. Artic. 3. c. 4.

He hath written,

De Schismate in Ecclesia.

De potestate Imperiali & Papali.

P. Placidus Nigidius.P. Nigidius homo in omnium bonarum artium disciplinis egregius. Constantini Supplimentum Linguae Latinae.

He hath put out,

Mariale, seu de devotione erga Virginem Dominam 4. opuscula.

In Cantica Canticorum Expositio duplex.

Jo. Nirembergius, an eloquent Author.

De arte voluntantis 8^o.

De origine Sarae Scripturae. Fol.

Stromata Sacra. Fol.

Spiritualium Institutionum Pandectae. Fol.

Marius **Ciceronis illa simia Meibomii Macenas.Nizolius.

He hath put out Thesaurus Ciceronianus.

Flaminius Nobilius.

Nobilis nobilius.He hath put out several Works,

De hominis foelicitate.

De vera & falsa voluptate.

De honore.

Quaestiones Logicae variae.

p. 273Andreas Nolthius, A great Mathematician.D. Andreas Nolthius se mathematum apprimè gnarum esse in Scripturis suis, partim Latinè partim vernacula lingua editis, satis evidenter declaravit. Tych. Brah. l. 2. De Cometa Anni 1517. c. 10.

Nonnus Pampolit. There are his

Dionysiaca Lat. & Gr.Nonnus Panapolitanus, qui & Johannis Evangelistae Evangelium erudita Paraphrasi Graeca carmine heroico exposuit, & Dionisiacon libros 48. qui orbem fabularum Poeticarum continent, Poema varium & eruditum, eodem carminis genere conscripsit, annis superioribus prolatos & editos è Bibliotheca clarissimi viri Johannis Sambuci, cui tùm illos libros, à se de ruderibus Bibliothecarum Graecarum erutos, tùm aliquot alios Graecos utiles & eruditos scriptores debemus. Neand. Geog. parte tertia.

Metaphrasis Evang. Johannis Graecè.

Alexander Nowel Dean of Pauls.

A learned and pious Divine, and Uncle to the famous Whitaker.

There is his reproof of a Book entitled, A Proof of certain Articles in Religion, denied by Mr Jewel, set forth by Thomas Dorman Bachelour of Divinity.

Reproof of Mr Dormans proof continued, with a Defence of the chief Authority of Princes, as well in Causes Ecclesiastical as Civil, within their Dominions, by Dorman maliciously impugned.

Confutation as well of Mr Dormans last Book, entitled, A Disproof, &c. as also of D^r Sanders Causes of Transubstantiation.

His larger and lesser Catechism written by him in Latine.

Gregory Nyssene, he flourished Anno Dom. 380. in the raign of Gratian, Gregorius Episcopus Nyssenus, quem Graeci honoris causa Patrem patrum appellant, divi Basilii magni frater, Academicis ac Peripateticis disciplinis excultus, vir eloquentiae nervosae ac pressae. Sixt. Senens. Bibliotheca Sancta.Valentinian and Theodosius.

Basil was his brother, he was contemporary to Epiphanius and I…om.

CHAP. II.

BErnhardinus Ochinus.

Of Sene, being had in great estimation among the Italians for his eloquence and vertue, forsaking the monastical kinde of life, gave himself to the Doctrine of the Gospel. And coming first to Geneva, and after to Auspurge, set forth certain Sermons in print. Sleid. Comment. l. 19. p. 298.Infelicis memoriae vir. Bez. Epist. 4.

He was a Socinian. Vide Boxhorn. Hist. univers. p. 74, 75.

An Heretick, See Beza's Epist. 1.

Ch. Oclandus, a famous English Poet.

He hath written Anglorum praelia.

Guliel. de Ockam. A learned Englishman.Gulielmus Ockam natione Anglus, Johannis Scoti quondam discipulus, vir in Scripturis divinis eruditus, & in Philosophia Aristotelica notabiliter doctus, ingenio subtilis & clarus eloquio. Hic contra Johannem vicesimum secundum haeresim fratricellorum damnantem, una cum Petro Piceno quem Ludovicus Imperator in Idolum erexerat, & Nicolaum quintum appellari fecerat agens & scribens, cumque haereticum esse pronuntians, ab eo excommunicatus est. Qui ad Ludovicum Imperatorem aequè excommunicatum fugiens dixit ei: O Imperator defende me gladio, & ego defendam te verbo. Mansit ita que excommunicatus cum excommunicato usque ad finem vitae, & in morte tandem absolutus fuit. Trithem. De Scrip. Eccl. Gulielmus Occhamus Lutetiam bonis avibus profectus est: Ubi Joanne Duns homine Schotto Philosopho illius aetatis juxta ac Theologo doctissimo praeceptore usus est, à quo tam multa didicit, tam multa praeterea suapte industria, dum omnis generis autores legeret, perquisivit, ut tandem Schottum ipsum si non superaverit doctrina tamen aequavetic. Johan. Leland. Collectan. de viris Illust.

p. 274The Scholar of John Scotus, a famous Divine.

Once a worthy Fellow of Merton Colledge in Oxford. He was sirnamed Doctor invincibilis in argumento qui excessit modum ingenii humani. Scalig.

He flourished in the time of the Emperour Lewis the fourth, about the year of our Lord 1320.

Odo Abbot of Clun is commended for his knowledge in divine and humane learning.Odo Clunia censis.

Jo. Oecolampadius.

Anno Epochae Christianae 1482.He made good the splendor of his own name, when dying of the plague, he could lay his hand upon his brest, and say, Hic abunde lucis est.

Primus Reformator & verus Pastor Ecclesiae Basiliensis. Zuinglius & ille eruditione, studiis, a utoritate, loco, aetate pares erant: inter quos tanta animorum Conjunctio, ut amicitia sanctior certiorque, quam vera conciliarit pietas, vix inter ullos unquam fuerit. Verheiden. Sub finem Novembris Oecolampadius è vita decessit: ex interitu Zuinglii maximum animo perceperat dolorem, eaque res morbum etiam auxisse putatur: erant enim conjunctissimi. Natus fuit annos quadraginta novem. Extant ejus in Prophetas aliquot, lucubrationes, quae valde probantur doctis. Sleid. De statu Relig. & Reipub. l. 8. Ob trilinguem eruditionem & ob sanae doctrinae scientiam & usum, denique ob antiquitatis Ecclesiasticae exactam cognitionem Oecolampadius sua aetate mihi palmam obtinuisse videtur: & exstant foreign judicia D. Capitonis & D. Buceri. Grynaei Epist. l. 1. Ep. 3. Oecolampadium extinctum, utinam possem dolere jure. Sic enim literae & doctrina hominis postulabant, nisi extitisset ille in alio genere perniciosus. Sadolet. Epist. l. 4. Erasmo. Vide ejus Epist. ibid. Bonifacio Amerbachio.There was a great league of friendship between him and Zuinglius, so that the tidings of Zuinglius his death (as Sleidan and Thuanus report) was a means to hasten his.

Graecus autor, valde doctus, in explicandis divinis Scripturis brevis, apertus, & elegans, atque in veterum Commentariis evoluendis assiduè versatus. Sixc. Senens. Biblioth. Sanct. l. 4.Oecumenius.

He hath collected short and perspicuous Expositions out of divers Commentaries of the Fathers, upon the Acts of the Apostles, the seven Canonical Epistles, all Pauls Epistles.

Ogilvy a Scotch Poet.

His Translation of Virgil, and of the Fables of Aesop in very excellent English verses, is commended.

Caspar Olevian.

Legeram antea quae in Epistolam ad Galatas scripseras, & nunc quaedam quae ad Romanos, placet brevitas, analysis, perspicuitas, fidelis explicatio, atque etiam aculei: Credo laborem istum tuum, non futurum Ecclesiae inutilem. Zanch. l. 2. Epist. Casp. Oleviano.

Onkelos aaSive paullò ante Christum natum, atque eo in terris agente, vixerit; ut plurium opinio est: sive, ut alii arbitrantur, sit idem ac Aquila Ponticus, qui seculo, & amplius, junior fuit. Voss. De Arte Gram. l. 1. c. 31..

He made the Chaldee Metaphrase of the Pentatench.

Onuphrius Panvinius; Romae instaurator, & pater Historiarum. Scriv. Animad. vers. in l. 8. Mart.Vir doctissimus, & in omni historia ad miraculum usque versatus. Montac. Apparat. 3. Augustinus Onuphrius Pontificis Romani cubicularius, omnia Vaticanae Bibliothecae acta diligenter evoluit. Bod. De Repub. l. 1. c. 10. Pater Romanae Historiae, vir longe pertissimus in Commentar. ad secundum librum Fastorum à quo sua omnia transcripsit Livius plagiarius Onuphrione quidem nominato. Montac. Appar. 11. Onufrius Panvinus Veronensis Eremita Augustinianus, vir ad omnes & Romanas, & Ecclesiasticas antiquitates è tenebria eruendas natus, quod praeclara ejus & ad omnem aeternita…em victura monumenta testantur. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2. lib. 41.

A great Humanist, who wrote the lives of the Popes. Boxhornius (in his general History from Christs time) cals him Diligentissimum Onuphrium, Manutius helluonem antiquitatis, Scaliger patrem historiae, Lipsius principalis Historiae & Fastorum rerum patrem.

p. 275Joannes Oporinus, Professour of the Greek and Latine Tongue,Vir doctus operosus & elegans, libris innumeris partim à se scriptis, partim aliorum à se publicatis, celeberrimus. Boissardi Icones. and Printer at Basill.

He was born Anno 1508.

A religious and sincere man, very liberal to all Scholars, and very respective to his Father.

His Works are mentioned by Melch. Ad. in his Life.

Oppian a famous Greek Poet.Anno Dom. 210. Exulans cum patre suo Agesilao viro opulento, in exilio clarissima poemata scripsit: Et Severo Imperatore (qui patrem in exilium egerat) defuncto. Romam est profectus: suaque carmina Antonino filio exhibuit: unde & regressum patris ab exilio impetravit, & pro quolibet carmine aureum numisma suscepit. Habet stilum floridum & planum cum facundia & maturitate, & in sententiis ac parabolis praecipuè excellit. Jac. Fris. Biblioth. Philos.

He received for every verse a piece of gold of the Emperour Antoninus.

Optatus, Optatus Mileuitanus.in the year of our Lord 370.

That learned Bishop of Milleuita.

There are his Works together, among which one is De Schismate Donatistarum.

Origen. He was Scholar to Clemens Alexandrinus.Vide Matth. Westmon. p. 62. Origenes Adamantius, vir singularis doctrinae; & in cognitione linguarum nulli doctorum Ecclesiae cedens. Guid. Fabrit. in N. T. Syr. Lat. Interpret. Praefat. Origenis praeceptores, Clemens Alexandrinus & Ammonius. Geneb. Chron. l. 3. Secundus Ecclesiae magister post Apostolos. Hieron. Origenes tantum in Scripturis divinis habuit studii, ut etiam Hebraeam linguam, contra aetatis gentisque suae naturam edisceret. Dialecticam, & Geometriam, & Astronomiam, & Arithmeticam, Musicam, Grammaticam, & Rhetoricam, omniumque Philosophorum sectas ita didicit, ut studiosos quoque saecularium litterarum sectatores haberet, & interpretaretur eis quotidie, concursusque ad cum miri fierent, quos ille propterea recipiebat, ut sub occasione saecularis litteraturae, in fide Christi eos institueret, Hieron. De Script. Eccles. Sena millia librorum scripsit. Epiphan. haeres. 4. Hexaplorum Conditor Origenes qui cum duabus posuisset & columellis sacrum contextum, semel Hebraeis, at que iterum Graecis literis, duabus his addidit columellas quatuor, versionem LXX. Aquilae, Symmachi, & Theodotionis: unde & Hexapla dicebantur. Voss. de Art. Gram. l. 1.

His errours were so great and hainous, that thence the Sect of Origenists is called.

If any man desire to see a Catalogue of Origens errours, he may have recourse to the learned Epistle of S^t Jerom, Ad Avitum.

Vincentius Lyrinensis adversus Haereses. c. 23. writes, Errorem Origenis propter ejus tum doctrinam tum zelum magnam in Dei Ecclesia fuisse tentationem. Vide August. de Haeres. p. 199, 200. & Bezae Praefat. ad Annot. in N. T.

He lived in the year of our Lord 230.193. saith Helvicus. 203. Calvisius.

He was almost wholly of the third Age. Hic amore castitatis se castravit: Nevum & vetus Testamentum memoriter novit: Jam senex Hebraicam didicit linguam. Wolfii Lect. memor. Centen. 3.

He wrote exceeding much, yet there remaineth now little in comparison of that he wrote, and that so corrupted, that it nothing answereth the famous report of Learning which he had in the Church in his time. All his Works now extant revised by Erasmus, were printed at Basil by Frobenius, 1536.

He was in his Age a mirrour of gravity, integrity, constancy, zeal, piety, learning of all sorts, both divine and humane, of so happy a memory that he had the Bible without book, of such admirable eloquence, that not words but honey seemed to drop from his lips; of so indefatigable industry, that he was called Adamantius, and was said by some to have written six thousand books. Dr. Crakanth. Vigilius Dormitans.

Est certè hic scriptor adeò omnibus modis impurus, sive ita ipse scripsit, sive depravata postea fuerunt ejus scripta, ut nullam in Ecclesia authoritatem in rebus controversis mereatur. Bezae Epist. 29. He often reproves him also in his Annotat. on the New Testament.

Orontius Fineus, Professour of the Mathematicks at Paris under Francis the first.

He was born at Brianson a Town in Dauphinè, the year of our Lord 1494.

He composed five Books,

p. 276De Arithmetica practica.

Two Books, De Geometria practica.

Five Books, De mundi Sphaera.

Commentaries upon the six first Books of the Elements of Geometry by Euclide.

Natione Hispanus: Claruit vita & doctrina illustri, cum sancto Augustino Anno 420. Vir in divinis Scripturis eruditus: & in secularibus litteris peritissimus. Vita & conversatione clarissimus fuit. Biblioth. Hisp. Tom. 2. Anno gratiae 416. Orosius presbyter & historiographus claret. Mat. Westm. p. 77.And divers other Works mentioned by Thevet Vies Des hommes illustres. l. 6.

Paulus Orosius.

He was Austeus Scholar. Nobilissimus ille rerum Christianarum Historicus. Montac. Exercit. 11.

Orpheus, a very ancient Poet, long before Homer. There is little of his extant.

Geographus fuit Regius, ac seculi nostri Ptolomaeus. Orbem enim terrarum universum manu ornavit; mente contempsit, quod & symboli loco usurpare solebat, orbis seu globi terrestris picturam amplexus manu. Valeri Andreae Biblioth. Belg. Thesaurum abs te mi Orteli, vidi & in parte legi: verè Thesaurum. Condita in eo habes quicquid Graecia aut Latium habuit, in ea quidem argumenti parte placet materies, ordo, industria: illa utilissi…a, iste facillimus, haec summa. Lips. Epist. Cent. 2. Epist. 39. Abrahamo Ortelio. Edidit Theatrum orbis terrarum, hoc est, Geographicas tabulas praecipuarum regionum totius orbis, elegantissimè sculptas & in unum volumen conjunctas, in folio magno seu regali, addita cujusque regionis brevi descriptione, & commemoratione auctorum qui illam descripsere. Antwerpiae 1570. Gesn. Biblioth.Abraham Ortelius. He was born in Antwerp that famous Mart of the world.

He was given to Geography from his youth, and spared no cost or pains to perfect his knowledge therein, travelling far and often for that purpose. Cosmographus ad miraculum usque politissimus & laboriosissimus. Chyt. Scol. in Paraph. Ps. Buchanani.

His Thesaurus Geographicus is an excellent Work, instar omnium, and his Theatrum.

Lipsius, Gesner, and others much magnifie it, Edito pulcherrimo orbis terrarum Theatro, & renovatâ antiquorum locorum per tabulas propriâ industria eleganter depictas memoriâ. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 5. l. 120.

Quo in opere (saith Melchior Adam in his Life) ita omnibus suam probavit industriam: ut à Philippo II. illo Principe Principum, Geographi Regii insignibus sit orornatus. Scripsit & Thesaurum Geographicum, in quo omnium totius terrae regionum, montium, promontoriorum, collium, silvarum, insularum, portuum, populorum, urbium, oppidorum, pagorum, item Oceani marium, fretorum, fluviorum, & ejusmodi nomina & appellationes veteres, additis magna ex parte etiam recentioribus opus eruditum lectuque jucundum.

Osiandri fanaticum delirium de essentiali justitia non multò magis opinor, tè vel sane quenquam men is hominem exercuerit. Bezae Epist. 1. Vide Calv. Epist. contra Osiandrum p. 415, 416. & Melch. Ad. in ejus vita. Quod se Osiander nobis subduxit, imo non sine violento impetu se proripuit, non mirum, nec tantopere dolendum. Tu enim expertus pridem es, ex eo esse ferarum genere, quae nunquam cicurantur: Et ego semper inter nostra dedecora eum numeravi. Quo certe die mihi primum visus est, profanum hominis ingenium, & foedos mores sum detesturus. Calv. Epist. Melancthoni.Andreas Osiander, Anno Christi 1498. the Epitomizer of the Centuriators, skilfull in the Hebrew, Greek and Latine.

Beza Epist. 59. cals him, Phanaticum & impurissimum Ecclesiarum turbatorem.

He held that the righteousnesse of Christ, by which we are justified, was his essential righteousnesse, as God. But, 1. That is incommunicable to us. 2. If that had been required to our Justification, Christ needed not to have been incarnate. Paul saith Rom. 5.19. We are made righteous by the obedience of one man.

Singulis immorari excutiendis haud necesse arbitror, praesertim quum vel tria solum verba tribus ejus totis dissolvendis libris, quantumlibet verbosis suffecerint. Quum nihil ferè in scriptore, hoc, totoque ejus opere conspicias, quin aut mendacium sit, aut maledictum aut error: quid amplius quisquam hic ad justam responsionem requirat, quam tria haec solum verba, quae ubi expressero, satis mihi videbor brevissimo, sed verissimo compendio omnia expressisse, quaecunque vasta hujus nugacissimi declamatoris contineat loquacitas foreign, 1. Mentiris, 2. Maledicis, 3. Falleris. Joan. …oxi Continuata Respons. ad Osor. l. 2. p. 72. Vide Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 71. Consule ipsius literas & libros, tum has maxime Philippicas contra Lutherum & Haddonum clucubratas. An quisquam per omnem vitam, tot unquam mendacia mendaciis cumulavit? tot blasphemias & maledicta congessit? tot errores prodidit? tot contumelias, insanias, fumos, praestigias vanitates, glorias, ineptias, & jactationes thrasonicas, tantam denique effraenatae mentis rablem tot scurriles tixas, sannas, morsusque; Cynicas, vel factis, vel oratione unquam effinxit, expressit, evomuit, at que iste in hoc uno libello ostendit? In quo Lutheri nunquam nomen reperies, nisi adjuncto ad contumeliam, furiosi, aut amentis, aut in sani aliquo Epitheto. Joan. Foxi Continuata Respons. ad Osor. l. 2. p. 103, 104.Hier. Osorius.

p. 277An eloquent man, and too precise a follower of Tully. In his Book against Luther and Doctor Haddon he dares not name the words of Justification or Predestination. And I wonder (saith Mr. Fox) that he dares insert the name of Christ in his Books, since it is not found in Tully. Nec Justificationis aut praedestinationis vocabula ipsa vel nominare audes. Ac miror equidem, quod Christi nomen, quod apud Ciceronem nunquam legitur, non dubites libellis tuis inspergere.

His Book De gloria is most esteemed.

Arnald Ossat a French Cardinal.Cardinalis Ossatus vir eruditione, prudentia, integritate, suavitate morum eximiè conspicuus. Gassend. De vita Peireskii l. 1. Arnaldus Ossatus diaecesis Auxitanae Gallus, judicii per omnia perpensi Cardinalis, patriae suae negotia pro solatiis accipiens iisdem Romae foeliciter insenescere voluit: Scripsit expositionem in d…sputationem Jacobi Carpentarii de methodo, additionem ad candem expositionem, Epistolas aliquot adversus Carpentarium. Nomenclat. Sanctae Romanae Eccles. Cardinalium. Ossatus Augusta Ausciorum in tenui re natus cum ad probos mores & summum animi candorem taram Philosophiae, Mathematicarum artium, & jurisprudentiae cognitionem adjecisset, initio in Schola Ramaea educatus, ubi acerrimas contra Jacobum Carpentarium contentiones exercuit, &c. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 4. l. 92.

His and Cardinal Perrons French Letters are esteemed usefull, both for the understanding of Ecclesiastical, and State-affairs.

He was Scholar to Petrus Ramus.

Otto the second Sonne to Otto the first.

He being overcome at a Sea fight by the Grecians, and carried away by Pyrates, being unknown by reason of his skill in the Greek tongue, he escaped safe into Sicilie, and afterward he punished them.

William Oughtred, a very learned Mathematician.

He hath published,

Clavis Mathematica.

He hath put out these Works in English,

The Circle of Proportion.

The Horrizontal Instrument.

The Artificial gauging Line or Rod.

Ovid.Jam ad eum pervenimus locum in quo & ingenii magnitudo & acumen judicii exercenda funt: Quis enim de Ovidio satia digne dicere possit nedum ut eum audeat reprehendere. Scalig. Hyper Critic. c. 1. Ex ordine equestri fuit. Ingenio fuit, ut mihi quidem videtur, parato facilique; sed qui nimium sibi aliquando indulgeret Suepte naturae instituto puer ad Poeticam ferebatur, verum parentis monitionibus oratoriae facultati operam dare compulsus est, in qua, si Seneca credimus, egregie profecit, nonnullae ejus Epistolae tanta arte & elegantia conscriptae sunt, ut in eo gener… absolutius qui dam nihil fieri posse existiment. Lil. Gyrald. De Poet. Hist. Dial. 4. Ut secundus à Marone, ita primus caeterorum: ne que minus tamen, prope ultimus bonorum. Boxhorn. Monum. Illust. Vir. & Elog. Vide plura ibid. Anno Divinae Incarnationis 18. Ovidius Poeta eximius in exilio periit. Fuerat enim proscriptus ab Augusto Caesare, & in Pontum insulam missus, propter uxorem ejas, de qua habebatur suspectus. Dictum est autem, quod de ea libros metrice composuerat, & ideo ab eodem est in exilium relegatus. Matth. Westm. Florea Hist. p. 45.

He had a natural genius to Poetry.

Quicquid conabar dicere versus erat.

Nascitur Poeta, sit Orator.

Lactantius cals his Metamorphosis Opus praeclarissimum.

As Tibullus and he were born in one day, so he and Livie died on another, that his birth and death might be nobly accompanied. Sands in the Life of Ovid.

p. 278CHAP. III.

RIchard Pacio Dean of Pauls.Richardus Pacaeus vir praeclaris animi dotibus praeditus, multiplici doctrina excultus. Habebat ingenium acre, judicium maturum. Constans, solidum, memoriam foelicem, linguam promptam & expeditam. In peritia linguarum Latinae, Graecae & Hebraicae, cum doctissimis sui saeculi viris de palma merito contendere potuit. Pitsaeus Relat. Histor. de rebus Angliae. Scripsit librum de fructu & utilitate artium ac scientiarum, diversas ad Erasmum Roterod. Epistolas, ac orationes varias ad principes Gesn. Biblioth.

He was Secretary for the Latine Tongue to King Henry the eighth. He was of great ripenesse of wit, learning and eloquence, also expert in forraign Languages. He was sent in the Kings affairs Embassadour to Venice, which function there he so discharged, that it is hard to say, whether he procured more commendation or admiration among the Venetians, for his dexterity of wit, and specially for the singular promptnesse in the Italian Tongue. For opinion and fame of Learning, he was accepted, not onelyonly here in England with Linacre, Grocinus, Mere, and others, but also known and reported abroad in such sort, that in all the great heap of Erasmus his Epistles, he wrote almost to none so many, as to him. Foxes Acts and Monum. Vol. 2. p. 247. c. 1.

He was after distracted, but he prettily well came to his wits, and began to study the Hebrew Tongue with Wakefield.

He hath written upon Ecclesiastes.

He begins his Book De fructu qui ex doctrina percipitur, thus, Ric. Pac. Ad Scient. Profes. Epist.

Librum doctissimi viri, non adeo brevem, unius spatio mensis scriptum mirabimini.

He saith further, that it was composed Constantiae in publico hypocansto.

Fabius **Logicae primùm, mox Philosophiae operam dedit, in qua à summis illius aetatis professoribus Pendasia, Franc. Piccolomineo, & Jacobo Zabarellā, quicquid notitiâ dignum desiderati potuit, fervore ingenii, affiduitate studii, & vigiliis hausit: Tomas. Illust. Vir vitae. Vide plura ibid.Pacius.

His several Works are mentioned by Tomasinus in his Elogia virorum Literis & Sapientia Illustrium.

Julius Pacius his younger brother.

His several Works are mentioned by Tomasinus in his Elogia.An M.D.L. in lucem editus, ingenium politiorum literarum studiis pari cum fratre contentione excoluit: esque profectu. Vt juvenis nondum exacto tertio decimo aetatis anno Arithmetica libellum magnâ facilitate conscripserit. Thomas. Elog.

He was an excellent Grecian, he illustrated Aristotles Organ with most copious Notes, and published many learned Commentaries upon many of his books of Philosophy, and elucidated many books of the Civil-Law with Commentaries or Notes.

Besides his knowledge of the Civil and Canon-Law, he was skilled with knowledge of all Learning, the Mathematicks, History, Poetry, much given to the reading of the ancient Fathers, and Ecclesiastical History, skilfull in the Latine, Greek and Hebrew Languages.

Marcus Pacuvius, Marcus Pacuvius Tragoediis nobilis. Nepos fuit Quinti Enni, quod Eusebius ac Plinius referunt. Romae vixit in summa claritate nominis. Commendatur maxime illius ingenium, & nativa quaedam facilitas in capiendis liberalibus disciplinis. Cicero hunc ex caeteris omnibus in Tragoedia facile praefert, carmenque ejus maximopere commendat. Boxhorn. Monum. Vir. Illust. & Elog. Vide Pet. Cri…it. De Poetis Latinis. l. 1. c. 5.a famous Tragaedian.

There are some fragments of his remaining.

p. 279John Paget, Johannes Pagetius Theologus doctissimus & Ecclesiae Anglicanae apud Amftelredamenses Pastor. Sanfordus de Descensu Christi ad Inferos. l. 2. p. 40a learned Divine, as his Arrow against the Separation of the Brownists shews.

Santes Pagninus, an Italian, and a Dominican Frier, a man excellently learned in the Hebrew Tongue.Nostra memoria Lucam ortunobilitavit Sanctes Paguinus, ex ordine Praedicatorum summus Theologus, & Latinè, Graecè, Hebraicè, Chaldaicè, Arabicéque, ut instrumenti utriusque versio ex Hebraeo Graecóque in Latium, item Isagoge ad mysticos Scripturae sensus; Grammatica Hebraica Graecaque, ac alia multa litterarum monumenta quae reliquit, abundè testantur. Fato concessit anno à Christo nato M.D.XXXVI. aetatis suae LXX. Lugduni in Gallia. Leand. Descript. tot. Ital. in Tuscia. Santes Pagninus vir ex D. Dominici familia ob insignem pietatem, sacrae Theologiae cognitionem & summam denique linguarum peritiam maximè conspicuus. Cujus viri Latina ex Hebraica veritate sacrorum librorum interpretatio non parum candidis Theologis ad sacrae Scripturae arcana intelligenda adjumentum attulit. Ariae Montani Praefat. ad Bibl. Heb. Interlin. Santes Paguinus Dominicus Lexicon Hebraicum edidit, tanta eruditione refertum ut etiam Rabbinos in eo argumenti genere vicerit, & reliquos à praestantiore conficiendo deterruerit. Geneb. Chron. l. 4. Thesaurus linguaesanctae sive Lexicon Hebraicum: ex quo non solum vocularum significata, sed & abstrusiores quoque sacrae Scripturae sensus, è variis Rabinorum Commentariis selectos haurire, licet. Gesn. Biblioth.

There is his

Thesaurus Linguae Sanctae cum recognit Merceri. Fol.

Epitome Thesauri Linguae Sanctae.

And other Works.

Petrus de Palude, vel Paludanus, Anno Dom. 1320.

He hath written upon the Gospels, on the third and fourth Book of the Sennces.

De Causa immediata Eccles. potestatis.

De audientia Confessorum.

Jacobus Pamelius.Vir & sacrae antiquitatis peritissimus, & cùm multis scriptis, quibus eam illustravit, tum una & altera Tertulliani & B. Cypriani Editione magnam gratiam à doctis & piis omnibus consecutus. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 4. lib. 88.

He was born at Bridges in Flanders, Anno 1536.

He was excellently versed in both prophane and sacred History.

He hath not only made Cyprian and Tertullian better, but also illustrated them with learned Commentaries.

Guido Pancirolus.

He hath published,

Com. in notitiam utramque dignitatum tam Orientis quam Occidentis.

Thesaurus variarum lectionum utriusque juris.

And other Works.

Franciscus Panicarola.

Three at that time in concionibus dicendi laude florebant, Panicarola, Tolet & Lupus. There being three things required of an Orator, Vt doceat, ut delectet, ut moveat, it was commonly said then, Lupus movet, Toletus docet, Panicarola delectat.

Anton Panormita Privy-Councelour to Alphonsus King of Spain and Naples.Siculus, publicè octingentis aureis annuis docuit studia literarum. Postea, ut quoque est apud Volatteranum, Alphonso Regi Epistolarum magister fuit deque ejus dictis ac factis edidit libros quatuor. Eos verò Aeneas Sylvius, qui iisdem temporibus vixit; Commentariis illustravit. Voss. De hist. lar. l. 3. c. 7.

He hath published his memorable sayings and deeds in four Books.

A most famous Poet and Oratour.

Abbas Panormitanus, Anno Dom. 1440. The most learned of the Canonists.Panormitanus Juris Canonici sacrarumque literarum Callentissimus, ac inter Canonicos legistas cum primis celebris, non pauca rectè contra Papam Papistarumque errores dicit. De elect. cap. significasti, inquit. Uni fideli privato, si meliorem Scripturae authoritatem aut rationem habeat, plus credendum est, quam toti Concilio, vel Papae. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. l. 19.

p. 280He hath put out

In Libros Decretalium tomos 4.

Consilia & Quaest.

Repertorium Juris.

Henricus Pantaleon, Anno Christi 1522.

Basiliensis medicinae doctor, Poeta laureatus, historicus & comes Palatinus. Gesn. Biblioth.He wrote Prosopographiae illustrium virorum Germaniae, & Diarium Historicum.

And divers other Works mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life.

Paphnutius. Anno gratiae 352. floruit Paphnutius Episcopus, virtutibus clarus. Matth. Westm. Flor. Hist. p. 73.Famous in Ecclesiastical History.

Vide Doctorem Duck De Authoritate Juris Civilis Romanorum. lib. 1. cap. 3.Papinianus. A famous Lawyer, he lived under Septimius Severus.

Christianae Religionis nostrae capita ferè omnia disputando defendit, eorum que veritatem contra adversarios tam Pontificios quam Calvinianos publicè asseruit. Melch. Ad. in ejus vita.Joannes Pappus, a learned Lutherane. He was born in the year of Christ, 1549.

He published many Works mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue.

He died in the year which he expressed in this Verse, familiar to him in his Inscriptions, Ad fine M sI qVis se parat ILLe sapit.

Natus anno Christi 1493. Ex famil…a nobili Paracelsorum. Pa….is auxilio primùm, deinde pr…pria industria doctissimos viros in Germaniâ, Italia, Galliâ, Hi…paniá, aliisqu… Europae regionibus, nactus est praeceptores: quorum liberali doctrina, & potissimùm propria inquisitione, ut qui esset ingenio acutissimo ac ferè divino, tantum profecit: ut multi testati sint; in universa Philosophia, tam arcana & abdita eruiste mortalium neminem. Quin etiam alter velut Euclides aut Plato, ad ipsos usque Aegyptios atque Arabes transiit; ac discendi cupiditate aliquot annos apud illos permansit. Melchior Adam in ejus vita. Docuit autem praeter Academiarum morem, vernacula lingua: vel saltem mixtim, Latinis partim, partim Germanicis verbis: ut nimirum ab omnibus intelligeretur. Memoria adeò ruit felici: ut integra Galeni loca memoriter & expeditè recitarit. Id. ibid.Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Paracelsus. Bombast. ab Hohenheim, a learned Physician. He had divers names.

He held there were three principles of things, Sulphure, Salt and Mercury. He said Physick was supported by four pillars, the first of which is Philosophy or Physick, which is a knowledge of earth and water, and all things thence begotten, the second Astronomy, which is a knowledge of the other two Elements, and all heavenly bodies. Thirdly, Alchimy, which demonstrates the Compositions and dissolutions of all Bodies. The last is Vertue, which requires that a Physician should be pious toward God, just, constant and faithfull toward men, and a lover of all good.

He often censures and reproves the Ancients, Hippocrates, Galen, and Aristotle not excepted.

Daniel Pareus.

He hath written

Vniversalis Historiae Profanae Medulla.

Mellificum Atticum.

David **Erat Theologus inter Reformatos magni nominis, Commentariis in S. Scripturam solide elaboratis, & disputationibus adversus Robertum Bellarminum, clarissimus. Laeti Compend. Hist. Universal. Vir inter nostros magni suô meritô nominis sacrarum litterarum in Heidelbergensi quondam Academia Professor celeberrimus. Dallaes Respons. Apologet.Pareus his Son, a learned Divine of Germany.

He hath written Commentaries, and Adversaria upon all the Books of the Scripture.

p. 281Jo. Philip Pareus his Sonne.

He hath written

Thesaurus linguae Latinae.

Electa Plantina, & Lexicon Plantinum.

Musae fugitivae.

Theatrum Philosophiae Christianae.

Narratio historica de vita & obitu D. Parei patris ejus.

A Commentary upon Philemon and Jude.

And other Works.

Matthaeus Paris sive Parisius, Anno Dom. 1250.Parisiorum cognomen olim apud Anglos erat, quemadmodum & nunc celebre: nisi quis sentiat illum à vulgò Parisiensem nominatum, quod aliquando Lutetiae studuerit. Johan. Lel. Collectanea dè viris illustribus M.S. Matthaeus Parisiensis Anglicus historicus, floruit ante annos 350. & redegit in Compendium Historias Angliae, seu praecipuos flores inde decerpsit. In eo opere valde multa narrat de gravissima Papae tyrannide qui miris artibus omnia Ecclesiarum jura, electiones, investituras, seu confirmationes ad se rapuerit imò & quam miris ac multiplicibus artibus Angliam penitus sit depraedatus, expulaverit, & exuxerit. Narrat idem multa & de certaminibus Scholae Parisiensis cum Monachis. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. lib. 16. Vide Wolfii Lect. Memorab. Tom. 10. pag. 694.

A Benedictine Monk of the Monastery of S^t Albane here in England, a very faithfull and diligent Authour.

He wrote Historiam Anglicanam the English History, from the year of the Lord 1066, even unto the year 1201.

Vir omnium citimae aetatis historicorum Anglorum (nisi cui placeat Willielmum Malmesburiensem excipere) eruditissimus. Casaub. ad Front. Ducaeum Epist.

Gul. **Episcopus. Hic vir eruditionis ac pietatis nomine percelebris floruit circa 1230. Domini annum. Sensit tum de Articulo Justificationis, tum & de multis aliis religionis partibus, longè melius caeteris ejus temporis doctoribus, quemadmodum testantur ejusdem scripta Parisiis uno volumine edita anno 1516. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. l. 16.Parisiensis.

His Works are in two Volumes.

Robert Parker a Reverend Divine.

There are these Works of his,

De Descensu Christi.

De Politia Ecclesiastica Christo & Hierarchiae opposita.

A Scholastical Discourse about the Sign of the **Provoco ad Apologeticum illum verè galeatum, qui caeremoniarum syngraphum in Ecclesias nostras scriptum, affixit nuper cruce. Amos. Praefat. ad Purif.Crosse.

John Parkins an Utter-barister of the Inner-Temple.

He put forth a little Treatise in the Reign of King Edward the sixth, of certain Titles of the Common-Laws, wittily and learnedly composed.

Rob. Parsons an English Jesuite.

He was most skilfull in railing and reviling, able to put Shimei, Rabshakeh and Thersites himself to school. See Charles Paget his Book against him, and Watsons Quodlibets fourth Answ. to second Artic. and Quodlibet 3^d Answ. to the sixth Artic.

There is a aaA Christian Directory guiding men to their salvation.Book commonly called bbQuo nihil vidit Lingua Anglicana ad excitandam pietatem aptius, aut quoad stylum ornatius. Biblioth. Scriptorum So…ietat. Jes. A Philippo Alegambe edita.Resolutions, which goes under his name, which the Papists much magnifie, as also his Treatise of the three Conversions of England. But Doctor James somewhere denies the first to be his.

Protestants have published some Books of Papists (as Parsons Resolutions, Granadoes Meditations, with some altering of the Sentences, though if these Books had never come out, the scandal had been lesse. Doctor James his myst. of the Ind. Expurgat.

Carolus Paschalius a learned man.

He hath written,

Legatus.

p. 282Ceusura animi ingrati.

De optimo genere elocutionis.

CHAP. IV.

STeven **Latinè Stephanus Paschasius Philosophus sanè mora…is insignis, humanioribus lite…is, eloquentia linguarum, Graecarum, Latinarumve & liberalium artium cognitione instructissimus. Ludov. Jacob. De Clar. Script. Cabilon.Pasquier. a learned Frenchman.

He flourished Anno à Christi Nativitate 1546.

He hath written an excellent Treatise in French, styled La Recherche de la France.

He hath published also Icones, Epigrammes, and Epitaphs, and several other Works.

John Passeratius Joannes Passeratius Latinae linguae professor dignissimus, qui felicitate versus pangendi, etiam Gallicos, & soluta oratione scribendi ac bonos scriptores interpretandi diu magnam laudem in Parisiensi Academia meruit; homo emunctae naris, & cui aliena vix placerent. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 5. part. 2. l. 127. Accepi Passeratii libellum de cognatione literarum, magis utilem nobis, quam auctori gloriosum. Rari erunt, qui eo sciant uti. Nos quanti fit, ex eo aestimare possumus, quod paucorum hominum est, & plures habebit, qui non capiant, quam qui eo capiantur. Jos. Scalig. Labbaeo inter opusc., a learned Frenchman, the Kings Professour of Eloquence in Paris, an excellent Orator and Poet.

He hath put ou… Orations and Prefaces, a Commentary on Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius, … Opuscula.

His French Works are mentioned by Antoine du Verdier in his Bibliotheque.

George Passor, Professor of Divinity and Hebrew at Herborn, of Greek at Frankere.

He hath put out a Lexicon Greek and Latine upon the New Testament.

Manuale Graecarum vocum N.T.

Syllabas vocum N. T.

Oratio funebris in obitum Jo. Piscatoris.

Paedagogus Christianus.

Matthias Pasor.

Son to George Pasor, a learned Professor at Groning.

There is his

Oratio pro linguae Arabicae professione.

Marsilius Patavinus.Vixit anno 1324. edidit insigne opus quod inscripsit Defensor pacis. Cujus (sc. Marsilii) libri extant, non quidem verborum, sed rerum apparatu prorsus admirandi. Papir. Masson.

Non hujus modo sed longo superioris aevi Italorum fere omnium multo doctissimus in omni praeclarissimarum artium genere. Jani Nicii Erythraei Pinacotheca.Franciscus Patricius, Venetus.

He taught Philosophy at Rome and Padua.

His learned Works are

Paraleli militares.

Liber male quidem amplus ac magnus, sed rerum, quae in ea continentur, aestimatione ac pondere longe maximus atque gravissimus. Jan. Nic. Eryth. Pinac.

Nova, de Vniversis Philosophiae.

Nova Geometria, novaeque Rhetorica.

De scribenda historia tres Dialogi.

De Arte Poetica tres decades.

And other Works.

p. 283C. Velleius Paterculus **Describitres Romanas Castissimo stilo per Epitomen ab urbe condita ad suam usque aetatem, hoc est tempora Tiberit Caesaris: & memini… quorundam, quae nusquam asibi hodie literis invenias prodita. Dolendum verò est, quod non integrum ipsum, sed semilacerum, mendísque corruptum habeamus. Gesn. Biblioth. Murilus est libellus hic, sed in quo distincta antiquae Latinitatis lumina cernuntur, ac stylus pressus, fluens, idemque dilucidus, quamvis non desit, cui videatur esse tenuis alioqui verbis, & ordine non satis accuratus, vitio certe adulationis laborans; dum Augusti & Tiberii Caesaris gesta commemorat. Possev. Biblioth. Select. tom. 2. l 16. c. 14. Ejus dicendi genere nihil purius, ac suavius fluere potest. Antiquitates Romanorum ab ultimo principio, tanta brevitate ac perspicuita…e (siquidem integer extaret) comprehendit, ut nemini secundus esse videatur. Whear. Method. leg. Hist. parte 1^a Sect 20. Librorum Velleii bona pars deperiit. Dictio ejus planè Romana atque elegans. Quaedam etiam habet quae haud alibi invenias. Sed in sui aevi rebus nimis domini Augustae, & Seiano adulator. Voss. de Histor. Lat. l. 1. c. 24., an elegant Historian, but he was a great flatterer of Tiberius.

Patrick the first, or second Archbishop of Ireland.

Anno gratiae 491. Sanctus Patricius secundus Hyberniae Archiepiscopus, anno aetatis suae 122. in domino quievit. Matth. Westm. Flor. Hist. 93.

Vide Rivii Regim. Anglic. in Hibern. defens. adversus Analecten. l. 2. p. 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53.

Pope Paul the 3^d.Fuit hic Pontis…x multis insi…nibus virturibus clarus, humanita…e, afiabilita…e, cl…mentia, comitate, praecipuè verò prudentia singulari, per sexaginta ferè annos, quibus publica munera obivit, feliciter collecta. Hisce vic…u…ibus adjunctam habui… bona…um artium litterarumque egregiam scientiam, Mathematicis non nihil operam dedit. …ruphrius Panuiuius de vi…is Pontificum. Interea Pontisex depravatis clericorum moribus co…igendi… novem gra…issi…os viros dele…i…, Gasparem Contarenum, Jo. Petrum Caraffam Tearinum, Jacobum Sadol…um, Regin…l…um Polum. Cardinales: Fridericum Fregosium Salernitanum, Hieronymum Alexandrum Brundusinum, Archiepiscopos: Jo. Matthaeum Gilb…rtum Veronensem Episcopum, Gregorium Cortesium abbatem S. Georgii Majoris Venetiatum, F. Thomam Badiam Magistrum sacri palatii, qui libello edito, quo reforma…ionis praecipua capita comprehenderunt, illum Pontifici obtulerunt. Id. ibid.

He was learned himself, and a lover of learned men. He chose certain Cardinals and other Prelates to reform the Church.

A Prelate endowed with good qualities, and among all his vertues, made more esteem of none then of dissimulation. History of the Counc. of Trent, l. 1. p. 71.

Petrus Bembus l 6. Epist. Fam. writes to him, congratulating his Papall Dignity, and commending his Learning: He addes, Egi que Deo optimo maximo gratias, quod & mihi caeteris que qui easdem bonas artes & praeclara colunt studia, eum principem ac rerum dominum dederit; à quo sit magna nobilissimarum disciplinarum seges & proventus expectandus, & Christianae reip. procellis temporum turbulentissimorum jactatae gubernaculo ejusmodi magistrum adhibuerit: quo regente non modo naufragium non expavescat: sed ne ullam quidem aberrationem à recto cursu aut omnino declinatiorem timeat. Vide plura ibid. & Sadoleti Epist. l. 9. Epist. 1, 2, & 3. Paulo III. Pontif. Max.

D. Paulinus aaAmbrosii discipulus fuit Paulinus Nolanus Episcopus Natione Gallus, ingenio excellenti, ac purè dicendi facultate praeditus. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. l. 5. Vir non pietate minus quàm doctrina excellens. Aug.Aquitanicus.

He being a Senatour sold his goods, his Wife perswading him, and went to Nola, that there he might embrace the Christian Religion.

Julius Paulinus, a learned Lawyer of Padua.

He wrote divers Works, which are mentioned by Bernardinus Scardeonius. Inter omnes p…aecipuos jurisconsultos, videtur meritò principatum tenere Julius Paulus Patavinus, antiquus & illustris legumlator, & inter veteres juris conditores omnium celeberrimus: qui disciplina juris, & in legibus Rom. noscendis atque interpretandis scientia, usu, auctoritatéq…e apud vetustissimos jurisconsultos eminentissimus semper habitus est: & inter Papiniani illius praestantissimi viri discipulos primus. Pari actoritate, doctrina, officio, honoréque Ulpiano illi magno par fuit: numero autem …criptorum etiam superior. Scribit Aelius Lampriduis in vita Alexandri Severi, Julium Paulum, & Domitium Vlpianum apud illum magno in precio & honore semper habitos & ambos assessores Papiniani fuisse, & condendó juri praefectos. Bernardinus Scordeonius De Clar. Jurecons. Pat.De Claris Jureconsultis Patavinis.

Father Paul of Venice, a wise and learned man.

p. 284There is his History of the quarrell of Pope Paul the fifth, with the state of Venice, and an Answer to his Bull.

A Defence of Gerson.

The History of the Councell of Trent written by him first in Italian.

Cognovi in Italia hominem sanè multa eruditione, magno judicio, & integritate, rectissimoque animo. Licèt hand liberter illos audiret, qui Romanam Ecclesiam nimis deprimunt, nihilominùs ab illis etiam abhorrebat, qui ejus abusus tanquam sancta instituta defendunt. Et erat caeteroquî veritatis amicus singularis, & assecla constantissimus. Bedel. Epist. Dedicat. ad Interdict. Venet. Hist.

Ante Christum natum 469. fame periit Neand. Geog. part. 2.Pausanias bbSub Marco Antonino floruit Pausanias, Caesatiensis Sophista, Aristidis aequalis, ac Philstostrato etiam in vitis memoratus. Voss De Are Grammatica. l. 1. c. 4..

He hath excellently described ancient and flourishing Greece in ten Books.

Exstat hujus scriptoris minùs quidem facundum, sed eruditum opus de Graecia, libris decem constans: iis & fitum urbium ac locorum, & antiquitates Graecanicas, & quicquid penè memorabile Graecia habuit, magno philologiae & historiae studiosorum bono, complexus fuit. Voss. De Histor. Graec. l. 2. c. 14.

Jo. Pechamus, John Pecham Archbishop of Canterbury, Anno Dom. 1283.

He was very chast, and so strict that he made the Canons neer Canterbury forfeit their places for non-residence.

There are his

Sententiae Biblicae ad unum caput collectae.

Duo sunt ob quae commendatus summopere est, alterum eruditio magna, ac omnigena cum ardore sciendi inexplebili: alterum cura indefessa promovendi artes ingenuas, cum regia planè erga omnes literatos munificentia. Gassend. Epist. Dedicat. ad vitam Peireskii. Nam & quamvis superior aeras foelicitate seculi oppido perrara, produxerit triumviros illos, Pinellum, Velserum, Molinum, singulari studio in omne literatorum nomen propensos: Peireskius tamen supervenit, qui singulorum virtutes ita est complexus, ut omnium laudes quasi infra se positas, praegravasse videatur. Gassend. de vita Peireskii l. 6.Peireskius, Claudius Fabritius de Peiresc. one most exact and skilfull in matters of Antiquity, and a generall Scholler.

His life is excellently written by Gassendus, and is worthy to be read by every Scholar, yet some do not much approve of Gassendus his Latine.

Pelagius a Britain by birth, and a Monk at Rome 382 years after Christ.

To prove that he was a Britain, Beda in his History quotes that verse out of Prosper Aquitanicus,

Pestifero vomuit coluber sermone Britannus.

Illud est, quo nomine inter Catholicos nullo in numero esse meritus est, quod arroganter nimis vitiatam extulerit naturam, humani arbitrii decomtor, divinae gratiae contemtor. Voss. Hist. Pelag. l. 1. c. 4.

Quis enim unquam ante prophanum illum Pelagium tantam virtutem liberi praesumpsit arbitrii, ut ad hoc in bonis rebus per actus singulos adjuvandum, necessariam Dei gratiam non putaret? Vincent. Lirin. Advers. Haeres. c. 34.

Tria fuerunt capita erroris Pelagiani. Negabant originale peccatum, gratiae necessitatem, & hominis imperfectionem in hac vita. Voss. Hist. Pelag. l. 5. part. 1. Vide August. de Haeres. p. 256, 257, 258. Matth. Westm. p. 77. Pelagius homo Britannus, persuasum habuit hominem per se salutem consequi, suáque sponte ad justitiam contendere, ac sine originali peccato nasci, & propterea nihil effe, quod baptizaretur. Polyd. Verg. Angl. Mist. l. 3. p. 56.At the first Pelagius only praised Free-will, after indeed to decline envy, he began to use the term of Grace, but he understood only by it, that God had made us of Free-will, and preserves us in it.

Against him wrote Austen, Hierom, Cyrillus, Or…sius, Innocentius, Gennadius, and at the last Thomas Bradwardine a Doctor here in England.

The Pelagians were so called from him, and also Caelestiani from Caelestius one of Pelagius his Scholers. These taught that death was not the wages of sin, but that Adam should have died, though he had not sinned. That Adams sinne was hurtfull only to himself, and not to his posterity: That concupiscence was no sinne: That Infants did not draw Originall sinne from their Parents: p. 285That man after the Fall had free will to do good.

John Pell, a learned Mathematician of our own Country.

He hath written against Longomantanus de vera circuli mensura.

His learned sister Mistress Makins deserves also an honourable mention for her skill in the Latine and Greek.

Conradus Pellicanus, a learned Germane Divine, very skilfull in the Hebrew,Germanus Hebraicarum praesertim literarum, sicuti praeclara ejus in universum sacrarum literarum corpus, scripta testantur, usque adeo peritus, ut ex ipsis quoque Judaeorum Rabinis pauci cum eo conferri posse videantur. Bezae Icon. vir Illust. Conradus Pellicanus Sacrarum literarum peritissimus interpres, & Hebraicae linguae primus ferè apud Christianos professor. Humfredus in vita Juelli. Diu Hebraicas litteras Tiguri magnâ cum laude professus, qui innumera ferè Rabbinorum Commentaria non solum in sacram Scripturam, sed etiam de arcanis Judaicae doctrinae ritibus scripta ex Hebraicis Latina …ecit. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 1. l. 16. Vide Melch. Ad. in ejus vita. Chaldean and Arabick tongues.

He hath Commented on all the Bible.

The City Zurich hath had many eminent Sholers, as he, Theodore Bibliander, Conradus Gesner, that most excellent Historian, and many others.

Ludovicus Lavater writes that he had often heard from Pellican being old, that no Greek Testament could be found in Germany (the first copy was brought thither out of Italy,) although one would lay out a great deal of money for one copy. Now such is the felicity of the times, that every Scholler hath one. Melch. Ad. in vita Pellicani.

William Pemble, a learned and pious Divine, a good Artist and Linguist both: a great ornament of Magdalen Hall in Oxford.

He wrote a Treatise of Justification,He died of a burning fever. and his minde running much on that subject, he said when he was upon his death bed that he would die in it, viz. his perswasion of Justification by the righteousness of Christ.

Joannes Pena, Mathematick Professor to the King of France in Paris.Rarâ Mathematicarum artium cognitione insignis. Thuanus Hist. Tom. 1. l. 21.

A great Mathematician, he was taken away with a violent fever in the very flower of his age, when he was but thirty years old.

He hath written a learned Tract de natura & usu optices. He was Peter Ramus his Scholer.

Gabriel Pennotus.

There are these Works of his,

Generalis totius ordinis elericorum Canonicorum historia tripartita.

Propugnaculum humanae libertatis, seu Controversiarum pro humani arbitrii libertate.

Benedictus Pererius, a learned Jesuite.Magni nominis & eruditionis Jesuita. Montac. Appar. Vir sacris literis nobiliter imbutus. Id. ib. Vir & Graecè benè doctus, quod apparet, & in omni literatura versatus cumprimis, B. Pererius è Societate Theologus, in Commentariis & doctis & laboriosis ad Genesin. Montac. Exercit. 10. Sect. 1.

His Works are

Commentarii ac disput. in Genesin, In Exod. In Danielem. In Ep. Pauli ad Rom.

Opuscula Theologica, and other Works.

William Perkins, 1602. Perkinsus in Anglia practicae & mysticae theologiae vexillum extulit, ex cujus scriptis & concionibus ceu fonte perenni tot eximia scripta practica, & tot efficaces conciones practicae in Anglia, atque passim in Belgio nostro atque alibi natae atque irriga…ae. Voet. Bib…ioth. l. 2. Vilhelmus Perkinsu… sanctissimus & exercitatissimus Theologus, scriptis inptimis, quae Christianam praxim sapiunt, Clarissimus. Laeti Compend. Hist. Universal.a learned and godly Divine.

Famous amongst forraign Nations for his skill in Practicall Divinity, mentioned by Voetius and others

That worthy pair of our late Divines, Greenham and Perkins: whereof the one excelled in experimentall Divinity, and knew well how to stay a weak conscience, how to raise a fallen, how to strike a remorslesse: The other in a distinct judgement, and a rare dexterity in clearing the obscure subtilties of the School, and easie explication of the most perplexed Discourses. D^r Hals first Dec. of Epist. Epist. 7.

p. 286David Cardinall Du Perron.Jacobus Davius Perronius Cardinalis, cujus nomine nullum fere est apud adversarios illustrius. Dallaeus de Pseudepigraphis Apostolicis l. 1. c. 1. Cardinalis ad stuporem doctus, velut scribendi ambiguus pauca emisit sermone patrio, sed prorsus ad amussim, quae nativi idiomatis interstrato nitore & singulari expositione verborum delectu ubique adhibito multopere commendentur. Nomenclat. Sanctae Romanae Eccles. Cardinal.

There are four great Volumes of his Works in Folio, in French.

Replique A La Response Du Serenissime Roy De La Grand Bretagne.

Les Diverses Oevres, &c.

Du Sainct Sacrement De L' Eucharistie.

Les Ambassades & Negotiations.

My Lord Faulkland cals him the great eloquent and judicious Cardinall Perron, and prefers him before Bellarmine and Baronius; and saith of his Book against K. James, that he was the Architect of the most glorious building, which ever in his opinion was erected to the honour of the Church of Rome.

Peter du Moulin in his Preface to his Answer to Cardinal Perron, or his Nouneantè Du Papisme saith of Perrons Answer to K. James, le ne troune point entre les adversaires d' ouurage tant claborè, I finde not so elaborate a work amongst our enemies, Mais son peu de sçavoir en la langue Grecqué & és lettres humaines le fait sonnent broncher. But his little knowledge in the Greek tongue and in humane Learning makes him often stumble.

His book is well answered by Rivet, Peter du Moulin, and Blondell.

Nicolaus Perottus.

Sipontinus praesul, vertit Polybii historiam jussu Nicolai quinti: aedidit & praecepta grammaticae quibus utuntur pueri, ac cornucopiae, diligentissimus vocabulorum perscrutator: si qu…d undecunque incognitum audifler, neque dormitare, neque terum aliquid gerere solebat, priusquam id investigasset. Volat. Anthropol. l. 21.Cornucopia.

Correctio Plinii Epist. ad Titum.

Aulus Persius Flaccus.

Anno gratiae 56. Persius poeta moritur. Matth. Westm. Flor. Hist. p. 53. Malcum & verae gloriae, quamvis uno libro, Persius meruit. Quintil. Institut. Orat. l. 10. Qui liber etsi obscuritate & reconditis sensibus est plerunque refertus, nihilominus bonis est connumerandus autho…ibus. Lil. Gyrald. De Poet. Hist. Dial. 4. Perfii stilus Morosus: & ille ineptus qui cum legi vellet quae scripsislet, intelligi noluit quae legerentur. Scalig. Hypercrit. cap. 6.Jerom cals him the most eloquent of Satyrists.

Barten Holyday consulted with above a dozen Expositors, yet in the Preface to his translation of Persius hath these words, I may without ambition say, it is a new thing Persius understood. To have committed no faults in my Translation (saith he according to his elegant way of writing) had been to Translate my self, and put off man.

CHAP. V.

DJonysius Petavius, Dionysius Petavius è Societate Jesu Temporum Rationarium dedit, in quo, ae…atum omnium, Sacra profanaque Historia Chronologicis probationibus munita, summatim traditur, ab O…be condito ad Annum Christi 1632. Whear. De Methodo legendi historias parte 1^a. Sect. 6. Quo viro, nescio an habeat erudita Jesu societas doctiorem. Gassend. de vita …eireskii l. 3. Natione Galius, patria Aurelianensis vir, ut ejus ostendunt opera, ingenio max…mo, judicio acerrimo, excellenti memoria, omnium ferè rerum scientia excultus. Biblioth. Script. Societ. Jesu A Philippo Alegambe edita. Quo nemo hodie vivit in ea, quam falso vocant, Jesu societate, eruditionis ac doctrinae nominibus clarior. Dallaeus de Pseudepigraphis Apost. l. 1. c. 1.a learned Jesuite.

He wrote against Scaliger and Salmasius.

That Scaligero-mastix. Greg. de Aeris & Epochis.

Qui ad omnia, non solum falsa aut inania, verùm etiam vera, certa & omnium consensu approbata, vellicanda & carpenda natus esse videtur. Croii Observat. in N.T. c. 9.

p. 287Samuel Petitus, a very learned man.

There are these Works of his,

Miscellaneorum, lib. 9.

Variarum lectionum, lib. quatuor.

Eclogae Chronologicae.

Com. in leges ccLeges Atticas edidit, à se, quo voluerat, modo collectas, & concinuatas, ad quas commentarium addiderat. Erat vir probus, & doctus, sediis praesidiis, quae ad opus hujus argumen…i elaborandum necessaria erant, destitutus. Herald. Animadvers. In Salmas. Observat. Ad Jus Attic. & Rom. l. 2. c. 12.Atticas.

Francis Petrarke, an Italian, a witty and sententious Orator, and Poet.Franciscus Petrarcha Philosophus, Rhetor & Poeta celebertimus, qui humanitatis artes post longa silentia inter mortuas ab inferis revo. cavit. An. Aerae Christi 1304. Calvis. Chronol. Franciscus Petrarcha vir apprimè doctus, floruit ante annos 200, dicere solitus est, nullum cujusquam majus malum optari posse, quam ut fiat Papa. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. l. 18. Florentinus Parmensis archidiaconus, saeculi sui lumen, Apud Pontifices, si adblandiri voluisser, nihil non consecuturus. Extra contentionis aestum positus, plaeraque scripserit contra Curiam Romanam in suis poematis quam graphicè depingit, quamque Babylonicam meretricem, erroris Scholam, imposturae officinam, haereseos Templum passim vocitat. Morn. Myst. Iniq. Natione Hetruscus, vir undecunque doctissimus, Latinae linguae multis jam saeculi… extinctae primus instaurator, Hetruscae poeseos parens: & absque ulla Controversia princeps, ob egregiam Latini carminis laudem in Capitolio Romano, lauream Coronam publico totius Italiae favore consecutus. Sixt. Senens. Biblioth. Sanct. l. 4. Vide Lud. Viv. de trad. discip. l. 3.

One of the great restorers of Learning.

Vir omnium saeculorum memoria dignissimus, Pignor. Symbol. Epist. Ep. 14.

He was born in the year 1304. and died in the year 1374. having lived 70 years wanting but a day.

There is in his Latine Works a neat expression, a spirit sinewy and sententious, a style short and concise. He was another Seneca.

He calleth Rome the Whore of Babylon, the School and mother of errour, the Temple of heresie, the nest of treachery, and seemeth plainly to affirm, that the Pope was Antichrist, declaring that no greater evil could happen to any man, then to be made Pope.

His life is written by Papirius Massonus. There was great flocking after him, from France and all Italy.

Sacras literas, ut humiles & incomptas, & humanioribus impares nimio illarum amore, & contemptu harum, & opinione de se falsa, atque impotenti inventa, diù tumidus adolescens, fugit. Verùm liber confessionum divi Augustini, aditus ei postremò fuit, ad omnes sacras literas, sibique librum illum praedicat autorem fuisse, ut adolescentiae vitia dimitteret. Papir. Masson. ib.

He wrote De vita solitariae.

De remediis utriusque fortunae.

De Communi mundi contemptu.

De vita sapientis.

Bucolica, Eclogae: & alia venustissima Poemata quae scripsit lingua Hetrusca: and other Works mentioned by Boissard in his Icones.

His Ancestors were Florentines, and lived in exile, but he returned home and died in his own Country of an Apoplexy. He was buried at Arquato Montanere, a village belonging unto Padua, where in honour of him a Sepulchre of Marble was built, and an Epitaph of his own making inscribed, part whereof is as followeth,

Frigida Francisci lapis hic regit ossa

Fessus que in terris, caeli requiescit in arce.

Petronius Arbiter, an obscene Writer, yet his Latine is pure and elegant.

Elmenhorstius in the life of John Wower cals Petronius Impurissimum scriptorem purissimae latinitatis.Multae eruditionis hominem Petronium fuisse facilè cognoscimus, nam in taxandis moribus cum acrem, tum festivum maximè, & jocis seria, miscentem videmus. Scripsit lascivè admodum & impudicè, ut ex ipsis fragmentis facilè cognoscimus. Lil. Gyrald. De Poet. Histor. Dial. 4.

p. 288Suffridus **Suffridus Petreius origines, colonias, nobilitatem, libertatem, jura gentis suae illustranda suscepit, in quibus altiùs reperendis dum admistis fabularum figmentis nimiùm stylo indulget, multorum reprehensiones incurrit, ut Uboni Emmio, qui eandem provinciam summâ fide ac admirandâ simplicitate postea executus est, potius lampada tradidisse, quàm ei inscribenda historia patria praeluxisle videatur. Thuan. Hist. tom. 5. l. 119.Petrus. He was a Frisian, and wrote the history of Frisia, and of the Writers of Frisia.

Gasper Peucer, a learned Physitian, well skilled in Philosophy and the Mathematicks.Magnae vir eruditionis & minimè vanus. Bodin. Meth. Hist. c. 4. Gasp. Peucerus Medicus, Philippi Melancthonis gener, vir libro, quem de Divinationibus scripsit, sed decennali, quem ob Constantem veritatis de persona Christi & Caena Domini professionem sustinuit, carcere, longe celebrior. Scultet. de Curriculo vitae. Vide Thuan. Hist. tom. 5. l. 127. Palmam inter ejus scripta obtinere videtur Commentarius, de'praecipuis divinationum generibus: in quo à prophetis, auctoritate divina traditis, & à phisicis conjecturis discernuntur artes & imposturae diabolicae, at que observationes natae ex superstitioene & cum hac conjunctae: & monstrantur fontes & causae physicarum praedictionum: diabolicae verò ac superstitiosae confutatae damnantur. Melch. Ad. in ejus vita.

He hath written a singular book of his own imprisonment and freedom.

Christ. Pezelius, a learned Writer.

Many of his Works are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue.

He died Anno Dom. 1606.

Demetrius aaFuit hic Theophrasti auditor, ac Athenarum per docennium praefectus, à quibus tot statuis fuit ornatus; quot dies annus habere credebatur, hoc est trecentis & sexaginta. Vide Strabonem l. 9. ac Plinium l. 34. c. 6. Voss. De Histor. Graec. l. 1. c. 12.Phalereus. He hath written

De Elocutione. De Interpretatione Praecepta Rhetorica.

Philo Hebraeus, vir omnium consensu doctissimus, floruit sub Caio Imperatore, ad quem etiam legatione functus est pro gente sua. Bellarm. de Script. Eccles. Anno Aerae Christi 40. Calvis. 37. Helv. Chron. De hoc vulgo apud Graecos dicitur, aut Plato Philonem sequitur, aut Platonem Philo, tanta est similitudo sensuum & eloquii. Hieron. de Script. Eccles. Scripta ejus pigmentis Platonicis condita & multis luminibus Hellesmi illi ita esse nemo negaverit. Scalig. Elench. Trihaeres. Serar. c. 25.Philo Judaeus. He lived in Christs time, and was born at Alexandria, a famous Town in Aegypt.

Though he was a Jew, yet he was altogether unskilfull in the Hebrew, as the Jews of Alexandria, and almost all the Hellenists were.

Homo Graecè tantum loquens, Hebraismi autem adeo imperitus, ut dubitem an etiam legere sciret Hebraicè. Scalig. Elench. Trihaeres. Serar. c. 18.

The Greek tongue was so common at Alexandria, that the Bishops, as Athanasius, Cyrill, Theophilus, &c. there preached to the people in Greek. The Apostle therefore writing to the Hebrews alleadgeth to them the Scripture according to their translation. Pet. du Moulins Antibarb. c. 10.

Il fut tellement versè en toute bonne literature, que non senlement envers ceux de sa secte, mais anssi envers les Chrestiens & Philosophes prophanes, il estoit en grand credit & estinne. Theuet. Vies des hommes Illustres l. 2.

Philo natione & sapientia Judaeus, Graecanicae verò facundiae leniter fluens amnis, aut in alueo scripturarum potius dulcè canens cygnus. Ovid. Fabrit. In N.T. Syr. Lat. Interpret. praefat.

The book of Wisdom was written by him, living after Christs passion, resurrection, and ascention, yet he never beleeved in Christ. Doctor Twisse against Ford.

He was Judaorum disertissimus. Jerom.

A great imitator of Plato, so that it was said of him, foreign. He wrote among other things of the life of Moses.

His allegorizing so much is disliked.

Jo. Philoponus. Anno Dom. 602.

He wrote 7 books on the first Chapter of Genesis concerning the creation of the world.

p. 289John Philpot.

He and Bishop Ridly were the most learned of our English Martyrs in Q. Maries dayes.

Fl. Philostratus.Lemne fuere duo Philostrati Graeci valde eruditi scriptores. Senioris extant eti…mnum lib. 8. de vita Apolonii Tynaei, qui discendi causa totum terrarum orbem peragravit, quae ibi copiosè commemorantur. Heroicae item Icones, & vitae Sophistarum in duos libros distinctae. Junioris autem nihil habetur praeter Icones, quae sunt accuratae, elegantissimae, & tanquam depictae variarum rerum florido stylo descriptiones. Neand. Geog.

Franciscus Philelphus.Ad omne genus scripti sese accomodavit, ac ut de Vinicio dicit Augustus, ingenium in numerato habebat: Graeca, Latina, Lyrica, Heroica, prosam orationem ex tempore dictitabat. Idcirco Francisco Sfortiae gratissimus Mediolani profitebatur. Volaiterani Anthropol. l. 21.

Gul. Philander, a very learned man.

There is his

Epitome in omnes Georgii Agricolae, de mensuris ac ponderibus libros.

Photinus **Anno gratiae 368. haeresis Photini agnoscitur. Fuit Siranae urbis Episcopus, qui astruxit, Christum à Maria per Joseph, nuptiali coitu, conceptum. Matth. West. Flor. Hist. p. 78. Erat & ingenii viribus valens, & doctrinae opibus excellens, & eloquio praepotens: quippe qui utroque sermone copiosè & graviter disputa…et & scriberet: quod monumentis librorum suorum manifestatur, quos idem patrim Graeco, partim Latino sermone composuit. Vincent. Lirin. Advers Haeres. c. 16. Dicit Deum singulum esse & solitarium, & more Judaico confitendum: Trinitatis plenitudinem negat, neque ullam Dei verbi, aut ullam Spiritus sancti putat esse personam: Christum verò hominem tantummodò solitarium adserit, cui principium adscribit ex Maria. Et hoc omnibus modis dogmatizat, solam nos personam Dei patris, & solum Christum hominem colere debere Id. ibid.. He was learned, but a great Heretique.

He denied the Deity of the Sonne and Holy Ghost. Whence the Photinians.

There are two main parts of the Socinian Religion. The first concerning the Person of Christ, Photinianism. The other the Grace of Christ, Pelagianism.

Photius Patriark of Constantinople, he flourished in the 9^th age, Anno Dom. 860. the learnedst man of his time.Vir omnium Graecorum sui saeculi longe eruditissimus, floruit autem Anno 879. vivere desiit Anno 889. Dallaeus de Pseudep. Apost. l. 1. c. 2. Graeco-Latinae editioni Bibliothecae Photii praemittuntur eruditorum aliquot judicia de Photio. Hic primus secessionem apertam fecit à Latina Ecclesia. Gen. Chron. l. 4.

Casaubone in his Epistles much commends his Bibliotheca.

Acerrimo vir ingenio perspicacissimó que & in omni genere doctrinarum praestantissimus Scriptor, Photius, Patriarcha Constantinopolitanus. Fulleri Miscel. lib. 2. cap. 3.

Alexander Piccolominy Archbishop of Sienna, a good Linguist and Artist.

Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue.

Francis Piccolominy.

Many of his Works are also mentioned in Oxfhrd Catalogue.

Pet. Picherellus, a learned Frenchman.Homo trium linguarum peritissimus & acutissimi judicii, qui Jo. Vatablo olim cum Jo Saligna…o & Jo. Mercero operam navaverat. Finem elaboratis in B. Paullum Commentariis imposuit, absoluta ad Philemonem Epistola, jamque omnia descripta habuit, praelis cum commoditas se offerret, committenda, quod ut contingeret pro votorum summo exoptavit. Huic Thuanus post elaboratus in B. Matthaeum & Lucam Commentaries auctor fuerat, ut in Paullum scriberet, & ille eo auctore munus injunctum alacriter susceperat; quod in eo interpretandi genere paucos admodum digne se exercuisse arbitraretur, nam extra caussam religionis diligentiam Th. Bezae laudabat, sed post ejus messem magnum sibi & aliis spicilegium relictum dicebat. Sed mala sorte accidit, ut haut multo post placidissima ejus morte secutares omnis ad haeredes devenerit, homines litigiosos, qui dum se Cadmea victoria utrinque conficiunt, pretiosam illam avunculi supellectilem dissipari & in manus alienas transire passi sunt, à quibus vix spes est ut redimi & ad publicam utilitatem prodire possint. Thuan. Comment. de vita sua l. 4.

We may judge of his great abilities, by those little Tracts de Coena Dominica, de Missae sacrificio, de Igne purgatorio, de Imaginum usu, and some other things that way, and likewise of his little difference from us in the weightiest points of our Religion, the more pity is it, that his excellent Notes on a great part of the New Testament should so unhappily perish after his death, as Thuanus relates.

p. 290Jo. Pierius Valerianus.

He hath written an admirable Discourse of the Egyptian **foreign, sive ut v…x sonat, sacrae scripturae, nihil aliud erant, quam animalium mutarumque rerum figurae, ab Aegyptiis loco literarum in sacris usurpatae, ne à vulgo intelligerentur. Haec ante papyri usum saxis insculpebant. Voss. de Arte Grammatica l. 1. c. 41.Hieroglyphicks.

Elegans opusculum Joannis Pierii Valeriani, quo agit de litteratorum infelicitate. Vossius de Histor. Lat.

Albertu… …ighius.

Dicunt Pontificii Pighium, alioqui Catholicum Doctorem, seductum ex lectione librorum Calvini. At Pighius ipse testatur, sententiam suam se è lectione scripturarum hausiffe: O Calvinum vel adversariorum testimonio beatum, cujus scripta tantum cum sacris scripturis consensum retinent, ut quod Pontificius Doctor celeberrimus fatetur se ex Sacrae Scripturae lectione habuisse, id alii Pontificii lectioni librorum Calvini tribuant. Profecto nisi Scholasticorum sententia cum manifestis scriptaris pugnasset, nunquam illam deseruisset Pighius. Episc. Carlet. Consens. Eccles. Cathol. contra Trident. De Gratia c. 3. Libros tuos de Hierarchiae Ecclesiasticae principatu cum legerem, plurimáque in illis invenirem, quae tua cura & diligentia in lucem è tenebris quasi vetustatis prolata sunt: scatereque ibidem omnia optimis & sententiis & autoritatibus cernerem: equidem ingenium, & doctrinam, & notitiam tuam rerum antiquarum sum admiratus. Sadoles. Epist. l. 16. Alberto Pighio Campensi. In libro de Hierarchia quo veluti acutissimo gladio Lutheri causam jugulavit, ferè nemini concessam pietatis & doctrinae laudem adeptus est. Paul. Jov. Elog. Doct. Vir.The greatest learned man of your side: B. Jewell often stiles him so in his Reply to D^r Cole.

Pontificiorum Archilles adversus Lutherum, qui totus noster est in causa Justificationis. Episc. Mortoni Antidotum contra merita. cap. 7. sect. 1.

Albertus Pighius felici ac versatili vir ingenio, qui cùm Theologiae atque Astronomiae cognitione naturalem quoque prudentiam, rerumque publicarum usum & intelligentiam conjunxit, eximia Latinae dictionis elegantia, quae scriberet ageretve comitante. Auberti Miraei Elog. Belg. Vide plura ibid.

Stephanus Pighius.

Vir de universâ antiquitate Romanâ praeclarè meritus. Voss. de Construct. c. 25.

Laurentius Pignorius, the great ornament of Italy, born Anno 1571.

Si Literatorum omnium calculum attente …pectas, sapientia, eruditione, latina facundia, moribus suavissimis summus. Illius laudes, aliorum de eo judiciis, & testimoniis, non minori facundia nobis Jacobus Thomasinus libello de ejus vita edito adumbravit. Leonis Allatii Apes Vrbanae. Commendavit illum in primis uberras scribendi mira, cui nullum ferè par alibi hac aetate. Quanti amicos ille suos fecerit, ejusdem docent Epistolicarum Symbolicarum libri: quibus cosdem immortalitate donare nisus est. Tomas. Elog. Vir. Illust.Vossius styles him Clarissimum, & diffusae reconditae que eruditionis virum.

He hath written Symbolae Epistolicae Epistolicall Symbols. The title of that Book is, Symbolarum Epistolicarum Liber primus, In quo nonnulla ex Antiquitatis, Iuriscivilis, & Historiae penu depromuntur & illustrantur, multaque Auctorum loca emendantur & explicantur.

There are also these Works of his,

Characteres Aegyptii, hoc est Sacrorum quibus Aegyptii utuntur Simulacrorum accurata delineatio.

De servis, & eorum apud veteres Ministeriis, Commentarius.

With other Latine and Italian books of his printed, mentioned there before his Epistles.

As he was well acquainted with Joannes Vincentius Pinellus, Marcus Velserus, Paulus Aicardus, Janus Gruterus, Hieronymus Aleander, and many other learned men, so he had Imagines virorum Clarissimorum in his study, many of those before mentioned, and also Bellarmine, Baronius, Francis Petrake, Pancirolus, Torquatus Tassus, Tully, Onufrius Panvinius.

Pindar one of the chief Greek Lyrick Poets.

Nemo tam ineptus imperitusque magi stellus est, qui non Pindarum legat, interpretetur: & quotusquisque est Graeculorum nostrorum, qui Pindarum intelligat? Heraldi Adversaria l. 2. c. 8. Fuisse novem Lyricos Poetas Graecos habitos celebres, quorum Pindar… tulerit palmam, nemo peritus literarum Graecarum ignorat; certè quadam spiritus (ut ita dicam) magnificentia, sententiis, figuris, rerumque ac verborum copia sic ille polluit, ut Horatius inimitabilem dixerit. Possev. Biblioth. Select. tom. 2. l. 17. c. 18.To whom it is peculiar suddenly to strike as it were, with a Divine Scepter, the p. 291mindes of men, by rare short sentences. S^r Francis Bacons Advancem. of Learn. l. 8. c. 1.

Pineda, he hath written a large Commentary on Joh in two Volumes.

Joannes Vincentius Pinellus, a learned Italian.Nascitur Anno M.D.XXXV. Vide Thuan. Hist. tom. 5. l. 126. & Pign. Symb. Epist. Ep. 22. Vir maximi quidem nominis, sed majoris tamen ingenii, & doctrinae. Voss. De Histor. Lat. l. 3. c. 8. Aetas nostra librorum tum veterum tum recentiorum oppidò ferax, paucos vidit in eo genere litterarum quas humaniores vocamus, quibus non inscriptum alicubi esset Pinelli nomen: & sanè decebat honorificè appellari eum, in cujus bibliotheca viri docti maxima studiorum suor… praesidio collocata intelligebant. Vita Joannis Vincentii Pinelli, Auctore Paulo Gualdo. Morum integritatem adeo adamavit, ut cum adolescens Patavii domum conduxisset è regione aedium clarissimae tunc temporis faeminae Constantiae Fulgosae, ad quas animi causa horis subcesivis ventitabant, quotquot Patavii runc ingenii laude florebant, nunquam tamen eo diverterit Pinellus, pudori suo labeculam quampiam adspergi posse ratus, si de instituto genere vitae aliquantulum remisisser. Quod sibi propositum ne excideret unquam, vitreas fenestras, per quas in lectissimae matronae ejúsque pulcherrimarum comicum cubicula introspectaret, pessulo obfirmatas perpetuò voluit, quod (ut aiebat) existimarer, nolle illas spectari se, molestéque tempestivè earum acta parùm exploraret. Id ibid.

He was skilled in Hebrew, Greek, Latine, Spanish, French.

He adorned the most inward rooms of his house with greater Geographicall Tables or Mapes, and with the Icones of illustrious men.

He had Books sent him out of all Europe. He is much commended by Gassendus in vita Peireskii p. 30, 31.

John Piscator.

He was an excellent Scripture-Divine, but no School-Divine, and therefore no marvell if he want the accuratenesse of Scholasticall expressions. D^r Twisse against Hoord, l. 2.

He hath written upon all the Scripture, and other Works.

Jo. Pistorius.

Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue.

Jo. Pitsaeus.

He hath written a Book de Scriptoribus Illustribus Britanniae.

He seems to slight Balaeus, and saith he took many thing out of Leland, whereas he never saw Leland, but took all out of Balaeus.

CHAP. VI.

FRanciscus Pithaeus, brother to Peter Pithaeus.

He hath put out Collectanea on Petronius.Nobile par fratrum. Petrus cognomento non tam Pithaeus quam Pithius. Ego enim à Graeca voce Deae Pithus nomen illi esse suspicor. …ap. Masson. Vide Turneb. Advers. l. 21. c. 28. Petrus Pithaeus J.C. clarissimus fugientes Gallia musas moratur cum paucis Casaub. Animadvers. in lib. 1. Sueton. Tristissimus de morte optimi, doctissimi, sapientissimi & amicissimi Petri Pithaei nuncius. Casaub. Epist 247. Thuano. Immortale illud Galliae decus quo viro digniorem omni laude alium ne historiae quidem continent. Casaub. not in Capitolinum. Vir summa probitate & eruditione. Scalig. de emendat. Temp. l. 6. Petrus Pithaeut J. C. ra…ae cujusdam eruditionis vir, natus ad eruenda vetustatis monumenta. Gesn. Biblioth. Thuanum nuntius oppressit mortis P. Pithaei viri & consiliorum & studiorum consensione sibi conjunctissimi, qui scribendae historiae auctor ipsi fuerat, quo perculsus parum abfuit, quin ea quae jam secerat, concerperet, tanto adjutore destitutus, & opus omnino relinqueret ad aliquot certe dies publico abstinuit, & multum de pristina hilaritate remisit, cum ducem studiorum undique circomspiciens frustra requireter, nec reperiter. Nam ad hoc quod instituerat, praecipue ejus opera utebatur; urpote qui magnam rerum nostrarum notitiam habebat, & subactum maximè judicium ad cas adhibebat, verique ac recti incorruptum amorem rara prudentia & aequirate temperabat, res Henrico II. gestae eo superstite scriptae & ab eo in parte recognitae & emendatae, & cum vivere desiit, earum exemplum penes se habebat, aliis amicis philologis ad alia utebatur. Thuan. Comment. De vita sua l. 6. Vide plura ibid. & ejus Hist. Tom. 5. l. 117. parte prima.

Pet. Pithaeus.

Casaubone never saw him (as Thuanus in the 6^th book of his Commentaries concerning his own life saith) yet how doth he extoll him?

He had rare and exact knowledge in all Antiquity, Ecclesiasticall history and other wayes.

His disposition was sweet, and he farre from all ambition and deceit, he was very prudent and skilfull in mannaging affairs.

p. 292Thuanus in the first part of the fifth Tome of his Hist. l. 117. much commends him, and at last concludes thus of him, that in the Civill Law of the Romans, he came to that height, that it might be justly said of him, and his most famous Master Cuiacius, Hunc discipulo praeripuisse, ne primus Jurisconsultus esset, illum praeceptori, ne solus.

All the great men of this age (saith Papirius Massonus in his Elogia) make honourable mention of him in their books, and some of these dedicate their Writings to him and his brother Francis, as the lights of France.

Many of his Books are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue.

Bartholomaeus **Illud verò mirandum, quod homo Theologus, in Mathematum studiis nullo nisi se magistro, eo usque progressus est: ut editis scriptis, disciplinae illius gloriam magnis Matheseos professoribus praeripuerit. Melchior Adam in ejus vita.Pitiscus.

Anno Dom. 1561.A Divine of profound Learning, of an acute wit, very methodicall and perspicuous in teaching and writing.

He was a very great Mathematician, and hath written severall Treatises of Triangles.

He saith in the Preface to one of his Books, Alii schacchia ludunt & talis: ego regula & circino, si quando ludere datur.

Plantavitzius.

He hath written a great Dictionary for the Hebrew, and other Works. Qui summo conamine libros Ebraicos sibi affatim comparavit, adjuvante praeceptore suo Ludovico Mathniensi. Seldenus de Syned. l. 3. c. 13.

Christopher Plantine.

A learned Printer, who hath been very usefull to the Commonwealth of Learning by Printing the King of Spains Bible, and many other excellent Works.

Christophori Plantini viri de Typographica arte, qua caeterae omnes illustrantur & vivunt, optime meriti, summam ingenii dexteritatem, admirabilem prudentiam, sedulam operam, infinitos labores, ac denique omnibus in rebus insignem diligentiam. nemo satis admirari, ac dignis laudibus extollere potest. Ariae Montani praefat. In Sac, Bib. Quadriling. Reg. edit.

Bartholomaeus Platina, Bartholomaeus Platina rather saith Vossius, and he gives reasons for it. Valde pronus ad notandas Pontificum maculas. Geneb Chronol. l. 4. Etsi turpiter & impudenter Papis adulatus sit: tamen nimia ipsorum turpitudine ac malitia Coactus aliquando, etiam subindicat Babyloniae meretricis nefanda scelera. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. l. 19. Inter caeteros qui pontificum res gestas memoriae tradiderunt, facilè princeps est, B. Platina, non solum ob eruditionem reconditam & longam rerum Ecclesiasticarum usum, sed etiam ob amplitudinem & plenitudinem ipsius operis quod edidit. Quem proinde doctissimus prudentissimusque vir Onuprius Panuinius dignissimum judicavit, quem non modo eruditissimis annotationibus suis illustrarer, sed & appendice quoque adjecta ad Pium usque quintum porrò expleret. Epist. Dedicat. ad Historiam Platinae De vitis Pontificum Romanorum. Vir fuit alioqui gravis & procul à mendacio, eóque praesertim admiratione dignior, quod jam provecta aetate, ac tirocinio posito, quod totum militiae prius tradiderat, literas didicit. Volat. Anthropol. l. 21.a most learned man. Some call him Baptista Platina, so Jac. Bergomus in suppl. Ch. and Albertus Leander in his description of Lombardy; others call him Bartholomaeus Platina, so Ang. Roccha and Volaterane, his Epistle to Jacobus Picolominaeus is so, Barth. Platina. Ja. Cardinali Papiensi.

He was especially famous for his Work de vitis Pontificum usque ad Paulum II. by whom he was cast into prison and detained four whole moneths, when he undertook to defend the cause of Pomponius Laetus, and other learned men, which were said to have conspired against him.

He was great with Pope Sixtus the 4^th, and by him made keeper of the Vaticane Library.

Anno Christi 1536.Felix Platerus, a learned and pious Physitian.

Joannes Posthius thus played on his name,

Cùm felix animo, felix sis divite censu,

Felicis nomen convenienter habes.

His Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue.

p. 293Plato, he was an Athenian Philosopher; he was called foreign, that is, Divine, for his rare wisdom.Ratio dicendi facunda, dulcis, amoena, veneribus depluens, flumen lacteum diceres, labi sine murmure, & in tuas aures, in ora, in intima pectora suaviter inundare. Hunc Marcus, Plutarchus, Galenus, Proclus, Longinus, Demetrius. & omnes quotquot sunt ethnicorum auctorum principes, plena laudant manu. Divi ipsi, Augustinus, Hieronymus, Justinus, Basilius, Gregorius, Clemens, Theodoretus, honorificè appellant. Caussin. Eloq. Sac. & Human. Paralel. l. 2. c. 22. Philosophorum, quis dubitet Platonem esse praecipuum, sive acumine dis…erendi, sive eloquendi facultate divina quadam & Homerica? Multum enim supra prosam orationem, & quam pedestrem Graeci vocant, surgit: ut mihi non hominis ingenio, sed quodam Delphico videatur oraculo instructus. Quintil. Institut. Orat. l. 10 c. 1. Anno M. 3525. Philosophorum Deus nascitur: Cum parvulus aliquando dormi…et, apes facundiae omen in labellis ejus consederunt. Calvis. Chron.

When Tully commended any of the Philosophers, he still added, Semper excipio Platonem: Pliny cals him Sapientiae Antistitem. Plato ille sublimis apex philosophorum & columen. Arnob. Adversus Gentes l. 1.

He had his name Plato from his broad shoulders.

His Works are in one Volume.

Plautus. He is called Musarum decima & linguae Latinae decus, Varro dicit Musas Aelii Stolonis sententia Plautino sermone locuturas fuisse, si Latinè loqui vellent. Quintil. Instit Orat. l. 10. Plautum ut Comicum, Terentium ut loquutorem admirabor. Scalig. Hypercrit. c. 2. Vide Stradae prolus. l. 3. praelect. 2, & 3.musarum ille & Gratiarum hortus.

He was born at Sarsina an ancient City at the fo…t of the Appenine in Lombardy.

Taubman before his excellent Commentary, hath many Elogia of Plautus.

C. Plinius.Anno Aerae Christianae 68. Plinius junior 79. Helv. Chron. Maxima priscorum negligentia. Dum rerum naturas profitentur, elenchis nominum tantum coacervatis, nobis plus inquirendum, quam si nihil prodidissent, reliquerunt. Inter quos princeps Plinius, dum studet nihil intactum relinquere, importuna festinatione praeceps, pro epulis apponit titulos convivis. Scalig. De Subtil. Advers. Cardanum exercit. 207. Tantus vir, ut non mirum sit si vulgus illum improbet, cum minime auctor vulgaris sit. Jos. Scal. Francisco Vertuniano suo inter opusc. Hoc tene, Plinium eruditissimum suae aetatis hominem, Latinae elegantiae observantissimum non mirum aliquando in vertendis Graecis hallucinari. Hoc non solum illi sed & Ennio, Attio, Ciceroni accidit. At quibus viris qui sunt columina priscae Latinitatis. Jos. Scal. Francisco Vertuniano inter. opusc. Plinius Veronensis, naturalis historiae scriptor. Neronis aevo clarescere caepit: imprimis autem Vespasiani & Filii temporibus floruit. Praeter eximium ac nunquam satis laudatum opus Historiae naturalis, multa scripsit alia, quae tempora nobis inviderunt. Voss de Histor. Lat. l. 1. c. 29.

He wrote 37 Books of the History of the world, and was Uncle to him who wrote the Epistles, as the Epistle 16. l. 6. ad Cornelium Tacitum shews. The whole Epistle is about the death of the elder Pliny, and begins thus, Petis ut tibi avunculi mei exitum scribam, &c.

He sometimes labours more to write much, then exactly.

Plinius ille diligens totius antiquitatis pervestigator, qui nullam bibliothecam praetermisse videtur, quam non excusserit & perlustrarit. Onid. Fab. In N.T. Syr. Lat. Interpret. Praefat.

Passeratius hath these verses,

In Plinii naturalem Historiam.

Cuncta suo amplexu magnus si continet orbis,

Plinius & to tum solus complectitur orbem:

Quisquis erit magni complexus scripta Secundi,

Ipso major eris, rerum qui maximus orbe.

C. Plinius Caecilius. He wrote six books of Epistles,Vide Baud. Orat. In Plin. Pan. Aschams Schoolmaster, 2^d part. Plinius secundus bibliotheca integra ac plane justa, tantis rerum ac verborum divitlis. Quis se illo praeterito Philologum audebit profiteri. Ludovic. Viv. de tradend. discip. l. 3. and a Panegyrick to Trajane the Emperour.

Plinius secundus the purest Writer in mine opinion of all his age, I except not Suetonius, his two Schoolmasters, Quintilian and Tacitus, nor his most excellent learned Uncle.

p. 294Stephanus Paschasius hath these verses of him in his Icones,

Me lege; nec Plinium credas legisse secundum.

Nulli ego dum vixi quippe secundus eram.

Rursus & auctorem tu ne legisse putato:

En tibi sum larga Bibliotheca penu.

Edm Ployden, a grave man and singularly well learned in the Law.

Sir Edw. Cook pref to his 3^d part of his Reports cals them exquisite and elaborate Commentaries. Sir Edw. Cookes Pref. to his 11^th Rep.His Commentaries, consisting of two parts, both of them learnedly and curiously polished, and published by himself, the one in Anno 13. Reg. Eliz. and the other in the 21 year of the same Queen, Works (as they well deserve) with all the professors of the Law of high account. The author was an ancient Apprentice of the Law, of the middle Temple, of great gravity, knowledge, and integrity.

Plutarke was born in the City of Chaeronea, Ammonius was his Schoolmaster.Fuit natione Boeotus, patriâ Chaeronensis, Sacerdos Pythii Apollinis. Voss. de Hist. Graec. l. 2. c. 10. Anno Aerae Christianae 96 Helv. Chron. Vir & nobili prosapia natus, & Tra…ano apprimè charus, à quo & Consul factus est; & nulli (ut ego opinor) in Historiis secundus. Crakanth. De Provid. Dei. Non Historiam propriè sed particulas historiae scripsit & ablegit, illustrium virorum vitas. Sed dignus tamen, si quis alius, Principe scriptor, qui judicium mirifice format, & diffusa ac plana quadam scribendi via ad virtutem ubique & Prudentiam ducit, sed ad illam magis: & nisi fallor, melior omnino quam acutior doctor. Lips. not. in 1. lib. Polit. Est quod in eo miremur liberum de re quaque judicium, ut non tam historicus quam principum censor esse videatur: sic tamen existimo, si quis idoneus est earum rerum arbiter; aut Plutarchum esse aut neminem, quid enim tantam sapientiam latere potuit. Bodin. Meth. Hist. c. 4. Consulari à Trajano dig…ltate ornatum fuist…, auctor est Suidas. Fuit Plutarchus vir undecunque doctissimus, idem philologus, philosophus, & historicus summus. Magnam enim horum trium scientiam undique ejus scripta spirant. Quin habitus etiam fuit orator bonus. Tamen dissimulare non possum, dictionem ejus gravem quidem esse, sed duriusculum videri. Verùm leviculum hunc defectum multijugâ adeò scientiâ abunde summus vir compensat. Voss. De Histor. Graec. lib. 2. cap. 10.

He was a grave and very learned Authour.

He lived under Domitian and Nerva, but flourished especially under Trajane. He was his Schoolmaster, and dedicated the Collection of his Apothegmes to him.

It was said of him, if all Authours were lost he alone might supply. Ita judico caeterorum scriptorum jacturam vel unius Plutarchi operibus resarciri posse. Frischlinus in defensione Aristophanis.

His Lives and Morals were his best Works. His Lives make an abridgement of all the best things contained in the Greek and Latine Histories.

He was a follower of Plato, but an enemy to the Epicures and Stoicks.

Plutarchus totius antiquitatis rimator, & indaegator tam curiosus, libro aureo de sera numinis vindicta. Herald. Animadvers. In Salmas. Observat. Ad Jus Att. & Rom. l. 4. c. 4.

Historiam hic alii mores sophiamque colamus;

Nullus erit geminum qui tibi praestet opus.

Hoc Cherronensis studium conjuxit utrunque

Historiae mores, moribus Historiam.

Steph. Paschas. Icon.

Theodorus Gaza a Grecian born, of singular learning, being once asked by his familiar friends, which saw him so greatly affectioned to his study, what Authour he would choose amongst many, if he could keep but one alone, he answered Plutarke, because there is none so profitable and delightfull also to reade as he.

Eximius vir, non sine honorificâ modestiae, candoris ac literaturae omnis generis praefatione nominandus. Dickinsoui Delphi Phoenicizantes, c. 10. De quo merito dubites utram majorem doctrinâ an à modestia laudem mereatur. Id. ibid.Edward Pocock, the worthy Professor of the Hebrew and Arabick Tongues in Oxford.

He is honourably mentioned by Gerhard on Peter, and other outlandish men.

His learned notes in Specimen hist. Arabum, and Miscellaneous Notes in Portam Mosis give good evidence of his abilities, and I hope as he in the book last quoted p. 295very learnedly and profitably handleth the places of Scripture which he treateth of, so he will improve his knowledge in the Orientall Tongues for the illustrating of divers passages in Scripture.

Joannes Franciscus Poggius Florentinus, a Lawyer and Doctor of Divinity, naturally eloquent, especially in accusations and invectives.Vir quidem facetus & dicteriis clarus, pauloque amarior quam par erat. Boiss. Icones. Boxhor. Elog. Laurent. Vallae. Liber ejus facetiarum non inficetissimus modo sed etiam impurissimus, & planè flammis dignus est. Boxhorn. Monum. Illust. Vir. & Elog. Voss. De Histor. Lat. l. 3. Scripsit facetias spurcitiarum opus turpissimum, & aquis incendioque dignum. Gesn. Biblioth.

He was facetious but too bitter, he wrote two books sharply against Laurentius Valla, to whom Valla replied as sharply.

His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones.

He wrote some obscene things, worthy to be burnt rather then read.

He was at the Councell of Constance, where he is said to have found Quintilian and Asconius Pedianus.

Amandus Polanus, the ornament of the University of Basill.

His Syntagma Theologiae Christianae, Commentary upon Daniel, Malachy, Obiit anno Dom. 1610. Illustres in hoc fuerunt vera pietas & solida eruditio. Valuit enim ingenio juxta & judicio: scientia linguarum principum & Ecclesiasticae antiquitatis. Amicitiam coluit cum viris & Theologis insignibus Theodoro Beza, Daniele Tossano, Georg. Sohnio, Gulielmot Stuckio, Pareo, Pitisco, & aliis. Melchior Adam in ejus vita.and other learned Works shew his abilities.

Angelus Politianus, Ex monte Politiano Hetruriae oppido, natus est Anno Domini 1454. Boiss. Icon. Politianus elaboratus, verba ejus bona & usui communi apta, officiosis duntaxat, nam gravitatis minus habet quam vellem: & dum selectas quasdem vel voculas, vel dicendi formulas quasi genuinas avet ostentare, longius circumducit lectorem, pluribus tum verbis tum sensu orationem onerans quam erat opus. Lud. Viv. de tradend. discip. l. 3. Politiani musae plurimum suavitatis habent, multo sale, argutiis veneribus conditae, sed ex ejus epigrammatis extirpanda sunt foeda illa gentili nedum Christiano indigna. Lud. Viv. ibid. Habuit nostra haec aetas bonarum literarum proceres duos, Hermolaum Barbarum, atque Angelum Polioianum, Deum immortalem, quam foelici ingenio, quam acri judicio, quantâ facundiâ, quantâ linguarum, quan…â disciplinarum omniú scientia praeditos. Eras. Epist. l. 4. Epist. 8. Vide plura ibid. Inter ea ingenia quae restaurandis literis cum favente fato praefuerunt, vel cum primis nescio etiam an ullo pare, semper ego aestimavi Angelum Politianum, tanta in eo viro dexteritas quocun que literarum se verteret, fuit ut nec nunc satis admirari dotes incomparabiles possit, licet nonnunquam tanto Heroi iniquior posteritas. Melancth. tom. 3. declamationum. Angelum nostrum non nisi semel sacrum codicem legisse, adeo que dixisse nullum tempus se unquam pejus collocasse, commemorat, ut & Ludovicus Vives, & ex eo Philippus Mornaeus c. 26. divini libri de verit. Relig. Christ. nec ullo idoneo teste, quod dicunt confirmant, & eo ipso satis siquidem confutantur, quod ipsem et Politianus de se scribit, sese quadragesimali tempore publicè populo sacras litteras enarrasse l. 4. Epist. 10. Boxhorn. Monum. Illust. Vir. & Elog. Vide Vossium de Poetis Latinis c. 7.so called à Monte Politiano, a Town in Hetruria.

He had not his fellow among all those that flourished in his age, as we may see by his Works.

He was most skilfull in the Greek and Latine tongue, a famous Grammarian, Oratour and Poet.

Huic me puero à multis primae deferebantur. Mira ejus omnino eruditio, vehemens & paratum ingenium, jugis & frequens lectio, sed calore potius quam arte versus scripsisse videtur, judicii utique parum cùm in seligendo, tum in castigando habuisse visus est. Lil. Gyrald. De Poet. nost. Temp. Dial. 1.

In his youth he did first make the Greek Poet Homer to speak in the Latine Tongue.

Politian in the preface to his Miscel. saith thus, Ac non id quaesivimus: ut aliquam doctis hominibus veluti labeculam aspergeremus: sed id cavimus potius: ne sub illorum auctoritate studiosorum fides periclitaretur.

See a commendation of his Miscellanies l. 3. Epist. 18. & 19. & l. 6. Epist. 4 & l. 7. Epist. 4.

His severall Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones.

Julius Pollux.Anno Aerae Christianae 180. Helv. Chron. Varietatem & copiam verborum suggerer, lectore tamen indiget doctissimo, nam innuit magis peritis, quam docet imperitos. Lud. Viv. de tradend. Discip. l. 3.

He lived in the time of Commodus the Emperour.

There is his Onomasticon Gr. Lat.

p. 296Reginaldus Polus Cardinalis.

Vir suit Polus egregiè doctus, modestus, mansuetus, & moribus suapte natura placidissimis, prudens etiam & in rebus gerendis magnae dexteritatis; ut nihil in eo desiderares, si Pontificia doctrina depravatus, ad crudelitatem in verae religionis professores exercendam, quasi in vita minerva & genio exclamante non deflexisset. Godwinus De Praesulibus Angl. Comment. Hunc Henricus octavus Rex maximè adolescentem amavit, non modò quia paterni maternique sanguinis cognatione atque necessi…udine conjunctus ei fuit, verum etiam quod literis & doctrina Regiam quondam illustrare stirpem, & Regni administrationi summo fibi adjumento esse posse sperabat. Antiq. Britan. p. 344, 345. Polus noster, homo haud paulo plus omnibus bonis artibus clarus, quam nobilitate, qua est a Britanniae regibus. Bemb. l. 3. Epist. Sadoleto. Homo & laude virtutis & nobilitate praestans Reginaldus Polus. Sadol. l. 2. Epist. Petro Bembo.He was of a very Noble extraction, being near of kinne to King Henry the 8^th, both by the Father and Mothers side, and a good Scholer.

In quo sanguinis nobilitas (nam proxima cognatione Regem contigebat) & morum gravitas cum eximia doctrina conjuncta extitit. Godw. Rerum Anglic. Annal. l. 2. p. 95. Vide etiam l. 3. p. 133.

In Calvins Epistles and Answers Bullinger writes to Calvin, that England had returned to the Pope and Popery, and that the devil to recover it had used two speciall instruments, the Bishop of Winchester within the Kingdom, and Cardinall Poole without it, who then was made Archbishop of Canterbury. And he shews there that Cardinall Poole was received with great solemnity at Pauls Crosse in London; and that the Bishop of Winchester in that Assembly revoked the Oration which he had before published under Henry the 8^th, de Obedientia, and that Cardinall Poole when he spake to Queen Mary, blasphemously used the words of the Angell, Ave Maria gratia plena, Dominus tecum.

He died the same day that Queen Mary died.

CHAP. VII.

POlyander à Kerckoven, Doctor of Divinity in Leyden.

He hath put out Concertatio Anti-Sociniana.

Polybius.Multa & praeciara, libris XL. Composuit: sed pars pleraque aut tora periit, aut mutilata ad nos venit cum fraude generis humani. Recta & salutaria ubique ejus monita: & quem ego hoc magis Principibus commendatum velim: quod anxia in eum inquisitione non opus sed sensus suos aperit & revelat ipse. Lips. not. ad 1. lib. Polit. Polybius omnium, qui nobis supersunt historiae Romanae scriptorum vetustissimus. Possev. Biblioth. Select tomo 2^do l. 16. c. 12. Vide Whear. Meth. leg. Hist. Sect. 13. Polybius non modo aequalis ubique ac sui similis: sed etiam intelligens, gravis, in laudibus parcus, in reprehensionibus acerbus, ac veluti prudens legislator & bonus imperator, multa de militari urbanaque disciplina, multa de historici officio disputat: scripsit autem historias omnium ferè populorum, qui suis temporibus floruerunt ab orbe condito ter millesimo sexcentesimo octogesimo, usque ad annum ter millesimum septuagesimum sextum, sed ex libris XL. quos scripsit XXXIV. interciderunt Bodin. Method. Hist. l. 4. Vide Voss. de Histor. Graec. l. 1. c. 19.

A learned Historian.

Polycarpus, a Tree that bare much fruit according to his name.

Quo viro post Apostolos, quorum familiaris tuit, vix ullus apud Christianos unquam fuit sanctior aut divinior. Dallaeus de Pseudepig. Apost. l. 2. Episcopus & Martyr, unam scripsit Epistolam egregiam ad Philippenses, quae cum Epistolis sancti Ignatii circumfertur. Bellarm. De Script. Eccles. Discipulus Joannis Evangelistae, & eruditionis & sanctitatis nomine per celebris, floruit circa 140. annum Domini, aut paulò post. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. l. 2.He lived in the time of Ignatius, and drew the doctrine of the Gospel from the mouth of the Apostles, as a most pure fountain. Irenaeus saith of him, Hic docuit semper quae ab Apostolis didicerat: & Ecclesiae tradidit, quae sola sunt vera.

Arnoldus Pontacus.

Vossius terms him doctissimum & diligentissimum, and l. 2. De vitiis Sermonis, c. 3. Arnoldus Pontacus in iis, quae ad B. Hieronymi Chronicon magnâ industriâ, nec doctrina minore, annotavit.

p. 297Jo. Isaacius Pontanus, the King of Denmarks Historiographer,He hath written Rerum Danicarum historiae l. 10. and divers other works. Recordari enim debes paucorum annorum spatio quot & quales viros amiserimus, Picun…, Politianum, Pontanum, Pamponium, Hermolaum; qui quidem omnes uno tempore floruerunt. Bomb. Epist. Fam. l. 4. Philippo Beroaldo Minori. a learned Historian.

Vossius honourably mentions him, lib. De constructione c. 63.

Johannes Jovianus **Vir Clarissimus, Alphonsi Minoris Neapolitani regis praeceptor, cujus opera erudita & varia tribus tomis etiamnum excusa reperiuntur. Neand. Geog. Parte 1^a.Pontanus.

Nulli sui saeculi Poetae, aut Oratori, scribendo vel docendo cessit. Boissardi Bibliotheca.

His Works are mentioned by Boissard.

Lud. de Ponte Romanus.

Ludovicus Pontanus commonly sirnamed Romanus, because among all the Doctors of the Law, he chose his dwelling within Rome. He had so happy a memory, that he never alleadged the Law (and he alleaged it often) but he presently rehearsed its text all along without book.

Ansonius aaEst profecto exempli perquam rari, & proinde cedro digni, in una eademque familia, quatuor Germanos fratres pariter ad tantum eruditionis culmen pervenisse, ut intet coryphcos eruditorum merito censeri pòssint. Suffridus Pet. De Script. Fris.Popma.

Suffridus Petrus mentions three of his brethren as learned, Cyprianus a Popma, Sixtus a Popma, and Titus a Popma.

His book De differentiis verborum is of good use.

PorchetusbbGalatinus ejus compilator fuit. Wakfeild. Syntag. de Hebraeorum codicum incorruptione.

Some say Galatinus took all out of him, Porchetus and he both out of Martinus Raymundus his Pugio.

There is his Victoria adversus Hebraeos, a book well esteemed of.

Porphyrius. He was Plotinus his Scholer, and Jamblichus his Master: he wrote fourteen books against the Christians, which he deadly hated.Anno Aerae Christianae 269. Helv. Chron. 280. Jac. Fris. Bibl. Phil. Ejus Isagoge in Aristot. organum, sive de quinque vocibus ubique Aristotelis organo praeponi solet. Gesn. Biblioth. Magnum hujus inter philosophos, ac sophistas, nomen fuit. Sed inter historicos quoque jure optimo referri, nemo inficias iverit, qui sciat… …hilosophorum vitas scripsisse. Voss. De Histor. Graec. l. 2. c. 16. He was a wicked and ungodly Jew of the kindred and sect of the Sadduces, an enemy of Christ, a hater of God and his Word.

He wrote many books in Philosophy, Rhetorick, Grammer, and commented upon some of Aristotles books. Ejus adeo exosum & execrabile nomen, ut in edictis Imperatorum profligatissimi quique haeretici, Porphyriani dicerentur. Crakanth. De providentia Dei.

Gilbertus Porretanus. Anno Dom. 114.

There are his

6 Principia.

In quatuer Lib. Boethii de Trinitate.

Jo. Baptista Porta.

He discovers many rare and exquisite things.

He hath published severall Works,

De miraculis naturae.

De Furtivis literarum notis.

Magia naturalis.

De hum. Physiognomia.

De Distillationibus, and other Works.

p. 298Joan. Vincentius Porta.Ausim dicere, Vi…tentio Porta paucos me vidisse doctiores, homo est incredibilis eruditionis. Wower. Epist. Cent. 2. Epist. 6. Jano Gru…ero.

Joannes Posselius, a pious and learned man.

Hesiodus Analyticus.

Syntaxis Graecae linguae.

Colloquia.

Apophthegmata Graecae linguae.

Calligrophia Oratoria lingua Graecae, a book most profitable to get the propriety, elegancy and plenty of the Greek language. Liber hic certe magno labore & studio ex variis auctoribus Graecis est collectus, continetque tum phrases ac formas loquendi elegantiores, tum vocabula simplicia & synonima, item particularum usum, additis ubique tabulis, & probatorum auctorum illustribus exemplis: dignus qui ab omnibus serio Graecari, & Graece ac Latine scribendi exercitium conjungere volentibus, nocturna diurnaque manu versetur. Melch. Ad. in ejus vita.

Ant. Possevinus, Possevini Bibliotheca selecta, quamvis admodum manca & mutila (ex livore scil. & praetenso odio haereseforeign; quo fit ut innumeros praestantissimos autores praetereat) lectu tamen utilissima. Voet. Biblioth. l. 2. Sect. prior. c. 1.an Italian of Mantua.

Some dislike him, he hath put all Campians reasons into his book, D^r Raynolds therefore styles him Campiani haeres ex asse, and was wont to say of him, that he had need of a broom.

He was born in the Palatinate Anno 1537.Joannes Posthius, a learned Physitian and Poet.

He wrote excellent Poems intitled Parerga poetica. Some Anotomicall Observations, and other things belonging to Physick.

Gul. Postellus, Gulielmus Postellus, non sine honore mihi nominandus, quippe qui nobis Arabicae linguae praeceptiones tradiderit. Bibliander De Ratione Communi omnium Linguarum, c. 2. Qui Philosophiae & Mathematicarum artium studia primum professus, & inde longinquis peregrinationibus linguarum exterarum ac maximè Orientalium cognitionem adeptus, innumera exotici gustus scripta passim in Italia, Germania, & apud nos edidit. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 74. Vide plura ibid.a good Linguist, but he was mad, he held that Adams soul was in him, and other gross opinions.

He was the first of Christians which published the rudiments of the Arabick Grammer.

There are these Works of his,

De Linguaram 12 differentium Alphab.

Clavis absconditorum aeternae veritatis.

De Phaenicum Lit.

De Orbis Terrae concordia.

De Etruriae Origine.

Gabriel Powel.

There is his

Disput. de Antichristo.

De adiaphoris.

His resolved Christian.

His Positions of Usury in two Volumes in 8⁰, and other Works.

Godeschalcus Praetorius.

Vir omni literarum, linguarum & doctrinarum genere praestantissimus. Neand. Geog. parte 1^a.A noble Poet made this Verse upon him, Bis septem linguas, sophiam omnem calluit unus.

Regnerus Praedinius the learned Rector of the School at Groning.Praedinius vocarit voluit, quod nari & in praediis esset natus. Procedebant ex ejus Schola adolescentes ita fideli…er instituti, ac tam solidè docti, ut cum ad Academias se conferrent, omnibus essent admirationi. Vit. Profes. Gron.

His Works are published in one Volume.

p. 299Hieronymus Pragensis, a Bohemish Divine, who was truly worthy of a holy name, a Martyr also of Christ, as John Hus was,Praecipuis Galliae & Germaniae Academiis singularis ingenii doctrinaeque laude cognitus fuit. Ornatus erat miranda & plane divina eloquentia, nec non animi fortitudine & constantia singulari. Unde amplius 340. diebus immanissimi carceris fordibus & injurtis fuerat detentus causâ religionis. Boissardi Icones. and was burned at Constance Anno 1416.

D^r John Preston, a learned and profound Divine.

His Treatise of the Divine Essence and Attributes, and his Sermons upon the Sacraments, with other Works are of great use.

John Prideaux, Doctor of Divinity and Bishop of Worcester, the Learned Professor of Divinity heretofore in Oxford.

His Lectures and Orations in Latine, and other Works have made him famous both here and beyond sea.

Sylvester de Prierio.

He hath written Case-Divinity, called Summa Sylvestriana, and severall books against Luther for which the Pope sent him a golden Rose.

Gilbert Primerose.

A learned Scotchman who was a French Preacher at Bourdeaux, and after one of the Preachers in the French Church at London.

He hath put out severall French books,

La Trompette de Syon.

Le Voeu de Jacob opposè aux voeux des Moynes.

La defense de la Religion reformee par passages de l' Escripture.

Many of his Works are translated into English.

David **D^r Prideaux when he answered in the Divinity Schools for Bachelor in Divinity, said thus to him, Accepimus responsionem tuam mi fili, tanquam adventantis veris gratissimam primam Rosam.Primerose his son was Preacher at Roane in France.

He put out These… Theologicae.

De Peccato in genere & specie.

De Necessitate satisfactionis pro peccato per Christum.

De Divina praedestinatione, & annexis articulis.

A Treatise against the morality of the Sabbath.

Priscianus ccErom Priscus, or Praesciae, because he was well skilled in the liberall Arts. Floruit anno aerae Christi 526. Calvis. Chronol. 527. Helv., a famous Grammarian.

Priscus & nomine & fide Grammaticus. Voss. l. 1. De Analog. c. 19.

We call incongruous Latine, the breaking of Priscians head, as if to speak and write well by a speciall right belonged to him.

Proclus. Casanbone saith he had the best memory of any that he ever saw or read of.Is cùm esset Olympiodori auditor, hominis facundi & cujus dicentis oratio non fluebat, sed torrentis instar ferebatur, ut pauci dicta ejus afsequerentur, solitus à recitatione omnia quae dixisset Olympiodorus totidem atque iisdem verbis reddere. Casaub. in Spart. not. Licet logica seviter instructus, attamen eximius Mathematicus fuit. Certè libris & monimentis ejus recensendis libro fuerit opus, ita multiplices unius ingenii …oe…s memorantur, Geometricarum verò in Euclidem expositionum libri quatuor diligentiam magnam testantur. Atque utinam, ut in primum Euclidis librum industrius esse voluit fic in reliquos parem industriam continuasset: sed videtur aliis viam laboris indicare voluisse, laboris ipsius parte co…entus fuisse. Tantus igitur Mathematicus Proclus fuisse. Rami Scholae Mathematicae. Sunt quidem Procli libri tres Graecè scripti; quos ille in primum Euclidis librum edidit; valde, ut audio, probati. Bembi Epist. Fam. l. 6.

He was a great Mathematician, and famous Platonick Philosopher.

Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue.

Procopius Gazeus, Anno Dom. 530. a most grave Historian of the Romans,527. Helv. Chron. who lived in the times of the Gothes and Vandals, and was well skilled in the Originall and Manners of both Nations.

Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue.

p. 300Propertius.Propertius facilis, candious, verè elegiacus, tersior tamen quam existimatus est à criticis, nam & amat quaedam quae minimè sunt vulgaria. Scalig. Hypercrit. c. 1. Malè audiunt amorum treviri, Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, quòd pudoris nullam habuerint ra…ionem, & tot infamibus chartis sese posteriati traduxerint. Dilber. Disput. Academ. Tomo 1⁰ p. 252. Tanta versuum Propertii jucunditas & amaenitas est, ut eos dictantibus Gratiis à poeta exceptos censeas. Tantùm optarem ad aliam potiùs quam amatoriam materiam beatam illam & candidam ingenii venam contulisset: ut juvent…ti tutius legi posser. Tu…neb. Advers. l. 11. c. 15.

He was excellent and singular (saith Pliny) in Elegies.

Propertium qui non amat, eum profecto Musae non amant. Lipsius l. 2. antiq. lect. cap. 10.

Vmbria parva tibi tantum debere fatetur,

Quantum Callimacho Graecia magna suo.

Steph. Pasch. Icones.

Lepidissimus & nitidissimus Poeta Propertius. Turneb. Advers. l. 8. c. 2.

Prosper of Aquitane, Aquitanus sive Aquitanicus vocatur à patria, non ab Episcopatus loco. Voss. Hist. Pelag. l. 1. c. 18. Librum scripsit de ingratis quo nomine semper Pelagianos ille designat, ex haeresiarchae Pelagii cineribus exortos. Episc. Vsser. De Britan. Eccles. Primord. c. 8. Hilarii aequalis. Multa praeclara scripsit pro gratia Christi contra Pelagianos, seque S. Augustini discipulum & defensorem acerrimum demonstravit. Bellarm. De Script. Eccles.from his Country, not the place of his Bishoprick, as Baronius.

He wrote about the year of our Lord 450.

Proverbs. They shew the genius and wit of a Nation.

Argutae hae brevesque loquendi formulae quamvis è trivio petitae, & plebi frequentatae, suas habent veneres, & genium cujusque gentis penes quam celebrantur, atque acumen ostendant. Salmasius Levino Warnero.There are the Proverbs of the Grecians collected ex Zenobio Diogeniano & Suidae collectaneis, by Andreas Schottus.

Erasmus his Latine Adagies are full of Learning.

Amongst the Europaeans, the Spaniards, Italians, French, English, Dutch, excell in them. Gruter hath put out Proverbia Italica, Gallica, Belgica, Germanica, Britannica.

Vide Scalig. Epist. l. 1. Epist. 65.For the Eastern people Erpenius hath put out two Centuries of Arabick Proverbs, with his own and Scaligers interpretation: and Levinus Warnerus a Century of Persian Proverbs with Notes.

Andreas Schottus hath put out, Adagialia sacra N. Testamenti Gr. Lat. selecta atque exposita. Joach. Zehnerus hath published also Adagia Sacra.

The Hebrews have two speciall wise Sentences, as De Dieu in the entrance to Xaverius his Persian History of Christ, observes,

Nullum foramen acus augustum est duobus amicis: Nec satis latus est universus mundus duobus inimicis. No hole of a needle is narrow to two friends, nor is the whole world broad enough to two enemies.

Quemnam hominum diliges maximè? Responsio, Eum cujus multa sunt beneficia erga me, quod si talis non detur; contra quem sunt multa delicta mea. Whom wilt thou love best? The answer, Him who hath bestowed many benefits on me, but if there be none such, him whom I have much offended.

Poeta Christianus, floruit sub Theodosio seniore & filiis ejus scripsit egregia carmina. Bellarm. De script. Eccles. Fuit homo multae quidem eruditionis ac variae, verum in eloquentia ac linguae castitate vel parum valuit, vel potius neglexit, desiderio viz. pietatis ac fidei: quod ipse innuit cum alibi, tum in hymno octo decim martyrum. Lil. Gyrald. De Poet. Histor. Dial. 5. Historiam Christianam inpuit iis quae, inter alia, de variorum Martyrum pasionibus scripsit, carmine quidem; sed ex quo tamen petere rei gestae veritatem soleant, qui hanc materiem prosa prosequuntur. Voss. De Histor. Lat. l. 2. c. 10.Aurelius Prudentius, Anno Dom. 380.393. Helvic.

A learned Spaniard, one cals him the Christian Pindar.

He hath left many Poems witnesses of his piety and zeal to Christian Religion, among which are those which he hath written against Symmachus.

p. 301Claudius Ptolomaeus.Ptolomaeus omnium primus hanc disciplinam ad certiorem rationem redegit, commentus dimensionem latitudinis, universi orbis à polo ad polum, longitudinis ab exortu ad occasum, adhibitâ collatione terrae habitabilis ad caelum, ut jam non facilè quis toto (quemadmodum aiunt) caelo possit aberrare. Eras. Epist. l. 28 Epist. 19. Hipparchus primus omnium ex collatione suarum, & Timochatis observationum deprehendit stellas fixas locum mutare: hoc tamen vix receptum sero tandem Ptolomaeus in usum revocavit, & solidis rationibus illustravit. Jos. Scal. Epist. 2. inter Opusc. Post.

A learned Aegyptian, of a deep and long reach in the knowledge of Astronomy, and other Mathematicall sciences.

He flourished under Marcus Antoninus Emperour of Rome.

There are three esteemed miracles of nature amongst the Learned, Plato, Aristotle, Ptolomy, which the Ancients, especially the Platonicks adorn with three divers Elogies. Plato is styled foreign, Aristotle foreign, quasi supra sortem humanam, Ptolomy foreign admirandus, to be admired, to whom this is singular and plainly wonderfull, that he alone, or certainly alone after Aristotle, hath published books in four divers faculties, every one of which in its kinde may be esteemed the chief with posterity.

His Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones.

Ptolomaeus Philadelphus.Ita dictus quod sororem Arsinoen duxerit, celebris munificentia erga literas, extructa Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Qua occasione etiam Biblia in Graecum sermonem conversa. Helv. Chron. Magna liberalitate Ptolomaeus Philadelphus studia literarum fovit, unde factum est, ut ex omni Graecia eruditi, Alexandriam confluxerint, inter quos enituere Aratus, Apollonius, Theocritus, Licophron, Nicander Philicus, Homerus junior, omnes Poetae, qui cum numero septem essent, Pleiades dicti sunt. Deinde Aristarchus Grammaticus, Conon & Hipparchus Mathematici, quorum opera liberalia studia Alexandriae excitata sunt. Ante Christum natum 283. Calvis. Chronol. Alexandriâ conditâ, quia Aegyptus in Macedonum esset potestare, charrae per Graeciam vulgaris esse usus caepit: usque dum ex aemulatione inter Ptolomaeos & Pergamenos Reges (de bibliothecae nobilitare certabant) Rex Aegyptius vetuit chartam Aegypti efferri. Tum Pergamenus Rex ne ab studio priori remitteretur, curavit, ut membranarum longe major esset copia. Atque exinde passim in Graecia membranis caepit abundari. Quae Pergamenae dictae, quia optimae Pergamo adserrentur. Voss. De Arte Grammat. l. 1. c. 38. Vide Crocium in Ficin. De Relig. Christ. c. 26. & Camerar. Medit. Hist. Cent. 3. c. 3.

He was a great favourer of Learning, and is famous for his magnificent Library at Alexandria of seven hundred thousand Volumes; of which Antoine Du Verdier in his Preface to his Bibliotheque, B. Vsher in the first part of his Annals, and Naudaeus Aduis pour dresser une Bibliotheque c. 3. make honourable mention.

Eryc. ddInter praecipua Galliae ornamenta, dum viveret, merito suo semper habitus. Casaub. Praefat. ad Histor. August. Christophorus Puteanus praestantissimo patre dignissiatus filius. Desid. Herald. Animadvers. Ad Arnab. l. 1.Puteanus.

Claudius eeClaudius Puteanus à puero sub optimis magistris Joanne Stracelio, Hadriano Turnebo, Joanne Aurato, & postea Dionysio Lambino litteris operam dedit. Inde jus civile sub principe jurisperitorum Jacobo Cujacio didicit, & variis in peregrinationibus doctissimorum toto orbe virorum familiaritate usus, Vrsini, Victorii, Manutii, Sigonii, ipsorum testimonio meruit, ut primas inter litteratos teneret, honorificè ubique in eorum scriptis appellatus. Nam in his scripsit, judicioque peracri, quo in censendis aliorum scriptis plurimùm valebat, potius alienae gloriae quam propriae servivit. Thuan. Hist. Tomo 5^to l. 109.Puteanus the son of Clement, a very learned man, though he wrote nothing. Juvenis per quàm eruditus. Lambine.

Claudius Puteanus Clementis filius juvenis bonarum artium ac litterarum, studio inprimis deditus, valdeque ingeniosus atque eruditus, & quae virtutes rarò in tali aetate reperiuntur, egregiè cordatus, continens, temperans ac modestus. Lamb. Comment. In Aemil. Prob. vit. p. 122.

Jos. Scalig. writes to two choice young men Christopher and Austen Putean, sonnes to Erycius, and begins his Epistle thus, Patrem vestrum, charissimi adolescentes, me non amisisse jam sentio, quem video in vobis vivere. Virtutes patrum tam rarum natis est exprimere, quam patribus virtutum suarum ac morum exempla suis relinquere posse.

Samuel Purchas, Labotiosissimus vir Samuel Purchasfius Anglus. Olai Wormii literatura Danica, c. 7. Samuel Purchas, Anglus, Linguarum & Artium divinarum atque humanarum egregie peritus, Philosophus, Historicus, & Theologus maximas, patriae Ecclesiae Antistes fidelis: multis egregiis scriptis, & in primis Orientalis, occidentalisque Indiae historia vastis voluminibus patria lingua conscripta celeberrimus. Bibliotheca Jacob. Boissardi.a learned English Divine; our English Ptolomy.

p. 302There is Hackluitus posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes, containing an history of the World in Sea-Voyages and Land-Travels by Englishmen and others, and his Pilgrimage inlarged with additions,

Gaudeat irriguus Ptolomaei nomine Nilus,

Ast Anglis primus sum Ptolomaeus ego.

Pythagoras the Philosopher.Pythagoras Italicae Philosophiae decus ob secretum de triangulari forma inventum immolavit hecatomben, & tantequam se daret studiis antelucanos hymnos Deo cecinit. Beverovicius de vitae Termino p. 164.

He was born in the Isle of Samos, and was one of the chiefest persons of Greece. His Life is written by Jamblichus.

He was the inventer, or at least a principall illustrator of the Mathematicks.

The Pythagoreans so honoured their Master, that they were wont to alleadge him still in these two words foreign, as much to say, we ought to beleeve it since he (viz. Pythagoras) said it.

There are his Symboles and golden words, and golden verses Greek and Latine, and Poems Greek and Latine.

CHAP. VIII.

JOhannes Quinquarboreus.

He was Professour of Hebrew and Chaldee to the French King in Paris.

There is his Chaldee Paraphrase with Scholia, upon Ruth, Lamentations, Hosea, Joel, Amos.

Anno Aerae Christianae 79. Helv. Chron. 88. Matth. Westm. Magnus ille Magister eloquentiae Fabius Casaub. ad Pers Sat. 1. Comment. Quamvis in eo sit civilis ad agendas caussas facultatis commonstrata quaedam prudentia, quamvis exempla quaedam utiliter collecta, attamen elocutionis quae summa laus ejus esse possit, infinita est à Cicerone differentis. Nec enim in singulis verbis eadem est puritas, vel proprietas, vel elegantia. In conjunctis tanta est differentia, ut Cicero aureo quidem seculo, Quintilianus autem ferreo locutus esse videatur. Sed tamen ut temporibus illis diserti homines fuerunt, ita sane numer…tur in disertis, qualis tamen fortasse nec esse possim, si velim, imò verò ne v…lim quidem si possim. Rami praefat. Grammat. 5^a. Quanto melius Ludovicus Vives de tradendis discip. l. 5. Ciceroni Quintilianum adjunxit Laurentius Valla, tanquam comitem, aut verius socium, paremque, non omnino injuriâ, cum vetborum munditie, tum translationum, & totius dictionis acumine Hispanus fuerit Quintilianus, cujus libri doctissimi duodecim de Oratoria institutione etiam supersunt reperti Pogio Florentino in Monasterio quodam in Synodo Constantiensi, quo tempore etiam repertos fuisse ferunt Silii Italici libros 18. de bellis Punicis. Neand. Geog. parte 1^a.Quintilianus.

Martial hath a whole Epigram of him, it begins thus,

Quintiliane vaga moderator summe juventae

Gloria Romanae, Quintiliane, Togae.

Mart. 2. Epig. 90.

Juvenall and Pliny the younger were his Scholers, as Politian shews in his Preface to Quintilian.

p. 303CHAP. IX.

RAbanus Maurus, that famous Archbishop of Mentz, 814. Helv. Chron. Vir omnium disciplinarum cognitione ab solutissimus, Rhetor, Poeta, Astronomus, Philosophus, & Theologus, cui nullum parem eo saeculo Germania habuit. Sixt. Senens. Biblioth. Sanct. l. 4. In omni eruditione tam secularium quam divinarum scripturarum longe doctissimus evasit. Philosophus clarus, poeta insignis, rhetor facundus, astronomus, & computista celeberrimus, Graecae, Latinae, & Hebraicae peritus, cui similem suo tempore non habuit Ecclesia. Trithem. Catal. Illust. Vir.Anno Dom. 840. and Scholer sometime to Alcuinus in Paris an English man, he wrote a learned Commentary on all the Books of the Old and New Testament.

He was an excellent Philosopher, Oratour, Astronomer, Poet, Rhetorician and Divine. Italy nor Germany scarce ever brought forth the like in Learning.

Franciscus aaQui literis Graecis latinisque instructissimus, & medicinae, quam profitebatur, peritissimus, postremo omni studio serio omisso se totus vitae solutae, ac gulae mancipavit, & ridendi artem hominis sicut ipse aiebat, propriam amplexus, democritica libertate & scurrili interdum dicacitate scriptum ingeniosissimum fecit, quo vitae regnique cunctos ordines quasi in scenam sub fictis nominibus produxit & populo deridendos propinavit. Thuan. Comment. de vita sua. l. 6. Pessimè apud omnes bones semper audivit Franciscus Rabellefius, scriptor vel Calvini judicio planè Atheus. Voet. Biblioth.Rabelaesus.

A witty but Atheisticall French Writer, and Doctor of Physick.

Matthias Raderus, a learned and diligent Writer.

He hath Commented on Martial, and put out Viridarium Sanctorum, and other Works.

Jacobus Raeuardus, a great Lawyer.

Jacobum Raeuardum audeam cum I. Lipsio V. Cl. Belgii nostri Papinianum nominare: ut qui cum priscis illis Iureconsultis ingenii doctrinae que praestantia comparandus esse videatur. Auberti Miraei Elogia Belgica.

Georgius Ragusius.

A man of exquisite Learning, and a curious sifter of the truth in doubtfull points, and a man of that integrity, that having got great credit in the world for his skill (among other things) in Judiciall Astrology, being convinced in his conscience, as himself relateth, that it was but meer couzenage and imposture,Non Angliae tantum, sed seculi sui decus. Amesii Praefat. ad Schol. Discept. De Circulo Pontif. Obiit Anno Dom. 1607. Raynoldus in eruditissimo opere praelectionum ad libros apocryphos, quod citationibus omnis generis autorum tessellatum est. Voet. praefat. ad Theses. Johannes Reinoldus Academiam in suo pectore gestasse ferebatur. Sane scripta ejus omnigenam eruditionem, an…iquitatis summam notitiam, imprimis colloquium cum Haerto Jesuita arguunt. Laeti Compend. Hist. univers. Vide Jos. Scalig. Epist. l. 4. Epist. 446. he made no scruple to make open recantation, and wrote against it very learnedly. D^r Casaub. on Enthus. c. 2.

He hath written Peripateticall Disputations, and two books of Mathematicall Epistles or of Divination.

John Rainolds, a learned and pious Doctor of Oxford. Famous beyond sea as well as here. He alone was a well furnisht Library, full of all faculties, of all studies, of all learning: the memory, the reading of that man was near to a miracle. D^r Hals Dec. of Epist. Epist 7.

Some much commend his Lectures upon the Apocrypha.

Others his Conference with Hart.

Sir Walter Raleigh.Gualterus Raulaeus, nostras, eques auratus, vir clari nominis, universalem historiam ab initio mundi usque Macedonici Imperii sive tertiae Monarchiae occasum ex probatissimis auctoribus, coagmentavit, nostrae quidem gentis idiomate vernaculo, sed accurato admodum judicio, methodo perspicua, Stylo elegante ac virili. Whear. De Methodo legendi Hist. part. 1. Sect. 6.

His History of the world is well esteemed.

p. 304Rodolphus Fuldensis.Ralphe a Monk of Fulda.

All the hard questions were sent to him from divers parts of the world.

He was born Anno Domini 1515. Regius in celeberrima Parisiorum academia Professor, plurimum elaboravit, ut artes ad rectam methodum & usum expeditum revocaret, ideóque multa ab eo conscripta, publicataque sunt de singulis Philosophiae partibus. Gesn. Biblioth. Ut virtus egregia nunquam caret invidia, aemulos & suae diligentiae calumniatores acertimos expertus est. Petrum Galandium, Antonium Goveanum, Joachimum Perionium & Jacobum Carpentarium. Sed ante omnes infestissimos sensit Sorbonae Doctores, qui communi omnium sententiâ in Ramum insurgentes, illum haereseos in Philosophia accusarunt, quod in Aristotelem Philosophorum Principem ausus fuisset scribere. Effecerunt sua autoritate ut Ramo sit interdictum in posterum docere vel scribere in ullam Philosophiae partem. Boissardi Icones. Ex eo commendatione dignissimus, quod ingenio, diligentia, assiduitate, & opibus etiam suis, quantum in ipso fuit, rem literariam juvit ac promovit; instituta mathematices professione, cui annuum vectigal 500 librarum è facultatibus suis attribuit. Lanfii orat. contra Galliam. Etsi in nonnullis quae ad nostras literas pertinent valde à te dissentio, amo tamen eruditionem tuam, amo facundiam, & multas egregias virtutes, quibus tuum hoc ingenium Dominus exornavit, nec optatim quicquam potius quam & tibi gratificari & huic Scholae simul prodesse. Beza Epist. 36. Pet Ramo.Petrus Ramus, the Kings Professour in Eloquence and Philosophy at Paris in the 36 year of his age.

Genebrad (after his way) harshly censures him.

Petrus Ramus turbulentiae, & sui in Linguas, artes, Theologiam denique ipsam furoris supplicium dedit. Geneb. Chron. l. 4.

Pasquier l. 9. De Recherches de la France, c. 19. and elsewhere writes more respectively of him, c. 20. of that book he shews his dislike of Carpenters revengefull act in causing Ramus to be slain in the Massacre at Paris on S^t Bartholomews day.

Idolae gymnasiii Praelei amoveri & recondi jussit ne conspicerentur. Rami vita A Theophilo Bannosio descripta.

Jacobus Pascharius hath these Verses of him,

Fertilier quaevis cum sit sacer arbore Ramus;

Arboris hic dignus nomine Ramus erat.

In the 21 year of his age he published a Logick with Animadversions upon Aristotle.

He was murthered at the great Massacre in Paris, and his body reproachfully dragged up and down the streets, and many of his Works not yet finished there perished.

Ranulphus bbRanulphus noster ea diligentia, eruditione, fide Author est, ut a multis praeclaris viris, etiam Polydoro Virgilio vestro, egregius Historicus habeatur, nec Sigoniis aut Sabellicis vestris cedit. Episc. And. Tort. Tort..

Francis Raphelengius ccChristophori Plantini gener, qui in Typographicam cum egregiam sub socero operam diu navasset, relictâ Antuerpiâ, Lugdunum Batavorum concessit, & linguarum Orientalium vel teste Scaligero valdè peritus. etiam Arabicam publicè magnà cum laude professus est, de qua Lexicon postumum ab eò dum viveret, fummâ curâ & labore compositum prodiit. Thuan. Hist. tomo 5^to l. 119. Lutetiae Parisiorum Graecam atque Hebraicam linguam didicit, atque illam Cantabrigiae in Anglia juvenis docuit, Antuerpiae 1565. ducta Margareta Christophori Plantini filia in partem Typographiae venit. Vir fuit in Hebraeis, Chaldaeis, Arabicis juxtà, ac Graecis Latinisque exercitatus, maturo judico, sagaci ingenio, forma ipsa faciei aliquid etiam foreign prae se ferens. Sanderus De Script. Fland. l. 1., a learned Linguist, Professor of the Arabick at Leyden.

He with others is much commended by Arias Montanus, Praefat. In Sac. Bib. Quadriling. Reg. edit.

Cunctorum ante scriptorum commentarios ingenti volumine coegit, quod medici continentem vocant, quod cuncta contineant. Volat. Comment. urb. l. 21. Vulgò advocatur Almansoris nomini quod liber ejus jussu Regis Mansoris editus sit. Hic enim Rex inter Arabes primus Gymnasia & Bibliothecas aperuisse memoratur; quod etiam causae fuit, cur ejus aevo tot illustrium ingeniorum monumenta in lucem prodierunt. Castelianus de vitis Medicorum.Rasis or Rhasis, an Arabian, a great Physitian.

William Rastall, a reverend Judge of the Court of Common-pleas, and of great industry.

He put out a Collection of the Statutes now in force in the reign of Queen Mary.

p. 305He was the Author also of the book called the Terms of the Law. He put out Sir Thomas Mores Works also in one Volume, who was his Uncle.

Franciscus Ranchinus.Qui ad peritiam Physices, medicesque eximiam, pulchré adjungebat notitiam, cultumque rerum antiquarum. Gassend. De vita Peireskii l 1.

Joannes Ravennas.Volatrerani Comment. urb. l. 21.

Venetiis praecepit, primus omnium qui ea tempestate post longa tempora ludum in Italia aperiret: unde tanquam ex equo Trojano viri praestantes plurimi prodierunt qui postea scholis ac literis omnia referserunt.

Pet. Ravennas.Petrus Ferrettus Ravennas Milensis Episcopus, & Graecarum litterarum, & juris civilis Pontificiique doctissimus qui Vicarium Archiepiscopi Ravennatis diu egit. Leand. Alb. Descript. Ital. in Romanula.

Hermannus Ravenspergerus, a learned Professor of Divinity at Groning.

There is his judicium de Grotii libro de satisfactione Christi.

Florilegium Theologicum.

Joannes Mullerus Regiomontanus, Joannes Mullerus à cognomine in Franconia oppido Regiomontanus dictus secundum Ptolomaeum omnium qui nobilissimas has artes tractarunt doctissimus. Romae decessit cum vix quadragesimum aetatis annum egressus esset. A Beffarione Cardinali, qui sub id tempus legatus ad Fridericum Caesarem fuerat, invitatus cum eo in Italiam, primum contendit, & bibliothecis Romae, & aliis locis perlustratis magnam scriptorum Graecorum copiam comparavit. Joannem Blanchinum etiam Ferrariae audivit, & postea Venetiis opus de triangulis conscripsit, inde Viennam cum rediisset, à Matthia Pannoniae rege evocatus egregiam ipsi non solum in his artibus, sed etiam fidam in valetudine ejus conservanda operam navavit; nam cum gravi morbo rex premeretur, medicis incognito, quippe qui nullam ejus in humoribus depravatis caussam deprehenderent, tantum mirificum cordis languorum in aegroto, ex qua caussa incertum, animadverreret, Regiomontanus propter eclipsis, quae vitae Regis perniciem interminabatur, hanc vitalis facultatis imbecillitatem contingere affirmavit, frustraque in humoribus morbi caussam quaeri, tantum cordis vires rebus suavibus fovendas, nec multo post Rex haud aliis remediis curatus, convaluit, & Johannem honorario CC. ducatorum annuo muneravit. Thuan. hist. Tomo 4^to l. 90. Vide plura ibid. Vide etiam Tomum tertium l 76. & Tych. Brah. Praes. ad Epist. Astron.one of the famousest Mathematicians of Germany, Anno Dom. 1436.

Mathematicorum Germanorum unus Regiomontanus longissimè excelluit. Monimenta ingenii orbi terrarum nota sunt. Vienna professore Regiomontano gloriosae est. Rami Schol. Mathem. l 2.

He found out the tenth sphere the chiefest of all the heavenly Globe, and in its diurnall motion carrying about with it the other spheres, in this he excelled Thales, Eudoxus, Ptolomy, and Alphraganus, as Jovius witnesseth; with his great Learning and other virtues he joyned piety towards God. Whence he wrote out the whole New Testament in Greek handsomly with his own hand, and by reading made it familiar to himself. Pantal. de Vir. Illust. German. parte 2^da.

Ipse certe characteres ut citissime, ita elegantissime ad pingebat: ac super fuit diu novum Testamentum, quod ab usque initio descriptum nitidissimè, solitus erat circumgestare. Gassend. in ejus vita.

Jacobus **Olim Jesuita, postea veritaris confessor & professor in laqueis Pontificiorum contritis. Idem in Apologia pro laqueis contritis, quam Araneorum operas indigetat, & Anno 623. in lucem emisit. Gerb. Confess. Cathol. l. 1. General. Part. 2. c 4.Reihingius.

Erasmus Reinholdus, a Doctor of Physick, a famous Astronomer.Fuit quidem Erasmus Reinholdus Astronomus eximius & de arte hac, siquis alius nostro aevo, egregiè meritus. Tych. Brah. l. 1. de nova Stella c. 9. D. Nicolaus Wincklerus Mathematicas scientias olim se à Praeceptore suo, excellente illo Artifice Reinheldo Vitebergae didicisse gloriatur. Utinam verò tam benè, vel in minimis sui Praeceptoris industriam & diligentiam imitatus fuisset, atque egregium nactus erat. Tych. Brah. De Cometa Anni 1577. l. 2. c. 10.

Remigius **Vir in divinis Scripturis studiosissimus & valde eruditus, at que in secularibus literis nobiliter doctus, genio subtilis, elequio disertus, vita & conversatione devotus, tantae scientiae & eruditionis fuit, ut ex omni Germania & Gallia discipulos Clarissimos suo magisterio instituendos subdiderit. Trithem. Catal. Illust. Vir. Monachus Antissiodorensis, Episcopus tandem ejusdem ecclesiae factus esse fertur, elaruit circa annum 880. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. l. 10..

p. 306He was Bishop of Rhemes, a man of most holy conversation, and excellently learned, as by the Commentaries which he wrote upon the Old and New Testament it evidently appeareth.

Georgius Remus, a man of great Learning.

He hath put out

Spicileg. in Salom. Prov.

In Ecclesiasten Sal.

Karoli 5. Leges Capitales cum Paraphrasi & Scholiis ejusdem.

Poemata.

Postquam fundamenta linguae S. à Judaeo quodam Abdiâ (cui pro singulis horis singulos aureos pendebat) Romae in legatione didicisset, primus Ebraeas literas in Academiis Germanicis docuit, editis etiam Grammatica & Dictionario. Amamae Paraen. de excitandis SS. Linguarum Studiis. A Joanne Lapidano Theologo Parisiensi rudimenta linguae Hebraicae Ruclinus Capnion didicit. Reliqua à Judaeo Abdia ben Jacobo Spuono, dum legatione fungeretur, apud sequentem Pontificem Alexandrum. Vir magnus, nisi linguae Hebraicae mysteria Cabalicis nugamentis maculaster. Geneb. Chronol. l. 4. Johannes Capnion aliàs Reuclin omnis antiquissimae philosophiae & litera…urae indagator solertissimus, trium principalium linguarum Hebraicae simul & Chaldaicae, Graecae pariter & Latinae interpres peritissimus, Gallieanae etiam atque politioris nostrae vernaculae inprimis clarus, & tam in divinis scrip…uris quam in saecularibus literis omnifariam doctissimus, quippe qui Graecorum Hebraeorumque secreta mysteria multis jam annis enixissime penetravit. Trithem. Catal Illust. Vir.John Reuchlin, or Capnio, which name (from the Germane being made Greek) Hermolaus Barbarus gave him, when he was sent by Maximilian the Emperour to Rome. His chief praise is, that he stirred up the study of the Hebrew tongue in Germany. He first of all wrote an Hebrew Grammer with great perspicuity in Latine. He invited many to learn and study the Hebrew tongue, and they received the seeds of that doctrine from him.

He was skilfull in the Law, a great Linguist, and generall Scholer.

He was born in Stutgard in the Dukedom of Wirtemberg.

Extat ejus liber de verbo mirifico, & de Cabalae scientiae placitis, eloquentia illustri ad Leonem decimum perscriptus. Paulus Jovius Elog. Vir. Doct.

Jovius saith he was the Authour of that witty book styled, Obscurorum virorum Epistolae, admirabili facetiarum lepore conditae, quibus ad excitandum risum, cucullatorum Theologorum ineptissime, atque ideo ridiculè Latina lingua scribentium stylus exprimitur.

He was almost equally skilfull in those three Languages, Hebrew, Greek and Latine. Germany therefore in regard of his skill in Languages and in all kinde of Learning, deservedly honoured and respected him as a Phoenix, and their only ornament. Eras Epist. l. 2. Epist. 1. Vide etiam ib. Epist. 4.

He bred many excellent Scholers. Hic ille est ex cujus auditorio nominatim praeter innumeros alios minus celebres, Oecolampadius, Pelicanus, Munsterus prodierunt. Bez. Icon. Vir. Illust.

Nicolaus **Lucubrationibus propemodum infinitis, in omni scientiarum genere editis clarissimus. Boissardi Bibliotheca.Reusnerus, Professor Jenensis.

His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life.

Anno Dom. 1485. Beatus nomine, beatissimus re. Eras. Epist. l. 7. Epist. 1. Vide ejus l. 2. Epist. Epist. 31. Rhenano Multum illi sedulo & pererudito antiquitatis Observatori, omnes bonarum literarum studiosi debent, ut qui, etsi non omnia sit assequutus, plurima tamen acutè ac diligenter animadverterit, & aditum ad alia cognoscenda multis ante tenebris obsitum, aperuerit: quod & illi de Germanicis rebus libri, & isti tum Tertulliani, tum etiam Taciti, Plinii, Livii, Senecae, Paterculi recogniti abunde demonstranti. Beza Icon. Vir. Illust.Beatus vel Bildius Rhenanus, a man of great Learning and singular judgement, famous for his innocency, humanity and chastity.

John Sturmius hath written his Life largely and elegantly.

He first put forth Tertullian, Pliny, and many Historians, as Livy, Paterculus and Tacitus, and corrected them and illustrated them with Notes.

Stephanuus Paschasius in his Icones hath these verses of him,

Qui docuit quicquid Rheni concluditur orbe,

An non Rhenanum dicere jure potes?

p. 307Johannes Rhodius, a most learned man.

There is his

Trina Theologica, Philosophica, & Jocosa.

Laurentius **Poeta in utraque lingua Graeca atque Latina praestantissimus. Graecam linguam eruditam ac elegantem adeo tenet exactè, ut hac nostra aetate sint viri excellentes, neque in judicando faciles aut …emera…ii, qui existiment non habere parem. Neand. Geog. parte 1^a.Rhodomanus.

Ludovicus Coelius Richerius Rhodiginus, Anno 1450.Vir infinitae lectionis, quem apparet nihil quod usquam librorum est latuisse. De cujus integritate, & in judicando gravitate eo minus ambigendum, quod passim in suo opere pium praese fert animum, reverenter de Christo loquens, quae ei cum paucis doctis Italis, hoc praesertim aevo, communis est virtus. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. l. 10. Coelii Rhodigini lectionum antiquarum libri 30. qui ob omnifariam abstrusarum & reconditarum tam rerum quam vocum in utraque lingua ex innumeris scriptoribus desumptam explicationem (quas vix unius hominis aetas libris perpetuò insudans observaret) merito cornucopiae seu Thesaurus utriusque linguae appellabuntur; quod in quocunque studiorum genere, non minor ipsorum quam ingentis bibliothecae, aut complurimum Commentariorum possit esse usus. Ges…. Biblioth. l. 10. Rarum erat eo tempore Philologiae studium, ac soli pene Caelio familiare: unde cùm apud Aldum Erasmus Roterodamus in eum de facie sibi ignotum incidisset, habitis ultro citroque Sermonibus, ille dicendi ubertate atque elegantiâ non usque obviâ Calium Rhodiginum sibi adesse summa hilaritate agnovit. Tomasini Elogia.

He lived in the time of Maximilian the Emperour. He was invited to Millaine, by Lewis the 12^th King of France, who gave him a great and royall stipend: he taught Greek and Latine there with great praise. Afterward he did excellently discharge the same office at Padua. But he especially got himself immortall fame by his 30 Books of ancient readings, in which work the abstruse words of both languages are interpreted, obscure places in many excellent writers are explained, corruptions purged, and ancient rites manifested, many secrets drawn out of Philosophy.

When a certain Germane found his sepulchre without an Epitaph, as it were in indignation, and reproaching his Citizens, he wrote on the bricks Hic jacet tantus vir.

CHAP. X.

PEt. Ribadeneyra.

He put out a Catalogue of the Writings of the Jesuites, and other Works.

Fr. **Franciscus Ribera natione Hispanus, vir fuit egregiè doctus ac pius. Erat ingenio excellenti, judicio acri, tenaci memoria, Sanctorum Patrum lectione atque observatione instructus, singulari modestia, animi candore, caeterisque religiosis virtutibus cumulatus. Biblioth. Scriptorum Societ Jes. A Philippo Alegambe edita.Ribera, a learned Jesuite.

His Commentaries on the twelve smaller Prophets, on the Hebrews and Revelation are well esteemed.

Antonius Riccobonus.

Publick Professor of Oratory at Padua.

He hath published two Volumes of Orations.

De usu Artis Rhetoricae.

Comm. in universam doctrinam Oratoriam Ciceronis, and other Works.

Christopherus Riccius.De tota re patruelium & amitinorum conjugali, dissertationem tum Juridicam tum historicam doctrina & judicio refertam pridem edidit Christophorus Riccius Dantiscanus. Seldenus De Jure Naturali & Gentium l. 5. c. 11.

His book which he hath published, is styled

Vindiciarum Juris praemissa, adversus novatorum affanias & corruptelas.

p. 308Paulus Riccius, a most learned Jew, born in Germany, and converted to the Christian faith.Nostri … est. Pe…l Re…utar. Ca…ch Jesuit. P…fectus in Ie…ium doctis ibi vi…is perpl…cuit: a…que …apiae Phi…osop…iam pub I…tè non sine …minis …amâ docuit. I…aque Maximiliano I. Augusto commendatus, ab eodem in medicorum suorum numerum fuit a…ectus cui fidem & indust…iam suam constanter probavit. Melchior Adam in ejus vita.

He published divers Works, in which he both discovered the devises of the refractary Jews, and promoted Learning. A book De sexcentis & tredicim Mosaicae sanction…seu P…ntateuchi dictis. Philosophia, prophetia, ac Thalmudistica pro veritate Christiana tuenda, cum juniori Hebraeorum synagoga, disputatio mirabili ingenii acum…, in tres divisa tractatus.

Farrago ex Thalmudis codice Isagoge in Caballistarum doctrinam, which Erasmus commends in his Epistles.

And other Works he also published, which are mentioned by Melchior Adam.

Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London, the most learned Martyr in Queen Maries daies.

He wrote a Book in prison of the Lords Supper, which is turned into Latine with an …pistle prefixed, wherein he and that Tract are commended.

Ecclesiae Remensis Clericus, qui circa annum millesimum ducentesimum vixit. Etsi Trithemius scribat eum in Aurora sua, (quo poemate historiam veteris ac Novi Testamenti carmine est complexus) observasse diligenter legem metri: tamen toties peccat, ut nisi barbariem seculi, quo vixit, & eorum quae proximè illud exceperunt, cogitaremus, meritò mirari possimus, tanto tamdiu eum in honore stetisse, ut ante duo secula, atque etiam intra illud tempus, de modulo syllabarum ex ejus versibus judicium ferri soleat. Nunc adeò exigua ejus ratio habetur, ut nomen ipsum penè fugiat vel multijugae lectionis homines. Voss. De Atte Grammat. l. 2. c. 39.Pe…rus Riga.

There is his

Aurora.

Nicolaus Rigaltius**Ri…altio pro Tertulliano plu…imum deb…o Editio est elegans, notae breves, sed exacti judicii, praefationes nitidae & cultae. Grotius Epist. Petro Puteano. Eruditione perrara conspicuus. Gassend. De vita Peiresk. l. 4

There are his

Observationes & notae in Auctores finium regundorum.

In Glossas Agrimensorias Glossarium.

Funus Parasiticum.

Vita S. Romani.

Notae in Martialem.

Joh. Riolanus, both the Father and the Sonne.

There is the Fathers Anthropographia.

The Sonnes Anotomica.

Joachimus Fortius Ringelbergius. He was born at Antwerp.

Nullum perfecit librum, nisi dum a typographo excuderetur.

The manner which he observed in writing books, Melchior Adam mentions in his life; and himself in his Book De Ratione Studii p. 85. seems to intimate.

His Works were published in one Volume at Leyden, and the particular Treatises are mentioned by Melchior Ad. vit. Germ. Philos.

Fridericus **Cum Petrus Ramus supremis tabulis annum legatum stipen…io Mathematici professoris destinasset, eo ut primus frueretur, elegit, creavit & nominavit Risuerum, ea tamen conditione, ut inch…a…a communibus vigiliis opera, optica praesertim & Astrologica perficeret. Praefat. Ad Risueri Optica.Risuerus.

He was Ramus his helper in the Mathematicks, he hath written four books of the Opticks.

Conradus **Verè fuit vir hic insignis, Orato….Ritterhusius.

He was born at the City Brunswick in Saxony, Anno Christi 1560. when Melancthon died.

p. 309He was acquainted with the learned and famous men of his age.Poeta, Philologus, & Philosophus eximius, Graecae & Latinae linguae callenti…simus, Pietas autem virtutum princeps in eo fuit excellens & praeclara. In Patrum lectione singulari cum studio est vers…us. Me…ch. Ad. in ejus vita. Vide plura ibid. Fui… Ritterbufius humanae vitae speculum, non ad in…uendum modo, ve…um eti…m ad imitandum. Melch. Adam. Joseph Scaliger, Justus Lipsius, Casaubone, Thuanus, Lectius, Ortelius, Canterus, Bongarsius, both the Douzas, Heinsius, Freherus, Gruterus Stenius, the Camerarii, Remus, Caselius, Velserus, Dionysius Gothofredus, Melissus, Posthius, Stuckius, Mon…vius, Beza, Mornie, and many other great Schollers.

His Works are mentioned by Me…chior Adam in his Life.

Sir Thomas Rives the Kings Advocate.

These are his Works,

The poor Vicars Plea.

Regiminis Anglicani in Hibernia Defensio.

Aaversus Analecten.

Historia Navalis in two parts.

Defensio Justiniani contra Nicolaum Alemannum.

Andrew Rivet, a learned and godly French-Divine.

He hath very well expounded Genesis, Exodus, Andreas Rivetus vir clarissimus & nunquam satis laudatus, Gallicae, Belgicaeque Ecclesiae micantissimum lumen. Garissol. De Imputat primi peccati, cap. 17. Vide Guliel. Riveti Epist. Apol. ad Ib. Rossel. pag. 144, 145.the Prophetical Psalms and Hosea, and wrote learnedly against the Papists in his Catholicus Orthodoxus, and against Grotius. Criticus sacer seu censura Patrum, Isagoge in S. Scripturam, Synopsis doctrinae de natura & gratia.

Other learned Treatises hath he published in Latine and French.

William Rivet his brother is also a learned man.

He hath published a Book De Justificatione, a most exact French Treatise (as some say) De Invocatione & Adoratione Sanctorum defunctorum.

Epistolae Apologet.

Mart. de Roa.

There are his

Singular. loc. ac rerum, l. 5.

Singul. l. 6.

Observat. in Proverb.

De die natali, sacro & profano.

Franciscus Robortellus.

There was a great difference between him and Carolus Sigonius.Non ignota est hominis pompatici maledicentia; qui & Erasmum imperitiae imperitissimae insimulare, ac nequissimum appellare non dubitet: Alciatum nominet furem, expilatoremque suorum scriptorum. Paulum Manutium, Bibliopolam, hominemque imperitum: M. Antonium Muretum, ludi magistrum: H. Stephanum impostorem; similibusque Elogiis alios quosque praestantissimos viros, & scripto, & sermone insignire consueverit: quo nomine reprehensus est jure summo à doctissimo quoque: eosque inter Fruterio in verisimilibus, & Sigonio imprimis l. 2. Patavinarum Disputationum adversus Robortelium. Voss. De Analog. l. 1. c. 7. Qui magno cum strepitu Bononiae & Batavii professus, & variis scriptis majorem de se opinionem excitavit quam implevit. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2. l. 39.

There are his

Ephimerides Patavinae.

Adversus Carolum Sigonium.

Ang aaEpiscopus Tagastensis Apostolici Sacrarii Praefectus, vulgatis lucubrationibus, suaque ipsius Angelica Bibliotheca apud Augustinianos sodales magnis sumptibus excitata publico programmate memorandus. Jo. Baptistae Lauri Perusini Dialogus De viris sui Aevi doctrina illustribus Romae. Vide Jani Nicii Erythraei Pinacothecam. Bibliothecam tuam Angelicam ego multis nominibus suspicio, tum quia Libris referta est optimis ad miraculum usque; tum quia Tabulis abundat Cosmographicis, Geographicisque summo artificio elaboratis. Pignor. Symb. Epist. XI. Ang. Roc.Roccha.

There is his

Bibliotheca Vaticana.

p. 310Bibliothecae Theol. & Scripturalis Epitome, unà cum Scriptoribus qui in Biblia scripserunt.

And other Works.

Robert Roollock a learned Scotch Divine.

He hath commented on

Daniel, some Psalms, the Gospel of John, the Epistle to the Romans and Galatians, the Epistle to the Ephesians, Colossians, Thessalonians, and Philemon.

He hath written De vocat. & modo revel. foed.

Adrianus Romanus.

There is his

Methodus Polygoniorum.

Gulielmus Rondeletius an excellent Physician.

Doctissimus vir & naturae piscium callentissimus. Casaub. in Athen. Ejus scripta ejusmodi sunt, ut tantae de se opinioni sive excitatae sive sparsae non respondeant. Unum est quod hominis nomen maxime posteritati commendavit, quod de piscibus edidit; sed eo minore laude, quòd illud potiùs alienae industriae quam suae debuit, nimirum ex Gulielmi Pellicerii Episcopi Montispessulani, viri ra…â eruditione ornati, Commentariis Concinnatum. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2. l. 37.His Life is copiously written by Laurentius Joubertus in the second part of his Works, and his Works are mentioned by him.

There are these Works of his

De piscibus marinis.

De ponderibus.

Methodus Curandi morbos.

De dignosc. morbis, cum aliis opusc.

De morbo Gallico.

Emendatiores Tabulae.

De dosibus.

Peter Ronsard Prince of the French Poets. Some call him the French Homer and Pindar.Imitatus est homerum, ac Pindarum, Poetasque Lyricos tam aptè, ut sua non aliena dicere videatur. Petrar. cham quoque Italicae gentis decus, evoluit, quem sequutus, mirabiles plerumque excitat amores sui, ut opera indicant, admiranda quidem omnia, sed Hymni praecipuè quos juvenis scripsit Henrico secundo Francorum Reg…, eique admodum Charus fuit, legebat enim versus ejus, quibus dici non potest, quantum delectaretur. Julius Scaliger inclyti nominis Philosophus, ac Poeta illis temporibus vivebat. Hic admiratus Ronsardi ingenium, Anacreontica ad eum scripsit, ac lyrae parentem honorificè vocavit: nec Scaliger modò in Italia natus, sed exteri quoque omnes, qui Gallicae linguae scientiam habebant, magni illum fecere, arbitrati, ut verum erat, nostratium Poetarum facilè principem. Papir. Masson. Elog. On ne peut assez haut loüer la memoire de grand Ronsard. Jamais Poëte n' escrivit rant comme luy, c…entende ceus dont les ourages sont parvenus jusques à nous. Et toutes fois en quelque espece de Poesie, ou il ait applique son esprit, en imitant les anciens, il les a ou surmontez, ou pour le moms esgalez. Cur quant a tous les Poetes qui ont escrit, en leus vulgaires, il n' a point son pareil. Il a en nostre langue representè vn Homere, Pindare, Theocrite, & par mesme Moyen diversifiè Virgile, Catulle, Horace, Petrarque, son stile en autant de manieres qu' il luy a pleu, ores d' vn ton haut, ores moyen, ores ba…. Pasquier. De Recherches de la France. l. 7. Pierre de Ronsard a esté le premier qui a enrichi nostre langue de Grecques & Latines despouilles. C'est pourquoy on l'appelle le Pindare Francois, au bien Homere Gaulois. La Bibliotheque D' Antoine Du Verdier.

Petrus Ronsardus Poeticam nostrâ aetate ad summum culmen evexit. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 5. lib. 117. part. 1.

Post Augusti aetatem poeta praestantissimus. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 2. l. 36. Vide ejus Hist. Tom. 4. l. 82.

This Epitaph was made of him,

Hac tegitur Ronsardus humo, tot notus in oris,

Quot patrius flavas Leda percurrit arenas.

Bartas in his second Week saith thus of him,

L'autre ce grand Ronsard, qui pour oruer sa France

Le Grec & le Latin despouille d'eloquente,

Et d'vn esprit hardy manie hereusement,

Toute sorte de vers, de style & d'argument.

p. 311Cardinal Perron made a Funeral Oration upon his death. He much extols him there, It s' est bien veu aux siecles passez, des hommes excellens en vn genre de Poësie (saith he) mais qui ayent embrassé toutes les parties de la Poësie ensemble, comme cestuy-cy à faict, il ne s' en est point veu. jusques â maintenant. See more there.

Jo. Rosinus.

He hath written ten Books of Romane Antiquities.

Alexander Rosse, a learned Scotchman.

He hath written many good Books in Latine and English, in Prose and Verse.

Virgilius Evangelizans.

Virgilius Triumphans.

De rebus Judaicis.

Additions to Wollebius and Vrsinus.

Observations upon Sir Walter Rawleigh.

Marrow of History.

Chronology.

Medicus Medicatus.

Of all Religions.

And several others.

Herebertus Rosweydus, a learned Jesuite.Spectatae diligentiae & eruditionis. Vir Scriv. in lib. 2. Mart.

There are these Works of his,

Dissertatio de fide haereticis servanda.

Historia Eremitica.

Anti Capellus.

Vindiciciae Campensis.

Lex Talionis 12 tabularum.

Corollarium contra Coecysmos Capelli de fide haereticis servanda.

Vetus Martyrologium Romanum.

Hieronymus Roverius.Taurinorum Archiepiscopus, vel potius Episcoporum elegantiore literatura Coryphaeus. Rami Scholae Mathem. lib. 8.

Hier. Rubeus, a famous Physician.

There are these Works of his,

Disputatio de Melonibus.

De distillat.

Hist. Ravennatum.

Rudolphus II. Imperator.

There are

Tabulae Rudolphinae Astronomicae.

Exhortatio ad omnes S. Roman. Imperii statu pro communi bello adversus Turcam.

Oratio in Comitiis Generalibus Cracoviae.

Joannes Ruellius.Opus egregium in tres divisum partes de natura stirpium accuratissime conscripsit, Dioscordemque, Actuarium, & Constantini de agricultura libros tanta sermonis elegantia transtulit, ut peculiari elogio Aquila interpretum à doctissimo Budaeo subinde nuncuparetur. Scaev. Samar. Gall. doctrina illust. Elog.

There are these Works of his,

De Natura stirpium.

Collect. & interpret. Medicinae veterinariae.

Rufinus Presbyter, Anno Dom. 390.379. Helv. Chron. Multum sanè operae contulit Rufinus ad historiam illustrandam. Nam inter alia, quae Gennadius, & ex eo Honorius commemorat, Clementis Romani Recognitiones, & Flavium Josephum, Latinè transtulit. Item decem libros Eusebii historiae Ecclesiasticae: verum nimia profectò libertate in vertendo usus fuit. Sanè futilissimum auctorem vocat. Josephus Scaliger appendice opetis de emendatione temporum. Voss. De Hist. Lat. l. 2. c. 11.

He was much esteemed by many.

David Rungius.Anno Dom. 1456.

He was skilled in Hebrew, Greek and Latine, and in the Liberal Arts.

p. 312He hath published several Works,

Analysis Ep ad Romanos.

Praelect. in Gen. in Exod.

De norma & judice Controversiarum.

Disp. in Ep. ad Rom. & Cor.

Disput. 8. in Acad.

Anno Aerae Christianae 1056. Helv. Chron. Scripsit is in omnes ferè libros Veteris & Novi Testamenti Commentarios. Floruit sub Henrico quinto Imperatore. Pantal. de Vir Illust. Germ. parte secunda.Rupertus Tuicensis, vel Tuitiensis Abbas, Abbot of Tuy.

He was esteemed one of the most learned men of his age. The many Volumes which he hath left written, do testifie the eminency of his Learning.

Some of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue.

Jo. de Rupescissa a Monk, An. 1350. For rebuking the spiritualty for their great enormities,Vixit circa annum 1350 reprehendit spirituales de multis gravissimis sceleribus, & officii sui extrema neglectione: ob camque causam suit in Carcerem conjectus. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. lib. 18. and neglecting their office and duty, was cast into prison.

He hath written

De 5^a Essentia.

De remed. genere.

De Confectione veri lapidis Philosophorum.

Lib. lucis.

Janus Rutgersius.

Anno 1589. natus. Vir erat animi maximi, virtutis & eruditionis eximiae. Magnus praeterea ingeniorum aestimator, ipse ingeniosissimus Testari id possunt variarum lectionum libri VI. quibus nihil elegantius habent litterae humaniores. In Martialem etiam nonnulla notavit. Boxhorn. Theat. Holland.He is called Janus Rutgarius in the Appendix to Oxford Catalogue.

CHAP. XI.

EManuel Sa.

One of the most famous Fathers of the Society of the Jesuites, Doctor in Divinity, who vaunts in his Aphorismes of Confession, that he was fourty whole years in making that holy Work, which he esteems certain in its Propositions, since he cals them Aphorisms, which he hath framed after the order of the Alphabet, Pasquier des Recherches de la France. l. 3.

Marcus Antonius Coccius Sabellicus.

Pomponii Laeti, & Domitii Veronensis, suit discipulus: bonarumque literarum apud Veneros Professor. Voss. De Histor. Lat. l. 3. Vir ille scriptorum copia, & elegantia multò clarior, quam mea ulla possit commendatione crescere, miserabilem vitae finem eum sortitus est, quod putrida, perniciosaque correptus elephantiasi per annos aliquot miserabiliter cruciatus, interclusa vocis via, caeterisque tam spiritus quam cibi meatibus computrescentibus, gutturisque corruptis omnibus organis, venisque corrosis, non sine cruciabili tormento annos aliquot peregit, eaque d…mum confectus interiit. Pier. Valer. De Litteratorum infelicitate. Vide Boissardi Icones.His several Works are mentioned by Boissard in his Icones.

Vir subtilissimus, natione Hispanus. Claruit anno 1430 Gesn. Bibl.Raymundus de Sabunde.

He hath written an excellent Book, called Theologia naturalis, sive Liber Creaturarum.

p. 313Jo. de Sacro bosco, Joannes Sacro boscus à loco natalis dictus, quod ego nomen Saxonice interpretor Halifax. Liber quem de Sphaera edidit minutus quidem est. Quid morum▪ Ab universo quaeritur, legitur, teritur Mathematicorum grege. Johan. Leland collectan. de Vir. Illust.a famous Philosopher and Mathematician.

He flourished Anno 1230. His Book of the Sphere is well liked.

Pantaleon aaNatione Germanus extitit. Is à teneris annis operam literis dedit, atque foe…ici ingenio praeditus in virum doctissimum evasit. Lutetiae edidit tractatum, de Sphaera, qui etiamnum passim à Mathematicarum disciplinarum studiosis in manibus teritur. Pantaleon de Vir. Illust. German. parte 2^da.makes him a Germane, Dempster a Scotchman, Hist. Eccles. Scot. l. 17. Stanihurst an Irishman, Descript. Hib. but Leland and others say, he was an Englishman.

Antonius Sadeel.Sadeel verè Sadeel, satus velut ipsius Dei manu excul…usque. Lectius de vita Sadeelis. Genus dicendi lene & simplex, sine illecebtis sine fuco. Nec tamen sine facundia, sine arte: ut rerum utilitas ac doctrinae cum Eloquii splendore certaret, nec brevitas obscuritatem, nec prolixitas tedium faceret. Modesta item pronuntiatio, modici gestus decentesque, & ad mansuetudinem informati natura. Lectius De vita Sadeelis & scriptis.

Antonius Burbon King of Navarre loved him well, and was wont to hear him preach.

His friends in France were especially Beza, Hottoman, Goulartius, Faius, and others. Elsewhere Grynaeus, Tossanus, Stuckius, Fontanus, Bovius, L'Estraeus.

Jac. Sadoletus a Learned Cardinal. He was thought to be poisoned.Jacobus Sadoletus Orator aevi sui uberrimus. Vixit annos 70. obiit Romae anno 1547. Nomenclat. Sanctae. Rom. Eccles. Cardinal. Eximium hujus aetatis decus. Eras. l. 27. Epist. Epist. 38. Vir doctissimus & Ciceroniani styli imitator non vulgaris. Gesn. Biblioth. Vir gravissimus, omnibusque virtutibus, omni disciplinarum genere, omni litterarum cultu longè praestans Jacobus Sadoletus Co…lega meus. Bembi Epist. l 5. Budaeo. Leo decimus acerrimo ingenio, & gravissimo judicio princeps, simul ac creatus est Pontifex maximus, eum statim & Petrum Bembum ex omni doctorum hominum copia elegit, quorum in conscribendis Epistolis opera & ingenio uteretur: quod apud Romanos Pontifices munus longe honestissimum est. Is autem eo ita munere functus est, ut non ingenio modò, & scribendi tacultate, qua nemo aetate nostra ad illam antiquorum scriptorum laudem propius accedere existimatus est: sed industria etiam, & fide principi illi maxime satisfaceret. Antonius Florebella… De vita Jacobi Sadoleti. Qualecunque tamen id sit quod mihi accidit, scire te volo, me his proximis Comitiis à Paulo tertio Pontifice Maximo in amplissimum ordinem S. R. E. Cardinalium esse cooptatum. Quod sit ne lae andum, nec ne sit, equidem ignoro. Scio enim me alias hujusmodi occasiones vi…asse: & nunc quidem certè quod factum est, neque ex voluntate mea, & praeter omnem expectationem factum est. Ac singularis quidem Pontificis maximi voluntas declarata est adversum me, qui judicavit eo honore me dignum, quo forsican non sum dignus: vel potius planè non sum: quis enim est tam atrogans, qui audeat ipse de se facere judicium dignitatis? Sadolet. Epist. l. 10. Petro Bembo.

Peter Bembus in the fifth Book of his familiar Epistles, writing to Cardinal Pool of Sadoletus his Book concerning Philosophy, saith, he read it over often, and then gives this approbation of it, Equidem ab illis Augusti temporibus quae profecto maxime omnium summis ingeniis & praestantibus scriptoribus claruerunt; nullum legi librum scriptum, ut mihi quidem videtur, appositius, splendidius, nullum melius, nullum Ciceroniano mori, stilo, facundiae denique vicinius. Vide etiam l. 6. Epist. Fam. Paulo Sadoleto p. 327, 328.

Jac. Salianus.Voluminosus ille Chronorapsodus, exscribit unde cunque collecta & atrosa sine delectu plerunque aut judicio, è Lyrano, Abulensi, Carthusiano, Josepho, Hebraeorum Chronologiâ m…re solenni, quippe qui se professus est Josepho adversarium, omnia, si non depravat & pervertit, in sensum certè vertit deterriorem, improbissimus sycophanta. Montacut. Apparat. 6.

There are his

Annales Ecclesiastici Vet. Testamenti, in divers Tomes.

Cl. Salmasius, a learned French Critick.Vir incomparabilis, maximus Salmasius de primatu Papae, post quem Homerum si quis Iliada conscribere velit, inutilem laborem suscipiet. Rivet. Grot Discus. Dial. Sect. 5. Vir nunquam satis laudatus, nec temere sine laude nominandus, Claudius Salmasius. Voss. De Orig. & Progres. Idol. l. 4. c. 91. Nostri seculi miraculum, & antiquitatis promus condus. Gul. Rivet. Praef. ad vindic Evang. Non Galliae suae duntaxat, sed jam & hujus Bataviae ingena decus, atque adeò totius Reipublicae literariae praesidium. Voss. De Analog. l. 3. c. 46. Clarissimus Salmasius notis ad Vopisum, ubi post Guilandinum & Dalecampium in Plinium, ac Scaligeri diatribam adversus Guilandinum, pulcrè, indicta que aliis, de hoc disserit argumento Voss De Art. Gram. l. 1. c 38. Vir alioquin ad literas summo honore tractandas, & illustrandas natus, si modestiam adhibere, & arroganti de se persuasione, ac erga alios malignitate excussa, mentem animi in iis sedulo occupare potuisset. Herald. Animadvers. In Salmas. Observat. Ad Jus Att. & Rom. l. 2. c. 7.

p. 314De omni hujus ludi (scil. calculorum sive tessorarum) ratione accuratius à nemine scriptum, quàm maximo Salmasio, nunquam fatis laudatis ad Historiae Augustae scriptores notis Vossius De vitiis sermonis l. 3. c. 52.

He hath written Notes upon Tertullian de pallio.

De Transubstantiatione contra Grotium.

De primatu Papae, vel de ordine Ecclesiastico.

De Episcopis & Presbyteris, with divers Philological, and other Works.

Accuratè de hisce annulis Salmasius eruditâ Epistolâ, vel libro potiùs, de Caesarie, ac coma mulierum. Voss. De vitiis sermonis l. 3. c. 51.

Two or three years, plus minus, before he made his Books, entituled, De usuris, deque usurarum modo.

Samuel Petitus published the Attick Laws with a Commentary. He (though learned) was unfurnished with helps, to compleat such a Work. Salmasius therefore then reading of him, or coming newly from him, took many things from him, and without a diligent search inserted them into his Books, Hinc ex parte tot errores, imo tot monstra, quae in libris illis incubant, ubi his de rebus agitur. Herald. Animadvers. in Salmas. Observ. ad jus Att. & Rom. l. 2. c. 12.

Salmasius librum inscripsit de usuris, quae inscriptio tractatum juris promittebat. In eo libro verborum proprietates, & origines tractavit; feliciter multas, infeliciter plurimas; atque ea in re pars maxima ejus laboris consumpta est. Et sic liber, quem juridicum volebat efficere, in grammaticum abiit, sive exiit. Id. ib. l. 2. c. 4.

Alph. Salmeron.

Com. in Script. Novi Test. Tom. 16.

His Work upon the Parables is well liked.

Rabbi Salomo a learned Jewish Expositor.

Vnus ex praecipuis Judaeorum Commentatoribus. Paul Fag. Annot. in Chald. Par. in Gen. 49 10.

Salvianus bbIs scripsit praeclarum opus de judicio & providentia Dei ad Salonium Episcopum Viennensem, & se Episcopum etiam inscribit. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. l. 5. Gallicae gentis Episcoporum magister. Taubman. in Plaut., Anno Dom. 460.480. alii.

A learned Father. His Book of Gods Providence is well liked.

Si pauca excipias verba, quae partim notavit ipse, partim ex alieno seculo, ac potissimum ex Catoniae originibus, invidiorè decerpsit, genere dicendi brevissimo aptissimoque dominari omnium testificatione temporum dictus est. Strad. prolus. l. 2.3. Hist. parre 2^da. Acre & sublime viri ingenium, dicendi vis magna, crebrae sententiae, nervosa brevitas narrar presse, irrepit subtiliter, pugnat robustè, verbis vix unquam remerariis, sed acri castigarione delectis, sententiis veris concionibus cultis. Caùssin. Eloq. Sac. & Hum. Paralel l. 1. c. 61. Rerum Romanarum florentissimus auctor. Tacitus 3. Annal. c 30. Vix tandem habitura est quidquam egregium Latina lingua quod non Salustianum sit: adeo hujus scriptoris st ylum admirabilem & modo non venerabilem mihi cupis reddere. Steph. De Lipsii Lat. Palaestra prima.Salustius Crispus.

Salust is a wise and worthy Writer, but he requireth a learned reader, and a right considerer of him. Aschams Schoolmaster 2^d part.

Crispus Romana primus in Historia. Mart. l. 14. Epig. 191.

Scaevola Samarthanus, a learned French Poet.

He hath published Poems and Elogies of the learned Frenchmen.Elogia Gallorum doctrina illustrium praescripsit. Voss. De Histor. Lat. lib. 3. cap. 10.

Stephanus Paschasius in the 4^th Book of his Epigrams, hath these Verses to him.

Seu Latios scribas, sen Gallos Scaevola versus;

Nil Latia, aut majus Gallica terra tulit.

Roma suum jactet, miretur Gallia nostrum:

Cur ita? pro patria vovit uterque manum.

Rob. Sanderson, A Learned School-Divine of our own.

He hath put out divers English Sermons, and a learned Treatise De Juramento.

p. 315Gaspar Sanctius, A Learned Spaniard.Nihil illo fuit humilius in omni vita, nunquam est visus irasci, aut animo commoveri: nunquam vocem solitò amplius extollere non pati detrahentes nomini alieno: ipse de omnibus honestè sentire & loqui. Nunquam in omni vita mentitus est. Quantus fuerit doctrinâ, lucubrationes ejus abundè declarant. Biblioth. Scriptorum Societ. Jesu ab Alegambe edita.

He hath put out Commentaries,

In Ruth, Ezram, Neh. Esther.

In quatuor libros Regum.

In librum Job.

In Prophetam Isaiam.

In Jeremiam.

In Ezech. & Dan.

In Prophetas minores.

In Zachariam.

Antonius Sanderus.

He hath written,He hath published divers other works mentioned in his first …ook De Gandavensibus eruditione claris.

Elogia Cardinalium Sanctitate, Doctrina, & Armis illustrium.

De Scriptoribus Flandriae.

Hagiologium Flandriae.

De Gandavensibus Eruditionis fama claris. l. 3.

Gandavum, sive de Antiquitatibus.

De Burgensibus eruditionis Fama claris. l. 2.

De Claris sanctitate & eruditione Antoniis, l. 3.

Nic. ccQuo homine vix quicquam habuit orbis Christianus ad omnem mentiendi libidinem impudentius, & obduratius. Cerre qùae scripsit libro illo de Schismate Anglicano, ita pleraque omnem fidem hominum & existimationem superant, ut totus ille diabolico furore percirus prostituisse Satanae conscientiam & destinata malitia fraena sibi ad omnem maledicentiae turpitudinem laxasse videatur. Abbot. ad Apologet. pro Garnet. Apol. c. 2.Sanderus.

There are divers Works of his,

De visibili Monarchia.

De Clave.

De Justificat. contra Colloquium Altenburg.

De honoraria adorat. Imaginum.

De schismate Anglicano.

And several English Books.

Hugo Sanfordus.

He hath written a learned Book De descensu Christi ad inferos.

Jacobus Sannazarius, or Accius Sincerus, a Learned Poet.

Inter poetas primum locum obtinuit vir eximius. Cujus ingenium monumenta non vetusta non oblivio delebit ulla, ut ex tot Regum triumphis haud paullo clarior, quam ex unius hominis doctrina, atque ingenio, Parthenope sit futura. Manut. Praefat. in Sannaz.

He put out a famous Poeme De partu virginis in quo de perfectione poëseos videtur cum antiquis decertare. Boissardi Bibliotheca. He was Virgilii aemulus.

There is this Epigramme of Cardinal Bembus upon his Sepulchre at Naples.

Da sacro cineri flores, hic ille Maroni

Syncerus musâ proximus, ut tumulo.

Sappho **Scripsit Lyricorum libros LX. Praeterea Epigrammata, elegias, Jambos & Monodias carmini Sapphico (cujus inventrix fuit) dedit nomen. Catal. Doctarum Virginum & Foeminarum ad finem. Westhon. Parthen.Lesbia a woman, so called from the place of her birth, viz. the Isle of Lesbos.

She lived 515. years before the birth of Christ, one of the first which practised the science of Poetry.

p. 316The Romans erected a Statue of Porphiry richly wrought in memory of her. She was very expert in the composition of Lyrick Verses. She invented also a sort of Verses called Sapphick from her name.

Qui de ritibus ac moribus gentium libros tres, de inventoribus rerum libros duos, & de nummis librum unum conscripsit; autor valde eruditus, & lectionis valde multae. Neand. Geog. parte 1.Alex. Sardus.

He hath written a Book

De moribus & ritibus gentium.

Erasmus Sarcerius, a learned Divine. He was born Anno 1500.

His several Works are mentioned by Boissard, and many of them in Oxford Catalogue.

Jo. **Telis acerbissimis nonnunquam insectabatur Cleri abusus, scriptor suae aetatis longè eloquentissimus, carmine ac prosa-excellens Balaeus De Script. Brytan. Cent. 3.Sarisburiensis.

There is his Metalogicus.

Polycraticus, sive de nugis Curialium.

Epistolae.

Adam Sasboat Professour of Divinity at Lovain.

Docent duo interpretes scripturarum accuratissimi, Cornelius Jansenius, & Adamus Sasbout. Bellarm. Recognit. operum de summo Pontifice.

Italus secta Dominicanus, Concionator percelebris, pietate sanctimonia, doctrina adeò clarus, ut à pleris que Propheta haberetur. Morn. myst. Iniq. Ante annos 90. exustus est Florentiae celeberrimus. Concionator Hieronymus Savanarola Monachus Dominicanus cum aliquot sociis. Vir eruditione ac pietate insignis. De articulo gratuitae justificationis fidei in Christum rectè sensit ut apparet ex ejus Commentariis in Psalm. 51. Communionem sub utraque specie defendit, Indulgentias damnavit. Papae, Cardinalium, omniumque spiritualium turpem sceleratamque vitam & officii neglectionem, gravissimè est accusare solitus. A Joanne Pico, comite Mirandulae docto viro sanctus propheta appellatur, & proprio scripto, & contra Papam defenditur. Marcilius Ficinus in quadam Epistola propheticum spiritum, & alioqui cum magnificè celebrat. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. l. 19. Vide plura ibid. Praedicator acerrimi ingenii, summae doctrinae & eruditionis vir, austerae vitae, & morum sanctimonia omnibus admirandus: vehemens in reprehendendis vitiis, eloquentissimus in concionibus: tanta vi dicendi, & facundia pollebat, ut quò vellet animos auditorum persuasos flecteret. Ideo quoties ad populum verba haberet è suggestu tantus ad illam audiendum confluxus erat, ut amplissima templa multitudinem capere non possent. Boissardi Bibliotheca.Ps 51Hieronymus Savanarola of Ferrara, by profession a Dominican, a famous Preacher, An. 1499. he was burnt.

Being a Monk in Italy, and singularly well learned, he preached sore against the evil life of the spiritualty, and specially of his own Order, complaining sore upon them, as the Authours of all mischiefs and wickednesse. Whereupon by the help of certain learned men, he began to seek Reformation in his own Order. He threatned Italy with the wrath and indignation of God, and prophesied before unto them, that the Land should be overthrown for the pride and wickednesse of the people, and for the untruth, hypocrisie and falshood of the Clergy, which God would not leave unrevenged, as afterward it came to passe, when Charles the French King came into Italy and to Rome, and so straitly beset the Pope Alexander, that he was forced to make composition with him. Foxes Act and Monum. Vol. 1. p. 596.

His Works are mentioned by Boissard.

Sir Henry **Savilius Anglicè loquentem nobis Tacitum ediderat notis quibusdem suis longe eruditissimis illustratum. Montac. Antidiat. Hic Chrysostomus à Savilio editur, privata impensa, animo regio. Casaub. Epist. Append. p. 63. Excellentis ingenii & admirandae eruditionis vir. Id. Epist. 84. Vide Scultet. Curric vitae p. 62. In notis tuis nihil displicet praeter brevitatem & paucitatem. Caeterùm cum cogito & sumptuum, quos fecisti, immensitatem, & non ferendos labores, quos per aliquot annos, quâ exemplaria Chrysostomi conquirens, quâ legens & relegens, quâ emendans, quâ invicem comparans sustinuisti, absolvo te ab omni culpa, imò miror potiùs quod reliquis laboribus (qui alium quemvis non invicti planè animi oppressissent) hunc etiam notas tuas scribendi & alienas corrigendi ad dere voluisti. Boissii Not. in Homil. in Genes. ad Dominum Henricum Savilium. Quod docte & accurate observavit Savillus, ut pleraque alia in his historiarum libris qua illustrandae Taciti historiae, qua ostendendo in quibus Tacitus ipse incuriosius aut minus explicavit rerum gestarum ordinem, aut contraria sibi ipsi & repugnantia scripserit. Quae omnia summa industria diligentia, judicio ab eo relata aut ipse non invidebit nobis Cismarinis Latina lingua dare, aut erunt, qui audeant. Merc. Not in Tac.Savil, a great Mathematician, and expert Grecian.

p. 317He was skilfull in the Greek and Latine, and most of the Liberal Arts.

To whom Oxford is beholding for her Mathematick Professors, the Christian world for Chrysostom and Bradwardine His putting forth Chrysostom cost him 8000 pounds.

Nil oriturum aliàs, nil ortum tale fatemur, said Marcus Velserus a learned Germane of that Work.

Vir acerrimi judicii, & ob editum Chrysostomum perennis gloriae Henricus Savilius. Meibomii Praef. ad Gaudent. Harmon, Introduct.

Scaligeri utrique.

Both the Scaligers, Julius Caesar Scaliger, and Joseph his sonne were excellent Scholars and famous Poets.

Andrew Melvin hath these Verses of them,

Scaliger aut pater, aut proles si carmina dictat;

Scaligero solus Scaliger apta canit.

Scaligero patri par nemo, simillima proles,

Tam patri similis, quam pater ipse sibi.

Scaliger aut pater, aut proles, ambo unus, in uno aut

Est pater in nato, aut in patre natus erit.

CHAP. XII.

JVlius Caesar Scaliger was thirty years old before he fell to study,Criticus, Grammaticus acerrimus, poeta excellentissimus, Philosophus eruditissimus, alter in medicina Aesculapius, & quidem (dictu pene incredibile) haec omnia quum aetatis juvenilis parte in armis consumpta, serius sese literarum studiis dedisset tum ingenii extra omnem aleam positi praestantia, tum indefatigabili labore, quamvis adversante valetudine consequutus. Bezae Icon. Vir. Illust. Latina Julii Caesaris Scaligeri Poetica; spissum sane opus & perspicacissimi ingenii atque ingentis in viro eruditionis argumentum. Possev. Biblioth. Sel. Tomo 2^do. l. 17. Julius Scaliger Veronensis, non minus eruditione quam genere ac prole Clarus. Bod. De Repub l 5. c. 1. yet was a singular Philosopher, and an excellent Greek and Latine Poet.

Vossius cals him Naturae miraculum. Instit. Orat. l. 1. c. 3. sect. 1. & ibid. l. 1. c. 5. sect. 2. he saith thus, Vir ille nunquam sine laude dicendus, vir ad unguem factus. Voss. Instit. orat. l. 4. c. 11. sect. 3. Summus profectò veterum censer, ac deliciae omnium, quorum interest vaecare Musis. Voss. Institut. orat. l. 5. c. 13. sect. 1. Yet elsewhere **Multum in exercitationibus suis debet Joanni Leoni; utcunque nomen scriptoris semper suppresserit. Voss. De Orig. & Progress. Idol. l 3. c. 59. Hoc contradictionis studium quod ubique in hisce exercitationibus se prodit sophista dignius est quam philosopho. Majorem enim modestiam, dum falsè adeo tractat Cardanum, meritò passim requiras: praesertim si cogites scribere adversu… virum summum, studiis quidem humanitatis, & metphysices non paulò inferiorem, at non scientia naturae, Mathesios autem omnibus disciplinis, in quibus parum omnino Scaliger videbat, albis quod dicitur equis praevertentem. Voss. De Orig. & Progress. Idol. l. 3. c. 80 Vide ibid. c. 84. & Moncacus. Analect. Exercit. 5. Sect 4. Oratione illa adversus Erasmum doctiùs, quam modestius, magisque ad ostentationem & laudis aucupium, ex magnitudine adversarii, quam veritatis studio scripsit, sed hanc culpam heros ille postmodo, poenitudine ductus quodammodo eluit divino epigrammate, quo Erasmum adeo extulit. Voss. Institut. Orat. l. 4. c. 2. Sect. 4. De cujus viri ingenio ita semper apud me judicarim, ut illum dum se philosophiae pallio continuit, rectè, & decentissimè; cum verò Imperatoris paludamentum induit, futiliter omnia, & vanè locutum fuisse non dubitem assere…e. Naudaeus De Studio militari l. 1. p. 183.he taxeth him for being much beholding to an authour in his Exercitations, whom yet he never mentions, and for his too much contradicting of Cardane.

In his Exercitations he opposeth Cardan too much; Idque non tam eruendae veritis studio, quam ut effraeni desiderio suo satisfaceret, cum illis omnibus congrediendi, quos suo tempore, literarum eruditionumque Principes haberi cognoverat. Naudaei de Cardano. Judicium. Vide plura ibid.

So in his Commentaries upon Aristotle de Animalibus, he inveigheth against Theodore Gaza a most innocent and learned man.

Lipsius highly admires him, Tres sunt quos admirari unicè soleo, & qui in hominibus excessisse mihi humanum fastigium videntur, Homerus, Hippocrates, Aristoteles, sed addo hunc quartum (viz. Julium Scaligerum) qui natus in miraculum & gloriam nostri aevi. Lips. Epist. Cent. 2. Epist. 44. Jano Dousae filio.

p. 318Ne vir sim ego, si acutius aut capacius ingenium inter homines fuit ab illo ipso Juliano aevo. Lipsius De Rect. pronunc. Latinae Linguae c. 7.

Vir stupendae eruditionis, & quo Sol doctiorem vix illuxit alterum. Meibomii Maecenas c. 4.

Vir quo superiorem antiquitas vix habuit, parem certe haec aetas non vidit. Thuan. Hist. Tom 1. l. 21. Vide plura ibid.

Joseph Scaliger, Josephus Scaliger Grammaticus melior quam Logicus. Savil. Lect. 12. in Euclid. In amore tuo gaudeo: in judicio triumpho, quia (verè, & ex animo) si quisquam est proborum, cui probari me meaque velim: is…u es, inter probissimos primus. Aquila in nubibus, quod Graeci dicunt, verè tu es: vides, imo pervi…es omnia: & quicquid venaris, capis. Lips. Epist. Cent. 1. Epist. 6. Jos. Scal. Vide Jos. Scalig. Epist. l. 1. Epist. 1. & 2. & etiam Epist 90, 98. Sane unicus libellus contra Serarium tanta doctrinae reconditae copia est refertus, ut omnes inimici Scaligeri, si in unum conveniant & capita conferant, parem librum nunquam sint daturi. Casaub. Epist. 298. Thuan. Eusebium Scaligeri legi & ita sum admiratus, ut nihil simile putem me legisle. Casaub. Epist. 392. Vassano & fratri. Vir tantus, cujus nomen nunquam mihi occurrit, quin illud venerer. Herald. Animadvers. in Salmas. observat. Ad. Jus Att. & Rom l. 2. c. 19. Vide Gassend. De vita Peireskii l. 2. p 124, 125, 126. Josephus Scaliger vix delibatis conjugationibus Graecis Homerum cum interpretatione arreptum XXI. diebus totum didicit; poeticae vero dialecti vestigiis insistens, Grammaticam sibi ipse formavit, ne que ullam aliam didicit; quam quae ipsi ex analogia verborum Homericorum observata fuit. Reliquos verò poetas Graecos omnes intra quatuor menses devoravit. Neque ullum Oratorem aut Historicum prius attigit, quam poetas omnes teneret. Nullus extat aucto…, sive G…aecus, sive Latinus, in quem non plurima notaret. Meurfi Athenae Batavae. Wower writing to Joseph Scaliger from Rome, saith, Non facilè dixero quantos amatores ingenii tui praeclara monumenta hic invenerint. Parco dicere, quam freqaens, quam honorifica illustris nominis tui mentio, quam curiose de rebus tuis figillatim inquirant, quarum noticia stuporem ipsis merito auget. Wower. Epist. Cent. 2. Epist. 9. Vide etiam Epist. 71. In Criticis omnium recte aestimantium judicio princeps sine controversia, sine aemulo ac rivali dominatur. Baudi Oratio in obium Scaligeri. Nullus est alicujus notae scriptor Graecus aut Latinus, cui non lucem aliquam soeneratus sit. Id. ibid.one of the great lights of France and Holland too.

In antiquos scriptores nimium petulans & protervus. Montac. Exercit 2. sect. 10.

For variety of Learning and skill in the Oriental Languages (besides his acuratenesse in Chronology) he exceeded his Father.

Julius Scaliger vir incomparabilis nisi Josephum genuisset. Meric. Casaub.

Dictator eruditorum. Dilher. Disput. Acad. Tom. 1. Flos ille illibatus Musarum. Casaub. Epist.

Senatus Critici princeps ▪ Voss. Institut Orat. l. 4 c. 19. sect, 5.

Is juvenis quanta sit eruditione & judicio, quaque in votustis scriptis conferendis industria, & abstrusa sensibus eruendis acumine, monumenta ab eo edita testantur. Buchan Rerum Scot. Hist. l. 2.

In the first Volume of the Lord of Plessis his Lettres & Memoires, Casaubone relating to him Scaligers death, saith, This losse of so learned a man, wrought in him an incredible grief, and that he for his particular had lost another Father, and saith, That he had the honour to be loved by him, and that he much honoured him according to his merit, and addes, That those which of late have so calumniated him, will not spare now to reproach him much more; but (saith he) he will not want such as will vindicate him, Dum quidem literis melioribus suus honor stabit.

Mounsieur Du Plessis likewise condoles with him in so great a losse, and saith, That Scaliger indeed made one of the integral parts of the better Learning of this Age, but (saith he) he was aged, and therefore to have lived longer would have been but a burden; and he doubts not likewise but the Jesuites would insult over this dead Lion, but it makes for Scaligers honour (quoth he) to have such Adversaries, V… omnis boni osores, ita & omnibus exosos. And I assure my self, that when they shall attempt it, they shall not do it impune, as long as you shall live, which ought therefore to redouble your courage, that so Christianity may finde a supply of the other want in your increased abilities, as Physicians say, when one eye is lost, the other sees the better.

Thuanus honourably mentions him in his History **Josephus Justus Scaliger secundum patrem nunc inter litteratos & jure litterarum principem sine controversia locum tenet, vere eruditorum Phoebus, ut politissimi ingenii Vir, Lipsius eum indigitavit. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 1. l. 21. Vide plura ibid. Literatorum hujus saeculi princeps Josephus Scaliger in illo admirando & ad omnem aeternitatem victuro opere, quod de emendatione temporum composuit. Thuan. hist. tom. 3. l. 76. Amicitia cum Scaligero contracta vitio illi à virtuti & literis infesto hominum genere vertitur. Thuan. de vit. sua l. 7.and in the first Book of his p. 319Commentaries De vita sua, saith he, continued in a league of friendship thirty eight years, and addes, Eaque re, quam sibi ab improbis hominibus exprobrari & vnìe verti intellexit, in sinu gaudet, & palam gloriatur, tantaque ex recordatione ejus nunc etiam voluptate perfunditur, ut concumelias, convitia, calumnias; & pericula & incommoda ab injusto illorum odio, si Deo placet, ob id profecta, si detur optio, tam dulcis & honestae tamque eruditae consuetud…nis amissione aut etiam oblivione nolit redimere. Et hoc ist is pro omni ad ill…rum virulentiam responsione dictum cupit. And addes, That in all that while in which he was acquainted with him, he never heard him dispute of the controverted points of Religion, or that he knew was he accustomed to write to others about them, Neque vero (saith he) nisi provocatus de iis nec nisi invitissimus disserebat; and concludes thus, Quasi vero extra Religionis caussam non multa praeclara & supra captum, quantum ad literas, humanum in ea admiranda essent, quae bonus quisque ab eo cognoscere & doceri merito cuperet, & propter tam raras in eum à Deo camulat as doies non ipse observari ac praecipua veneratione à bonis quibusque mereretur.

Desiderius Heraldus seems to question his Book De re nummaria, cum libellus post ejus obitum editus sit, nec ab eo ante recognitus. Animadvers. in Salmas. Observat. ad Jus Att. & Rom. l. 2. c. 20. Eusebii Chronica castigavit notisque illustravit, quibus nihil hic sol videt eruditius. Voss. De Hist. Graec. l. 2. c. 17.

Chr. Scheiblerus. He wrote,

Opus Logicum, compendium Philosophiae Metaphysica cum additionibus. T. Barlow.

Will. **Vir clarissimus & à peritia Linguae Arabicae commendatissimus Dominus Willielmus Schickardus Professor Tubigensis. Specimen. Arab. Johan. Fabric.Schickardus, a great Linguist.

There are his, Horologium Hebraeum.

Bechinath Happeruschim.

Institutiones Hebraeae.

Jus Regium Hebraeorum.

Epitome Bibliorum sen Eclogae sacrae, and his Tarich Regum Persic.

Valentine Schindler, singularly skilled in the Hebrew and the Oriental Tongues.

He wrote, Lexicon Pentaglotton.

Martinus Schoockins. He is Professor of Logick and Physick in Groning.

He hath published these Works

De bonis Ecclesiasticis.

Accurata de reip. Belgicae faederatae descriptio.

With several other Works.

Caspar Schoppius.

He and Andrew Schoppius are good at railing.Andraeas Eudaemon. Andreas sane & Schoppius nomina sunt illustria è familia calumniatorum. M. Casaub. pietas.

He hath written sharply against Joseph Scaliger, styling his Book

Scaliger Hyperbolimeus.

He hath published also other Works.

Cornelius Schonaeus, a Poet of a most elegant wit. His holy Comaedies (entituled Terentius Christianus) which are commonly used, shew that.

And. Schottus, a most learned and candid Jesuite.

He hath written Notes upon Senecae, and several other Works.Vir ad litterarum studia promovenda natus. Haeschel. Not. ad Bibliothec. Photii. Natione Belga, domo Antuerpia natus scripsit Bibliothecam Hispaniae, seu de Academiis ac Bibliothecis, cum elogiis & Nomenclatore Clarorum Hispaniae scriptorum Tomis tribus distinctam. Biblioth. Scriptorum Societ. Jesu. A Philippo Alegambe edita. Hic amicos habuit Claudium Puteanum, Scaligorum, Pithaeos, Passeratium, aliosque, semper in libris, omnibus gratus, moribus tractabilis, & ut unico verbo dicam, Ipsa bonitas. Swertii Athenae Belgicae.

p. 320Jo Duns Scotus, a learned Englishman, and the wittiest of all the Schoolmen, An. Dom. 1300.Scaliger cal'd him Limam veritatis. Scotum, ut olim fuit Homerus, à diversis regionibus certatim adoptatum Angli potissimum sibi vendicant. Eras. Epist. l. 7. Epist. 39. In Dialectica & spinosa Theologia ad miraculum doctissimu subtilis Doctoris titulum promeruit, & novam Scotistarum sectam condidit. Lausii Orat. pro Britania.

He wrote at Oxford in Merton Colledge upon the four Books of the Sentences, whence his Work is called Scriptum Oxoniense.

If I must ake any thing in this part of Philosophy on trust, I confesse Scotus his credit will go as farre with me, as any man that ever writ, not guided by an unerring infallible spirit. M^r Baxters Friendly Accomod.

He being sick of an Apoplexy was buried before he was dead.

Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue.

An ancient Poet composed these two Verses of him,

Doctor subtilis, nomen subtilia donant,

Quem vestis vilis, pes nudus, corda coronant.

Alius fuit à Scoto Oxoniensis Collegii Metronensis alumno quem Doctorem sub. tilem atque Dunsum nominabant. Erat homo corpore pusillus, sed animo, & ingenio amplissimus, summus Philosophus, morum probitate laudatissimus, & facetiis urbanissimus. Caii Hist. Cantab. Acad. l. 1. Hoc viro eximio, tanquam geniali quodam sidere, adornabat Alphredus Academiam suam Oxonii inchoatam. Erat ille primus qui publicè illic bonas artes profitebatur. Balaeus De Script. Britan. Cent. 2.Johannes Scotus Erigena, an Irishman, for Ireland is called by the Inhabitants Erin. Balaeus saith, he was King Alphreds Master, An. Dom. 850.

He was many years before Duns Scotus. Vide Voss. De vitiis Sermonis, lib. 3. cap. 8.

Johannes Scotus a famous Countreyman of ours, wrote a Book of the same Argument, and to the same effect that Bertram had done, viz. of the Sacrament. This man for his extraordinary Learning was in England (where he lived in great account with King Alfred) surnamed John the Wise, and had very lately room in the Martyrology of the Church of Rome, though now he be ejected thence. B. Vsh. Answ. to the Jes. Challenge.

He is described to be of a sharp wit, of great eloquence, and well expert in the Greek Tongue, pleasant and merry of nature and conditions, as appeareth by divers his doings and answers.

First, He coming to France out of his own Countrey of Scotland (so saith M^r Fox) by reason of great tumults of warre, was there worthily entertained, and for his Learning had in great estimation of Carolus Calvus the French King; whom he commonly and familiarly used to have about him, both at Table, and in Chamber.

M^r Foxes Acts aud Monum. Vol. 1. p. 186, 187. Matthaeus Westmonasteriensis. p. 171. hath the same.Upon a time the King sitting at meat, and seeing something (belike in this John Scot) which seemed not very courtly, cast forth a merry word, asking of him, What difference there was betwixt a Scot and a Sot? Whereunto the Scot sitting over against the King, somewhat lower, replied again suddenly, rather then advisedly, yet merrily, saying, Mensa tantúm, that is, the Table onelyonly: importing thereby himself to be the Scot, and so calling the King a Sot by craft.

Another time the same King being at Dinner was served with a certain dish of fish, wherein were two great fishes, and a little one. After the King had taken thereof his repast, setteth down to Johannes Scotus the foresaid fish to distribute unto the other two Clerks, sitting there with him: which were two tall and mighty persons, he himself being but a little man. Johannes taketh the fish, of the which, the two great he taketh and carveth to himself; the little fish he reacheth to the other two. The King perceiving his division thus made, reprehended the same. Then Johannes, whose manner ever was to finde out some honest matter to delight the King, answered to him again, proving his division to stand just and equal: For here (saith he) be two great, and a little, pointing to the two great fishes and p. 321himself: and likewise here again is a little one, and two great, pointing to the little fish, and two great persons: I pray you (saith he) what distribution can be more equal? Whereat the King with his Nobles being much delighted, laughed merrily.

He was impiously murthered and slain by his Scholars with their pen-knives at Malmesbury.Joannes Scotus alias Erigena dictus scripsit Commentarios in libros Dionysii de Hierarchia: in quorum enarratione, cum taxaret opinionem tum receptani, de oblatione Coenae Dominicae pro vivis & mortuis, à discipulis, Monachorum impulsu graphiis est interfectus: anno Domini 884. in Monasterio Malmesberiensi, qua recreationis gratia se contulerat. Jacobi Frisii Biblioth. Philos. Sane ex antiquis, qui graphiis discipulorum periisse referantur, non alii nunc animo occurrunt, quà n…hi duo; Cassianus, cujus memoria celebratur XIII. Augusti, & Joannes Erigena, sive Scotus, Caroli …alvi. Imp. aequalis; de quo id ex Matthaeo Westmonasteriensi, & Gulielmo Malmesburiensi, prodebamus Historiae Pelagianae lib. VII. part. 14. Voss. De vitiis Sermonis l. 2. c. 15.

D^r William Sclater, a learned School-Divine.

There are several Works of his published,

Vtriusque Epistolae ad Corinthios Explicatio.

An Exposition with Notes upon the second Epistle to the Thessalonians.

On two Chapters of the Romans.

Of Tithes.

Sermons, and other Tracts.

Carolus Scribanius a Jesuite, under the name of Clarus Bonarscius, Vidistine unquam ex quo re genuere parentes: imò fuit ne unquam in rerum natura jam inde à primordio conditi orbis, tale monstrum ac portentum ex omni colluvione barbariae & impudentiae conflarum, qualis est ille qui edidit librum cui in scriptio Amphitheatrum honoris? Dominicus Baudius Joanni à Wower.(which is an Anagram to his name) made four Latine Books, which he entitleth Amphitheatrum honoris, horroris he might have said.

That he was the Author of that Book, appears both by an Epistle of Andreas Schottus the Jesuite, whose Autograph is yet kept, and also by the Catalogue of the Writers of that Society published by Ribadeneira at Antwerp, in which it is expresly mentioned, that Carolus Scribanius was the Authour of the four Books of the Amphitheater of honour.

He saith there, That all those who adhere not to their holy Society, are no better then Calvinists.

Sed omittamus Amphitheatralem istum scriptorem, melioris omnis doctrinae pus atque venenum. Is. Casaub. ad Front. Duc. Epist.

Pet. Scriverius.

He hath written learnedly on Martial.Doctissimus Scriverius, vir praeclarè de Poeta hoc meritus. Vossius De Analog. l. 2. c. 3. Vir ut ad restituendas litteras, & omnis aevi antiquitatem, ita ad instaurandum patriae suae decorem natus. Boxhorn. Theat. Holland.

Tot ac tanta sunt quae in eo praestitisti, ut praedicationem meam longè supergressa sunt. Equidem Belgii nostri fortunae gratulor, penes quos servati Martialis gloria est. J. Rutgersius Scriverio.

Anna Maria à Schurman, a very learned and also pious woman,Virgo Batava, praeter vernaculam, Gallicamque trium linguarum, quas eruditorum vocant, Latinae, Graecae, Hebraicae callens, versus Latinos Latinè terséque ludere solet; rhythmosque cum vernaculos tum Gallicos. Valeri Audreae Bibliotheca Belgica. whom Spanhem cals Vltimum naturae in hoc sexu conatum, & decimam Musam.

She hath put out

Opuscula Hebraea Graeca, Latina, Gallica, Prosaica & Metrica.

In the third Edition of which Book, and the end of it, there are divers Elogia of her by many learned men.

p. 322Doctissimus vir, M Bartholomaeus Scultetus ante annos non paucos, cum Lipsiae operam literis darem, mihi ob singularem in rebus Astronomicis peritiam, familiaritate ferme quotidiana auctus erat, cujus etiam in Mathematicis Scientiis, maximè vero in Gnomonicis, quas ab Homelio suo Praeceptore hauserat, eximia cognitio, plurimis innotuit. Tych. Brah. De Cometa. Anni 1577. l. 2. c. 10.Bartholomaeus Scultetus, a great Mathematician.

Paraei Collega in facultate Theologica Abrahamus Scultetus Electoris disertissimus concionator, Theologiae Antiquitatis, & Historiae Ecclesiasticae sedulus sectator. Laeti Compend. Hist. Univers.Abraham Scultetus, a most eloquent Preacher and learned Divine.

He hath written Medulla Theol. Patrum in four Volumes.

Exercitationes Evangelicae.

Deliciae Evangelicae Pragenses.

In Epistolas Pauli ad Timotheum duas, Titum & Philemonem.

Annalium Evangelii Decas 1^a & 2^da.

De curriculo vitae sive de actionibus Pragensibus, cum aliis.

De Imaginibus Idololat sermo.

Scultetus Orthodoxus, seu responsio ad Theses de Imaginibus.

CHAP. XIII.

Clarus fuit in Italia Sedulius Scotus circa annum 450. ingenio praeclaro praeditus, eruditus, carmine & prosa excellens. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. lib. 5.CAelius Sedulius Scotus, Anno Dom. 490.430. saith Barclay.

Sedulius Presbyter, vir quidem ille doctus, & in sacris literis interpretandis exercitatus. Rivii Reg. Angl. in Hibern. defens. adversus Analecten. l. 2. Vide R. Episc. Usser. De Brit. Eccles. primord. c. 16.

John Selden a learned Lawyer of the Inner-Temple.

Ad juris Patrii exactam scientiam, legum Mosaicarum, reliquarumque gentium, & literarum porro omnium, non Latinarum modo & Graecarum, sed & Hebraicarum & gentium Orientalium singularem cognitionem adjecit. D. Duck. De usu & Authoritate Juris Civilis Romanorum l. 2. c. 8. Per idem tempus accepit aureum eruditi Seldeni librum de Arundelianis Marmoribus, sive saxis Graecè incisis, quae per illustris ille comes transferri ex Asia in Angliam, hortosque suos curaverat. Gassend. De vita Petreskii. Seldeni doctrinam & eruditionem non suspicio modo & veneror, sed etiam admiror & exosculor plane. Capel. Diat. de nomine Jehovah. Vir foreign D. Joan. Seldenus in scripto illo De Diis Syris accuratissimo, eruditionisque recondi…iori… cum primis foeto. Cl. Gatak Dissert. de Tetragram. Vindicat. ad versus Capellum. Videatur de iis doctissimus Ictus I. Seldenus, qui in his sacris per medium fundum Antiquitatis peregrinatur, utcubi sacros Scripturae locos quam multos, ad priscos Deos remittunt; nobis det enodatos: qui vir etiam si praeterea aliud nihil praesti…isset, est tamen, cur ei Antiquitatis amatores multum se debere sateantur. Dilber. Disputat. Academ. Tom. 10 p. 248.He got his great knowledge in the Oriental Languages after he fell to the study of the Law.

Some like his Marmora Arundeliana, some his Books concerning the Jewish Rites and Customes, others much commend his Titles of Honour; but I must confesse my self to be most taken with that De Diis Syris, wherein he opens many places of Scripture. Others, I believe also are of the same judgement.

He is honourably mentioned by many outlandish men.

He wrote in all his Books foreign, above all Liberty, to shew, that he would examine things, and not take them upon trust.

Nicolaus Selneccerus Doctor of Divinity and Professor of the same in the University of Lipsia.

He wrote this Distick for himself,

Quid sum? Nil. Quis sum? Nullus, sed gratia Christi,

Quod sim, quod vivo, quodque laboro, facit.

p. 323His many Works are mentioned by Boi… … in his Icones.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Philosopher,Anno … Christianae 68. Helv. Chron. Habet ille revera multa eximia, utilia, fortia, sublimia, & arguta, subtiliaque complura, estque dignus admodum qui non ab humaniotis literaturae tantum, sed à Theologiae etiam studiosis sedulò quidem, sed judicio atque examine justo adhibito, legatur. Verum non est unius ejusdemque ubique coloris, nec per omnia constat sibi. Cl Gatak Praelog ad Antoninum Pium. Quem non ponerem in Catalogo Sanctorum, nisi me illae Epistolae provocarent, quae leguntur à plurimis, Pauli ad Senecam & Senecae ad Paulum Hieron De Script. Eccles Absit mea quidem sententia, ut Epistolas istas legitimas putetis, quae à nonnullis etiam nunc leguntur. Lilii Greg. Gyrald. De Poet Histor. Dial 8. Multarum retum experientia cognitus. Tacit. l. 13. Laudatissimus inter omnes veteres scriptor, & virtutis studio poene Christianus. Lips. in Epist. ad Paullum 5^tum Pont. Philosophus quidem fuit, sententiarum ubertate in scriptis gravis, magnae, ut appatet, prudentiae: & in vitiis aliorum omnis generis notandis severus, quod testimonium etiam Quinctilianus ipsi perhibet lib. x. c. 1. Melbomii Maecenas. c. 22. was born a little before the death of Augustus Caesar.

The divine Moralist, he is a great reprover of vices, he was the Prince of the Stoicks, who were the strictest of the Heathen Philosophers. Morum Apelles ille singularis & Censor. Scriv. Animadv. in Mart l. 10.

He was Nero's Schoolmaster, who was a young Prince of great hope, and in youth he shewed himself gentle, tractable, obeying his Schoolmasters instructions, who delighted to manure this plant, hoping all the world should have joy of him.

He had an excellent memory.

He was too covetous, which caused his death.

Seneca the Tragick Poet.

This and the former Seneca and Lucan the Poet were born at Corduba in Spain.Quem nul Graecorum majestate inferiorem existimo: cultu verò ac nitore etiam Euripide majorem. Scal. Hypercrit. cap. 1.

Duosque Senecas, unicumque Lucanum.

Facunda loquitur Corduba.

Mart. Epig. l. 1. Ep. 29.

Sixtus Senensis.Vir plurimae lectionis, & qui plurima aliorum script. evoluit, tum eorum imprimis, qui ea tracta…nt, quae ipse ea professo tractat. Rainol. de lib. Apoc.

He is commended by Bellarmine, l. 1. De verbo Dei for a singular Divine, and by D^r Stapleton Doct. Princ. for one writing most accurately of the Scripture.

Doctissimus & sagacissimus veterum Scriptorum Censor. Savil. Not. in Chrysost.

Vir doctissimus, prodigiosae lectionis & industriae. Montac. Exercit. 5. sect. 4.

Immensi laboris scriptor, diligentiae stupendae, lectionis variae, & eruditionis admirandae. Id. Exercit. 5. c. 3.

Dan. Sennertus, a learned Physician.

There are his

Institutiones Medicinae.

Jo. Genes. Sepuluenda **Homo Graece, Latinéque doctus, & Philosophicis studiis clarus, quod eruditae ejus lucubrationes editae testantur. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 54.Cordubensis, A grave learned Historian, sometimes Chronicler to Charles the fifth.

Nic. Serarius a good Hebrician.

Hebraearum antiquitatum callentissimus vir, utinam paulò modestior. Montac. Exercit. 3. sect. 2.

He hath written a Commentary on Joshua, Judges, Ruth, Esther, the books of the Kings and Chronicles, the Canonical Epistles.

Opuscula Theologica.

Prolegomena in universa Biblia.

Disputatio de loco Paradisi.

Baronius call'd him Ecclesiae Germaniae jubar.

Servius, a most learned Grammarian.Virclarissimus & excellentissimus D. D. Aurelius Severinus, Anatomes & Chirurgiae in Gymnasio Neapolitano Professor eximius Museum Wormianum.

p. 324He hath commented excellently on Virgil.

Sulpitius **Vir erat doctrina & sapi entia plurimum pollens; Sc…iptor valdè pol…us. Dictione u…itur adeò …eria & eleganti ut Ecclesiasticorum purissimus Scriptor, à Josepho Scaligero vocetur. Whear. Meth. leg. Hist. parte 1^a. Sect. 3².Severus, after Tertullian, of the same standing with Augustine, Epiphanius and Chrysostom, a Writer for skill in the Persian story, deserving great commendation, and to the true understanding of Ezra, and Nehemiah, and Daniels Weeks, bringeth such light, as is not in any ancient Writer that I have read to be found the like. Livelies Chronology of the Persian Monarchy.

Robert Sheringham.Vir Cl. Robertus Sheringhamus Cantabrigiensis Codicem Talmudicum Jomam dictum Latinè transtulit: Commentariis sanè eruditis illum illustrans. Seld. De Syned. lib. 3. cap. 11.

He hath put out a Thalmudical book of Sacrifices.

D^r Richard Sibbes, a grave and solid Divine.

Famous for his piety, learning, devotion, and politenesse of his two genuine writings, The bruised Reed, and Souls Conflict.

Sir Philip Sidney, a learned Gentleman, and of Oxford.

He married the sole daughter and heir of that worthy Statesman Sir Francis Walsingham.

Of whom I may say, as Austen did of Homer, that he is very sweet and delightfull even in his vanities. Yet he was not so fond of his Arcadia as the Bishop Heliodorus of his amorous book, for he desired when he died (having first consulted with a Minister about it) to have had it suppressed.

Lipsius dedicates to him his Dialogue De Recta Pronunciatione Latinae Linguae, and hath this passage in his Epistle, O Britanniae tuae clarum sidus, cui certatim lucem affundunt virtus, Musa, Gratia, Fortuna.

Sigebertus Monachus Gemblacensis Natione Gallicus, Anno Dom. 1100.1056. Helv. Chron.

Sigebert Monk of Gemblaux wrote his Chronicle and other Histories in the seventh Age.

Vir antiquitarum Italiae peritissimus Bod. De Repub. l. 1. c. 10. Bononiae Latinae linguae professor, eloquentiae & eruditionis singularis, plurima scripsit. Gesner. Biblioth. Cerrè & Carolus Sigonius literis Ebraicis nimium alienus, utcunque vir aliàs doctissimus, plurima Galatini verba, velut è Talmudistis, tacito ejus nomine in sua lingua describens phrasinque non mutans. Selden. De Syned. l. 3. c. 12.Carolus Sigonius, a most accurate Writer.

Erroribus Livii exhauriendis bonam fidelemque navavit operam vir eruditissimus Carolus Sigonius: quem ego: & antiquitatis peritissimum, & bonorum scriptorum intelligentissimum, & eruditissimum nominare merito possum. Turneb. Advers. lib. 11. cap. 18.

Silius Italicus. Vossius De Poetis Latinis, c. 3. gives the reason why he was called Italicus.Vir gravissimus, Consul Romanus, ejus reipublicae. quam Consiliis tutatus erat, gloriam versibus editis propagate non erubuit. Grot. Praefat. ad Poemata. Vide Vossium De Historicis Latinis. l. 1. c. 29. Fuit hic Poeta excellens, Virgilii aemulus, ut ex opere illo De Bello Punico secundo animadvertas Biblioth. Hisp. Tom. 2.

Jacobus Silvius, a learned man and great Physician, but very covetous.

Buchanan made these Verses of him,

Silvius hic situs est, gratis qui nil dedit unquam,

Mortuus & gratis quod legis ista, dolet.

Jos Simlerus.

Vir non minus pietate quàm eruditione praestans. Humfr. De Jesuit. part. 2. De Pat. rat. 4^ta. Petro Martyri successor in Schola Tigurina datus, stylum praecipuè in Samosetanos, Arianos, Nestorianos, Eutychianos, Macedonianos, &c. in Polonia Tritheitas strinxit, aliis scientiis egregiè instructus, ac praecipuè Mathematicis quas & per se percepit, & summâ cum laude diu professus est, & instrumentis ingeniosissimè à se excogitatis illustravit. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 3. l. 62. Fuit hic vir non solùm Theologus, sed & aliarum artium, quae Theologiae ancillantur, apprimè peritus: imprimis Mathematum, & quidem, quod mireris, eas ipsas scientias, tot tantisque diffacultatibus obseptas: ut indè, quòd sine praeceptore percipi nequeant, foreign sunt dicta, ipse suo ferè, ut aiunt, Marte didicit. Melch. Ad. in ejus vita.He expounded the Scriptures with a great commendation in his own Countrey. De Republica Helvetiorum, praecipuam laudem meretur. Melchior Adam.

p. 325Voetius much commends his Epitome Bibliothecae Gesneri cum supplemento usque ad annum 1570, quo studiosi (saith he) carere non possunt. Voet. Biblioth: Studiosi Theol. l. 2.

There is in Oxford and Sion Library an Edition of Gesners Bibliotheca, viz. 1583. wherein there is the Appendix both of Simlerus and Johannes Jacobus Frisius. In the Title are these words, Opus non Bibliothecis tantum publicis privatísve instituendis necessarium, sed studiosis omnibus cujuscunque artis aut scientiae, ad studia melius formanda utilissimum.

Simonides, An ancient Greek Poet.

There are his

Carmen Gr. & Elogia de vanitate vitae.

Simplicius.

The Prince of Philosophers in his time.

These of his Works are published,

A Commentary on Aristotles Predicaments.

And on other Books of his.

And on Epictetus his Enchiridion.

Gabriel Sionita, A great Linguist.Ex Maronitis Libani montis linguarum Orientalium interpretatione jam Clarus. Gassend. De …ita Peireskii. lib. 3.

There is his

Geographia Nubiensis, ex Arabico in Latinum versa.

Jacobus Sirmondus, a Learned French Jesuite.

There is hisDoctissimus ac diligentissimus Jesuita. Dallaeus. Natione Gallus, Rector olim Collegii Parisiensis, vir totius antiquitatis curiosus investigator, & Latinè Graeceque impensè doctus, & in omni penè litterarum genere excultissimus, qui Humaniores Literas Theologicas admodum decorè conjunxit. Bibliotheca Societ. Jesu A Philippo Alegambe edita.

Eucharisticon, pro Adventoria de Regionibus & Ecclesiis suburbiciariis.

Censura conjecturae Anon. Scriptoris de suburbicariis regionibus & Ecclesiis.

Propempticum Cl. Salmasio, adversum ejus Eucharisticon.

And other Works.

Jo. Sleidanus.Joannes Sleidanus à patriâ suâ, quae in Belgio est, cognominatus, anno 1506. in lucem prodiit. Sui seculi Historicus facile princeps, obiit Argentinae ex Epidemico morbo, anno salutis 1556. Boissardi Icones. De quatuor Monarchiis libellus elegantissimus eodem authore habetur publice. Id, ibid. Bonus imprimis scriptor Joannes Sleidanus, cujus fidem spectatam & gravitatem suspiciendam mecum alii noverunt. Humfred. Jesuit. part 2. De Concil. Joannes à patria Sleidanus cognominatus. Aeternum illius laborum testimonium est historia illa de reipublicae & religionis in Germania statu ab initio instaurati à Luthero Christianismi diligentissimè viginti quinque libris verissimè simul & elegantissimè perscripta, adjecto etiam de quatuor Monarchiis eruditissimo Commentario. Bez. Icon. Vir. Illust. Vide Thuan. Hist. Tom. 1. l. 17.

He hath by his Commentary of the state of Religion got himself a great reputation, it being translated into divers Languages, Germane, French and Italian. The Latine is very elegant.

There are Orations 2.

De quatuor Imperiis.

De Capta Buda.

p. 326Henricus Smetius.

Vertit adolescens Phocyclidis & Pythagorae carmina, cum Batrachomyomachia Homeri. Melch. Adam. in ejus vita.He was learned in many Languages and Arts, but especially in Philosophy, History and Physick.

His Prosodia Nova was much liked, and printed nine times, Hoc opus ejus majore studio quam judicio collectum est. Scriv. Animadvers. in Mart. l. 6.

Erasmus Schmidt.Clarissimus vir Du. M. Erasmus Schmidt, Graecae linguae & Mathematicarum Disciplinarum Wittebergae Professor laudatissimus, Praeceptor & hospes olim meus etiamnum honorandus. Crines. Discursus De Confusione Linguarum. c. 9.

There is a Greek Concordance of his published, and a little Book De Dialectis Graecorum.

Miles Smith Bishop of Glocester, and one of the Translators of the Bible.

There are Learned Sermons of his.

Sir Thomas Smith Secretary to Queen Elizabeth.

He hath published these Works,

De recta linguae Gr. pronunciatione.

See Sir Thomas Cheek. Anno 1546.De recta linguae Anglicae scriptione.

De Republica Anglorum.

Rodolphus Snellus, a most excellent Mathematician.

He was Professour of the Mathematicks in Holland his own Countrey.

He was most skilfull in Greek and Hebrew.

His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life.

Willebord. Snellius **Quem Keplerus meritò censuit subtilissimum Mathematicorum. Gassend. De vita Peireskii. l. 4.Son to Rodolphus.

He ha…h put out

Cyclometricus.

Doctrinae Triangulorum Canonicae. lib. 4.

Hassiacae observat. Coeli & Syderum.

Fuit vir pius, doctus, & variis donis, praecipuè facundia admirandâ praeditus, adeò ut verba faciens, omnium in se oculos & animos converterit: auditores quasi attonitos reddiderit, ac plerum que satis prolixas habens conciones, auditorium tamen sine tedio detinuerit attentissimum. Melch. Ad. in ejus vit.Erhardus Snepsius, Anno Christi 1495.

His mother being a pious woman, consecrated this her eldest Sonne (as Hanna… Samuel) to God and Divinity.

Theodoricus Snepsius, Anno Dom. 1586.

Fuit hic Theologus de Germanis minimè postremus doctus, disertus, in concionibus fervidus: acer in reprehendendo, suavis in consolando: gravis in verbis vitaque tota: liberalis in pauperes & egenos: humanus erga omnes: cujus domus asylum quasi fuit afflictorum ac miserorum. In officio ad eò fuit adsiduus, ut ad centena & decem horarum millia, docendo, commentando, disputando, aliisque sui officii negot…is consumsisse visus sit. Melchior. Adam in ejus vita.His Comentaries upon the Prophet Esay are mole parvi, eruditione magni. Other Works of his are also published,

In 44. postremos Psal. Davidis.

p. 327CHAP. XIV.

LAelius Socinus Senensis natus. Anno 1525.

Calvin in his Epistles writes to one Lelius Sozinus an Italian (who seemed to doubt of the Resurrection of the body) I suppose it is the same Laelius Socinus.Fuit nobili honestaque familia natus: bene Graece & Hebraice doctus; vitaeque etiam externae inculpatae: quarum rerum causa mihi quoque intercesserat cum illo non vulgaris amicitia; sed homo fuit plenus diversarum haeresium: quas tamen mihi nunquam proponebat, nisi disputandi causa, & semper interrogans, quasi cuperet doceri. Boxhorn. Hist. univers. p. 72, 73.

He carried the matter with such a cleanly conveyance, that he was scarce taken notice of, though he received some checks and admonitions, yet most men thought charitably of him, during his life, his black designs were not fully discovered till after his death.

Faustus Socinus the Nephew of Laelius was born in the year 1529.What Socinus positions were, See M. …atak. vindicat. of Wottons Defence, p. 47, 48. Juris scientia admodum inclaruit. Quemadmodum quae ab ipso edita satis possunt testari. Ille aliquando rogatus, cur minus post conjugium quam ante ille libris litterisque incumberet; respondit: Quia uxorem duxi: Dicentique, etiam Socrates uxoratas fuit, cur non & ille Philosophiae studia alpernatus. Xantippe, ait, morosa erat & deformis: mea autem proba est & forma decenti. Boxhorn. Monum. Illust. Vir. & Elog. He had more subtilty then learning.

He wrote a Book about the Authority of the Scripture, in which he doth slily pervert the Scriptures, and lay a ground for all his heretical blasphemies.

Marianus Socinus a learned Lawyer.

Several Works of his are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue.

Socrates Scholasticus, Anno Dom. 440.

He wrote from the time of Constantine the Great Emperour unto the Empire of Theodosius the younger, a Volume of Ecclesiastical History, and an Epitome of the affairs of Rome.Whear. Method leg. Hist. part. 1. Sect. 34. Nihil omnino habet quod non ex Plinio hauserit. Ex omnibus enim Plinii libris quodcunque potuit, convertit, & in suum istud compendium congessit. Salmas. Prolegom. in Solinum. Vide plura ibid. Librum edidit ex variis Scriptoribus collectum: quem cùm priùs Collectanea rerum memorabilium vocasset, postea Polyhistorem inscribere maluit. Non pauca verò selegit judicio non ita magno: unde levissimum scriptorem vocari video à Scaligero in Eusebianis Animadversionibus. Non dedignati tamen eum lectione, & mentione suâ, è Grammaticis Macrobius, Servius, Priscianus, è SS. Patribus, Hieronymus, Ambrosius, Augustinus. Quia tam multa ex Plinio exscribit, ut etiam …liniana simia dici meruerit; Plinii eum aetate vixisse, ac propterea e…s, per quem magnopere profuisset, nusquam meminisse Joannis Camertis, & aliorum, suspicio est. Voss. De Histor Lat. lib. 3. pag. 646, 647.

Socrates, Theodoret and Sozomen composed a History, Epiphanius Scholasticus translated these three into Latine (Aurelius Cassiodore requiring it) and called the whole Book from these three Historians, The Tripartite History.

C. Julius Solinus Polyhist. Anno Dom. 68. Helv.

Julius Solinus Plinii simiolus, vel verius Compilator. Lud. Viv. de tradend. Disc. lib. 4.

Georgius Sohnius, George Sohn Doctor of Divinity in Heildeberg.Anno Dom. 1551. Linguarum in eo cognitio fuit magna: major artium liberalium ac Philosophiae, sacrarum autem literarum atque historiarum longè maxima; eaque singulari pietate exornata. Libros edidit non quidem multos, sed politissimos illos & lectissimos: ut sunt De verbo Dei & ejus tractatione libri duo, in quibus de verbo Dei non scripto, de Scripturae versionibus, de interpretatione ejusdem Scholasticâ & Ecclesiastica; de methodo Theologiae, & disputationibus Theologicis agitur: cui addita in fine methodica delineatio universae Theologiae. Multa opera posthuma etiam illius eduntur. Melch. Adam. in ejus vita.

Sophocles, Anno Dom. 3486.Fabulas fecit 123. ac vicies quater victoriam retulit. Vossius De Poetis Graecis, cap. 4.

p. 328How much Virgil esteemed him, he shews sufficiently in his Eclogues, Solo Sophocleo tua carmina digna Cothurno.

Tully in his second Book De Divinatione, cals him a Divine Poet.

D…minicus Soto, Dominicus Sotus vir doctissimus & pius valde qui Carolo 5^to Imperatori à sacris confessionibus fuit, & Concilio Tridentino interfuit. Bellarm. De Script. Eccles. Dominicus Soto magnus ille Theologus, qui Caesari fuerat à sacris Concionibus. Godwinus De Praesulibus Ang. Comment.A Spanish Divine of great fame.

None of those Divines (who were at the Councel of Trent) were more learned then those three of Spain Andradius, Vega, Dominicus à Soto.

Hermias Sozomen.

He lived under Theodosius the younger, and dedicates his Ecclesiastical History, consisting of nine Books to him.

Frederick Spanheme, a learned and pious Divine.

His Dubia Evangelica, Chamierus contractus, exercitationes de gratia universali, his Epistle to Buchanan of the English Controversies, and to Cottierus of the reconciliation of Universal Grace, shew his great abilities.

Aelius Spartianus. He lived in the time of Diocletian.

There is his History of divers Emperours before his time.

Sir Henry Spelman, Insignis & acutissimus Antiquitatum Britannicarum explorator D. Duck. De Author Juris Civilis Romanorum. l. 2. c. 8. Sed de isto, & aliis, malo adiri eruditum Spelmanni glossarium: quod hactenus dimidiatum, utinam aliquando, modo supersit, integrum publici faciat juris. Vossius l. 2. De vitiis Sermonis. c. 9. Eruditissimus & nobilissimus antiquitatum scrutator Henricus Spelman Eques Anglo Britannus amicus noster honorandus. Olai Wormii Literature Danica. c. 1.a learned and painfull Antiquary.

De prisca literatura bene meritus. Olaus Wormius.

His Book De Conciliis is well-liked, and for our English Ecclesiastical Antiquities held the best.

Edmund Spencer, Edmundus Spencer, Londinensis, Anglicorum Poetarum nostri saeculi facile princeps, quod ejus Poemata faventibus musis, & victuro genio conscripta comprobant prope Galfredum Chaucerum conditur, qui foelicissimè Poesin Anglicis literis primus illustravit. Camd. Monum Reg. heroumque Westm. condit.the Prince of Poets in his time.

His Monument stands in Westminster-Abbey, near Chaucers, with this Epitaph,

Hic prope Chaucerum

Situs est Spenserius, illi

Proximus ingenio,

Proximus ut tumulo,

Hic prope Chaucerum

Spensere Poeta Poetam

Conderis, & versu,

Quam tumulo propior,

Anglica te vivo vixit,

Plausitque Poesis;

Nunc moritura timet,

Te moriente, mori.

He wrote many Poems in English which are printed together in one Volume.

He wrote a Book also of the State of Ireland, and a Dialogue in prose between Eudoxus and Irenaeus.

Ad. Spigelius, a learned Physician.

There are these Works of his

De humani corporis fabrica.

Isagoge in rem herbariam.

De formato foetu cum figuris & arthritide.

p. 329Jo. Stadius, A great Mathematician.In L. Annaes Flori Historiae Romanae Epitomen egregium Commentarium post in Joannem Camertem, scripsit. Omni ferè doctrina liberali imbutus, Mathematicis porissimùm excelluit, ut vix parem in ea arte aetas nostra tulerit. In contubernio Roberti à Bergis Eburonum Praesulis & Principis versatus, Tabulas, exemplo Alphonsi cognomento sapientis Hispanorum Regis, conscripsit inscripsitque Bergenses. Auberti Miraei Elogia Belgica.

Sir William Stamford.

Sometimes of Grayes Inne, a man excellently learned in the Common-Laws.

He wrote a Book in the Common-Law of the Pleas of the Crown, and the Prerogative of the King. Sir Edw. Cooks Pref. to his tenth Rep.

Richard Stanihurst, a learned Irish Papist, bred up in the University of Oxford.

His Works are these,

Catena Dialectica in Porphyrianas institutiones, Commentarios in Porphyrium tuos singulari judicio diligentia que elaboratos, legi sanè cupidissimè, mirisicê. que laetatus sum, esse adolescentem in Academiâ nostra tali familia, eruditione, probitate, cujus extrema pueriria cum multis laudabili maturitate viris certare possit. Camp. Epist. 2.which he wrote in Oxford, and published when he was eighteen years old.

De rebus Hibernicis, l. 4.

A Description of Ireland in English.

Hebdomada Mariana.

Hebdomada Eucharistica.

Virgil in English.

And Praemonitio pro Concertatione cum Jacobo Usserio.

He was brother to Bishop Vshers mother.

Thomas Stepleton, Iracundus ille senex Stapletonus nostras. Montac. Exercit. 3. Sect. 4. Stapletonus nostras Owigensis, inter Theologos tam illustris ut vel Bellarmino palma… praeripere possit. Montac. Orig. Eccles. Tom. prior. parte posteriore. In omni melioris doctrinae genere tantam consecutus est perfectionem, ut inter eruditissimos aetatis suae viros non immeritò esset numerandus. Ant. Sand. De Script. Fland. lib. 3.a learned Englishman. The famous Professor of the University of Lovain. He died Anno Dom. 1598.

His Relectio Principiorum fidei doctrinalium, is much commended.

Papin. **Extant quinque Sylvarum libri, ex quibus & vehemens in eo poematis genere illius, ac penè ex temporale ingenium percipere possitis. Lilii Gyrald. De Poet. Histor. Dial. 4. Vide Polit. Praefat. in Statii Sylvas.Statius, a good Poet.

Doctor Josuah Stegman.

He usually cals the Socinians, Photinians, and therefore entitles his own book Photinianismus.

Didacus Stella.Qui inter seculi sui Concionatores ferè omnibus praeluxit. Morton. Antidoticontra merit.

John Ferus and he were two of the most famous Popish Preachers.

Aug. Steuchus Eugubinus a good Grecian.

His Works are in two Volumes in Sion Colledge Catalogue.

Godeschalcus Stewichius.

He hath written

De particulis Linguae Latinae.

Henricus Stephanus.

There were four Stevens Frenchmen, Henry the Father, and Robert his Sonne, thirdly Henry Roberts Son, and Paul the Sonne of that Henry, all learned, and Printers.

Robert Stevens the Printer at Paris.

Secundum Aldum Manutium Romanum, qui Venetiis, & Joannem Frobenium, qui Basileae eandem artem summâ laude exercuerunt, clarissimus, quos ille longo spatio supergressus est, acri judicio, diligentiâ accuratâ artis ipsius elegantiâ: cui ob id non solùm Gallia, sed universus Christianus orbis plurimum debet. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 1. l. 23.

He not only printed, but made excellent Works himself.

His Thesaurus linguae Latinae never had its fellow.

p. 330Antoine du Verdier in his Bibliotheque commends him and this Work, Dictionarium, seu Latinae linguae thesaurus, non singulas modo dictiones continens, sed integras quoque Latine & loquendi & scribendi formulas: ex optimis quibusque Latinae linguae scriptoribus▪ Opus excusum Parisiis apud authorem, divisum in Tomos tres, anno 1542. Gesner. Biblioth.

Henry Stevens.

Henricus …tephanus Roberti, cui tantum res lineraria debet, F. Lutetiae Parisiorum natus, qui patris aemulatione cum scriptoribus Graecis edendis & castigandis sedulam operam navasset, tandem & penum amplissimum linguae Graecae ded…t, desua posteraque aetate ob id optimè meritus. Thuan. Hist. Tom. 5. l. 120. Vide Tom. 1. l. 23.His Thesauri linguae Graecae, and his other Works, shew his great abilities.

Scaevola Samarthanus in his second Book of Epigrams, hath these Verses, In Gellii Noctes Atticas ad H. Stephanum.

Quis Stephanum esse neget Phoebi de semine cretum?

Obscuris adfert noctibus ille diem.

Henry Stevens, Roberts Son, made also the Greek Concordance.

Stephanus Stephanius.Clarissimus vir M. Stephanus Stephanius Historiographus Regius, & in Academia Sorana Professor publicus. Olai Wormii Monum. Dan. lib. 1.

Anno Aerae Christianae 283.Jo. Stobaeus.

There be his

Loci Communes.

Eclogae Gr. & Lat.

Sent. Gr. & Lat.

D^r Thomas Stoughton, a learned and pious Divine.

There are

Sermons of his in his younger years.

His form of sound words, with the Righteous mans plea to true Happinesse.

Heavenly Conversation.

Anno Aerae Christianae 37 …civ. Chron.Strabo that faithfull Historian and Geographer.

He lived in the time of Augustus and Tiberius.

He hath written seventeen Books o… Geography, in which all Nations with their deeds, the mountains, seas, limits of all parts of the world, which came to his knowledge in his time, may be seen as in a glasse.

Walafr. **Walafridus ab oculorum vitio dictus Strabo, Abbas Augiensis, annos vixit octingentos temporibus. Ludovic. Pii. Vossius De vitiis Serm. l. 1. c. 1.Strabo, Anno Dom. 840 a great Scholar.

He hath written De rebus Ecclesiasticis.

Anglo saxo Bedae consanguineus, Albini Discipulus & Rabani notarius, vir doctissimus, tandem Abbas Augiensis, scripsit Glossam ordinariam in sacra Biblia, ex patrum Scriptis Collectam. Illyr. Catal. Test. Verit. Claruit Anno Christi octingentesimo quadragesimo quinto. Pantal. De Vir. Illust Germ. part. 2.Strabus Monachus Fuldensis.

Praecaeteris celebratur Glossa Ordinaria in Scripturam universam. Vossius De Poetis Latinis. c. 6.

He first of all collected the Glosse (which was afterward called Ordinary) upon the Bible out of the sayings of the Fathers, some afterward enlarged it by adding sentences of the Fathers.

Famianus Strada, a famous Oratour, Poet and Historian.

Natione Italus. patria Romanus; artis Rhetoricae per annes quindecem publicus Romae Magister, Orator, Historicus, Poeta tota Europa percelebris. Biblioth. Script. Societ. Jes. A …hilippo Alegambe edita.There are his

Orationes variae, ad facultatem Oratoriam, Historiam, Poeticam spectantes.

And his Belgick History.

p. 331Streso, a learned Divine.

His Meditatio Theologica de usu & abusu rationis in interpretandis & aestimandis rebus & scripturis divinis adversus Socinianos & novos Weigelianos, and his Comment upon some part of the Acts are commended.

Victorinus Strigelius, Anno Christi 1524.

His chief Work was his Hypomnemata in utriusque Testamenti libros, Ingenuè fatetur se, cùm ex iis locis, ubi antea in Papasu vixerat, primum in Academias S…xonicas venisse…: & Melancthonem ex puero aliquo parvo audisset quaerentem: Quid est Deus? Quid significat foreign apud Ioannem? Miratum à pueris audire: quae in Papatu magnis doctoribus essent igno…a. Melchior Adamwhich he finished a little before his death.

Codicis sacri partem maximam Commentariis, hand prolixis, sed nec infructuosis prorjus tamen, strictim illustravit. Cl. Gatakeri Cinnus c. 2.

Kyriacus Strozza, a great Philosopher.

Peter Bembus and Jacobus Sadoletus speak of him in their Epistles,Ex ejus disciplinâ magnus proventus ingeniorum prodiit, quo in numero sunt Cardinalis Columna, Cardinalis Vrsinus, Episcopus ex primariâ Pisarum nobilitate Gualandi de Cesena, Cardinalis Alciatus, & innumeri alii. Papir. Masson. in ejus vita. Flaminius Nobilius in his Commentaries upon Aristotles first Book De ortu & interitu, Theodorus Zuingerus in Prolegom ad Polit. Arist.

Laurentia Strozza was his Sister.

Fratrem ha…uit Kyriacum Strozzam, nobilem Peripateticum, qui utrum sorori, an soror ipsi, meius lumen ac decus attulerit, incertum est adhuc; ita in vario landis genere uterque pari inter se gloria certant. Jani Nicii Erythraei Pinacotheca.

Jo. Guliel. Stuckius **Anno Dom. 1542. Reliquit ingenii & doctrinae suae monumenta multa, & egregia, partim Theologica, partim Philologica. Augustum & praeclarum opus, De antiquitatibus convivalibus, in quo Hebraeorum, Chaldaeorum, Graecorum, Romanorum, aliarumque Nationum antiqua conviviorum gen…a, mores, consuetudines, ritus Ceremoniasve mirâ industria non tantum explicavit; sed etiam cum iis, quae cum apud Christianos, tum apud alias gentes, à Christiano nomine alienas, in usu sunt, diligenter contulit. Sui maximam eo scripto admirationem excitavit in animis antiquitatum peritorum Scaligeri, Lipsii, Mercurialis, Zuuingeri, Paschalii, Freheri, Gruteri, Ruterhusii, Casauboni, Rami, & aliorum. Melchior. Adam. in ejus vita..

Casaubone Epist. 353. to Stuckius, commends his learned laborious Work, entitled Antiquitates Convivales.

De quibus omnibus omnium eruditissime doctissimus & stupendae lectionis vir Johannes Stuckius in explicatione doctissima in Periplum Erythraeimaris sive rubri Ariani historici Graeci & Philosophi doctissimi. Neand Geog. part. 2.

Joannes Sturmius **Natione Germanus, doctrinae & eloquentiae nomine ubicunque bonorum studiorum ratio habetur, celeberrimus. Gesn. Biblioth. Eloquentiae professor eximius, quam doctissimis scriptis illustravit. Thuan Hist. Tom. 4. l. 96., Anno Christi 1507.

He is styled by Grynaeus Christianus noster Theophrastus. See in his first Book of Epistles, ninth Epistle a comparison between them.

His Works are mentioned by Melchior Adam in his Life.

Jacobus Sturmius **Vere nobilis & prudeus vir Jacobus Sturmius Argentoratensis, qui in comitiis & aliàs Reipublicae Argentorarensis nomine Legatus missus, bonis literis excultus, earum subsidio in tanta authoritate fuit, ut praecipui Principes Imperii ejus consilio uterentur, & materiam ipso suppeditante Sleidanus suas Historias maxima ex parte conscripserit. Camer. Hor. Subcis. Centuria tertia. cap. 68.. He was born at Argentorate Anno Christi 1490.

Thuanus much commends Jacobus Sturmius Tom. 10. Hist. l. 12. and cals him the ornament of the Germane Nobility.

Tres ei virtutes praeter eximiam verecundiam praecipuè tributae sunt: orationis, doctrinae & prudentiae. Melch. Ad. in ejus vit.

p. 332Fr. Suarez.

Homo, siquid rectè judico, in Philosophia, (in hoc tempore connexa est Scholastica Theologia) tantae subtilitatis, ut vix quenquam habeat parem. Grot. Epist. 146. Joanni Cordesio. Natione Hispanus, patria Granatensis, nobilibus parentibus natus anno M.D.XLVIII. Fuere qui lumen Philosophiae ac Theologiae, qui Theologorum Coryphaeum & Antesignanum, qui hujus seculi in Scholasticis Gigantem dicerent. Nullus certè Auctorum unquam, quorum quidem opera extant, posteritatem tam numerolo voluminum foetu locupletavit. Saepè à multis vocatum est in dubium, doctior ne esset an sanctior. Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Jesu A Philippo Aleg…m be edita.His Metaphysical Disputations are much esteemed by some.

Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue and Appendix.

Anno Aerae Christi 117. Illud opinor apud eruditos omnes in confesso esse, quod ad narrationis fidem attinet, primas deberi Suetonio, qui ut quidam non infestiviter dixit, prorsus ea libertate scripsit Caesarum vitas, qua ipsi vixerunt. Eras. Epist. l. 28. Ep. 16. Adeo tranquillè & aequaliter fluit, tebusque unicè addictus orationis ornamenta non negligens, sed securus praeterit, & tamen hunc ipsum ornatum velut umbram non id agens trahit. Strad. prolus. l. 2.3. Hist. parte 2^da. Ejus historia tantopere laudatur, ut aequi rerum aestimatores nihil unquam accuratius ab ullo historico scriptum fateantur. Sic scribit ut nec dignitate cujusquam, nec vitiis, nec ulla omnino perturbatione commoveri videatur. Bodin. Meth. Hist c. 4. Vide plura ibid.C. Suetonius Tranquillus, a very faithfull Historian.

He lived in the times of Trajan and Hadrian.

Auctor Emendatissimus & Candidissimus, & cui familiare sit, amare brevitatem. Voss. De Histor. Lat. l. 1. c. 31. ex Vopisco.

Suidas, Anno Dom. 1250.

Nullius judicii rapsodus: doctrinae medioctis. qui collatis vel corrasis undique laciniis, farraginem illam suam, tanquam centonem consarcinavit. Montac. Apparat. 8. Suidae tribuitur Lexicon quod tamen multis auctariis à variis posterioribus est cumulatum, felicitate Lexicographis perpetua. Nam etiam Ambrosii Calepini Dictionarium, quod ab autore editum erat valde jejunum & aridum, nunc accessionibus subinde factis, & Calepino semper tributis, clarum reddit auctorem. Raynandi erotem. De malis ac bonis libris Partit. 1. erot. 10. Vide idem fere apud Lil. Gyrald. de Poet. Hist. Dial. 4. & Jacob. Fris. Biblioth. Philos. Nihil facilius fuerit, quam eum auctorem infinitis quibus scatet mendis liberare: quod tamen miror nequivisse videre virum eruditum ejus interpretem, cui, quum Suidas saepissime integras Laertii paginas describat, nunquam potuit hoc subolere: quod sane miror. Casaub. not. ad Diog. Laert. E Scholiis Aristophanis, ut & ex aliis Grammaticorum promtuariis in acervum suum infinita congessit. Herald. Animad. Ad Arnob. l. 3.Erat Suidas non admodum vetustissimus Grammaticus, nullius judicii, doctrinae autem mediocris. Montac. Exercit. 7. Sect. 1.

Matthew Sutlive, a great Writer of our own, who hath written many things against the Papists in Latine and English. Most of his Works are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue.

Some commend that Book of his styled,

The Practise, Proceedings and Laws of Arms, described out of the doings of most valiant and expert Captains.

P…imus Daniae historicus Voss. De Vitiis Sermonis, l. 3. c. 37.Eman. Suyvo.

Fran. Swertius, a learned Writer.

There are his

Athenae B…lgicae.

Liberatae urbis deliciae.

Epitaphia Joco-scria.

12 Caesarum Imagines & Historica narratio.

Rogerus **Rogerus Swinsete, corruptè Swicetus dictus, Oxonii inter Mertonenses sophistas tam eximiè clarus videbatur quam sub Edwardo tertio illius seculi vel ratio vel felicitas quicquam reddere potuerat. Balcus De Script. Britan. Joannes Duns Scotus, qui fuit lima veritatis: & Suisset calculator, qui pene modum excessit ingenii humani. Qui Ockam praeteriisti: cujus ingenium ingenia omnia vetera subvertit: nova ad invictas insanias, ob in comprehensibiles subtilitates fabricavit, atque conformavit. Jul. Scalig. De Sultil. Ad Cardanum Exercit. 324. Cui ti…ulus Sapientum census. Quoy doncques sera il dit que Scaliger & Cardan, les deux plus grand personnages du dernier siecle, s' accordent en vu scul poinct, qui concerne les loüanges de Richard Suisset, autrement nominé Calculator, pour le mettre au rang des dix plus grands es'prits qui ayent jamais estè, sans que nous puissions trouuer ses oeures dans toutes les plus fameuses Bibliotheques? Aduis pour Dresser une Bibliotheque Par Naudè.Swinset, or Suisset, a famous English School-Divine, of Merton Colledge in Oxford, Anno Dom. 1350.

Baleus reckons up his Works. Some of them are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue.

p. 333Hic scripsit Ephemeridas in arte Cabalistica, & calculationes Astronomicas admirandae perfectionis. Wolf. Lect. Memorab. Tomo 10.

Caspar Schwenckfeldius, an Heretick.Pro sacro verbi diuini mysterio Enthusiasmum, ac nescio quem divinum motum somniavit. Dogma ejus longè la…éque deinde disseminatum in Germania, multos passim ex equestri & plebeio ordine s…ctatores habuit Caeteroquin corporis dignitate ac vitae sanctimonia vir gravis, & venerabilis. Scripsit de Religione supra octuaginta libros Germanice, tandem obiit senex in Suevia, anno 1561. Boissardi Icones.

These Works of his are mentioned in the Oxford Catalogue,

Stirpium & Fossilium Silesiae Catalogus.

Thesaurus Pharmaceuticus.

Therio trophaeum Silesiae.

Frid. Sylburgius. He helped Henry Stevens much in his Treasure of the Greek Tongue.Quàm plurima veterum, praesertim Graecorum, scripta partim jam edita, denuò recognita, ac variis lectionibus, notis indicibusque illustravit, partim primùm ipse summâ curâ adhibita publicavit. Thuan. Hist. tomo quinto, l. 117. parte prima.

Vir Graecè doctissimus. Meibomii Maecenas, c. 26.

Fuit vere vir eximius, humilis, industriae incredibilis, candidus & apertus. Melch. Ad. in ejus vita.

Many of his Works are mentioned in Oxford Catalogue.

Symmachus.Symmachus alter sacras literas transtulit, sed ita ut non verbum verbo, uti Aquila, redderet; verùm sententiam poriùs exprimere laboratet. Voss. De Arte Grammatica, l. 1. c. 31.

He is eloquent in his Epistles. Vide Camer. Medit. Hist. Cent. 3. c. 56.

That saying is often cited out of him, Servanda est tot seculis fides, & sequendi sunt nobis parentes, qui sequuti sunt feliciter suos. Epist. l. 10. Ep. 54.

Michael Syncellus, Anno Dom. 890.

There is of his

Libellus de vita Ignatii Patriarchae Constantinopolitani Gr. & Lat.

Synesius Cyreneus, Anno Dom. 410.Anno Aerae Christianae 393. Helv. Chron. Synesius è Fentapoli Africae ortus Cyrenes Episcopus fuit. Philosophus primò, & deinde Christianus. Extant ejus libri Graeci varii partim post conversionem ab illo scripti, qui una cum Epistolis ejus multis in folio Parisiis excusi sunt. Dictione utitur gravi, & quae exercitatum & attentum lectorem requirit. Neand. Geog. part. 3.

A learned Philosopher at the first, and afterwards a worthy Father of the Church.

Synesius is a man well known among Schollers. He was made Bishop against his will, for his great fame and worth, a better Platonist then sound Christian. D^r Casaub. of …nthus. ch. 3.

Gul. Symsonus.

He hath written,

De Accentibus Hebraeis.

Edward Symson likewise is a learned man, who wrote Chron. Cathol.

The End of the Fifth Book.