ABARIS, a Scythian, the Disciple (as saith Jamblichus) of Py­thagoras, and sent Em­bassador (as saith Harpocration) from the Scythians to the Athenians; he wrote in verse the Journey of Apollo to the Hyperboreans, the Scythian Oracles, the Nuptials of Hebrus, with other things; whither he liv'd in the time of Phalaris, and wrote that Epistle which bears his name, is disputed by Vossius.

Abbianus, an old Greec Epigramma, [Page 2] tist, some of whose Epigrams are to be found in Planudes his Florilegium.

Abbo, an ancient Monk of St. Ger­man a Pratis, who flourish't in the time of Carolus Crassus, he wrote a Poem of the seige of Paris by the Normans, which is yet extant. Barthius calls him Albo, and gives him the Sir-name of Cernuus.

Abronius Silo, a Poet who flourish't in the time of Augustus, and is men­tion'd by Marcus Seneca to have been a hearer of Porcius Latro; contemporary with, and mention'd by the said Seneca was another Silo, the Son of the fore­said Abronius.

Accius, a Latin Tragaedian contem­porary with Pacuvius, but somewhat younger, he was in great favour and esteem with Decius Brutus, who adorn'd Temples and Monuments with his ver­ses. Of which diverse are cited by Charisius out of his Atreus, Bacchis, Io [...], Philocteta, Epinausimache.

Aceratus, an ancient Grammarian and Epigrammatist, who hath a name in the Greek Anthologie.

Achaeus, the Son of Pythodorus and [Page 3] Pythoris, he flourish't from the Seventy fourth to the Eighty second Olympiad, & wrote very many comoedies, whereof two are remembred by Athenaeus, viz. his Cycnus and his Maerae.

Addaeus of Mitilene, and Addaeus of Macedon, both cited in the Greec An­thologie.

Admetus, a foolish Poet in the time of the Emperours Trajan, and Adrian, the Epigram he orderd to be inscrib'd upon his Tomb is derided by Demona [...]c in Lucian.

Adrianus, a Roman Emperour, under whose name there is a witty Epigram in the Greec Anthologie; besides se­veral Anacreontics and Iambies in La­tin mention'd by Spartianus.

Aeantides, one of the Seven Greec Poets (the other Six being Homerus Ju­nior, the Son of Myro a Poetess of By­zantium, Sositheus, Lycophron, Alexander, Philiscus and Dionysiades,) who accord­ing to the account of the Scholia's of Hephaestion were called the Pleiades; though Isacius T [...]etzes reckons but two of the above mention'd in this famous Septemvirate, viz. Lycophron and Ho­merus [Page 4] junior, and makes the rest to be Theocritus, Nicander, Callimachus, Apollo­nius, and Aratus, and the Scholiast of Theocritus in stead of Nicander and Callimachus puts in Philiscus, and Ae [...]n-a tides.

Aegidius, a Greec Benedictine Monke who flourish't about the year Seven hundred, he wrote a book de Pul­sibus in verse, and another de urinis, there is also an Epigram of one Aegidius in the Greec Anthologie.

Aelius Julius Crottus, an ancient wri­ter of Eglogues, and also of Iambics Hendecasyllables, and other sorts of Lyric verse.

Aelius Saturninus a Roman, who for certain libelling verses against Tiberius was condemn'd to death, and thrown down headlong from the Capitol, he is reckon'd among the Poets by Lilius Gi­raldus. There flourisht also about the same time Caius Germanicus Caesar▪ (the Son of Drusus) whom Ovid in his Fasti celebrates for a Poet, the Epigram up­on the Thracian Boy, who had his head cut off by ice is thought to have been his▪ Caius Lutorius Priscus a Roman [Page 5] Knight, famous for his Elegie upon Germanicus poyson'd by Piso; but put to death by the Senate for writing a­gainst Drusus. Phaedrus a Thracian who turn'd into Jambic verse certain Fables of Aesop, which are mention'd by Avienus in his Praeface to Theod osius Macrobius; Marcus Aemilius Scaurus a Tragic Poet, who for some expressions in his Atreus, which were interpreted by Tiberius as meant of him, was dri­ven to lay violent hands on himself. Caius Cominius a Roman Knight, who notwithstanding his Libelling verses a­gainst Tiberius mention'd by Tacitus is scarce allow'd a Poet by Vossius; Lucius Fenestella, whom Vossius imagines to have been a Historian mistaken for a Poet; and lastly, Alphius Avitus whom see in Flavus.

Aemilianus a Greec Epigrammatist, whose name is in the foresaid Antholo­gie.

Aemilius Mercer, a Latin Poet of Ve­rona, whom see in Publius Ovidius, he is also mention'd by Servius upon the Fourth book of Virgils Georgics, and the first of his Aeneids also by Charisi­us [Page 6] and others, though it is doubted whether that Poem which we have ex­tant under his name de virtutibus Plan­tarum be really his.

Aenicus, a writer of Tragedies, whose▪ Antea is by some ascribed to Pollux.

Aeschines, an Athenian, whom Plu­tarch (writing his life among the Ten famous Oratours) relates to have been first a Tragic Poet, he is also mention'd by Philostratus in the lives of the So­phisters.

Aeschrion, a Poet of Mitylene in high esteem with Aristotle, as Nicander in his book de disciplina. Aristotelie te­stifies.

Aesc [...]ylus an Athenian Tragic Poet, born in the Village of Eleusis, contem­porary with Pindarus in the Sixty ninth Olympiad, according to the old Scholi­ast, but as Mr. Stanly in his most accu­rate Edition of this Authour makes out by diligent computation, and his Col­lection out of Mr. Seldens Marmora Arundeliana, in the Sixty third. The Son of Euphorion, and Brother of Cy­negyru [...] and Aminias who signaliz'd themselves in the battle of Marathon [Page 7] and the Sea-fight of Salamis in which our Poet also was present, of Sixty six Drama's, which he wrote (being Victor in 13) and Five Satyrs, we have extant onely Seven Tragedies, his Prometheus Vinctus, his Septem contra Thebas, Aga­mem [...]on, Persae, Eumenides, Icetides, and Choephorae. But though he was Victor 13 times, yet it is said he took it so to heart to be vanquisht by Sophocles then a young man, that he left his Co [...]ntrey and betook himself to Hiero King of Sicily, where he made his Tragedy Aetna so called from the City of that name which Hiero was then building Homo­nimous to the Mountain, others say it was because he was vanquisht by Simo­nides in his Elegiac verse upon the slain at Marathon, after he had been resident at Gela Three years, he dyed of a fra­cture of his skull caus'd by an Eagles letting fall a shell-fish out of his claw upon his bald head, which seems to have been portended by the Oracle, which being consulted upon the manner of his death, answered [...], this hapned in the Sixty ninth year of his age according to the [Page 8] above mention'd computation; he is mention'd by Horace as the first bringer up of the Tragic pall, and of the splen­did apparate of Scenes and persons, & by some of the Tr. Buskin; There was also of this name a Poet of Alexandria whose Amphitryo and his Carmina Me­seniaca are mention'd by Athenaeus.

Aeschylus the Tragedian had two Sons, Euphorion and Bion, who were both Victors by their Poems in the Olympic games.

Agathias a Smyrnaean, who flourisht in the time of the Emperour Justinian, and wrote besides his History of Beli­sarius and Narses, a Poem Intituled Dionysiaca, and also several Epigrams which are extant in the Greec Antho­logie; contemporary with whom was Tribonianus Sidetes, who wrote in verse a Comment upon Ptolomi'es Canon, with some other things mention'd by Suidas.

Agathon, a Tragic Poet, who flou­risht in the first year of the Ninetieth Olympiad, and was Victor by his Lenaei, he is mention'd by Athenaeus and Philo­stratus. There liv'd also much about the [Page 9] same time a Comic Poet of the same name, who is cited by Aristotle.

Agathyllus, an Arcadian Elegiogra­pher mention'd with praise by Dionysius Halicarnassaeus.

Agidius Delphus a Greec Poet, who flourisht in the primitive time of Chri­stianity, and deserves to be remembred for his version of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans into Greec verse.

Agis Amphiptolemus, several verses of his are cited by Pausanias.

Agis a Poet of Argos, whom Curtius brands for a bad Poet, and yokes with him one Chaerilus both for time and badness of verses. This Chaerilus was in high favour with Alexander the Great, and as ill as his verses were, for they are very much condemned by Horace. l. 11▪ Epist▪ they were received as the Celebrators of his Acts; there were al­so two others of the same name, [...]he one a Samian, who Elegantly set forth the victory of the Athenians over Xerxes, for which he was both highly rewarded and honoured, the other (if it were not the same as Vossius seems to disprove by the interval of time) a companion to [Page 10] Lisander, and solemnizer of his Victo­ries.

Alanus a Sicilian, both Poet and Eminent Oratour, who wrote a book de planctu▪ Naturae, partly in verse, part­ly in Solute Oration.

Albinus see Decius Laberius.

Albius Tibullus, an Elegant Latin Ele­giac Poet, whose works are commonly printed with Catullus, he was a Roman Knight.

Alcaeus, a Lyric Poet, who accord­ing to Eusebius flourisht in the Forty fourth Olympiad, and as Diogenes Laer­tius testifies, was a great Enemie to the Tyrant Pittacus, who was also a Poet, as his Six hundred Elegiac verses menti­on'd by Suidas testifie, and of the num­ber of those accounted the Seven Sages of Greece. He is mention'd by Horace in the Ninth Ode of his Fourth book; There was also of the same name a Co­mic Poet, whose Endymion and Pasiphae are mention'd by Pollux, and several other Comedies of his by [...], he contended at Athens with Aristophanes, whose contemporary he was, together with Aristomenes an Athenian, whose [Page 11] Comedie call'd Admetus is mention'd by the Scholiast of Aristophanes, he is one of those call'd [...] or Se­cundarii by Suidas, and the anonymous Authour of the History of the Olympi­ads; Nicophon, whose Adonis is men­tion'd by the said Scholiast, as his Sire­nes and other Comedies of his by Sui­das, by whom he is call'd Nicophron. Nicochares the Son of Philonidas, and a contemporary of Aristophanes; his Amymone, Pelops, Galatea, and several other Comedies are mention'd by Sul­das, Pollux, Athenaeus and Aristotle; Cal­listratus an Athenian Comic Poet an Emulatour of Aristophanes; much a­bout the same time also liv'd Apollo­phanes, whom Suidas and Aelian men­tion for Comic poesie, but Fulgentius mentions him (if it be the same) for Epic poesie.

Alcander, an ancient writer conje­ctur'd a Poet by Vossius, from a passage of Clemens Alexandrinus.

Alcimeenes, a Tragic Poet of Megara mention'd by Suidas, There was also of the same name an Athenian comic Poet, whose Thesaurus and Peccantes [Page 12] are mention'd by the said Authours.

Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, an Arch­bishop of Vienna, who flourisht in the times of the Emperours Zeno and Ana­statius, and wrote in Hexameter verse, de Origine mundi, and several other Theological discourses; besides some things in prose, there flourisht also in the time of Zeno another Bishop of Vi­enna, namely Claudianus Mamertus, who wrote a poem, de statu animae, and ano­ther, contra vanos poetas; also Claudius Marius Victor, a Rhetorician of Marseil­les, who wrote upon Genesis in Hexa­meter verse to his Son Aethereus, with some other things which are said to be yet extant.

Alcman a Lyric Poet of Lacedemon, who began to flourish in the Twenty seventh Olympiad, there was also of the same name, a Messenian, who was also a Lyric, and appear'd in the Fourth year of the Thirtieth Olympiad, both mention'd by Suidas, and one of them by Pausanias for his poem of Castor and Pollux.

Aldhelmus, (from the Saxon word Althelm i. e. old Helmet) an ancient [Page 13] Saxon Poet, who flourisht in the tim of Justinianus Junior, he was the Son of Kentenus, brother to Ina King of the West Saxons, having visited the chief Universities of France and Italy, at his return he was made Abbot of Malmesbury, and afterwards Bishop of Shirburn; Besides his great proficiency in all parts of Divine and humane learning, he was particularly excellent in Oratorie and Poetrie; wrote seve­ral Odes and other Poems; among which was his Acrostic of Thirty eight verses mention'd by J. Pitseus in his Scriptores Anglici.

Alexander a Grammarian and Tra­gic poet of Aetolia, whose verses are ci­ted by Parthenius and Strabo. Of the same name also was he whom Cicero mentions, with such mean approbation of his poetrie, whither the same with Alexander the Ephesian▪ Sirnamed Lychnus, who wrote Geographie in verse, is doubted by Giraldus, also the Roman Emperour of that name sirna­med Severus, wrote the lives of some of the foregoing Emperours in Greek Verse, as is testifyed by Lam­pridius.

[Page 14] Alexis, a Thurian Comic Poet, who flourisht in the time of Alexander the Great, very many comedies of his are mention'd by Athenaeus and Pollux, he was Unckle to Menander, about the same time was Philippides the Brother of Morsimus; and, as Plutarch affirms, favour'd by King Lysimachus, he is said by Suidas to have written Forty five Comedies, and by Agellius to have dyed for joy; being unexpectedly proclaimed Victor at the Olympian Games; also Neophon or Neophron a Tragic poet of Sicyon, who wrote One hundred and twenty Tragedies, and is thought to have been the Authour of that Medea, which is commonly attributed to Eu­ripides, he was put to death with Cal­listhenes the Philosopher, whose inti­mate friend he was as Suidas affirms; and lastly, Lycon a Comic Poet menti­on'd by Plutarch in his life of Alexan­der.

Alfred, a King of this Island of ever glorious memory, the Fifth from Ec­bert, in whom began the English Saxon Monarchy, he was equally Renowned, [Page 15] both for Arms; and Arts, in the first whereof he signalis'd himself by his frequent Victories over the invading Danes, in the last, both by his favour to learned men; and his own Studious addiction to all sorts of Learning, by which he gain'd himself the Character of a great, both Theologist, Philoso­pher, Jurisconsult, Historian, Mathe­matician, Musician, and among the rest of Poets also.

Alphenus Varius, see Anser.

Alphius Avitus, the Authour of cer­tain books inscrib'd Excellentium in di­meter Jambic verse, being much ancien­ter▪ than Alcimus, for whom he is by some mistaken.

Amipsi [...]s, a Contemporary of Aristo­phanes, his Comedie intituled [...], is mention'd by the Anonymous Au­thour of the description of the Olym­piads, and by the Scholiast of the said Aristophanes.

Ammonus and Eusebius Scholasticus, two Authours mention'd by Socrates and Nieephorus; they liv'd in the time of Theodosius Junior, and wrote both o [...] them in verse a History of the War against Gaina the Goth.

[Page 16] Amaenus, a writer of an uncertain age, but for certain ancienter than the time of the Emperour Charles the first, he is mentiond in some old Manus­cripts, as the Authour of that Enchiri­dion of the old and new Testament in verse, which Sichardus ascribes to Sedu­lius.

Amphilochius, a Bishop of Iconium, who flourisht in the time of the Em­perour Julianus, and wrote among other things a Poem in Iambic verse to Seleucus, concerning the Canonical books of the Scripture. To him St. Basil Dedicated his book, de spiritu Sancto; about the same time liv'd Eudaemon of Pelusium, who besides what he wrote in Grammar and Rheto­ric is said by Suidas to have written several Poems, he was a companion of Libanius the Rhetorician, in Julian's time also liv'd Calistus, who as Socrates and Nicephorus affirm wrote in Heroic verse the Acts of the said Emperour, also Milesius of Smyrna favour'd of Ana­tolius, and related by Eunapius to have excell'd in all kind of Poetrie, and with him Ionicus, a Poet and Physician of [Page 17] Sardis. And lastly, Gregorius of Nazi­anzen, whose Divine Poems both in Hexameter and other sort of verse are yet extant, he is remembred by Hiero­nimus, whose Master he was.

Amphis an Athenian Comic Poet, the Son of Amphicrates, he was as saith Laertius contemporary with Plato who was sometimes the Subject of his comi­cal wit.

Anacha [...]sis, a Scythian mention'd a­mong the Philosophers, he was Brother to a Scythian King, and liv'd in the time of Craesus King of Lydia, his Mother being a Graecian Woman▪ he wrote the Scythian Laws in verse; besides a Poem of the frailty of humane life consisting of Eight hundred verses.

Anacreon, a Lyric Poet of Teos, seve­ral of whose Poems are yet extant, he flourisht in the 61 and 62 Olympiad, as Eusebius and Suidas affirm, and as Pau­sanias in his Attics and Strabo testifie, was in high favour with Polycrates the Tyrant of Samos, whom he often cele­brates in his verses.

Ananius, an Jambic writer of an un­certain age mention'd by Athenaeus in [Page 18] his Dipuosophists, and Isaacius upon Lyeophron.

Anaxandrides, a Comic Poet of Rhodes, or as some say Colophon, who flourisht in the Second year of the One hundred and first Olympiad, as Suidas and the Authour of the Olympiads testifie, he is cited by Aristotle in his Rhetorics and Ethics; of the Sixty five Comedies he wrote (in Ten where­of he is said to have been Victor) his Odysseus is chieflly commended by Athenaeus: in the same Olympiad ap­pear'd also Eubulus Cettius a writer as saith Suidas of between the Media and Nova Comedia, he wrote Twenty four Comedies, whereof his Nutrices, Clep­sydra, and Cercopes are cited by Athe­naeus, and his Calatophori by Am­monius, then also flourisht Mnesimachus a Writer of Media Comedia, his Hippo­trophus, Bustris and Philippus are cited by Athenaeus, this Authour is very much commended by Diogenes La [...]rtius in his life of Socrates.

Anaxiles, see Plato.

Anaxipolis of Thasus, see in Antipater.

Anaxippus see in Menander.

[Page 19] Anitius Manlius Boethius Severi [...]us, a most learned and Elegant writer in the time of Zeno and Anastatius, he to­gether with his Wife Helpis, to omit all other parts of Learning, was parti­cularly Eminent in poetrie, as his Five books, de Consolatione Philosophiae testi­fie, he was put to death, together with Symmachus by Theodoric King of the Goths in Italie.

Auna [...]us Cornutus, a Tragic poet, whose works are totally lost, who liv'd in the time of Claudius and Nero, and was the Master of Persius the Satyrist.

Aunianus, an ingenuous and learned Poet mention'd by Agellius, or Aulus Gellius, as he is generally call'd; he flou­risht in the times of the Emperours Trajan and Adrian, his Fescennine ver­ses are mention'd by Ausonius in his Thirteenth Idyl at the end of the Cento Nuptialis.

Anser, Bavius, and Maevius, three ill Poets contemporaries of Virgil, by whom the two last are mention'd, about the same time also flourisht Publius Sy­rus a Comic writer, Corni [...]icius, one of Virgils detractors, Cai [...]s Asinius Pollio, [Page 20] Alfenus Varius a more famous Juris Consult than Poet, Cornelius Gallus, Cassius Severus one of Caesars Assassi­nats, and as some think the Authour of that Tragedie of Thyestes, which is as­cribed to Quintus Varus, also Gracchus, Codrus, whom Virgil mentions with praise in his Seventh Eglogue, there being another of the same name in Domitians time, whose Theseis is derided by Juvenal, Caius Rabirius, who wrote in verse the War between M. Antonius and Octavius in an inflate style, for which he is taken notice of by Ovid, Lucius Julius Calidius mention'd with singular praise by Pomponius Atticus, to which purpose a passage of the said Atticus is cited by Cornelius Nepos in his life.

Antagoras of Rhodes, see in Menan­der.

Anthippus, a Comic Poet of an uncer­tain age.

Antigrammaratus, a Poet mention'd by Lilius Giraldus to have liv'd since Charles the Great, though in what par­ticular age is uncertain; as likewise several others which are likewise men­tion'd [Page 21] by him, as Decianus of Emerita a poet and philosopher, Dracontius, who wrote a poem call'd Hexaemeron, or the Six dayes work, Facetus, and Joan­nes Nantuillensis an Englishman, who wrote a poem call'd Archithenium; though in a rude and disorderly style, Floretus, Gamphredus and Pamphilus a writer of Elegies.

Antilochus, a favourite to Lysander the Lacedaemonian, whom he celebrated in his verses, and was rewarded with a Cap full of Silver, he flourisht in the Ninety fourth Olympiad, in the first year of which the said Lysander took Athens; contemporary with whom was Morsi­mus the Son of Philocles, and the Sister of Aeschylus, he wrote a Tragedie, which is mention'd with derision by Aristophanes, also Critias one of the Thirty Tyrants of Athens impos'd by Lysander, chiefly noted for his Elegie to Alcibiades and his fragment of Jam­bic verses extant in Sextus the Philoso­pher▪ Athenaeus mentions a Poet of the same name the Son of Callaeschrus, but thought to be not the same.

[Page 22] Antimachus, a Colophonian Poet men­tion'd by Pausanios and Plutarch, the subject of his Poem was the expedition of the Argives against the Thebans.

Antipater of Sidon, a Poet and Histo­rian, who appear'd in the 179 Olym­piad, Ptolomaeus Lathyrus then Reigning, he is taken notice of by Cicero in his books de Oratore; in the Reign of the said Lathyrus, liv'd also Anaxipolis of Thasus, and Dionysius sirnamed Scy­tobrachion, whom Suidas will have to be of Mitylene, (though others say of Miletus,) and that he wrote the expedition of Bacchus and Mi­nerva, and six books of Argonauts; besides Antipater of Sidon, there was also another of the same name of Thes­salonica, who liv'd in the Reign of Augustus, of which time he and Bathyl­lus were the chief Pantomimi, as is te­stified by Dion, Z [...]simus, Suidas and others, in the Greec Authologie are several Epigrams both of his and the other Antipater.

Antiphanes Caristius a writer of Me­dia Comedia, who flourisht in the first year of the Hundred and fourth [Page 23] Olympiad, very many of his Co­medies are mention'd by Julius Pollux and Athenaeus and by this last, his saying to Alexander the Great, about one of his plays, which was recited to the said Alexander.

Antipho the Rhamnusian, see Diony­sius.

Antistius Sosianus, see Euodus.

Aphareus, see Isocrates.

Apollinaris, a Bishop of Laodicea in Syria in the Reigns of Julian, Valenti­nian and Valens, and the beginning of Theodosius the Great, besides his devine poems, among which some reckon Chri­stus patiens, which is generally ascrib'd to Gregory of Nazianzene, he is highly eminent among the ancient Ecclesia­stick writers treated of by Hieronimus for his 30 books against Porphirius, for which Philostorgius prefers him before Eusebius and Methodius, with other things, both in Theologie, History and Poetrie; Particularly we have extant his Metaphrase upon David's Psalms in Greek verse, besides which he is said by Suidas to have turn'd the whole book of the Hebrews into Greek verse, for a [Page 24] more particular commendation and Character of him see Joannes Sarisbu­riensis de Nugis Curialium, Vincentius Lirinensis in his Commonitorie, Theo­philus of Alexandria l. 1. paschali and Vossius l. 2. de Historicis Graecis. There was another Apollinaris celebrated by Martial. l. 8. Epigr. 25. yet scarce al­low'd by Vossius to pass among the num­ber of the poets, but him vulgarly call'd Sidonius Apollinaris, see in Caius.

Apollodorus Gelous, a Comic poet, con­temporary with Menander, several of whose Comedies are remembred by Athenaeus Suidas and Pollux, and from whom as Donatus testifies Terence took his phormio and H [...]cyra. There was also a Tragic poet of Tarsus so nam'd Six Tra­gedies of whose writing are mention'd by Julius Pollux; another of that name was a Grammarian the Son of s [...]clepia­des and Disciple of Aristarchus the Grammarian and panetius the Rhodian philosopher, and this was the Authour of the book of the Genealogie of the Gods yet extant, intituled Bibliotheca, which is vulgarly imputed to Apollodo­rus Atheniensis; Therewas also as Vossi­us [Page 25] observes out of Suidas, a comic poet of the same name, who wrote 47 Co­medies, and was Five times sole Vi­ctor at the Olympic games. Athenaeus mentions also Apollodorus Caristius, who whit her he were not the same with Gelous is in some dispute.

Apollonius of Rhodes, see Eratosthenes.

Apollophanes, see Alcaeus.

Aquilius (or as some say Attilius or Cecilius) Severus a Spaniard, who liv'd in the Reigns of Julian and Va­lentinian, he is made mention of by Hieronimus among the Ecclesiastic wri­ters for his [...] or History of his life both in prose and verse.

Aquinius, Cesius and Suffenus, Three ill poets mention'd by Catullus in his verses to Licinius Calvus, and his Epi­gram to Varus, and also by Cicero in his Tusculan questions.

Araros, a comic poet of the Greecs the Son of Aristophanes as Suidas testi­fies, who mentions his Hymenaeus one of the Six Comedies he is said to have written, Four Comedies of his are cited by Athenaeus.

Arator, a Latin poet who flourisht in [Page 26] the time of the Emperour Justinian, and wrote the History of the Acts of the Apostles in two books in verse, which he is said to have dedicated to Abbot Florianus, and to Vigilius Bi­shop of Rome.

Aratus, a Greec poet of Soli, in Cilicia, as saith Eusebius in his Chroni­cle, he flourisht in the time of Ptolomae­us Philadelphus and Antigonus Gonatus, with whom he liv'd in very great fa­vour and esteem, his poem of the Des­cription of the Coelestial constellations, and of the prognosticks of the wea­ther which is yet extant, was highly esteem'd by those of his time, as Ari­starchus of Samos, the two Aristilli Geo­metricians, the two Euaeneti, Crates, Numenius the Grammarian, Pyrrhus of Magnesia, Zeno and Thales.

Archedicus a comic poet, who wrote against Demochares; two comedies of his writing, Thesaurus and Diamarta­non are cited by Athenaeus.

Archestratus a Syracusian, or as some say a Geloan the Disciple of Terpsion, he is said to have written a poem of Belly-chear, or things belonging to the Gullet.

[Page 27] Archias an ancient Greec Epigram­matist, of whom there are extant 28 Epigrams in the Greec Anthologie, this probably was the Authour of that poem mention'd by Cicero, for the des­cription therein, of a strange accident that happened to Roscius the Comedian.

Archilochus a Parian, who flourisht in the Second year of the Twenty ninth Olympiad in the Reign of Candaules and Gyges Kings of Lydia; he was of so virulent and invective a style, that by the bitterness of his verses he drove Lycambe to self Murther by the halter; contemporary with him were Simonides sirnamed Melicus (for there were seve­ral others of the same name, as Simo­nides Ceus (the Son of Leoprexes) a Lyric poet who flourisht in the time of Xerxes, Themistocles and Hiero of Sy­racuse, Simonides Magnesius an Epic poet who wrote the Acts of Antiochus the Great, Simonides Eretriensis who wrote in Trimeter Jambic the conven­ [...]ion of the Greecs at Aulis, and lastly Simonides the Son of Crineus sirnamed Amorginus, who besides several Elegies [...]e wrote, is thought by some as Suidas [Page 28] testifies to have been the first writer of Jambic verse) and also Aristoxenus of Selinum who is celebrated by Epichar­mus.

Archippus a Comic poet who appear'd in the First year of the Ninety first Olympiad, and was once Victor, his Comedie call'd Ichthys is mention'd with praise by Julius Pollux and Athenaeus, and several Comedies which have been as­cribed to Aristophanes are thought to be his as Suidas testifies.

Architas an ancient Greec Epigram­matist who haply may be thought the same with the famous Pythagorean Phi­losopher of Tarentum.

Arctinus of Miletus, an ancient and elegant Greec Poet mention'd by Eu­sebius in his Chronicle as the Authour of two Poems, Aethiopis and Ilii Hal [...]sis; he was the Disciple of Homer, as is de­livered by Tsetzes, and also by Suidas from the Testimony of Artemon of Clazomenus, and is thought to have flourisht from the first to the Ninth Olympiad.

Arion, a Lyric Poet and Musician of Methymna, the same no doubt whom [Page 29] the Poets sav'd from drowning by the charity of a Dolphin, he began to flou­rish in the Thirty eighth Olympiad as Suidas affirms, and is thought by some to have been the Disciple of Alcman, and to have been the first beginner of Dithyrambs, Satyrs, and of the Chorus in Tragedie.

Aristaeus, an ancient Greec Poet of an uncertain age.

Aristarchus, see Cratinus.

Aristeas, a contemporary of Anachar­sis the Scythian, he wrote the History of the Arimaspi in Hexameter Greec verse; a very strange thing is reported of him (as likewise of Hermotimus of Clazomenus) namely, that at certain times his Soul was wont to pass out of his body and return again.

Aristius Fuscus a contemporary of Horace, who directs to him the Two and twentieth Ode of his first book, but whither a Poet himself is question'd by Vossius.

Aristomenes, a comic Poet of Athens who (as Suidas testifies, and the Au­thour of the Olympiads) began to flou­rish in the Eighty eighth Olympiad, and [Page 30] was one of those call'd [...] or Secundarii.

Ariston, a Tragic Poet of Chios of an uncertain age, who as Plutarch and La­ertius testifie, was banisht Athens for writing a Tragedie against Menestheus; also Three Epigrams in the Greec An­thologie go under the name of Ariston.

Aristonymus see Callimachus.

Aristophanes an Athenian, the most Renowned of comic Poets, and con­temporary with Sophocles the Tragic Poet, and also with Socrates whom he makes an object of his wit in his Co­medie call'd Nubes, as he doth Cleon and Nicias two Magistrates of Athens in his Equites, and Georgia; he flourisht from the Eighty fifth to the Ninety first Oympiad, and wrote a considerable number of Comedies, whereof many are yet extant, and many lost. At the same time flourisht Teleclides a comic Poet also of Athens, several Comedies of whom are mention'd by Athenaeus, who saith also that the History of the Telchines was ascribed to him; then likewise there began to write M [...]rychus a Tragic Poet, though [...]a foolish one as [Page 31] he is accounted by Aristophanes ac­cording to his proverb of him Moricho Stultior. There was also another Aristophanes noted among the Gram­marians.

Aristophon, an ancient Greec Poet of an uncertain age, whose Philoctetes is mention'd by Plutarch:

Aristoteles, the Philosopher of Sagira, who besides the many other works he wrote, among which is his Art of Poe­try, is delivered by Ambrosius and Brog­nolus to have written a Paean to Hermias, and some other things in verse.

Aristoxenus of Selinum, see Archilo­chus.

Arrianus, or as some write him Rhianus, a contemporary of the Em­perour Tiberius, who was much deligh­ted with his Greec verses. Lilius Gi­raldus his mistake concerning him, see rectified by Vossius in his book de poetis Latinis.

Aruntius Stella a Latin Poet, no less noted for his verses upon his Mistress Violantilla's Dove, than those upon the victory of Domitian (in whose time he liv'd) over the Sarmatians.

[Page 32] Asaph, a great Musician among the Jews, and as some think chief Master of King David's Q'uire, and setter of divers of his Psalms to Musick, or, as others suppose, the Authour of them himself.

Arystilus, a contemporary of Euri­pides or thereabout, and reckon'd by some among the number of Greec Dra­matics.

Asclepiades a Tragic Poet, the Dis­ciple of Isocrates, he is mention'd by Plutarch in his lives of the Ten Rheto­ricians.

Asius, a Samian, the Son of Am­phiptolemus, a Poem of his call'd Genea­logiae, is mention'd by Pausanias in his Messenics, his fable of Metabus and Me­nalippe by the Scholiast of Homer, sup­pos'd to be Didymus; besides some few verses of his cited by Athenaeus from Duris the Historian.

Astydamas the Son of Morsimus, he began to write in the Second year of the Ninety fifth Olympiad, as Diodorus and the Authour of the Olympiads testifie, and wrote as saith Suidas 140 Tragedies (in 15 onely whereof he was [Page 33] Victor) having abandon'd Rhetoric, wherein he was a hearer of Isocrates, he had a Son of the same name, who be­gan to flourish in the 102 Olympiad, his Tragedies mention'd by Suidas are Nine, namely, Hercules, Satyricus, Epi­goni, Ajax Furens, Bellerophon, Tyro, Alcmena, Phaenix, Palamedes.

Attilius, see Statius Caecilius.

Augeas a writer of Media Comedia of an uncertain age, of whose writing two Comedies, viz. Rusticus and Poeta are mention'd by Suidas.

Aulus Cornelius Severus, see Publius Ovidius.

Aulus Furius, an ancient Latin Poet of Antium, whom Cicero mentions in his Brutus, he was a contemporary and familiar friend of Quintus Catulus.

Aulus Persius Flaccus an Eminent Satyrist who flourisht under Nero, there are Six Satyrs of his extant, which are commonly set forth in a volume toge­ther with Juvenal.

Aulus Cornelius Alpinus, see Publius Ovidius.

Auleas, the Third Tragic writer from Theomis, who is delivered by some to [Page 34] have been the First inventor of Trage­die.

Aulus Sabinus, see Publius Ovidius.

Aulus Serenus, an ancient Lyric Po­et among the Latins of an uncertain age, he is remembred by Terentianus, Diomedes, Nonius, Servius, Hieronymus, Fortunatianus and Capella, which two last Authours cite this verse of his.

Aurelius Apollinaris, a Celebratour of the Acts of the Emperour Carus in Iambic verse, as is testified by Vopiscus in his life of that Prince.

Aurelius Prudentius Clemens, a Christian Poet, who flourisht in the time of Theodosius the Great and his Children, he wrote in Latin verse Psy­chomachia, de Martyrum Coronis, and some other works which are yet extant; but that Enchiridion of the old and new Testament, which is usually Prin­ted at the end of his works, is said to have been written by Amoenus, or as some say by Sedulius.

Ausonius, see Decius.

[Page 35] Autocrates, an Athenian Comic Po­et of an uncertain age, whose Timpani­sta is mention'd by Suidas.

Axionicus, another Comic writer of the Greecs of an uncertain age, his Phileuripides, Chalcidicus, and Tyrrhe­nus are mention'd by Athenaeus.

B.

BAbrias, by some called Gabrias, a Poet of an uncertain age, who converted Aesops Fables into Greec Iambic verse, as Avienus testifies in his Praeface to Theodosius Ambrosius, those Fables which go under the name of Gabrias, being judg'd to have been ra­ther the works of Ignatius Diaconus.

Bacchylides of Ceus, see Cratinus.

Bassus an old Epigrammatist, several Epigrams of whose writing are ex­tant in the Florilegium of Planudes, he is sometimes mention'd with the sir­name of Lollius added, if at least it be the same Bassus.

Batalus, a writer of Lascivious ver­ses, upon the extraordinary deformity of whose body the Poet Antiphanes wit­tily play'd.

[Page 36] Batton, a Comic writer of an uncer­tain age, whose Androphonos and Euer­gete are remembred by Athenaeus and Suidas.

Batulus, an Ephesian, whither Poet, Flutinist or Actour is uncertain.

Beda, sirnamed Venarabilis, an ancient English Priest who flourisht from the time of Justinianus the younger to Constantinus Copronymus (which was towards the end of the Saxon Hep­tarchy) and who being chiefly a Histo­rian, yet claim'd the title of a Poet by his Hymns, his Poem of Justin's Martyrdom and some other things, some Mentioned, others Extant in the Col­lection of Epigrams and Poems, set forth by Pithaeus, and Printed at Pa­ris.

Bias of Priene, see Epimenides.

Bentamin Halachadites, his Omeis is Cited by Joannes the Son of Sera­pion.

Bion, a Greec Poet of Smyrna, whose Epitaphium Adonidis and other Idyls are Printed with Hesiod and the rest of the Poetae Minores.

Besantinus, an antient Epigrama­tist, [Page 37] whose Name is found to some E­pigrams in the Greek Anthologie.

Blaesus, a Latin Poet of an uncer­tain age, born, as saith Stephanus, in Ca­priae an Island of Italy.

Boethius, a Poet of Tarsus, who Ce­lebrated, in Greek Verse, the Victory of Marcus Antonius, as Strabo affirms. Under the Name also of Boethius (pro­bably the same) are certain Epigrams in the Greek Anthologie. But there was another of the same Name of lit­tle Fame and of an uncertain age.

Boiscus, a Poet of Cyzicum, of an un­uncertain age, whom Vossius l. 2. de re poet: affirms to have been the first Au­thour of the Tetrameter Octonarie Jam­bick.

Burchardus Pylades a Brixian, whose Five Books of the Genealogies of the Gods, are set forth with Hesiod in Opo­rinus his Basil Edition.

Buslidius, a Poet of an uncertain age, of whom what Verses are Ex­tant are in the Book of Epigrams, of the Schola Christiana, Printed at Ba­sil.

Butas, an elegiack Poet, of an un­certain [Page 38] age, who having written fa­bulously, de Romanorum rebus in Gr­verse, is remembred by Plutarch, Arno­bius, Pithaeus & Heraldus: But by Plu­tarch reprehended as fabulous.

C.

CAecilius Argivus, a Greek Poet doubtless very antient, remem­ber'd by a Poem he is said to have written de Piscibus.

Caecilius Cyprianus, an antient Bi­shop of Carthage, who lived unde [...] Philippus Arabs, Decius, Gallus, Volusia­nus, Valerianus, & Galienus: (the last of whom is himself also receiv'd a Poet by certain Verses of his yet Extant) and at length suffer'd Martyrdom. The Poems that go under his Name are Ge­nesis, Sodoma, an Invective against an Apostate Senator; and a Hymn for Easter-day, the two first whereof Six­tus Senensis believes were written by Tertullian, the last some ascribe to Vi­ctorinus.

Caelius Sedulius, a Scottish Priest, who lived under Theodosius Junior; be­sides [Page 39] what he wrote in Prose, viz. A Comment upon St. Paul's Epistles, he also wrote in Verse his Opus Paschale, or, Paschal work: of which Pope Gelasius in his Decrees gives a particu­lar commendation. This Work being afterwards by himself put into Prose is yet Extant in the Book call'd Bib­liotheca Patrum Tomo 8°; he wrote be­sides two Hymns, one upon Christs Na­tivity, the other upon Epiphany.

Caesius Bassus, a Lyrick Poet, who flourisht in the time of Nero (who was also by the testimony of Seneca and Martial, a very approved Poet him­self) and is twice hinted at by Juve­na in his Satyrs: he is by Fabius, who knew him, ranked in the next degree of Lyrics to Horace. There was al­so another Caesius (in the time of Ca­tullus) whom see in Aquinius.

Cajus Asinius Pollio, see Anser and Publius Ovidius.

Cajus Cilnius Mecaenas, ibid.

Cajus Cominius, see Aelius Saturni­nus.

Cajus Cotta, see Publius Ovidius.

Cajus Florus, an antient Latin Poet, [Page 40] who wrote of the same Subject with Valerius Flaccus in Heroick Verse.

Cajus Germanicus, see Aelius Satur­ninus.

Cajus Helvius Cinna, the Authour of an old Latin Poem, entitled Smir­na, which, as Servius testifies, was a Work of no less then ten years.

Cajus Julius Caesar, the Great Ro­man Captain, who first made himself Master of the Roman Empire, and was also an Elegant writer, besides whose Commentaries which are extant, there are reckon'd up several other Works of his writing which are lost, and among the rest a Tragedy, entitled Oe­dipus.

Cajus Laelius, see Terentius.

Cajus Lucilius, a Roman Poet of the Equestrian Order, Born in the 158 O­lympiad.

Cajus Lutorius Priscus, see Aelius Sa­turninus.

Cajus Pedo Albinovanus, see Publius Ovidius.

Cajus Rabirius, see Anser.

Cajus Sollius Apollinaris, a Sidonian Poet, whose Father was an Officer of [Page 41] great Authority under the Emperour Honorius, and he himself under Theo­sius the younger and Valentinian the third, thrice Master of the Militia, and four times Praefect of the Praetorium: he was also in very high Esteem and Authority with Maximus Augustus, Avitus whose Daughter he Married, and Majorianus by whom he was ad­vanc'd to the Dignity of a Count: un­der Severus he defended Arvernia a­gainst the Incursions of the Barbarians. Under Anthemius also he was still ad­vanc'd, and at length made Bishop of Arverni; after which abandoning Poe­try he betook himself wholly to the Study of Theologie: he is much more happy in his Verse, as is to be seen in 24 little Poems of his yet extant, than in his Prose, wherein his Style is very harsh and crabbed, and very much discommended by Ludovicus Vives.

Cajus Valerius Catullus, an Epigram­matist of Verona, of whose witty and elegant Poems we have many yet ex­tant.

Cajus Valerius Flaccus Setinus Bal­bus, [Page 42] a Latin Poet of Padua, who De­dicated his Argonauticks, or Poem of the Expedition of Jason, for the Golden Fleece to the Emperour Domitian; which Poem being extant, he is said to have written in Imitation of Apol­lonius Rhodius.

Calfurnius, see Titus.

Callias, an Athenian Tragick Poet, of an uncertain age, the Son of Lysi­machus, a Rope-maker; his Gramma­tica is remembred by Athenaeus, his Cy­clopes by Pollux, his Aegyptius, Atalanta, Pedetae, Ranae & [...] by Suidas.

Callimachus, an excellent Greek Poet of Cyrene, in great favour and esteem with Ptolomaeus Philadelphus, in whose time he liv'd, and of his Son Euerge­tes in honour of whose Queen he wrote his Fiction, call'd Coma Berenices: he also wrote Hymns, Elegies and Epi­grams, whereof many of his Hymns and Epigrams, as also several fragments of his other works are yet extant. There was also of the same Name a Colophonian Poet, mention'd by Tatia­nus in his Oration to the Gentiles; and Eusebius in his Evangelical prepara­tions. [Page 43] Contemporary with Callimachus of Cyrene were Heraclitus of Halicar­nassus (whose Epigram upon the death of the said Callimachus is cited by La­ertius in the Life of Heraclitus. And Timon of Phliasus of the Pyr [...]honian Sect, who was in great favour with Antigonus Gonatus in whose time he liv'd; he wrote Books of Natural Philosophy in Verse Hexameter, besides 40 Tragedies, 30 Comoedies with Satyrs, and several other works, among which his Books call'd Sylli are particularly treated of by Sotion. There was another Callimachus, a Heroick Poet, Sister's Son to him of Cyrene, as Suidas testifies.

Callinus, an Elegiack Poet, some­what antienter than Archilochus, as Athenaeus, Clemens Alexandrinus, and Strabo testifie.

Callistratus, see Alcaeus.

Callistus, see Amphilochius.

Calvus, an antient Poet, out of whom Verses are cited by Servius, Charisius, and Gellius.

Camerinus, and Thuscus, see Publius Ovidius.

Caninius Rufus, a writer of the Da­cian [Page 44] War in Greek Verse, as Plinius Ju­nior testifies in one of his Epistles.

Canius, see Curiatius Maternus.

Cantharus, a Comick writer of A­thens, of an uncertain age whose Co­medies Medaea, Tereus, Symmachiae, Myrmeces, and Aedones, are all men­tion'd by Suidas, his Tereus, also by Athenaeus.

Capella, see Publius Ovidius.

Capito, an Alexandrian Poet, of an uncertain age, who besides what he wrote in Prose wrote also a Poem, call'd [...], or of Love affairs, of wich Athenaeus makes mention.

Capnias, an obscure Poet of an un­certain age, whose writings are said by Suidas, to have been of so little esteem that they vanisht into smoak, which alludes to his name, their loss not being in the least regarded.

Carcinus, an Athenian Tragick and Lyrick Poet, who began to flourish a­bout the 100th Olympiad, viz. in the time of Phillip of Macedon, and con­temporary with Plato, who besides his Philosophical writings, is said to have written several Tragedies, which he [Page 45] afterwards burnt, as Laertius testifies. The Tragedies of this Carcinus remem­bred by Athenaeus, are his Achilles and his Semele. There was also another Carcinus of Agrigentum, whose Co­medy intituled Plutus is mention'd by Athenaeus; he liv'd as appears from Polycritus Mendesius, a little before the other, Contemporary with whom were Eudoxus of Gnidus who wrote Astro­logy in Hexameter Verse, besides ano­ther Eudoxus, a Comick Poet of Si­cilie, as also Anaxilaus, or Anaxilas, who in a Comedy of his call'd Botry­lion, nips Plato. Two other Comedies of his [...] and [...] are ci­ted by Athenaeus.

Carneades, an Elegiack Poet, of an uncertain age, made mention of by Laertius as a different person from Car­neades the Philosopher. Suidas men­tions three Philosophers but no Poet of that name.

Carus, see Publius Ovidius.

Cassius Severus, see Anser.

Cato, by some call'd Batto, a Co­mick Poet of an uncertain age, but the more eminent was Valerius Cato, whom see in Valerius.

[Page 46] Cephisodorus, see Euripides.

Chaeremon, see Philistion.

Choerophon, ibid.

Charmus, a Syracusian, of an un­certain age whose Poem intitled [...] or [...] argued him a per­son more given to his belly than Epi­cure himself.

Chedmon, an old Brittish Poet, who as it were by divine Inspiration, to use Cambden's own words, in the year 680 with his sweet Verses full of Compun­ction drew men from Vice to Ver­tue.

Chersias, see Epimenedes.

Chilo, ibid.

Chionides, an Athenian writer of Ve­tus Comoedia, who according to Sui­das, began to flourish in the 70th O­lympiad; of his Comedies there are remember'd his Heroes commended by Pollux and Suidas, his Mendicae com­mended by Athenaeus, and his Assyrij, or Persae.

Choerilius, an Athenian Tragoedian, who is said to have written 150. Tragedies, and to have overcome in 13.

[Page 74] Choerilus, see Agis.

Christodorus, an Epick Writer, who described in Greek Verse in six Books, the taking of Is [...]ria, by the Em­perour Anastasius, under whom he flou­risht: besides some other things men­tion'd by Suidas. About the same time also liv'd Timotheus of Gaza, a Gram­marian, who wrote a Tragedy intituled Argyripus, and also a History of Ani­mals in Verse: Quintus Smyrnaus, Sir­named Calaber, as being found at Hy­druns, a Town of Calabria, by Cardi­nal Bessarion; he continued the Descri­ption of the Trojan▪ War in Heroic Verse, from where Homer left; which Work of his being of the number of those that have happily escap't the gulf of Oblivion, was first publisht at Ve­nice by Aldus Manutius.

[...], an Aegyptian of Lycopolis, whose Description of the Rape of He­lena, in Greek Verse; which is also ex­tant, and commonly Printee at the end of Homer's Iliads; together with the little Poem of the Destruction of Troy, by Tryphiodorus an Aegyptian like­wise. The Calidonica and Persica, which [Page 48] Coluthus and the Odysseia, and Ilia [...], which Tryphiodorus, by the testimony of Suid [...] had written; being all lost. Within the same inter­val comes in Musaeus, whose little Poem of the Loves of Hero and Leander, in yet extant, which by the good leave of J. Caesar Sealiger, whoever considers the Style may imagin to have been written by a much later Greek Au­thour (as this Musaeus the Grammarian was) than that Grand Musaeus spoken of by Virgil▪ Under the same Ana [...]a­sius also flourisht Marianus, the Son of Marsus, as is testifid by Suidas, who also writes that he Metaphras'd up­on Theocritus, Aratus, Ni [...]ander's The­riaca, and several of C [...]lli [...]achus his Works.

Chrysippus, a Writer of Georgi [...]s, but whether in Verse as Giraldus only sur­miseth, or in Prose, is question'd by Vos­sius, there was also of the same name reckon'd among the Poets one of Tya­nea, whose [...] is mentioned by Athenaeus, who liv'd but an age or there­about after him.

Cynaethon, a Lacedemonian, who be­gan [Page 49] to flourish in the fifth Olympiad, and wrote a Poem call'd Telegonia.

Cinaethus, a Chian; who flourisht in the Sixty ninth Olympiad (as saith the Scholiast of Pindarus) and wrote a Farce of Homers Verses.

Cinesias, a Theban Dithyrambic wri­ter, see Philyrinus.

Citerius Sidonius, a Syracusan, of whom there is extant a Latin Epigram in the Parisian Collection, Entituled Epigramata & Poematia vetera.

Claudianus Mamerius, see Alcimus.

Claudius Clandianus, an Alexandrian (as it is conjectur'd) who flourisht in the time of Theodosius the great and his children, Christian Emperours, though he himself continued an obstinate Gen­til; however, for his eminency in La­tin Poetry (whereof his Proserpina's Rape, and several other Poems yet ex­tant, are a testimony) he had his statue erected by Arcadius and Honorius, about the same time (as some think) liv'd Pontius Paulinus Bishop of Nola, a Dis­ciple of Ausonius, to whom he wrote several Verses; as also the life of St. Martin, and upon the birth-day of Cel­sus, [Page 50] and St. Faelix of Nola, with some o­ther things which are yet extant; like­wise an Epitome of Suetonius in Verse, which is lost. 2. Flavius who is deli­vered by Hieronymus one of his acquain­tance, to have written the Art of Medi­cin in verse Hexameter, 3 Licentius of Hippo, whom St. Austin, who was of his acquaintance, celebrates for an eminent Poet, and takes notice of his Poem of Py­ramus and Thisbe. He also wrote hymns and several other things, and is remem­bred by Paulinus and Posidonius. 4. Ru­tilius Claudius Numatianus a Gaul, whose Itinerarium, in verse, where­in he discovers himself an enemy to Chri­stian Religion, is extant in Pithaeus his Collection.

Caludius Clemens, a Scotch-man, who flourisht in the year of our Lord 810. He was the Disciple of Beda, and one of the Founders of the University of Paris: many things he wrote in Theo­logie, and is deliver'd by some, to have been also an excellent Poet. Camb. Rem.

Claudius Marius Victor. See Alci­mus.

Cleanthes, a Successor, as saith Eu­sebius, [Page 51] to Zeno in his School, and a wri­ter of Physicks in Hexameter and Iam­bic verse; which work is in H. Stepha­nus his Collection. It is also affirm'd by Laertius, who wrote his iife, that he wrote a Book de Poeta. About that same time also liv'd Sophron a Comic writer, of whose writing, and not of Sophron's the Syracusian, Vossius thinks the Comoedy Nymphonus to be, which is cited by Pollux; contemporary with whom were Damoxenus an Athenian Comic writer, out of one of whose Comoedies about 70. Verses are extant in Athenaeus, from whom are cited by Suidas, his [...] & [...], and also Lycophron, one of the foremen­tioned Seven Pleiades so call'd, a Gram­marian and Tragic Poet of Chalcis (for there were several others of that name) he wrote an obscure Poem, Intituled A­lexandra or Cassandra, which is yet ex­tant; besides other things mention'd by Suidas, which are lost.

Clearchus, a Comic Poet, of an un­certain time, out of whose Corinthii a Sentenee is cited by Athenaeus. The [...] [Page 52] is also a small fragment of him in the common Edition of the Poetae Mino­res.

Cleobulus of Lindus, one of the Seven Wise-men of Grecce, many of whose Sen­tences and wise sayings were written in Verse.

Cleon, an ancient Greec Poet, from whose Poem Entitl'd Argonautica A­pollonius▪ Rhodius is thought to have ta­ken the pattern, and much of the mat­ter of his Poem as the Scholiast of A­polloninus testifies:

Cleomenes, a Dithyrambic Poet of Rhegium, whose Poem Entitled Melea­ger, is cited by Athenaeus; whether this be the the same with that Cleomenes ci­ted by Clemens Alexandrinus is doubted by Vossius.

Cleopbon, an Athenian Tragic Poet of an uncertain time; several of whose Tragedies are mention'd by Suidas.

Clidemus, another Poet, unknown both as to the place and time he liv'd in. Whose At this is cited by Athe­naeus.

[...] Clodius Sabinus, an elegant Poet; as well as writer of Latin and Greec de­clamations; [Page 53] he is said also to have written a Poem of the Trojan War.

Clonas, an Epic and Elegiac Poet of Tegea; some say Thebes, who is said to have been the first inventor of certain Moods in Musick.

Cneus Aquilius, see Statius Caecilius.

Cneus Cornelius Gallus, a famous E­legiac Poet of Forolivium, so high in fa­vour with Augustus that he was made first Praefect of Aegypt; he translated Euphorion a Greec Author into Latin, and wrote four Books of Elegies upon his beloved Cytheris, Volumuius his free'd woman, whose forsaking him, and run­ning away with Antonius into Gallia, is the subject of Virgils Tenth Eglogue, in which she is is call'd Lycoris.

Cneus Lentulus Getulicus, a Latin Epigramatist, of whom there are some fragments in Petrus Crinitus. He lov'd Cesennia, whom he very much celebra­ted in his Verses.

Cneus Matius, the Authour of a Po­em, Entitled Ilias in Fifteen Books. He is cited by Charisius.

Codrus see Anser.

Coluthu see Christodorus.

[Page 54] Cometas, sirnamed Scholasticus, a Greec Epigramatist, whose name is to an Octostichon in the Fourth Book of the Greec Epigrams. Another Come­tas, sirnamed Chartularius, hath his name to a Hexastichon in the same book if it were not the same person diff [...] ­rently sirnamed.

Corinnus, the first Composer in Verse (as some say) of that Trojan story, out of which Homer took his Iliads, and the Disciple of Palamedes, whence though the certain time when he liv'd be un­known, he is concluded to have been ancienter than Homer; yet Vossius seems to doubt whether there were ever any such person.

Corippus, a Grammarian, who living in the time of Justinus junior, wrote in praise of that Emperor in Heroic Verse; for which he is branded with a very ill character, by Nicolaus Alemanuus, in his Preface to Procopius. Contempora­ry with whom liv'd Stephanus an Af­frican Presbyter, who wrote the life of St. German, as it is thought, in Verse; and that at the desire of St. Anacharius, Bishop of Altisiodorum.

[Page 55] Cornelius Licinius Gallus, the same most probably with Cneus Cornelius Gallus.

Cornelius Longinus, an ancient Epi­grammatist, of whom there is preserv'd an Octostichon in the Sixth book of the Greec Anthologia or collection of Epigrams.

Cornelius Nepos, a Contemporary of Cicero, most noted for his Lives, but for his putting Dares Phrygius his History of the Trojan war into Latin Verse, not to be here omitted.

Cornelius Severus, see Publius Ovidius.

Cornificius, an old Latin Poet, whose Book de natura Deorum, and of Hymns, are mention'd by Macrobius.

Corvinus Clemens, an antient Poet, whom Cuspinian in his Book de Consu­libus, affirms to have set forth in Verse the Acts of Alexander the Great.

Co [...]mas, see Joannes Damascenus.

Cr [...]tor Solensis, see Philetas Cou [...].

Crates, a Tragic Poet, whom some think to be the same with Cr [...]tes the Theban Cynic Phylosopher, besides whom Laertius reckons Nine more of the same name; the chief whereof were [Page 56] Crates the Comaedian; whom see in Cratinus, Crates Thriasius and Crates Mallotes, the two last whereof I question whether they were not to be accounted rather Critics than Poets.

Cratinus, an Athenian writer of Vetus Comaedia, who began to flourish in the Second year of the Eghty First Olympi­ad; he wrote 21 Comedies, in Nine whereof he was Victor, as is testified by Suidas; his Threiciae Horae, and others of his Comedies are mention'd by Pollux, Athenaeus and others. Contemporary with this Cratinus was Plato the Come­dian, who is affirmed by Suidas to have written Twenty Eight Comedies, of which his Adonis, Europa, Mammacythus, &c. are remembred by Pollux, Athenaeus, Harpocration and Hesychius. Secondly, Aristarchus of Tegea, a Tragic Poet, who of Seventy Tragedies was Victor only twice: He liv'd, as saith Suidas, above a hundred years. Thirdly, Bacchylides, a Lyric Poet of Ceus Simonides his Bro­thers son; he was in great esteem with the Emperour Julian, as saith Ammia­nus Marcellinus; he wrote Hymns which are remembred by Menander the Rheto­rician, [Page 57] and in the Pythian Games his Poems were prefer'd by Hiero before the Odes of Pindarus. Dionysius Pheraeus reckon'd by Plutarch, among the num­ber of Poets. And Lastly, Crates the Comedian, mention'd with commenda­tion by Aristotle in his Poetics; and A­ristophanes in his Equites, his [...] and others of his Come­dies, are mention'd by Pollux and Athe­naeus.

Creophylus, an ancient Greec poet, reckon'd by some, Contemporary with Homer.

Cresconius, an African Poet, whom some name Crescentius; he wrote in Verse the Wars of the Emperour Justi­nian in Africa.

Crinagoras, an old Epigrammatist, of whom there are found about 19 Epi­grams in the Greec Anthology.

Critias Callae [...]schrus, an Elegiac Poet mention'd by Athenaeus, and out of whom (if it be the same) Stobaeus quotes several Senarie Jambi [...]s.

C [...]riatius Maternus, a Tragic Poet, who liv'd in the time of the Emperour Titus Vespasian (who is deliver'd to have [Page 58] been himself no contemptible Poet, by Eutropius, Isidorus, Suidas, and Sueto­nius, by whom mention is made of Tra­gedies and other Poems of his in Greec) there are remembred of this Curiatius two Tragedies only, Medea and Thiestes; Contemporary with him were first Sal­l [...]ius Bassus, who was so well esteem'd by Vespasian, that he bestow'd on him Fifty Sesterces, he hath also from Fabius and Tacitus the Character of an excel­lent Poet. Secondly, Curtius Montanus, an Oratour, and by the testimony of Ta­citus, if not a Poet, yet at least a writer of Verses. Thirdly, Domitian the Bro­ther of Titus, and after him Emperour▪ a very considerable Poet, by the Testi­mony of Fabius, Martial, and Valerius Flaccus, and by Vossius affirm'd the Au­thour of the Translation of Aratus. Fourthly and Fifthly, Turnus and Scaeva Memor Brothers, the first a Satyric, the other a Tragic Poet, both mention'd by Martial in one of his Epigrams, by the Old Scholiast of Juvenal, and by Sido­nius Apollinaris. Fifthly and Sixthly, Canius and Passienus the first, a Gaditan, mention'd by Martial in two of his Epi­grams [Page 59] for his facetiousness, as also his wife Theophila being for learning com­par'd with Sappho for chastity prefer'd; the other an Elegiac and Lyric Poet of Vmbria, mention'd by Pliny in his Sixth Epistle to Romanus; he is said to have been the Grandchild or great Grand­child to Propertius. Seventhly, Ful­gentius Plan [...]iades, of whose writing Scaliger suspects the Tragedy Octavia to be, which is commonly ascrib'd to Se­neca. Eightly, Paccius who wrote Al­cithoe. Ninethly, Faustus, whose The­bae and Tereus are remembred by Juvenal in the beginning of his Seventh Satyr. Tenthly, Rubrenus Lappa, whose Atre­us is mention'd by the same Authour in the same Satyr, if the Exposition of Bri­tanni [...]us and Pulmannus will pass for Barton Holyday, in his Illustration of Ju­venal, judges Atreus to be not the Title of a Tragedie, but rather the name of a Usurer, to whom this Lappa pawn'd his Dishes and Cloak for want. 11ly. 12ly. 13ly. Mareus Vnicus, Ligurinus and Lu­stricus Brutianus, all mention'd by Mar­tial, and the last by Pliny also. 14ly. Theodorus a Jew, whose House and Po­ems [Page 60] appear by one of Martial's Epi­grams to have been burnt. 15. Licini­anus, Martial's Country-man, and so celebrated in one of his Epigrams. 16. Voconius Victor, celebrated also by the same Martial, l. 7. Epigr. 29. and re­membred by Pliny, in an Epistle to Pris­cus. 17. Votienus, not only imagin'd but concluded a Poet from Martial, l. 8. Epigr. 72. 18, and 19. Sabellus and Musaeus (not the Authour of Hero and Leander, he writing in Greec, though later and this in Latin) both obscene Poets, and the first remembred by Mar­tial, l. 12. Epigr. 43. besides Aruntins Stella, Codrus, and Apollinaris above mention'd.

Cyllenus Petianus, an old Epigrama­tist, of whom two Epigrams are pre­serv'd in the first Book of the Greec An­thology.

Cyliscus, a Tragic Poet, whom Pliny delivers to have been painted by Proto­genes, in a posture of meditating.

Cynaethus v. Cinaethus.

Cyrus, a Panopolitan Epigrammatist, in gre [...]t esteem with the Empress Eu­docia, wife of T [...]eodosius junior, in whose [Page 61] time he flourisht, and by whom he was advanc'd to be Bishop of Cotyacum in Phrygia; several of his Epigrams are ex­tant in the Fourth Book of the Greek Anthologia. Contemporary with him was Synaesius, Bishop of Ptolemais; who besides other Poems, wrote Ten Hymns which are yet extant. And also Non­nus likewise of Panopolis, the Authour of a well known Greek Poem, Entitled Dionysiaca in 48 Books, and whose Pa­raphrase upon St. John's Gospel in He­roic Greek verse, is of sufficient esteem among the learned.

Cyrus Theodorus Prodromus, a Divine Epigrammatist, who living in or some­what near the time of the antient Fa­thers, wrote in Greek Verse, partly in Iambic, partly in Heroic Tetrastics, the summary heads of the Pentateuch, or Five Books of Moses, and also of Joshua, Judges and Kings; and in the New Testament, of the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles; also Iambic and Heroic Tetrasticks upon the Three Great Hie­rarchs, St. Gregory, Basil and Chrysostome, with some other things: his Works were Printed at Basil by Bebelius. An. 1536.

D

DAmasus a Spaniard, who liv'd in the time of Valentinianus, Grati­anus, Valentinianus junior, and Theodosi­us Magnus, and was Bishop of Rome; he hath left several Poems and Hymns which are sung in the Church of Rome, and is laureated a Poet by Suidas.

Damochares, a Grammarian, and Wri­ter of Epigrams, whereof some are to be found in the Greec Anthologie.

Damocrates, a Poet of an uncertain time, who wrote in Verse several me­dicinal passages extracted out of Galens works.

Dam [...]xenus, an Athaenian Comedian, whose Syntrophi and Heauton Penthon, are quoted by Athenaeus, he is also men­tion'd by Suidas, see Cleanthes.

Daphitas, a Poet and Grammarian, who for certain bitter Invectives against Monarchy, was crucified upon Thorax, a mountain of Magnesia.

David, The 2d. King of Israel and Ju­dah, commonly celebrated with the threefold Title of King, Priest, and Pro­phet; [Page 63] to which may be added also that of Poet, if under the name of Vates Pro­phet and Poet were not included toge­ther. His Divine gift in Poetry ap­pears in the composition of those most Coelestial Hymns or Psalms, which take place among those Sacred Books which make up the Old Testament, of which is generally reputed the intire Authour, but was certainly the Authour of most if not all of them.

Decius Junius Juvenalis, see Junius.

Decius Laberius, a Mimic Writer, who began to flourish in the Third year of 181st. Olympiad, and was Contem­porary with Cicero (who though a much better Oratour than Poet, yet we have extant among his Works something al­so of his Poetry) his Aquae, Aries, Augur and very many more of his Mimes are reckoned up by Charisius; his Rector, Salinator & Scripturae are remembred by Agellius, much about the same time also flourisht 1. Lucius Cornelius Sylla, a famous though cruel and tyrannical Roman Commander; who as saith A­thenaeus wrote in his own tongue many facetious Satyrs and Mimes, with which [Page 64] according to Nieolaus Damafcenus he was much delighted: Plutarch in his life reiateth that he made Verses while he was besieging Athens. 2. Quintus Hortensius, who besides his Fame in Ora­tory, had so much of a Poet as to make a parcell of wanton Verses, which are remembred by Ovid in his Elegies, and by Agellius. 3. Marcus Valerius Cato, who wrote two Poems Lydia and Dia­na. 4. Marcus Furius Bibaculus, divers of whose Verses are cited by Macrobius and Agellius, among which there are some that appear to have been imitated even word for word by Virgil, he is said by Suetonius and Tacitus, to have writ­ten invective Verses against Julius Cae­sar. 5. Titus Pomponius Atticus, whose Excellence in Poetry is fully set fortth by Cornelius Nepos, in the Description of his Life. 6. Marcus Terentius Varro, who is styled Philosopher and Poet, by Hieronymus in his Chronicle; and out of whose Poems we have several frag­ments yet extant, especially of the Sa­tirae Mcnippeae, together with divers E­pigrams both in the Appendix of Virgil, collected by Scaliger, and in the Collection [Page 65] of Epigrams set forth by Petrus Pythaeus, but his Books de Re Rustica & lingua Latina are most lookt upon; be­sides him, there was another Varro, sir­named Atacinus, not much less ancient, who also wrote Poems, viz. Argonau­tics, and a Poem of the Sequanic War. 7. Quintus Cicero (Brother of Tullius) whose Verses of the Twelve Signs are yet extant in Pithaeus his Collection. 8. Albinus not Aulus Posthumius, though both indeed wrote the same subject, viz. the History of the Roman Affairs, but Aulus in Greek Prose, the other in La­tin Verse. 9. Caius Helvius Cinna, who wrote an obscure Poem, Entitled Smyr­na, which the Grammarian Crassitins undertook to interpret; besides which Isidorus hath a Tetrastic of his, upon the writing of Aratus his Poem in a leaf of Mallows. 10. Caius Licinius Calvus, of whom there is nothing remembred but his Epigram upon Cn. Pompeius. 11. Macer (not Aemilius Macer the Bota­nic Poet) of whose Poem Entitled Ilia­ca, see Scaliger upon Eusebius.

Decius Magnus Ansonius, a Physitian and Poet of Burgedala, who flonrisht in [Page 66] the time of the Emperour Valentinian the Elder, and his two Sons Gratianus and Valentinian the younger, by whom he was prefer'd to great honours, ha­ving been Praeceptor to the two young Princes, besides those Poetical works of his which are extant; he wrote Fasti, and some other things which are lost.

Demetrius, a Satyric Poet of Tarsus, of an uncertain time, besides whom there were three others of the same name; the one a Comedian, sirnamed Phalere­us (whether the Grammarian so sirna­med I find not) out of whose Fable En­titled Sicilia, Athenaeus cites 4 Verses, the other an Epic, the last an Iam­bic writer.

Demochares, a Solian, whose Fable Entitled Demetrius is remembred by Plutarch in his Life of Demetrius Polior­cetes.

Democritus and Demodocus, two an­tient Epigrammatists, whose Names are preserv [...]d by several Epigrams yet ex­tant in the Greek Anthologie.

Demolchus a Syracusian Comic Poet, who flourisht in the 73d. Olympiad, and taught Fourteen Fables in the Doric [Page 67] tongue; he was the Son of Epicharmus a Physitian.

Demonax, an old Greek Poet quoted by Stobaeus, in his Sermon de Super­bia.

Dexicrates, an Athenian, whose Fa­ble Entitled [...] is remembred by Athenaeus and Suidas.

Dicaeogenes, a Tragedian and Dithy­rambic Poet, remembred by Harpocra­tion, Suidas and Stobaeus.

Dinolochus, see Euripides.

Diocles, ibidem.

Diodorus, an old Greec Poet of Sinope, out of whom several Iambic verses, are quoted by Stobaeus, in his Sermon de contrahendis Nuptiis and else-where; some think him to be the same with Diodorus a Comic Poet of Syene, whose Tibi [...]ina, Panegyristae and Epiclerus, are cited by Athenaeus, and who is also men­tioned by Suidas.

Dionysiades, see Aeantides.

Dionysiodorns, a Trazenian, out of whom a Verse is cited by Plutarch, in the beginning of his Life of Aratus; he is also taken notice of by the Scholiast of Apollonius.

[Page 68] Dionysius, sirnamed Epaites, an Ele­giac write [...]r, out of whom Parthenius is said to have borrowed the 15th. Histo­ry of his Erotica. Of this name there are several others, not to be forgot. The first and most considerable for a Poet, was Dionysius of Alexandria, vulgarly sirnamed Afer, whose Periegesis or de­scription of the World in Greek Verse, ia now in great esteem among the learn­ed; there was also a Poem call'd [...], written either by this or ano­ther Dionysius; he is thonght by Vossius to have lived about the time of Tiberi­us or not long after. Dionysius Pherae­us, whom see in Cratinus; Dionysius Scy­tobrachion, whom see in Antipater, Dio­nysius, a Greec Hymnographer, but of what age or sirname is not found (if he be not one of those above mentioned) of whom there are some few Hymns now extant, with the Musical notes to them, lately set forth, with the Edition of Aratus, Printed at the Sheldonian Theater at Oxford. Dionysius the Si­cilian Tyrant, who is said to have writ­ten several Comedies and Tragedies, whereof his Adonis and Thesmophoros are [Page 69] cited by Athenaeus. In his time lived Antipho a Rhamnusian, both Tragic and Comic Poet, mention'd with praise by Aristotle in his Poetics, and one of the Ten Oratours, whose lives are written by Plutarch and Philostratus; some say he was put to death by the Thirty Ty­rants, others by Dionysius for deriding his Comedies. Also Sthenelus a Tra­gic Poet, remembred by Aristotle in his Poetics and Harpocration.

Dioscorides, an antient Greec Epi­gramatist, whose name is to very many Epigrams in the Greek Anthologie. As like wise

Diotimus. And also

Diotiuchus.

Dioxippus, an Athenian Comedian, of whose writing there are remembred these Comedies, viz. his Philargyrus, Diadicazomenus, Historiographus and Antipornobosci.

Diphilus, see Menander.

Domitius Marsus, see Publius Ovidius.

Dorcatius, a Latin Poet of an uncer­tain time, out of whom Isidorus, l. 8. Orig. l. 69. cites two Verses.

Doricus, otherwise Dorias, his Octo­stich [Page 70] upon Milo of Crotona, is cited by Athenaeus, l. 10.

Dorillus, a Tragic Poet, remembred by Suidas.

Dorotheus, a Sidonian Poet, who wrote Apotelesmata, which M. Manlius is said to have imitated; he is cited by Athe­naeus.

Dorus, a Greek Comic writer quoted by Stobaeus.

Dosiades, a Rhodian, mentioned by Lucianus and the Scholiast of Simmias; he wrote a Poem called Ara, which was a certain number of Verses in form of an Altar: but that Ara printed at the end of Theocritus is proved by Salmasius who set forth Simmias his Ovunt to have been neither written by Theocritus nor Dosiades.

Draco, the famously cruel Law-giver of the Athenians, he is said to have writ­ten precepts of life in 3000 Verses.

Dracontius, see Antigrammaratus.

Drepanius Florus, (doubtless not the same as Pacatus Drepanius, the Rhetori­cian) an eminent French Poet who liv'd in the time of Constantinus Pogonatus and Clodovaeus Secundus, King of France, [Page 71] his Psalms, Hymns and other divine Poems are extant in the Book called Bi­bliotheca Patrum.

Dromo, a Comic Poet, whose Psaltria is quoted by Athenaeus.

Dropides, see Epimenides.

Duris, an Epigrammatist of Elea, whose Epigram upon the deluge of E­phesus, is extant in the Florilegium of Planudes.

E

ECdorus, an old Greek Poet out of whom several Iambic Verses are quoted by Stobaeus in his Sermon de Ig­nobilitate.

Ecphantides, a Comic Poet, to whom one of the Chaerili (but which of them is uncertain) was amanuensis in the wri­ting of his Comedies, as is testified by Hesychius.

Egemon, see Hegemon.

Egnatius, a Deacon of Constantinople, who wrote in Verse the lives of two Patriarchs, Tarisius and Nicephorus; Iambics against Thomas Aucartes a grand Conspiratour against the State, with some other things.

[Page 72] Empedocles of Agrigentum, a writer of natural Philosophy in Heroic Verse, following therein Parmenides, whose Disciple he is said by some to have been, though by others the Disciple of Telau­ges the Son of Pythagoras, in the Colle­ction of Philosophical poesie, set out by H. Stephanus, are certain fragments both of him and of Parmenides the Dis­ciple of Xenophanes, besides which there is extant a small Astronomical Tractat Entitled Empedocles his Sphaera; he began to flourish in the 48th. Olympiad, as the Anonymus Authour and Laertius testifie. At the same time with Empe­docles flourisht Epicharmus a Sicilian al­so, and Physiological Poet, there being fragments of his among the rest in the above mentioned Collection; besides very many Fables of his which were in much request; many whereof are cited by Pollux and Athenaeus, Likewise at the same time (besides Simonides the Son of the Lyric, to whom Vossius scru­ples to allow a place among the Poets) Archelaus an Athenaean, some say a Mile­sian whom Giraldus will have to be a physiological Poet, though Vossius makes a Question.

[Page 73] Endeleichus, otherwise called Seve­rus Sanctus, a Rhetorician of an uncer­tain time, whose Eclogue about the death of Oxen, is extant in the Collecti­set forth by Pithaeus.

Ennodius, by Bernardus Saccus sirna­med Juvenalis, and by some called Euo­dius, of whose writing certain Hymns, Panegyrics, Epigrams, &c. are set forth by Andreas Schottus.

Ephippus, see Theopompus.

Ephraem, one that wrote the Histo­ry of the Constinople Emperours in Iam­bic Verse; he liv'd about the time of Michael Ducas.

Epicharneus, see Empedocles.

Epibycus, a Chian Poet of an uncer­tain time, taken notice of by Athenaeus and Suidas.

Epicrates, see Theopompus.

Epigenes, a Comic Poet, of whom four Comedies are cited by Athenae­us.

Epigonus, an Epigrammatist of Thes­salonica, whose name is to several Epi­grams in the Grece Anthologie.

Epilycus, an Athenian Comic Poet, whose Coraliscus and Phoraliscus are ci­ted by Athenaeus.

[Page 74] Epimenides, a Cretan, who is delive­red by Suidas, to have written in Verse Argonautics; also certain old heathen Rites called Expiationes, the Genealo­gie of the Gods, and of the Curetes, and Corybantes, & of the different nature of things, in 9500 Verses; he was also a famous Philosopher, & by Athenaeus ac­counted the Authour of the Telchinian History. He began to flourish about the 44th. Olympiad, and is by some reckoned among the Seven Wisemen in the place of Periander. About the same time with Epemenides flourisht 1st. Bias of Priene, one of those Seven, accoun­ted the Wise men of Greece, who is said by Laertius to have written the affairs of Jonia in Verse. 2 Solon, the great Lawgiver of Athens, whose life see in Plutarch and Laertius; he was very considerable in Poetry, and so was his Brother Dropides, though inferiour to him. 3 Chilo, another of the Seven, all that is remembred of him is an Elegy consisting of 200 Verses. 4 Thales of Miletus, another of the Seven, who is said to have written in verse concern­ing Meteors and other things in natural [Page 75] Philosophy. 5. Pittacus, Tyrant of Mitylene, whom see in Alcaeus. 6. Pe­riander, Tyrant of Corinth, another of the Seven, but of whose poetry I find little or nothing remembred. 7. Cher­sias of Orchomenus, who was a great ene­my to the Tyrant Periander; certain Verses of his are cited by Pansanias in his Boeotics. 8. Thespis a Tragic Poet, as saith Laertius, though Suidas saith an Actor only, and that he first brought in the use of Vizards, whereas some there be who affirm him to have been the first of Tragaedians, others, that Epigenes of Sicyon was before him: 9. Mimnermus a Colophonian, some say Smyrnaean, whom Pausanias in his Boeotics affirms to have described in Elegiac verse a fight between the Smyrnaeans and Lydians, under Gyges; he is also reckon'd among the Elegiacs by Censorinus; there are extant certain verses of his about the Climacterie year, in Opposition to So­lon's opinion.

Epinicus, a Comic Poet of an uncer­tain time, whose [...] is cited by Athenaeus.

Eratosthenes (the Son of Aglaus, some [Page 76] say Ambrosius) a Cyrenean, not only Philosopher, Astronomer and Geome­trician (whose Astrismes, Epistle to Ptolomy about the duplication of the Cube, and some other fragments have been lately publisht with Aratus from the Sheldonian Theater at Oxford) but (according to Suidas and Strabo) excellent Poet, contemporary with him (he living in the time of Philadelphus and his Successour) and succedent to him in the custody of Ptolomies Library was Apollonius of Rhodes, who was the Disciple of Callimachus, and whose Ar­gonauticks we have extant set forth with a learned Scholiast, whom Stepha­nus calls Tarrhaeus, another contempo­rary was Euphorion of Chalcis the Disci­ple of Lacydas, he was Library keeper to Antiochus Magnus, and wrote, as saith Suidas, several things in Heroic Verse; his Works, as saith Suetonius, were in very much esteem with Tiberius, as also those of Rhianus, another of the same age, who is the same with the above­mention'd Arrianus.

Ericus or Hericus, a Poet of Altissio­dorum or Auxerre, who liv'd in the [Page 77] time of the Emperour Charles the 3d. sirnamed Crassus; he wrote a Poem of the life of St. German which is yet ex­tant.

Eriphus, a Comic writer among the Greecs, Three of whose Fables are quo­ted by Athenaeus in his Dipnosophist. l. 14.

Erycius, the Author of several Epi­grams in the Greec Anthologie, and ci­ted by the Commentatour of Apollo­nius.

Ethelwolphus Bernicius, sirnamed Lu­pus an English Poet, who flourisht in the Year of our Lord 750. being in the Reign of the Emperour Constantinus Co­pronymus, Pipin King of France, and E­thelwolph of Northumberland; he wrote a Poem of the Original of St. Peters Church in the Western part of Northum­berland, which Poem he dedicated to Bishop Egbert.

Euages, a Greec Poet of an uncer­tain time, taken notice of by Diony­sius in his History of Music; he was a a person of little learning, being as some say bred up a shepherd, but very happy for his fancy and ingenuity.

[Page 78] Euangelus, a Comic Poet of an un­certain time, whose Fable [...] is cited by Suidas and Athenaeus.

Euanthes, an Epic Poet of an uncer­tain time, out of whom Athenaeus cites certain passages concerning [...] Glaucus An­thedonius and of Ariadne.

Evax, a King of Arabia, who is said to have wrote a Book of precious stones in Verse.

Eubulus Cittius, see Anaxandrides. Eudaemon, see Amphilochius.

Eudemus, a writer of several things in the art of Medicin in Greec verse, and therefore cited by Galen in his Second Book of Antidotes.

Eudoxus of Gnidus, see Carcinus.

Eueclus, the esteemed writer of cer­tain Verses called Cypria Carmina, by some attributed to Homer, before whom he is said to have been; he is quoted by Tatianus against the Gentiles by the name of Eumiclus, by Eusebius by the name of Euculus, and by Pansanias, by the name of Eucleon.

Euenus, an Elegiac Poet, who began to flourish in the first year of the Nine­ty first Olympiad, and was the Master [Page 79] of Philistus the Historian. There are extant of his certain Elegies cited by Stobaeus; Six Epigrams, Two upon Venus of Gnidus, and one upon Myro's Cow, and Three others, besides a Verse cited by Aristotle.

Eugenes, an Epigrammatist, whose name is preserv'd in the Greec Antho­logie.

Euhemerus see Menander.

Eumelus, a very ancient Greec Poet, contemporary as some think with He­siod.

Eumolpus, the ancientest of Greec Po­ets next to the ancient Orpheus, whose Disciple he is delivered by Suidas to have been, & the Son of Musaeus, and to have written 3000 verses, of which his Poem of the mysteries of Ceres chiefly consisted.

Euodus of Rhodes an Epic Poet in the time of Nero; but of his works which were in Latin Verse there was nothing extant in the time of Suidas. There is also the name of Euodus to some Epi­grams in the Greec Anthologie; Con­temporary with him was Labeo, who is delivered by the old Commentator [Page 80] upon Persius, who mention'd him in the first Satyr, to have translated into Latin verse, though with little acuteness or judgement Homers Iliads and Odysseus; also Antistius Sosianus who was banisht for the Libels which he made in verse a­gainst Nero.

Euphanes, an ancient Poet, out of whose Musae divers Sena [...]y Iambic ver­ses are cited by Athenaeus.

Euphantus of Olynthus, see Philetas.

Euphorion, a Poet of Chalcis remem­bred by several poetical Works, as his Elegies, his Hesiodus, his Mopsopia or [...], his Five Books of Oracles, his Epicedium upon Protogoras the Astrono­mer, &c. Certain verses out of Euphorion, but whether this of Chalcis, or another the Son of Aeschylus, is uncertain, for both are mention'd by Suidas, are quo­ted by Stobaeus.

Euphron, a Comic Poet of an uncer­tain time, whose Musae, Synephebi, The­ori and Aeschra are remembred by Athe­naeus, Suidas, and Stobaeus.

Euphronius, a Poet of an uncertain time who is delivered by Strabo to have written of Priapus in Greec verse.

[Page 81] Eupolis a Comic Poet, who flourisht with Aristophanes in the Eighty fifth Olympiad in the Fourth year whereof his [...] were acted, as is testified by the Scholiast of Aristophanes.

Euripides, the Prince and Coriphaeus of Greec Tragoedians, who was born in the Seventy fifth Olympiad (as La­ertius, Suidas and Emanuel Moscopulus testifie) the Son of Mnesarchus and Clito, the Nobility of whose birth Phi­lochorus vindicates against the common opinion of her being an Herb-Woman; he is said to have been worried to death by the dogs of King Archelaus (to whose Court he betook himself upon the dis­content of his Second Wife Chaerila's adultery with Ctephisophon) either by chance or set on by Lysimachus Master of the Kings dogs, by the instigation of two envious poets Aribeus a Macedo­nian, and Crateuas a Thessalonian, in the Seventy fith year of his age, leaving be­hind him 3 Sons Mnesarchus, Mnesilochus and Euripides; And having flourisht from the 77th. to the 92d. Olymp. e­qual with that other excellent Tragoe­dian Sophocles, who as Suidas and o­thers [Page 82] affirm, was born in the Seventy third, and is said to have written 33. Tragedies (and to have been Victor Twenty four times) of which 7 only are extant: as of Euripides his Ninety two Tragedies, Eighteen are extant. There was also another Sophocles, the Grand­child of the former, who is said to have written Fourty Tragedies, and to have been Seven times Victor; much about the same time with Euripides flourisht 1st. Panyasis a Heroic poet, the Uncle or Cosin German of Herodotus; he was one of those Six, as saith the Interpreter of Oppian, who were call'd by way of E­minence the Poets; the other Five be­ing Homerus, Eupolis, Hesiodus, Antima­chus and Nicander. 2d. Menalippides, a Lyric and Dithyrambic Writer, Sisters Son of another Menalippides, whom see in his proper place. 3d. Stesimbrotus, of whom, as also of Panyasis, Antimachus Clarius was a hearer. 4th. Hermippus, a one-ey'd Comedian who is delivered by Suidas to have written Fourty Fa­bles, several of which are remembred by Athenaeus and Pollux; he was an enemy to Pericles (against whom he wrote A­napaestics) [Page 83] and to his Wife Aspasia, who was not only a Mistress of Eloquence and general learning, but eminent also in Poetry. 5. Phrynichus, a writer of Vetus Comoedia, mentioned by Pansanias and Hephaestion; several Comedies of his are mention'd by Athenaeus, Pollux, Harpocration, Suidas, and the Scholiast of Aristophanes. 6, 7. Lycus or Lycis and Amipsias (the last already mention'd) two Insipid Poets derided by Aristopha­nes. 8, Theodectes, a kind of Tragoe­dian, since he is said to have written the Arguments and first Delineations to many of, if not all Euripides his Trage­dies. But there was another of the same name, whom see in Theopompus. 9. Ni­comachus a Tragoedian also much cele­brated for his Oedipus, and sometimes Victor over Sophocles and Euripides themselves, as Suidas testifies. 10. The­ognis, a Comoedian, who from his fri­gidity or faintness of style, was sirnamed [...], i. e. Snow he contended with Ni­comachus, and was vanquisht by him, together with Euripides. 11. Philocles Comedian, Aeschylus his sisters Son, he was derided for his deformity by Aristo­phanes [Page 84] in his Thesmophoriazusai, his Te­reus is mention'd by the Scholiast of A­ristophanes, and by Stobaeus; he had two Sons Morsimus and Philippides, of whom elsewhere. 12. Cephisodorus, an Athe­nian writer of Vetus Tragoedia, his An­tilais, Amazones, Trophonius and Sus are remembred by Suidas; there are be­sides two others of the same name, who were also Historians. 13. Socrates, the Philosopher, who by his Hymn to A­pollo, and his turning Aesops Fables into Verse (a little before his death) for which he is commended by Cebes in Pla­to, approv'd himself a Poet. 14. Diocles an Athenian writer of Vetus Comoedia, whose Melissae and Thalatta are both mention'd (the first with particular commendation) by Athenaeus and Pollux. 15. Sannyrio, or (as Giraldus calls him.) Samyrion a writer of Vetus Comoedia, mentioned by Athenaeus for his [...], by Suidas for his [...] & [...]. He was for his slenderness of voice, nick­nam'd Canabus by Strattis, 16 Philondes an Athenian Writer of old Comoedie re­membred by Athenaeus; he, having been formerly a Fuller, scapes not a jeer from [Page 85] phanes (no more than his son Nicocha­res) nevertheless his Cothurni is menti­oned with commendation by Athenaeus and Pollux. 17. Thearus, another Ob­ject of Aristophanes his laughter. 18. Strattis, a Comedian, of whose writing Cansabon upon Athenaeus reckons 23 Comedies, whereas Suidas mistakes him for a Tragoedian, which gave occasion to Giraldus to mention another Strattis; he was of a biting wit, like Aristophanes. 19. Dinolochus, a Comic Poet of Agri­gentum, who wrote Fourteen Fables in the Doric Dialect. 20. Philyllius, a­nother writer of old Comedy, remem­bred by Athenaeus and Pollux (as also a­nother of the same name of an uncertain time, who wrote a Poem of Cities in Iambic Verse, and of whom Suidas also and Stephanus take notice) besides Em­pedocles, Parmenides, Epicharmus, Eupo­lis, Euenus, Cratinus and several o­thers.

Euschemus, an ancient Comic writer, out of whose Empolis divers Senary Iambic Verses, are cited by Athenaeus in his 13th. Book.

Euthycles, a Poet of an uncertain [Page 86] time, who wrote two Poems [...], the first of which is men­tioned by Suidas.

Euthydemus, an Athenian of an un­certain time, who set forth some things of his own, under Hesiod's name.

Eutyches, a Comic writer, one of the most copious among the Greecs, of whose many Comedies, the names are to be found in Athenaeus, and Raphael Volater­ranus.

Ezechiel, a Jew, whose Tragedie of Moses, Entitled [...] is extant with a Latin Translation set forth by Fride­ricus Morellus.

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FAbius Dorsenus, or Dossennus an an­cient Latin Comic Poet, though of what time is not known; he is remem­bred by Horace. l. 1. Epist. by Pliny. l. 14. c. 13. and by Festus in the word Teme­tum.

Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, see Cu­riatius.

Facetus, a Latin Poet, who flourisht since the time of Charles the Great, but in what particular age is unknown to [Page 87] Giraldus, who makes mention of him.

Fannius, see Publius Ovidius.

Faustus, see Curiatius.

Ferius Hilpericus, see Paulus Dia­conus.

Flavius, see Claudius Claudianus.

Floretus, one of the uncertain ag'd Poets, mentioned by Giraldus; some have thought him to be the same with St. Bernard, Abbot of Claraeval.

Florus, a Latin Poet, who flourisht in the time of the Emperour Adrian; whether the same with that Florus men­tioned by Polianus among the Greec E­pigrammatists is uncertain, but there are besides Three others differenc'd by their Praenomina, viz. Caius Florus already mention'd, Julius and Paulus.

Fontianus, an ancient Latin Poet, whose description of the Roman Pro­vinces in verse, seems by an Epistle of Beatus Rhenanus to have been in the hands of Philippus Puchaimerus.

Fortunatus, an ancient Bishop of Poi­ctou, who liv'd in the time of Justinus junior, to whom he dedicated a Book of his Poems, and another to the Em­press Sophia.

[Page 88] Fulpertus, a Gallic Bishop, who flou­risht about the Year of our Lord 1010. among other things he wrote divers Hymns in honour of the B. Virgin.

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GAllienus, see Caecilius Cyprianus. Gallus Milo, see Theodulphus.

Gamphredus, one of the uncertain ag'd Poets, mention'd by Giraldus.

Gannius, a Latin Poet, who liv'd before the time of Charles the Great, but in what age is uncertain. Several of his verses are cited by Festus in the word Adoris.

Geminus, an ancient Epigrammatist, several of whose Epigrams are extant in the Greec Anthology.

Georgius Pisides, Dean of Constantino­ple, and Keeper of the Emperours pa­pers and Records, as Suidas and Nice­phorus testifie; he wrote a Poem of va­nity, and also of the six days work of Creation, a good part is yet extant, and of that which is lost, some fragments are cited by Suidas, Cedrenus and Nice­t [...]s, besides some other things of his wri­ting, [Page 89] mentioned by Suidas.

Gerbertus, a French-man, brought up in the Abby of Floriac, and for his great proficiency in the Mathematicks (for which he was by some accounted a Ma­gitian) and other learning prefer'd to be Bishop of Rhemes, afterwards Arch-Bishop of Ravenna, and lastly Pope of Rome, by the Title of Sylvester the Second. He is noted for an Ele­gant Writer of Latin Verse, from his Poem in Laudem Boethii, of which there is a fragment in the Parisian Collection, Entitled Epigrammata and Poematia ve­tera; also several verses of his are selected by Brietius.

Germanicus, see Aelius Saturninus.

Gildas, an ancient British Authour sirnamed Cambrius, to distinguish him from two others; for Joannes Baleus, in his Scriptores Anglici, names three, viz. Cambrius a Native of Cambria, or Wales; Albanius, and Badonicus; but Cambrius (the ancientest of the Three, for he flourisht in the Sixtieth year, from our Saviours Nativity, under the Reign of Arviragus King of Britain, according to Ponticus Virunnius) chiefly for Poe­try, [Page 90] his Cambreidos being remembred by the forementioned Baleus, besides E­grams and other Poems of various argu­ment; however Badonicus so call'd from Badonia or Bath, the place of his Nati­vity, Besides his Epistle of the Conquest of Brittain, is said to have written some things in Verse; and there are who think him to have been the Authour of the Comedy Aulularia or Querolus, vul­garly ascribed to Plautus, which Vossius thinks to have been written by neither of them, but by an unknown Au­thour.

Gitiadas, a Lacedaemonian, who ha­ving made the Statue of Pallas Chalci­oeca, compos'd a Hymn, which was to be sung yearly by the Lacedaemonians at the Anniversary of that Goddess; also se­veral Odes in the Doric Dialect.

Godebertus, a Presbyter, who flou­rishing in the Year 500. wrote in Heroic Verse Historical passages from the begin­ning to the birth of Christ.

Gordianus, one of the Caesars, or ra­ther the Father of him who was after­wards Emperour; he wrote, as saith Capitolinus, a Poem Entitled Antonini­as [Page 91] or the lives of the two Antoniues Pius and Marcus Emperours.

Gracchus, see Anser.

Gratius, se [...] Publius Ovidius.

Gregorius Nazianzenus, one of most eminent of the Greec Fathers, who be­sides his very many Volumes in Prose, wrote also several things in Verse, as his Poem in Hexameter, containing a Dialogue between Virginity and Mar­riage. The praise of the Macchabees, and of Maximus the Philosopher, with other things.

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HEcataeus, an Epigrammatist of Tha­sus, who makes one among the rest in the Greec Anthologie.

Hedylogus a Samian, or as some say Athenian Poet, of whose writing seve­ral Epigrams are cited by Athenaeus, he was the Son of Hedyle a Samian Po­etess.

Hedylus, a noted Epigrammatist, ci­ted by Athenaeus in several places, and it is probably the same Hedylus whose name is to several Epigrams in the Greec Anthologie

[Page 92] Hegemon, an Alexandrian Epic Poet, whose Description of the Battel of Leu­ctra is cited by Stephanus, and out of whose Dardanics (if it were the same Hegemon that wrote them) Aelian cites several passages: there was also another of the same name a Thasian sirnamed [...], i. e. a Lentil; he wrote a Poem Entitle Gigantomachia, a Comedie call'd Philinna, as also several Inscriptions and Impresa's in Verse: he is mention'd by Aristotle.

Hegesianax, or as some call him, Age­sianax, a writer of Mythologie in verse, as Hyginus testifies, certain of whose verses are cited by Plutarch in his dis­course of the apparition in the Moon.

Hegesilaus, a Comic Poet, whose Fa­bles are mentioned by Tatianus, in his Book against the Greecs.

Hegesinus, a famous Greec Poet, out of whom divers Verses are cited by Pau­sanias in his Baeotics.

Hegesippus, a Comic Poet of Taren­tum, whose Adelphi, Opsartica and Phi­leteri, are cited by Athenaeus; Suidas sirnames him Crobylus, and ascribes to him the Seventh Philippic Oration, com­monly [Page 93] ascrib'd to Demosthenes, as others do the Oration for Halonesus. There are also several Epigrams of his in the Greec Anthologie.

Hegias, a Poet of an uncertain time made mention of by Pausanias.

Heliodorus, a Medicinal Writer in Verse, out of whom several verses are cited by Galen, whether the same Heli­odorus, out of whose Poem de Spectaculis Italicis, Stobaeus cites several Verses in his Sermon de morbis, may be quae­ried.

Hemitheon, a Obscene Poet of Syba­ris, who liv'd in the time of Augustus; he is mention'd by Philo Lucian. Ovid. l. 11. de tristibus and Martial.

Heniochus, a writer of Media Comoe­dia, whose Fables are reckoned up by Suidas; he is also mentioned by Athe­naeus and Theophilus.

Heraclides, sirnamed Poeticus, to di­stinguish him from Heraclides Ponticus the Grammarian (who also is said to have written several Tragedies which go under the name of Thespis) a writer of Sentences and Precepts in Verse, be­sides whom there was also an Epigram­matist [Page 94] of the same name remembred by Laertius.

Heraclitus, a Lyric Poet, whose Po­em of the Twelve Gods is mention'd by Laertius. Of those of the same name, that famous Philosopher of Ephesus, is also reckon'd among the Poets, besides him of Halicarnassns; whom see in Calli­machus.

Hermesianax, an Elegiac Poet of Co­lephon, whose Poem of the Description of his own Country, is remembred by Pausanias, besides whom there was also another of the same name who wrote a Poem of the Persian Affairs.

Hermippus, see Euripides.

Hermocreon, the Authour of several Epigrams which are extant in the Greec Anthologie.

Hermodorus, or Hermeodorus another Epigrammatist of the same society.

Hermodotus, see Menander.

Herodes, an Iambic writer quoted by Stobaeus.

Herodicus, a Babylonian, of whose Verses against the Grammarians, divers are repeated by Athenaeus at the end of the Fifth Book of his Deipnosophists.

[Page 95] Hesiodus so nam'd, [...] from the chastity of his Poetry, an anci­ent Greec Poet sirnamed Ascraeus from Ascra, a Town in Baeotia, the place not of his birth (as hath been generally sup­pos'd) but of his Education according to Herodotus, Strabo, Stephanus and Va­lerius Probus; for he was born at Cuma in Aeolia; the Son of Dius and Pycimede; he is affirmed by Philostratus, Velleius Paterculus, and M. Varro contrary to the Opinion of Porphyrius and Solinus (the First of whom sets him 100. the other 130 years after) Contemporary with Homer, which opinion is confir­med by an Epigram of Dion, and the Discourse in the 5th. Book of Plutarch's Symposiaca, which makes out that Homer and He contended at the Exequies of Oelycus the Thessalian, and Amphida­mas of Chalcis: some say Stesichorus the Poet was his Son by Ctemene the Daughter of Physigaeus, others that Cte­mene was not his Wife, but deflowr'd by him, for which he was slain at Oenone by her Brothers Ampiphanes and Gane­tor; however it were, it is agreed by all, though differently related by Pausanias, [Page 96] Thucydides and Plutarch; his several Works are reckoned up in all Fourteen, as well extant as not extant, in a Cata­logue, which is inserted in Daniel Hein­sius his Edition of this Poet. his Ex­tant works are a Poem Entitled [...] (which containeth certain rules and precepts of husbandry) another call'd [...] or the Generation of the Gods, a third [...] or the shield of Hercules, Besides some fr [...]g­ments of another Poem which is not intirely extant, Entituled [...], but neither [...] nor [...] are judg'd by Scaliger to have been written by He­siod, but some other ancient poet, whose name is unknown

Hetruscus Messenius, an old Epigram­matist, whose name lives only in the Greek Anthologie.

Hiero Ferreus, an Athenian, whose Poems were extant in Plutarchs time, as he testifies in his Nicias.

Hilarius, a Bishop of Poriton, who flourisht in the time of Constantius the son of Constantine, he is celebrated by I­sidorus for the Hymns he wrote among which three that bear his name are yet [Page 97] extant; about the same time Marius Victorius taught Rhetoric at Rome, and was St. Jerome's Master in that Art; he wrote a Poem in Heroic verse concern­ing the Seven Maccabaean Brethren mar­tyr'd with their Mother by Antiochus Epiphanes. See more of him in Hiero­nymus de viris Illustribus.

Hilasius, a Poetical writer of an un­certain age, but not very ancient; of whose Verses upon Virgil and some o­ther subjects, some Remains are extant in Brietius, and the Parisian Collection, Entitled Epigrammata & Poematia Ve­tera: he is one of the Twelve, sirnamed the Grammatic or Scholastic Poets.

Hildephonsus, otherwise call'd Ille­phonsus or Alphonsus, a Bishop of Toledo who flourisht in the time of Heraclius and his children, as also of Pope Hono­rius (to whom are attributed Twelve Distichs concerning Christs ascention and the Apostles looking on; Extant in the Book call'd Bibliotheca Patrum) he wrote several Hymns, Epitaphs and Epigrams, and is thought to have been the first Institutour of the B. Virgins conception; he died Anno 667.

[Page 98] Hincmarus, sirnamed Senior, (to di­stinguish him from his Grand-child Hincmarus Bishop of Laudunum) an Arch-Bishop of Rhemes created in the Year of our Lord 845. whose Vein in Latin Po­etry what it was, appears by a fragment thereof collected by Jacobus Sirmon­dus.

Hipparchus, a Greec writer of Vetus Comedia, mention'd by Suidas, and whose Ilias Aegyptia, Thais and Anasozomenos (if it be the same Hipparchus as proba­bly it is) are quoted by Athenaeus; also four Senary Iambics are repeated by Sto­baeus in his Sermon pro Artibus out of his Zographus.

Hippicus the same with Ibycus.

Hipponax, see Xenophanes.

Hipposthenes, an Iambic Poet, quoted by Stobaeus.

Hippothoon, another whose Senary Iambics upon envie, are alleag'd by the same Authour, in his Sermon upon the same Subject.

Hippothoos, an old Greec Poet of lit­tle fame, but for the same Stobaeus, who sometimes quotes his verses.

Hipys, see Xenophanes.

[Page 99] Homerus, the Apposititious, rather then true name (which was Melesigenes) of the most renowned of Greec Heroic Po­ets, and as is most generally alleag'd, the ancientest of those of whose works we have any intirely extant, as we have his 2. Heroic Poems, Ilias and Odysseus, the first describing the Trojan War for the first nine years; the other, the wandring life of Vlisses after the taking of Troy; not to mention his Hymns, his Batra­chom yomachia and other small poems be­sides which he wrote many other things which are not extant. See Melesigenes.

Homerus junior, see Aeantides.

Homerus Sellius, a writer of Argu­ments in verse, upon the Comedies of Menander.

Hostilius, a Latin Poet who wrote the Roman Annales in Verse, out of whom one Verse is cited by Priscian in his sixth Book, there was also of the same name a Mimographer, remembred by Tertullian, in the 15th. Chapter of his Apologetics.

Hostius, a writer of the Istrian War in Latin verse; which work some im­pute to Hostilius probably upon a mi­stake [Page 100] of one for the other.

Hugobaldus, see Theodulphus.

Hyperochus, a Poet of Cuma, whose History of his own Country in Verse is remembred by Athenaeus and Pausa­nias.

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IBycus, a Poet of Rhegium of an un­certain age. See also in Xenopha­nes.

Idaeus, sirnamed Rhodius from his Country, the son of Issus an Epic Poet, who doubled all Homcrs works by inserting his own Verses line for line, yet keeping the sense; he also wrote the Affairs of Rhodes in 3000 verses, as Suidas te­stifies.

Joannes Babucalus, an Epigramma­tic Poet, whose Epigram upon the bur­ning of Beritus and several others, are extant in the Greec Florilegium.

Joannes Damascenus, a writer in the time of Leo Isaurus and Constantinus Copronyinus, who besides several things which he wrote in Prose which are yet extant, wrote also a Dramatic Poem o [...] [Page 101] Susanna remembred by Eustathius upon Dionysius Afer, but not now extant; a­bout the same time liv'd Cosmas of Je­rusalem sirnamed Hagiopolites, Bishop of Maiuma; he wrote Thirteen Hymns which translated into Latin are extant in the Bibliotheca Patrum heretofore mentioned.

Joannes Geometra, a Constantinopoli­tan Poet, whose Paradise or Garden of moral Tetrastich Epigrams, and his five Hymns upon th Blessed Virgin, were set forth by Federic Morellus at Paris, Ann. 1595.

Joannes Nantuillensis, an English-man who wrote a Poem called Archithemi­um, remembred by Giraldus.

Joannes Psellus, wrote in Greec verse upon the three antient Greec Fathers St. Chrysostome, St. Gregory, St. Basil, and also upon the seven last Synods.

Jon, a Tragic Poet of Chios, who wrote many Tragedies (some say 12. some 30. some more) he is mentioned by Athenaeus, and his Epigram of Phe­recides, cited by Laertius in the life of that Philosopher; he is by Aristophanes in his [...] sirnamed [...] or Early.

[Page 102] Jonicus, see Amphilochius.

Jophon, an ancient Greec Poet men­tioned by Suidas.

Isaacus, a Priest of Antioch, who liv'd in the year of our Lord 458. L [...]o being Emperour in the East, Majoranus in the West, he is said by Gennadius in his Book De viris Illustribus, to have wrote besides several things in Prose, the ruine of Antioch in Elegiac Verse. About the same time lived Petrus Edis­senus a Priest also, who according to the said Gennadius, wrote several Psalms, besides other things in Prose. In Zeno's Reign also flourisht Pelagius Patricius, who compos'd a Poem of the History of the life of Christ out of a Cento of of Homers Verses, which some (though without ground) have ascribed to the Empress Eudocia; moreover there were reckoned among the Poets of that time Pampr [...]pius of Panopolis and Marcinus of Neapolis, both the Disciples of Proclus according to Suidas, the first, if not both persisting to the last in Genti­lisme.

Isagoras, a Tragic Poet of Byzanti­um the Disciple of Chrestus, he flourisht [Page 103] in the time of the Emperour M. Anto­ninus sirnamed the Philosopher, and is remembred by Philostratus.

Isocrates, a Tragic Poet, whom Giral­dus thinks to have been the same with Isocrates the Oratour, though Suidas more probably judgeth him to have been another person the Disciple of the Ora­tour; he was of Appollonia, or as some say of Heraclea. His Son in Law Apha­reus was the Authour of Thirty seven Tragedies, as saith Plutarch, in the lives of the ten Rhetoricians.

Juba, a King of Manritania, in the time of the Emperour Augustus, who be­ing a lover of Learning in general, was also particularly addicted to Poetry; his verses upon Leontius the Argive, are cited by Athenaeus out of Amarantbus de Scaena.

Julianus, one of the Twelve uncer­tain ag'd Poets, of whom there are seve­ral Certamina or contests upon some one Subject in the like number of verses, to be seen in the Parisian Collection, Enti­tled Epigrammata & Poematia Vetera, & few in Brietius his Acute dicta Vet. Poet. Lat. The rest of the Twelve are Hila­rius [Page 104] already mentioned, Maximianus, Vitalis, Basilius, Asmenus, Vomanus, Eu­phorbus, Palladius, Asclepiadeus, Eusthe­nius, Pompeianus; though there are who think Julianus and some other of these Names to be but fictitious, and set to some of the Verses to fill up the number and make the Certamen the more pom­pous.

Julius Curiatius Maternus, a Latin Tragoedian, whose Medea, Thiestes and Cato are mentioned by Cornelius Tacitus in his Dialogue de Oratoribus. See Curiatius

Julius Diocles, an Epigrammatic Po­et, of whom yet there is nothing pre­served but an Epigram or two in the Greec Anthologie.

Julius Caesar, see Caius.

Julius Florus, see Florus,

Julius Montanus, see Publius Ovidius.

Julius Paulus, an antient Latin Po­et mentioned with particular commen­dation by Agellius; he flourisht in the time of the Emperours Adrian and An­toninus Pius.

Julius Pomponius Secundus, a Tragic Poet, mentioned by Quintilian, besides [Page 105] whom there was another Pomponius Se­cundus a Comic writer heretofore men­tioned.

Junius Juvenalis, a most elegant La­tin Satyrist (as appears by his Sixteen extant Satyrs) of Aquinum, a Town of the Volsci; he flourisht in the time of the Emperour Domitian.

Juvencus, see Rhemnius Fanni [...]

Juventius, an ancient Comic [...] but of an uncertain age, mentioned by Varro and Agellius.

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LAbeo, a Latin Poet, of whom Ful­gentius in his Mythologie makes mention.

Lactantius Firmianus, see Rhemnius.

Laelius (otherwise Laevius being pro­bably judged the same person) a Poet of an uncertain time, though sufficiently ancient; he wrote a Poem called Ero­topaegnia or amorous Sports; and if he were the same with Laevius, as is not to be doubted) another Entitled Centa [...]ri.

Lamprocles, a Dithyrambic writer, cited by Athenaeus.

[Page 106] Lamynthius, a Milesian [...] Elegiac Poet, whose Poem upon his Lyde, in various kind of Verse, is mentioned by Athenaeus.

Largus, a Latin Poet Contemporary with Ovid, who makes mention of him, with reference to something he wrote of Antenor.

Lasus Hermioneus, see Onomacritus.

Latronianus, a Spaniard, very much commended by St. Jerome for his excel­lent Genius in Poetry; he was put to death as the same Authour testifieth, at Triers, by Maximus the Emperour, up­on pretence of Haeresie, together with Priscilianus, who was his Colleague, Foe­licissimus and others.

Laureas Tullius, the Freed-man of Marcus Tullius; there are said be ex­tant of his composing several Greec E­pigrams; that upon the Fountains of Cicero's Accademy is cited by Pliny in his natural History.

Lentulus, a Mimic writer mention'd with commendation by Tertullian, and associated with Hostilius.

Leonides, see Peritus.

Leontius, a Tragic Poet of Argos, of an uncertain time but among the Anci [...]

[Page 107] Lesches, or Leschides a Lesbian, whose Poem Entitled Ilias parva is mention'd by Eusebius; out of this Poem Pinda­rus is observed by his own Interpreters to have borrow'd: contemprorary with him was Alemaeon, whom some think to be the same with Alcman the Lyric. Suidas mentions among the Poets one Leschides who fought under King Eu­menes.

Leuceas, an ancient Poet of Argos whom Pausanias testifies to have writ­ten of the manners and customes of Na­tions in Verse.

Leucon, a Comic Writer, whose Fable Phrateres is mentioned by Athenae [...]s.

Liberius and Belisarius, Two, but very indifferent Poets according to the account of Brietius, however mentioned for their Achrostichs upon Sedulius, and thought by Labbeus to have written in the Year of our Lord 462.

Licentius, an African Poet born at Hippo, see Claudius Claudianus.

Licinianus, see Curiatius Maternus.

Licinius Imbrex, see Publius Licinius Tegula.

Licymnius a Chian, remembred by [Page 108] Athenaeus, and by Parthenius in his E­rotics, styled Melopoios.

Lygurinus, see Curiatius Maternus.

Linus, a Poet and Philosopher so an­cient, that according to the Poetical My­thology; he is said to have been the Son of Apollo and Psammata the daugh­ter of Crotopus, King of the Argives, & to have taught Hercules Musick, Poetry, and other Arts, and to have been the inventour of Lyric Poesie. Of this Li­nus, or which is most probable, a young­er Linus a Theban, for such a one Sui­das mentions, Ten Verses are cited by Stobaeus, in his Sermon de prudentia, and a Distich, in his Sermon De Spe.

Livius Andronicus, a Roman Come­dian, who flourisht immediately after the first Punic War, being about the beginning of the 135th. Olympiad, he is said to have been the first Authour of Latin Fable or Comedie, the next after whom was Cnaeus Naeuius, who also wrote a History of the first Punie War, wherein he himself had been present.

Lucius Accius, see Accius, and also Statius Caecilius.

Lucius Affranius, a Latin Comic [Page 109] Poet, of whose writing there are quoted Fourteen Comedies his Aequales, Brun­dusini, Cinerarius, Consobrini, Dedi [...]o; Emancipatus, Materierae, Pantaleo, Pom­pa, Repudiatus, Sorores, Talio, Temerarius, Vopiscus.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a Corduban, both Philosopher and Poet, and Uncle of Lucan; there are several Tragedies which go under his name, whereof Me­dea, and some others are generally be­lieved not to be his, if the rest or part of the rest be.

Lucius Coelius Lactantius Firmianus, see Rhemnius.

Lucius Cornelius Sylla, see Sylla.

Lucius Domitius Nero, see Nere.

Lucius Julius Calidius, a Roman Po­et, made mention of by Cornelius Nepos in his life of Pomponius Atticus, as the next for elegancy after Lucretius and Catullus.

Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella, a Gaditan, who flourisht under the Ro­man Emperour Claudius, and wrote his Tenth Book de Re Rustica (which whole work is commonly put forth with Cato, Varro and other Latin Authours of that [Page 110] subject) inscribed Hortus in no unele­gant Verse, considering the nature of the Work.

Lucius Luscius, see Statius Coecilius.

Lucius Fenestella, an ancient writer reckoned in the number of Poets by some, though with little ground in the opinion of Vossius.

Lucius Paulus Passienus, see Curiatius Maternus.

Lucius Plotius, a favourite of C. Marius, whose Acts he celebrated in Verse.

Lucius Pomponius, perhaps the same with Pomponius Secundus.

Lucius Varius, see Publius Ovidius.

Lucullus, a Satyrist of Arunca, who is said to have writ 30 Books of Satyrs, and to have been the first of the Latins in that kind of Poetry.

Lyceon, an ancient Poet, but of an uncertain time, who according to Pau­sanias, wrote the Lycian Mysteries in Verse.

Lycon, a Jasensian, whose Poem up­on Pythagoras is cited by Athenaeus. See also in Alexis.

Lycophron, see Cleanthes.

[Page 111] Lycus or Lycis, see Euripides.

Lydius Cattus, a Poet of Ravenna, but of what age is uncertain, some Po­ems of his are said to have been Printed at Rome.

Lysimacbus, a Comedian of Boeotia, remembred by Lucian.

Lysippus, a Tragic Poet remembred by Athenaeus and Suidas for his Bacchae and Thyrsocomos.

Lysis, a Tarentin, both Philosopher and Poet; he was of the Sect of Pytha­goras, and had the education of that fa­mous Theban Captain Epaminondas; his also Laertius affirms those golden Verses to be, which go under the name of Pythagoras.

M

MAcedonius Hypatus, an Epigram­matist, of whom there are divers Epigrams to be found in the Greec An­thologie.

Machon, a Sicyonian, or as some say a Corint bian, remembred by Athenaeus.

Maecius, or Maecius, see Quintus.

Magnus, an Athenian writer of anti­qua [Page 112] Comoedia; he is remembred by Ari­stophanes in his Equites, and by Julius Pollux, Suidas, and Athenaeus, who quotes two of his Comedies which are haply those two of the Nine which he wrote in which Raphael Volaterranus men­tions him to have been Victor in the O­lympic Games.

Magnetius Rabanus Maurus, see The [...] ­dulphus

Majoranus Salentinus his Epitaphs upon Bessarion and Argyropolus are to be read in the Icones of Paulus Jovius. Manethos, a Mendesian or of Diospolis, testified by Suidas to have written cer­tain things of natural Philosophy and Astronomy in Verse.

Marcus Manilius, see Publius Ovi­dius.

Marachus, otherwise called Malachus an ancient Poet (but of an uncertain time) of Syracuse mentioned by Ari­stotle.

Marcellus, sirnamed Sidites from Si­da a City of Pamphylia; a Poet who flourisht in the time of the Emperour M. Antoninus, as Suidas testifies, and wrote the whole Art of Medicin in [Page 113] Heroic Verse in 42. Books, of which work we have extant a small remnant of his [...] or Book of the Medicinal use of Fishes. There is also mentiond flourishing in the time of Theodosius Senior, Marcellus, who is said to have writ in Verse de Medicina, and therefore haply by those that consider not the distance of time, may be mista­ken for the other.

Marcus Accius Plautus, see Statius Coecilius.

Marcus Accuticus, see Statius Coeci­lius.

Marcus Aemilius Scaurus, the Au­thour of a Tragedy Entitled Atreus, for which he was put to death by the Em­perour Tiberius.

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus a Corduban Poet, and the Nephew of Seneca, his Poem Entitled Pharfalia, wherein he is said to have been assisted by his Wife Polla Argentaria, is extant and in suffici­ent esteem.

Marcus Argentarius, an ancient Epi­grammatist, whose name is subscribed to divers Epigrams in the Greec Antho­logy.

[Page 114] Marcus Attilius, a Tragic writer stil'd by Cicero, Poeta durissimus; by Lici­nius Scriptor ferreus, he Translated into Latin Sophocles his Electra.

Marcus Aurelius Olympius Nemesia­nus, a Carthaginian, whose Cynege­tics or Poem of Hunting, together with 4. Eglogues of his, are mentioned by Flavius Vopiscus, beside a fragment of his which was by Sanazarius shewed to Giraldus; he lived in the time of the Emperour Carus, & had Eglogues writ­ten to him from Calphurnius Sicu­lus.

Marcus Bavius, a Poet mentioned by Virgil in his Eglogues.

Marcus a Benedictin Monk in the time of Justinus Thrax, who wrote in Verse Hexameter the life of St. Benedict, whose Disciple he was.

Marcus Foelix Ennodius, a Native of Arles, some say Milan; he flourisht un­der Theodoricus King of Italy (by whom he was made Bishop of Ticinum) and Anastasius the Emperour, to whom he was sent Embassadour, and died in the year of our Lord 521. He was ac­counted for those times a very Ingeni­ous [Page 115] Poet, and of his Poetry some small fragments are to be seen in Brietius his Acute Dicta.

Marcus Furius Bibaculus, one of the Catalogue of Suetonius his famous Grammarians, but placed by Crinitus and Giraldus among the Poets.

Marcus Marullus, a Mimic writer in the time of the Emperour M. Antonius, he is mentioned by Capitolinus.

Marcus, a Bishop of Hydruns, who wrote an Acrostic Hymn upon the Sab­bath, the Latin Version whereof is ex­tant in the Bihliotheca Patrum.

Marcus Junior, alias Pompeius, an an­tient Epigrammatist, of whom there is extant an Hexastich, in the first Book of the Greec Anthologie.

Marcus Pacuvius, see Statius Coeci­lius.

Marcus Popilius, see Publius Teren­tius.

Marcus Terentius Varro, a no less learned than elegant ancient Latin wri­ter, famously known by his Books, de Re Rustica, which are publisht together with Cato and the other ancient Wri­ters of that Subject, besides which and [Page 116] his Book de Lingua Latina, and also his Satyrae Minippeae, he wrote also several other works in Prose which are lost, and something in Verse, whereof some small fragments are seen in the Parisian Col­lection Entitled Epigrammata & Poema­tia Vetera, & Brietius his Acute Dicta. He is highly extoll'd by Cicero in his Tuscu­lan Questions, also by Terentianus Mau­rus, Lactantius Firmianus, and Dionysius Halicarnassaeus. See also Decius Laberius.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, the most elo­quent of Latin Oratours, and more­over the Authour of several Poetical works, as his three Books of his Consul­ship in Heroic Verse; his Poem or [...] to Coesar, besides his Translation of Ara­tus his Phaenomena, and Diosemeia into Latin Verse.

Marcus Valerius Martialis, see Statius.

Marcus Valerius Phocas, an Illustrious Grammarian, as Aulus Gellius stiles him, of Berytus in Phoenicia, who from a Cen­turions Office in the Roman service be­took himself to Letters, as Suetonius te­stifies, from whom and from Eusebius his Chronicle he appears to have flou­risht in the time of Nero. Of his life [Page 117] of Virgil, which he wrote in Latin Verse, some fragments are extant in the above mentioned Parisian Collection, and in Brietius.

Marcus Vnicus, see Curiatius Ma­ternus.

Marianus, see Christodorus.

Marinus, a Neapolitan Philosopher, and Rhetorician, the Disciple and suc­cessour of Proclus, whose life he wrote in Verse.

Marius, see Publius Ovidius.

Marius Victorinus, see Hilarius.

Marsus, an old Latin Poet, cited by Pliny in his 33d. and 34th. Book of his natural History.

Martianus Mineus Foelix Capella, an African, who is judged by Schaenerus and others to have liv [...]d about the time of the Emperour Mauritius; he wrote (besides his Book of the Nuptials of Mercury and the Arts, which is extant) Satyrica, a work mixt of Prose and Verse together; he is mentioned by Severi­nus Boethius, and divers learned men of the Moderns.

Matro, one of the uncertain ag'd Po­ets; a little Poem of whose not altoge­ther [Page 118] unelegant, is to be seen in Athe­naeus.

Maximianus, a Roman Emperour, some of whose Poetry is cited in the fragments of the Gregorian Codex.

Melanopus, an ancient Poet of Cuma remembred by Pausanias in his Eliaca.

Melanthius and Melitus, see Oenoma­us,

Meleager, a Gadaren, whose Charites is cited by Athenaeus, whether the same with that Meleager, of whom there are several Epigrams in Planudes his Flori­legium, is uncertain.

Melesigenes, that most renowned of Greec Heroic Poets, commonly known by the name of Homerus from his blind­ness; not that he was born blind, but fell blind by an accident while he resi­ded at Smyrna, in the Dialect of which Country at that time blind people were stiled [...], or else [...] i. e. to follow, because when the strangers were warned out of that City, he fol­lowed among the rest. He was called Melesigenes, as born upon the banks of the River Meles of Critheis (the daugh­ter of Menalopus) who is generally a­greed [Page 119] on to have been his mother; but who his father was, is more controver­ted; since Critheis is said to have been charg'd by her Guardian Cleo [...]tax of not coming fairly by her great belly: but this imputation of his spurious birth is remov'd by those that affirm Critheis married to Maeon, from whom (whe­ther he were her fathers brother, to whose charge she was committed, as saith Aristotle, or a King of Lydia, to whom she was presented by Pyrates, as saith Plutarch,) he was called Maeonides; he flourisht as Suidas testifies before the first Olympiad 57 years, but as Porphy­rius 130. Cicero in his Tusculan questi­ons will have him contemporary with Lyeurgus; besides his two grand Poems Iias and Odysseus, and other works al­ready mentioned. Very many of his Verses upon several accidents and occa­sions are to be found in Herodotus his life of this famous Poet,

Menalippides, a Dithyrambic Poet of Melos, the Son of Crito, he flourisht as saith Suidas about the 65th. Olympiad, and wrote several things in Heroic verse besides Elegies and Epigrams, he is by [Page 120] some confounded with another Mena­lippides, a Milesian, of whom already in Euripides.

Me [...]ander an Athenian, the Son of Diopithes, and Disciple of Theophrastus, he was the Prince and first Author of Nova Comoedia, and is said to have written 108 Fables, and in 8 of them to have been Victor; very many of his Comedies are remembred by Athenaeus, Pollux, Pliny, Stobaeus, Sidonius A­pol [...]inaris, and others; he began to flou­rish about the 114th Olymyiad, Ptolo­maeus Lagides then reigning. Of those 27 Comedies of his, said by Michael Neander, to have been extant in some Library at Constantinople, I find no cer­tain proof; contemporary with him, and a Writer also as some say, of Nova Comoedia, was Phileman the Son of Damon; he is said, in contest with Menander, to have had several times the better; his [...] is thought to have been imitated by Plautus in his Mercator. Some other Comedies of his are also mention'd by Athenaeus and Pollux: He wrote also [...], but probably not in Verse. Stobaeus also [Page 211] quotes divers Senary Iambics out of Philemon, but 'tis uncertain whether this Philemon or his Son of the same name, of whose writing Suidas saith there were 54 Fables. Of the same time also was 2. Euhemerus, who wrote (but whether in Verse is doubted) a History of the Ethnic Gods which En­nius translated; he is reckoned among the Elegiacs by Censorinus. 3. Simmias the Rhodian, who besides his Ovum al­ready mentioned, wrote a little Poem Entitled [...] or the hatchet. 3. Po­sidippus Cassandrius, the Son of Cyniscus, who succeeded Menander in Nova Comoe­dia; his Fables as saith Suidas, were Thirty, among which was his Pomobos­cus. Some fragments of him are to be found in the common Edition of the Poetae Minores; there was besides him another of the same name an Epigram­matist. 4. Diphilus of Sinope, out of whose Synapothnescontes Plautus is thought to have borrowed. Of 100. Comedies he is said to have written 33. are named by Athenaeus; he is also quo­ted by Pollux, Stobaeus and Clemens A­lexandrinus, by whom as also by Eusebi­us, [Page 122] he is called [...]. 5. Rhinton of Tarentum a Potters Son, who wrote Thirty eight Tragi-Comedies, whereof his [...] was one. 6. Sophilus a Co­mic Poet, some say of Sicyon, some of Thebes, out of his [...] an Iambic verse is cited by Laertius in Stilpo. 7. Stepha­nus the Son of Alexis, who is said to have been the Uncle of Menander; he was a writer of Media Comoedia. 8. Ze­nodotus the Disciple of Philetas, whom he succeeded in the tuition of Lagides his Sons. 9. Theocritus of Syracuse the Son of Protagoras aud Philine, whose 33 Idyls or Bucolic Elogues, with seve­ral Greec Epigrams and the Altar (if that be his) are handsomely set forth by Stephanus, with the ancient Scho­liasts. 10. Antagoras of Rhodes, who was in great favour with King Antigo­nus, as appears from Pausanias, Plutarch, Athenaeus, he wrote a Poem Entitled Thebais, but there is nothing of his ex­tant, saving one Epigram and a few Verses cited by Diogenes Laertius. 11. Hermodotus, another favourite of Antigonus, as appears from Plutarch in [Page 123] his Apophthegms, and his Book of Isis & Osiris. 12. Anaxippus, a writer of Media Comoedia, whose Citharaedus and other Comedies are cited by Athenaeus. Of the above named Philemon the Elder, Theophrastus was a familiar acquaintance, who, as Laertius saith, wrote a discourse of Comedy, but whether he compos'd any thing in verse is doubted.

Menecrates, a Comic Poet of Syra­cuse, whose Manestor and Hermoncus are cited by Athenaeus, Suidas and Volater­ranus.

Menelaus, a Heroic Poet of Aegos whose Thebais is mentioned by Suidas and Volaterranus.

Menippus, a Comic writer, whose Cercopes and other things are cited by Athenaeus and Volaterranus.

Merboldus, otherwise called Marbo­daeus, a writer of Gems and precious stones in Hexameter Verse, who comes near the Verge of the Moderns; for he flourisht about the year 1050.

Meroboudes, a learned Spaniard sirna­med Scholasticus, of whose not unele­gant Verses de Christo some fragments are to be seen in Brietius and other Col­lections, [Page 124] according to Labbous his Chro­nology, he flourisht about the Year 400.

Meropius Pontius Paulinus, see Ponti­us Paulinus in Claudius Claudianus.

Mesomedes, a Lyric Poet of Crete, who living in the time of Adrian cele­brated his Minion Antinous,

Metagenes, an Athenian Comic Poet, whose [...] is cited by Athenaeus and Suidas.

Methodius, a Christian Greec Poet, Bishop of Tyre, who suffer'd martyrdom under the Emperours Decins & Valerius.

Metrodorus, an old Epigrammatist, whose Decastich upon human life, and others are extant in the Greec Florile­gium.

Michael, sirnamed Grammaticus, an Epigrammatist, of whom there is ex­tant a Hexastich in the Fourth Book of the Greec Anthologie.

Milesius see Eudemon.

Mimnermus, see Epimenides.

Mirteus, an old Epigrammatist, of whom divers Epigrams are to be found in Paulus Jovius his Icones.

Mnasalees, a Sicyonian, certain of [Page 125] whose Epigrams are to be found in A­thenaeus.

Mnesarchius, an old Epigrammatist, of whom there is extant a Tetrastich in the Greec Anthology.

Mnesimachus, see Anaxandrides.

Monius, an old Jambic Poet, and one of the Dipnosophists in Athenaeus.

Morsimus, see Antilochus.

Morychus, see Aristophanes.

M [...]schion, another Iambic Poet, quo­ted by Stobaeus in several places.

Moschus, a Sicilian contemporary with Aristarchus and Cratinus; he wrote Bucolics, whereof some few are extant and printed for the most part to­gether with Theocritus.

Moses, the first great Prophet and Law-giver among the Jews, and whose Divine gift in Poetry appears not only in those Hymns or Songs he made upon the children of Israels deliverance from the Aegyptian Pharao and others of their enemies, but also the Book of Job, which is no other than a kind of Tragic Poem, (and so many learned men judge) is supposed to be his.

[Page 126] Musaeus, some very ancient Writer, whosoever he was, whose name hath been ever illustrious among the Greecs and Latins both, for his antiquity and eminence in Poetry, if at least there were not more of the same name, as there are reckon'd Four; namely, First, Musae­us, the Son of Thamyras, a Theban; he is said to have been a Melic Poet, and to have wrote Hymns and Odes. Se­condly, Musaeus, the Son of Eumolpus an Athenian, who wrote in Greek verse the Generation of the gods. Thirdly, Musaeus of Eleusis, the Son of Antipho­nus, and Disciple of Orpheus, who is said to have wrote Precepts of the life in 400. Verses to his son Eumolpus. Fourth­ly and Lastly, Musaeus an Ephesian Poet, who was living in the time of Eumenes & Attalus, King of Pergamus; now which of these was that grand Musaeus spoken of by Virgil, is hard to determin; but probable it is, that it was the ancientest of them (if there be more then one) and the same with Moses the Jewish Law-giver, of whom the Greecs, having but an ob­scure tradition, might possibly frame an Original according their Poetical fancy, [Page 127] and possibly divided into two or three; and this seems the more probable from the agreement of the name, for Moses at this day is pronounced by the Greecs [...]; however it were, the little Greec Poem Entitled Hero and Lean­der, which goes under the name of Musae­us, & is by some particularly ascribed to Musaeus the Son of Eumolpus, is doutless the work of some much more modern Author (as Vossius and other learned men judge) whether Musaeus the Gramma­rian or some other that takes that name. See Curiatius Maternus.

Myrtilus, see Philetas.

N

NAevius, an old Latin Comic Poet, who also wrote Epigrams, and a Tragedy Entitled Hesione, which to­gether with his Comedies Ariolus and Leome are mention'd by Aulus Gellius, some things also of his writings, are cited by Fulgentius in his Mythologie.

Naucrates, see Theopompus.

Nausicrates, a Comic Poet, whose [Page 128] Nauclerus and Persis are mentioned by Athenaeus and Suidas.

Naumachius, a Christian Poet, of what time is uncertain; he is remembred by Giraldus and Erasmus, and several Ver­ses of his are cited with high commen­dation by Arsenius Bishop of Monembu­sia, and in divers places of Stobaeus,

Nausicrates, a Comic Poet of an un­certain time, the Authour of Persis and Now [...], mentioned by Suidas and se­veral times by Athenaeus.

Neophon or Neophron, see Alexis.

Neop [...]olemus, a Epigrammatist, quo­ted by Stoboeus in his Book De Laude Martis.

Nero, the Fifth Roman Emperour from Julius Caesar, whose vein in Poe­try is not altogether past by in silence by learned men, and whose glory it was no less to be accounted an excellent Tragic writer, then it was his delight to be an Actour of the most Tragical and funest deeds.

Nestor Larendensis, the Authour of a Poem Entitled [...], he liv'd in the time of the Emperour Alexander severus.

[Page 129] Nicander, a Colophonian (some say Aetolian) of whom two Poems, his Theriaca and Alexipharmica are yet ex­tant; he flourisht (as saith an Anony­mous Writer of his life) in the time of Attalus the last King of Pergamus▪ and wrote several other things which are lost, among which was his [...] a Poem of the same nature as Ovid's Me­tamorphoses. Contemporary with him was Sositheus, a Syracusian, some say, A­thenian, others, Alexandrine Tragic Po­et, and one of the Pleiadcs heretofore mentioned.

Nicarchus, a Greec Epigrammatist, of whom there are several Epigrams to be found in Planudes his Florileginm.

Nicenaetus, an ancient, but uncertain ag'd Epic Poet of Samos (some say Ab­dera) remembred by Athenaeus, Parthe­nius, and of the Moderns, Lilius Giral­dus; he also wrote divers Epigrams, whereof 2. Testratichs are to be found in the Greec Anthology.

Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopulus, a Constantinopolitan writer of Greec Epi­grams consisting of loose Senarie Iam­bics, that is loose in quantity though not in measure.

[Page 130] Niceratus, an Epigrammatist, whose name is preserv'd in the Greec Antho­logy.

Nicias, another Epigrammatist, of whom only five Epigrams are extant in the Greec Anthology.

Nicodemus, an Epigrammatic Poet of Heraclea, of whom there is extant an Antistroph of 14 Verses in the sixth Book of the Greec Anthology.

Nicolaus Damascenus, a very learned man who living in the time of Augustus Caesar, was highly honoured and lov'd by that Emperour (who was himself also adicted to Poetry, and a Composer of Greec Verses, as is testified by Sue­tonius, Pliny and Macrobius) he wrote several Comedies and Tragedies (as saith Suidas) of which his Tragedy of Susanna is remembred by Eustathius up­on Dionysius.

Nichomachus, see Euripides.

Nicostratus, see Theopompus.

Nonnus, see Cyrus Panopolitanus.

Nothippus, a Tragic Poet of an uncer­tain time, sirnamed [...] mentio­ned by Athenaeus.

[Page 131] Numa, see Quintus Horatius.

Numorianus, one of the Roman Em­perours, who by the Testimony of Fla­vius Vospiscus excelled all the Poets of his time; he is said to have contested with Nemesianus, and to have out gone Aurelius Apollinaris.

O

OCtavius, see Publius Ovidius.

Octavius Augustus, see Nicolaus Damaseenus.

Octavius Ruffus, a learned Latin Po­et, of whose Verses there are many cited by Pliny, and also by Cuspinian in his Con­sules.

Oen [...]maus, otherwise called Diogenes, an Athenian Tragic Poet, who wrote Eight Tragedies which are mention'd by Suidas and Athenaeus. Contempo­rary with him were Melitus, an Oratour and Tragic Poet, though none of the best, one of the accusers of Socrates. 2. Melanthius, an Elegiac Poet, mentioned by Athenaeus, and out of whom Plutarch cites a Distich in his Cymon. There was also of the same name a Tragic Po­et, [Page 132] if it were not the same as some think. 3. Timotheus a Milesian, who wrote Eighteen Dithyrambics, Twenty one Hymns, Thirty six Preludes, Eight De­scriptions, besides several Dramatic sto­ries, and a Tragedy called the birth of Semele; how excellent he was in Mu­sic, and how great an improver of that science, may be seen in Suidas and Cle­mens Alexandrinus. 4. Philoxenus, of Cithera, by whom Dithyrambics are said by the Scholiast of Pindarus to have been first invented, though Herodotus thinks rather by Arion the Lesbian. 5. Telestes of Selinus a Comic and Di­thyrambic Poet, whose Dithyrambs are said to have been sent by Harpalus to Alexander the Great; also Suidas mentions out of Athenaeus two Come­dies of his, Argo and Aesculapius. 6. Po­lyeidus a person celebrated by Diodo­rus: Siculus, as well for Music and Pain­ting as for Poetry.

Olen, a writer of Hymns, mentio­ned by Pausanias in his Attica and Corin­thiaca.

Olympius a Lydian, both Musitian and Elegiac Poet, mentioned by Suidas [Page 133] to have flourisht before the time of the Trojan War.

Onestas, sirnamed Corinthius, hath his name in Planudes to several Epi­grams there collected.

Onomacritus an Athenian, who liv'd about the time of the Tyrant Pisistra­tus, and is judged by many to have been the Authour of those Argonautics and other Poems which go under the name of Orpheus (who lived before the Tro­jan War, and of whom nothing is ex­tant, nor any thing remembred but his [...] & [...] mentioned by Philostratus) he also wrote certain an­swers of Oracles in Verse which were ascribed to the Old Musaeus, About the same time lived Lasus Hermioneus, the Son of Chabrinus, whose Ode inscri­bed Centaurus is mention'd by Athenaeus; he hath been reckoned by some in the number of the Seven sirnamed Wise, in the place of Periander, and his great ad­diction to Music is particularly taken notice of by Theo of Smyrna; he is also said to have been the first that contend­ed in Dithyrambic Poetry.

[Page 134] Ophelion, a Comic Poet, metioned by Athenaeus and Suidas.

Opilius Macrinus, one of the Roman Emperours, whom Julius Capitolinus reporteth to have made Epigrams and several other Verses.

Oppianus a Cilician, who living in the time of the Emperours Severus and Caracalla, dedicated to the latter his [...] or Poem of Fishing, and his [...] or Poem of Hunting, both yet extant.

Oroebantius, an ancienter Greec Poet, as the Traezenians affirm, then Homer himself, whose Ilias Phrygia, for that is said to have been the Title of his Poem, was reserv'd to Aelian's time, as that Authour himself testifies.

Orentius, an ancient Bishop of Ara­gon, who lived in the time of Anastatius, and is reported by Sigebertus Gemblacen­sis to have turned the Commonitory into Hexameser Verse.

Orpheus, a Poet of Crotona, who flou­rishing in the time of Pisistratus the Ty­rant, wrote Argonautica a Poem de Gem­mis and Hymns, all which are extant; but Orpheus the great Thracian Poet and [Page 135] Musitian celebrated by Virgil, must needs have been of a far higher antiqui­ty (and some suppose him to have liv'd about the time of the Hebrew Judges) in so much that the Greecs probably ignorant of his true Original, thought good to find out for him a Poetical ex­traction, as the Poets had ever at hand some God or Goddess for any ancient Hero, as well in Arts as Arms, that wan­ted a mortal Father or Mother; and so Orpheus must be suppos'd to have been the Son of Apollo and Calliope, be­sides that in other respects he was the Subject of Poetical Fable; though ra­ther as a Musitian than Poet, for he is said, by the charming power of his Harp, to have tam'd the wildest beasts of the Forrest, and made the Woods and Rocks to follow him, and to have recover'd his Wife Euridice from the shades be­neath, had not her own folly caus'd her to be snatcht back again; for grief whereof abandoning the company of all women, he was, as the story goes, torn in pieces by the Thracian women that sacrific'd to Bacchus, amidst their raving O [...]gies. Certain Verses out of Orpheus [Page 136] are quoted by Stobaeus and other anci­ent Authours; but whether of this Son of Apollo may be questioned; for as there are mentioned several Musoeus's, so Suidas reckons up divers Orpheus's.

Osidius, or Hosidius Geta, an ancient Roman Poet, but of uncertain time, who as is testified by Tertullian, out of a Cento of Virgils Verses, compos'd a Tragedy of Medea.

P

PAccius, see Curiatius Maternus.

Pacuvius, see Statins Caecilius.

Palaephatus an Athenian Poet, who by the Testimony of Suidas and Vola­terranus, wrote a Poem de Situ Orbis, another of the Contention between Minerva and Neptune, consisting of a Thousand Verses; a Colloquie between Venus and Cupid, consisting of 5000 Verses, Latona's hair, and some other things.

Palamedes, an Epic Poet of Argos, whose works Homer, for envy, is said to have supprest.

Palladas, an Epigrammatist, mentio­ned [Page 137] by Isaacius Tzetzes with commen­dation; several Epigrams of his are ex­tant in the Greec Anthology.

Palladius, sirnamed Grammati [...]us, an Epigrammatist, of whom there are se­veral Epigrams in Brietius, the Parisian, and other Collections; he is one of the Twelve Scholastici already mentioned. See Julianus.

Pamphilus, an Elegiac Poet mentio­ned by Giraldus.

Pamphus, an Athenian Poet, who wrote Hymns which were publickly sung by the Athenians, as is testified by Pausanias, l. 7.

Pamprepius, see Isaacus.

Pancrates, an Arcadian Poet, who wrote of Sea Affairs, out of whom some things are cited by Athenaeus.

Panolbius, an ancient Poet, who be­sides some other things, wrote an Epi­taph upon Hypatia the Daughter of E­rythraeus.

Panyasis, see Euripides.

Parmenides, Ibid.

Parmeno, a Byzantin Poet, cited by Athenaeus.

[Page 138] Parthenius Nicaeus, an Erotic or wri­ter of amorous Affairs in Verse; he was taken in the Mithridatic War, as is te­stified by Maerobius, and is thought to have been Virgils Master in the Greec tongue.

Patrocles, an Iambic Poet, out of whom certain Verses are cited by Sto­baeus; he may happily be the same with Patrocles Thurius, a Tragic Poet, men­tioned by Clemens Alexandrinus.

Paulinus, alias Pontius Paulinus, a Native of Burdegala, and Bishop of Nola, whom see in Claudus Claudianus.

Paulus Cyrus Florus, Silentiary of Constantinople in the time of the Empe­rour Justinian, whose Acts he wrote in Verse, as is testified by Cuspinian; also Paulus Silentiarius (whom some make to be a distinct person from Paulus Florus) his Description of the Temple of Con­stantinople in Verse, and other Poems, are mentioned with high commendation by Agathias, he hath also very many E­pigrams in the Greec Anthology.

Paulus Diaconus, an Aquileian, taken by Charles the Great, in the Lombard War, together with Desiderius; besides [Page 139] what he wrote of History which is ex­tant, and other things in Prose; he also wrote several Hymns, some where­of are sung at this day in the Roman Church. Contemporary with him were Ferius Hilpericus, who wrote in Verse the meeting of Charls with Leo, rather than Alcuin, to whom some have a­scribed that work, and also Petrus A­pollonius Collatius, who wrote the de­struction of Jerusalem in Heroic Verse.

Paulus Passienus, see Curiatius Ma­ternus.

Pedo Albinovanus, see Publius Ovi­dius.

Pelagius Patricius, see Isaacus.

Pentadius, an uncertain ag'd Poet, though not very ancient, of whom se­veral acute and pretty conceited Epi­grams are to be found in Pithaeus, and the Parisian Collection, as his Epigram of Fortune, Narcissus, the Tomb of He­ctor, Lupus the Statuary, the approach of the Spring, and several other things, and some fragments in Brietius his Acute Dicta.

Periander, see Epimenides.

[Page 140] Peritus, a lias Leonidas, an Epigram­matist, scarce remembred, but by what he hath in the Greec Anthology.

Perisaulus Faustinus, an uncertain ag'd Poet, whose Poem de Appetitu, Encomium Stulstitiae and other things are said to be extant at Rome.

Perses, the Brother of Hesiod, who wrote to him his [...]; he is reported to have written something in Epic Poetry. He was also an Epi­grammatist, if it were the same Perses who hath three Tetrastichs in the Greec Anthology.

Petreius, otherwise called Petridius, and the same, as 'tis thought, whom Pliny calls Petrius, mentioning his Poem Entitled Ophiaca [...] or Remedies a­gainst the biting of Serpents.

Petronius Arbiter, an Elegant writer in the time of Nero; he is call'd by Ta­citus alluding to his name Arbiter Elo­quentiae, his Satyrica mixt of Prose and Verse together, with several fragments, is yet extant, though very much maimed and defective in many places. Con­temporary with him was Silius Italicus a Spaniard, thrice advanc'd to the Con­sulship [Page 141] of Rome, and in great favour with the Emperour Domitian, [...] his Po­em of the Punic War, is yet extant.

Petrus Collatius Apollononius, a Pres­byter of Novara, whom Margaritus Bi­nius judges to have flourisht about the year of our Lord, 690. in the Reign of the Emperour Charles the Great; and with Binius, Brietius, inclines to a­gree against Barthius and Vossius, who would have him Contemporary with Angelus Politianus; his Latin Poem, in four Books, of the taking Jerusalem by Titus, was set forth by Gagnaeus a Pari­sian Theologist, and afterwards more correct by Hadrianus Vanderbruchius.

Petrus Edissenus, see Isaacus.

Phacellus, an Epigrammatic Poet, remembred but by one Tetrastich in the Greec Anthology.

Phoedimns, an ancient Elegiac Poet, of Bysanthe in Macedon, as Stephanus observes.

Phaennus, the Author of two Te­trastichs in the Greec Anthology.

Phanocles, the Authour of a Poem Entitled, The Rape of Ganimed, and another of the death of Orph [...]us, out [Page 142] of which certain Verses are cited by Stobaeus.

Phanias, an Epigrammatic Poet, re­membred but by one Octostich in the Greec Anthology.

Pherecrates, a Comic writer, Con­temporary with Aristophanes and Plato the Comedian. Nineteen Comedies of his are cited by Athenaeus, Eretianus and Pollux; he is also mentioned by Suidas and Stobaeus.

Pherenicus, an Epic Poet of Heraclea, whose writings are cited by Athenae­us.

Phidamus, an Epicurean Poet and writer of Lascivious Verses.

Philacus, an Epigrammatist cited by Athenaeus.

Phileas, an ancient Epigrammma­tist cited by Stobaeus in his Perigorica.

Philemon, see Menander.

Philetaetus, the Son of Aristophanes (the Comedian as 'tis thought) him­self also a Comic writer, of the Twenty Comedies which he is said to have writ­ten, his [...] and Seven more are quoted by Athenaeus, and others of them by Suidas.

[Page 143] Philetas, an Elegiac Poet and Fpi­grammatist of Cous, who flourisht in the time of Philip of Macedon and Alexan­der the Great; and had the Education of Ptolomaeus Philadelphus. He was ce­lebrated by Ovid and Propertius. Much about the same time flourisht Sosicles a Tragic Poet of Syracuse; he is said to have written Seventy three Trage­dies, and to have vanquisht seven times and hath been reckoned by some one of the Pleiades aforementioned; also Myr­tilus and Herniippus two writers of Ve­tus Comoedia, the first an Athenian, whose Tetanopanes and Amores, are cited by Suidas; the last of them see in Euripi­des; likewise Euphantus of Olynthus, whom besides the History of his own time, Laertius affirms to have written very many Tragedies, and to have been the Master of King Antigonus, and the Disciple of Eubulus. Lastly, Crantor of Soli, a hearer of Xenocrates; he is reported by Laertius who writes his life, to have written certain Poems which he left sealed up in the Temple of Minerva.

Philicus, see Aeantides.

[Page 144] Philippides, see Alexis.

Philippus, see Theopompus.

Philiscus, a Comic writer, whose Adonis, Birth of Jove, and other Come­dies are mentioned by Suidas. This was not that Philiscus the Thasian, who wrote of Bees. There was also a Tra­gic Poet of the same name, mentioned by Suidas to have written Fourty two Tragedies; who by some is other wise called Philistus.

Philistion, a Comic writer of Prusa, or some say of Sardis, among whose Comedies his [...] are chiefly remembred, his name was famous in Rome, he being taken notice of by Martial, Sidonius Apollinaris and Ammianus Marcellinus. He flou­risht towards the Ninty Second Olym­piad. viz. before the death of Euripides and Sophocles, and with him were Con­temporary Cherophon an Athenian Tra­gic Poet, familiarly acquainted with Socrates and Demosthenes, as Vlpian affirmeth; the only Tragedy of his re­membred is his Expedition of the He­raclidoe; also Chaeremon a Comedian, the Disciple of Socrates, as Giraldus affirm­eth; [Page 145] his Pentheus is remembred by A­ristotle; his Hippocentaurus, Vreus and Alphesibaea by Athenaeus, besides many more mentioned by Suidas; about the same time liv'd Theophilus a Comic Po­et and Physitian of Epidaurus; he is said to have written Euripides his E­pitaph which some ascribe to Thucydi­des; his Pancratiasta is cited by Athe­naeus, besides other Comedies of his, mentioned by Suidas.

Philistus, a Tragic Poet of Cercyra, who lived in the time of Ptolomaeus Phi­ladelphus, see also Philiscus.

Philo, a Comic Poet, out of whom some things are cited by the Scholiast of Aratus.

Philocalus, a Trojan, of whom there is said to have been extant a Book of E­pigrams, printed in Italy.

Philocles, see Euripides.

Philodemus, a Gadaraean Poet, men­tioned by Cicero, in his Oration against Piso. He flourisht in the time of Ptolo­meus Auletes, being contemporary with Alexander and Parthenius aforementio­ned, and Theophanes the Lesbian, who besides th [...] History of Pompey's Acts, [Page 146] being his Companion in the Wars, he wrote, compos'd also the History of the Mithridatic War in Verse; and the same Theophanes, as is suppos'd, was the Authour of two Epigrams which are yet extant in the Greec Anthology.

Philolaus, the Authour, as Joannes Pi­cus is of opinion, of those Verses that go under the Title of Pythagoras his golden Verses.

Philonides, see Euripides.

Philostratus, an Athenian, who, besides the lives of Pelopidas and Epaminondas, is said by Laertius, to have written a Poem Entitled Theseis. He hath also, if it be the same Philostratus, a Tetrastich in the Greec Anthology.

Philoxenus, see Oenomaus.

Philyllius, see Euripides.

Philyrinus Cinesias, a Dithyrambic Poet, mentioned by Suidas.

Phlegides, an ancient Poet remem­bred by Aristotle, in his Book de Somno & Vigilia, and also by Themistius.

Phocylides, see Xenophanes.

Phocinorides, a Comic Poet of ob­scure note, as being little mentioned by Authentic writers.

[Page 147] Phoenicides, an ancient Comedian, whose [...] & [...] are remem­bred by Athenaeus and Suidas.

Phormus, a Syracusian Comic Poet, whose Atalanta is quoted by Athe­naeus.

Phrynichus, an Athenian Tragedian, whose Pleuronia and Eight other Tra­gedies are remembred by Suidas. He was the Disciple of Thespis, and the Son of Polyphradmon, and had himself a Son so named, a Tragic Poet also. There was also another Phrynichus a Comic Poet, whom see in Euripides.

Pigres of Halicarnassus, the Brother of Artimisia, whom, by the name of Ti­gretus, see in Theopompus,

Pindarus, a Theban Lyric Poet, of the Village of Cynocephali, the Son of Sco­pelinus, or (as others with more proba­bility affirm) of Daiphantus; there be also, who affirm him the Son of Pagoni­des and Myrtis, which being a mistake, is thought to have risen from his be­ing a Disciple of the said Myrtis, or at least of Scopelinus, who being the Hus­band of this Myrtis, taught him to play on the Flute; which skill having [Page 148] attained, he betook himself to Lasus Hermioneus to learn on the Harp; he was in great esteem among the Gree [...]s, as the Favourite of Apollo and Pan, which last was reported to have delight­ed to hear him sing in the mountains, and to have danc'd at the singing of one of his Peans. He was contemporary with Aeschylus, who began to flourish about the Seventy sixth Olympiad; his Odes are yet extant, amply set forth with Scholiasts, besides which he is said to have written Tragedies, Hymns, Paeans, Dithyrambs, Threnes, Epic Poems, E­pigrams and other Poems, in all Seven­teen distinct Works. He dyed about the 66^th. or as some say, the 80^th. year of his age, in the 86^th. Olympiad.

Pisander Camyraeus, a very ancient Poet, some say ancienter than Hesiod, and contemporary with Eumolpus, but the most agree that he flourisht in the 33^d Olympiad, in the Reign of Xerxes; his Poem, Entitled Heracleis, or the la­bours of Hercules, is remembred by Pan­sanias; he is also mentioned by Hygi­nus, the Scholiast of Aristophanes, Cen­sorinus and Fulgentius; there was also [Page 149] another Pisander, a Larendensian, in the time of Alexander Severus; he wrote a Poem Entitled [...] or the Nuptials of Jupiter and Juno.

Plato, a Comic Poet (not the Philo­sopher) of whom, see more in Cratinus whose contemporary he was, as also of Anaxilas whose Fourteen Comedies are mentioned by Athenaeus.

Pittacus, see Alcaeus.

Plautius, see Statius Caecilius.

Plotius Crispinus, and Plotius Tueca, two Contemporaries of Horace and Vir­gil, both mentioned for Poets by Horace, but the first with contempt, the other with honour.

Polyeritus, a writer of the Sicilian Affairs in Verse; for which he is men­tioned by the Authour de admir [...]ndis additionibus generally reputed to be Aristotle.

Polyeidus, see Oenomaus.

Polyeuctus, a Comic Writer, whose Heniochus is mentioned with commen­dation by Athenaeus and Suidas.

Polyides, an uncertain ag'd Poet out of whom Stobaeus quotes several Verses, which by some are attributed to Euri­pides, [Page 150] he may be probably conjectur'd to be the same with Polyidus.

Polymnestus, a Colophonian, the Son of Miletus; he is remembred by Aristopha­nes, Cratinus, Alcman, Pindarus, Pausa­nias, Plutarchus, Athenaeus and Sui­das.

Polyochus, remembred by Athenaeus, who out of his Corynthiasta cites several Senary Iambics.

Polyphradmon, see Phrynichus.

Polystratus, one of the Society of E­pigrammatists, in the Greec Antho­logie.

Polyzelus, an antient Poet, though of an uncertain time; he wrote a Poem called Niptra, the birth of the Muses, the birth of Dionysius and Venus, with other Poems.

Pompeianus, see Julianus.

Pomponius Secundus, an ancient La­tin Comic writer, whose Auctoratus, Ca­pella, Lena, Machomalites, Synephebi are quoted by Charisius: of his life Caius Plinius wrote two Books, he was also favoured by Germanicus.

Pontianus, an old Epigrammatist, who hath a name in the Greec Antho­logy.

[Page 151] Pontius Paulinus, see Claudius Clau­dianus,

Ponticus, see Quintus Horatius.

Porcius Licinius, of the noble Fami­ly of the Licinij, an ancient Latin Po­et, out of whom Agellius cites some few Verses. He is generally supposed to have been contemporary with Cato.

Posidippus, see Menander.

Pratinas, a Tragic Poet of Phliasus, who contended, as saith Suidas, with Aeschylus and Chaerilus; he is also said by the same Authour to have been the first writer [...] tyrs, moreover he is cited by Athenaeus.

Priscianus, a Grammarian of Cesa­rea, who flourisht under the Emperour Julianus, and wrote a Book of the Art of Grammar to Julianus, and a Book of Natural questions to Chosroes King of Persia, besides which, he wrote in Latin Verse a Version of Dionysius Afer's Periegesis or Poem, de situ Or­bis.

Priscus, see Publius Ovidius.

Proclus, see Cyrus.

Proculus, see Publius Ovidius.

Prodicus, an eminent poet of Phocis, [Page 152] out of whose fabulous Poem Entitled Mynias the Painter; Polygnotus is said by Pausanias to have drawn several de­signs.

Promithidas, a Mimic Iambic Poet of Heraclea, cited by Athenaeus.

Prosper, a Poet of Aquitain, there­fore sirnamed Aquitanicus, who flou­risht in the latter end of the Reign of of Valentinian the Third, and after­wards under Maximus, Avitus, Majora­nus and Severus; besides several things in prose, the chief whereof is his Chro­nicle to the year 155. [...] or the next is said to have been the last year of his life; he wrote also Epigrams, and also (if it were not as some say writ by Claudianus Mamertus) a Poem de pro­videntia Dei. He was, as saith Licosthe­nes, Bishop of Rheginum, others of Orle­ans, though Labbaeus with whom Bri­etius agrees, learnedly proves him to have been neither.

Ptolomaeus, sirnamed Chemnus, an A­lexandrian, who flourisht under the Emperours Trajan & Adrian, he wrote, besides what in History, a Historical Drama, Entitled Sphinx, and another [Page 153] Poem Entitled [...] as consisting of an equal number of Books, with Ho­mers Ilias. There was also another Ptolomaeus an Epic poet of Cythera, who wrote of the vertues of the herb Psala­cantha, as saith Suidas; besides several Epigrams of his (if it were the same Ptolomy) in the Greec Anthology.

Publius Licinius Tegula, an ancient Latin Poet who as Livie the Historian testifieth, compos'd a Song) in like manner as Livius Andronicus had done before him) to be sung through the City of Rome by Twenty seven Virgins: whether this Licinius were the same with Licinius Imbrex, the ancient Co­mic Writer, cited by Agellius is dispu­ted.

Publius, or Publilius Optatianus Por­phyri [...]s, a Poetical writer, in the time of Constantine the Great, for his Panegy­ric to whom, and the favour of that Emperour upon it, in recalling him from banishment, he is rather to be taken no­tice of, than for the goodness of his po­etry, which is very crabbed and obscure; nevertheless this work of his being pre­served in the Augustane Library of [Page 154] Velserus, was set forth by Pithaeus in the year

Publius Ovidius Naso, the most fluent of Latin Poets, whose Metamorphos [...]s, Epistles, Fasti, Tristia, Amores, &c. are in most public credit and familiar use. He flourisht together with Virgil (whose most excellent Poems, viz. his Eglogues, Georgics, and Aeneis, have their deser­ved esteem ameng all learned men) and Horace (whose Odes, Satyrs, Sermones, Epistles, and Art poetic have the like) in the time of Augustus by whom Ovid was banisht for his familiarity with Ju­lia, the said Emperours daughter. Con­temporary with these three renow­ned Poets, were First, Caius Asini­us Pollio, a Tragedian, Historian, and eminent Captain in War; he is menti­oned with honour, both by Horace and Virgil. [...] Gaius Cilnius Mecaenas, a favou­rite of Augustus, and not only a favou­rer and patron of Poets, especially of Virgil and Horace, but also a Composer of Verses himself, whereof some are col­lected by Giraldus, others are to be seen in the Collection of old Epigrams. 3. Lucius Varius, who hath a very ho­nourable [Page 155] mention from Horace in seve­ral places; he is said to have written several Tragedies, among which that of Thyestes is disputed whether his or no. 4. Sextus Propertius, an Elegiac Poet of Vmbria, whose Elegies we have extant, besides whom there seems to have been an [...]her Propertius, cited by Fulgentius Planciades; he was a great Emulator of Philetas and Callimachus. 5. Aulus Cornelius Alpinus, a Turgid Poet, if it were the same whom Horace menti­ons. l. 1. of his Sermones, Sat. 10. To him some have ascribed a Poem Enti­tled Memnonia, or the History of Mem­non. 6. Sextilius Ena, a Poet of Cor­duba; the beginning of whose Poem, concerning Cicero's Proscription, is mentioned by Marcus Seneca. 7. Gra­tius, a Faliscan, whose Cynegetics or Po­em of Hunting, is not forgotten by O­vid. This Poem was first brought out of France, and publisht by Sanazarius. 8. Caius Pedo of Albinova, the Authour of a Poem Entitled Theseis, which is taken notice of by Ovid, in his Pontic Elegies; of the Tenth whereof in l. 4. the said Authour is wholly the Subject; [Page 156] one whom Horace takes notice of twice, though little to his praise, yet his poems had the fortune to be laid up in the Temple of Apollo, and the Muses, toge­ther with his Picture. 14. Titus Val­gius, whom Tibullus ranks next to Homer, and Horace compares with Vir­gil and Varius. 15. Octavius, a p [...]nci­pal, both Poet and Historian in the e­steem of Horace; The manner of his death is signified by a Verse in the Vir­gilian Appendix. 16. Ponticus, an in­timate Friend both of Propertius and O­vid, by the last of whom he is mentio­ned, and by the first compared with Homer. 17. Cajus Melissus, a freed­man of Mecaenas, and preferred to be Keeper of Augustus his Library in the Octavian Portico; he is reckon'd by Ovid among the Comedians. 18. Caius A­sinius Gallus, the Son of Asinius Pollio; he is reckoned among the Poets by Gi­raldus, from the commendation of Pli­ny; and Tranquillus cites an Epigram of his against Pomponius Marcellus. Besides these, there were several others; as, Tu­ [...]anius, a Tragic Poet; Lupulus Siculus, a Comedian, and Actor of his own Co-and [Page 157] also of an [...]legy upon the death of Mecaenas. 9. Aulus Sabinus, another of the same order remembred several times by the said Ovid, and said to be the Authour of some of those Epistles which are ascribed to Ovid; as of Paris to Helena, and four or five others; he left some things unfinisht, as appears from l. 4. Eleg. 16. of the Pontics. 10. Titus Septimius, a Lyric and Tra­gic Poet, mentioned by Horace in his Epistles. 11. Aulus Cornelius Severus, the Authour of a Poem Entitled Aetna, which hath been heretofore attributed to Virgil; also certain Verses are cited by Marcus Seneca concerning the death of Cieero, as is suppos'd out of a Poem of the Sicilian War, which by Fabius the Historian, he is delivered to have written: to him belongs one Elegie in the fourth Book of Ovids Pontics. 12. Domitius Marsus, the Authour of a Po­em Entitled Amazonis, mentioned by Martial in one of his Epigrams; he makes one in Ovids Catalogue, and is also taken notice of by Petronius Arbi­ter. There is extant of his, an Epi­gram against Tibullus. 13. Fannius, [Page 158] medies; Carus Numa Marius (whether the famous Rhetor [...]cian of that name and time is uncertain) the two Pris­cus's, Proculus an imitator of Callima­chus, Fontanus, Capella, Cajus Cotta, Ju­lius Montanus, Camerinus and Thuscus, Aemilius Macer of Verona, with others already mentioned, all celebrated by O­vid, with an account for the most part of the subject of their Poems, only Marcus Manilius or Manlius, whose Astrono­mical Poem we have yet extant: of all the Poets that we hear of, of that time, (for to think as Guevartius, that he was the same with Manlius Theodorus, in the time of Theodocius the elder; his dedi­cating his Poem to Augustus, renders it absurd) is omitted by him.

Publius Porcius, the Authour of a Poem, Entitled, de pugna poreorum, of which every Verse begins with the let­ter P.

Publius Statius Papinius, see Sta­ [...]ius.

Publius Syrus, a Mimic writer, who after the death of Decius Laberius, kept up the reputation of the Scene at Rome.

[Page 159] Publius Volumnius, a Latin Poet, out of whom several Verses are cited by Plutarch, in his life of Marcus Brutus.

Publius Terentius Afer, see Statius C [...] ­cilius.

Publius Virgilius Maro, the Prince of Latin Heroic Poets; his Aeneis, howe­ver not uncensured by some, being e­qualled by none of the ancient Latins that are extant; and so particularly e­steemed by Augustus Caesar, that after Virgils death, who had left in charge with some friends to have that Poem burnt, he committed it to the custody and strict care of Lucius Varius, and Plo­tius Tucca, with command, that no­thing should be altered. He was the Son of Maro, a mean person; some say a Potter, and Maia (whose dream of her bringing forth a Laurel branch, boa­ded very significantly) born in the 177^th. Olympiad, in the Ides of October, at Andes, a Village not far from Man­tua, whence he is stiled the Mantuan Swan, also see Publius Ovidius.

Pythagoras, a Samian, one of the most fam'd of ancient Greec: p [...]ilosophers, and the reputed Authour of those [...] [Page 160] or golden Verses, which are commonly publisht under his name, in the common Edition of the poetae mino­ [...]es, though by some ascribed to Philo­laus.

Pythangelus, a Tragic Poet, and Grammarian, not less notorious for his lewdness, than for his poetry.

Pythostratus, an Athenian, who is said to have written a Poem Entitled The­seis; he is remembred by Laertius in the life of Xenophon, together with a Bro­ther named also Xenophon.

Q

QVintus Cicero, see Decius Labe­rius.

Quintus Cornificius, an old Latin E­pigrammatist, contemporary with Sa­lust; having a command in the Wars, he was slain by his Souldiers, for calling them Helmetted Hares.

Quintus Ennius, the ancientest of Latin Poets that we hear of next after Livius Andronicus, and Cnaeus Naevius; he wrote besides his Annals in Verse, Satyrs, Comedies and Tragedies; of [Page 161] all which we have nothing now remain­ing, excepting some few fragments.

Quintus Fabius Labeo, see Statius Ce­cilius.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus, a most il­lustrious Lyric Poet of Venusium in A­pulia; not for the Nobility of his birth, for he is reported the son but of a mean person, some say a Salter; but for that delicacy of wit, purity of style, and weight of judgement, both in his Lyrics & other Writings, w^ch gain'd him the e­steem of the noblest of Favorites, Mecaenas, and by his means, of the greatest Prince upon earth, Augustus, by whom he was ad­vanced to such a Fortune,a Farm in the Sabine Terri­tory. as being returned back a­gain, at his death, which was in the Fifty sixth year of his age, made Posterity take notice, that Horace made Augustus his Heir. He is certain­ly not equalled in that kind of Poetry he undertook, to any of the ancient Greecs and Latins that are extant, Pin­darus himself only, and that scarcely too, excepted.

Quintus Hortensius, a Noble Roman Oratour, if not Poet also, as some repre­sent [Page 153] him, though we have nothing of his extant.

Quintus Lutatius Catulus, an ancient Latin Epigrammatist of a witty and voluptuous strain, sutable to his Con­versation, very much in favour with Cornelius Cotta and Lucius Crassus.

Quintus Maecius, sometimes simply Maecius, subscrib'd to Eight Epigrams in the Greec Anthology.

Quintus Nonius, an old Latin writer of those Comedies calld Attellanae.

Quintus Rhemnius Palaemon a Con­temporary of Claudian. He is report­ed to have been very fluent in making Verses ex tempore; for which he is vili­fied by Martial. Some confound him with Rhemnius Fannius, but erronious­ly.

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullia­nus, see Tertullianus.

Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, a sufficiently esteem'd Latin Poet, in the time of the Emp [...]rour Severus; of the many things he is said to have written in Verse, we have only some­thing of his left de Medicina. He was slain by Antonius Caracalla, as saith [Page 152] Spartianus, in the life of that Emperour, and as Capitolinus affirms, left his Son a most noble Library, consisting of 62000 Volumes, of which he made so good use, that he became Preceptor to the Empe­rour Gordianus ju [...]ior.

Quintus Smyrnaeus, see Christodo­rus.

Quintus Trabeas, the Eighth in place among the ancient Latin Comic wri­ters, according to the opinion of Volca­tius, Sedigitus.

Quintus Valerius Saranus, a very an­cient Versifier, honoured by Cicero, with the Title Doctissimus Togatorum.

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RAbanus Maurus, see Theodulphus. Regianus, a writer of an uncer­tain age, whose Poem of the waters of Baiae is commended by Brietius, both for the ingenuity of the Matter, and as written in no bad Verse.

Rhemnius Fannius, an elegant, both Grammarian and Poet, who flourisht in the time of Constantine the Great; he was the Disciple of Ar [...]obius; and so [Page 164] was Lactantius Firmianus, who had the education of Crispus Caesar, and wrote a Poem Entitled Odoeporicon, being a de­scription of his journy from Africa to Nicomedia, besides certain divine Poems which have been attributed to him, though Venantianus Fortunatus is by some thought rather to be the Author of them: to Lactantius, Fannius dedi­cated a Book which he wrote of Medi­cinal Ingredients in Hexameter Verse; moreover a Treatise of Weights and Measures is most probably judged to be his, though some have attributed it to Priscian. About the same time also flourisht Tiberianus, one or two of whose Verses is cited by Giraldus; Pub­lius Optatianus Porphyrius, who wrote a Panegyric in Verse to Constanti [...]e the Great, for which he was recalled from banishment; he is remembred by Hie­ronymus, Fulgentius, Beda, and Rabanus Maurus. Likewise Juvencus, a Noble­man, and Priest of Spain, whose Evan­gelical History in Hexameter Verse is yet extant; besides which, he wrote a discourse of the Sacraments in Verse, which is mentioned by Hieronymus in his Viri Illustres.

[Page 165] Rhianus, a Cretan, Native of Bene, an ancient City of that Island; though some say he was of Ithaca, others of Mycene; he was contemporary with Eratosthenes, and though at first but a poor servant or keeper of a Palaestra, obtained by his own industry the repu­tation of an eminent Grammarian; and at last wrote a Poem Entitled Heracli­as, in four Books, as Suidas testifies; but Pausanias saith, he described in Verse the war of the Lacedemonians with the Messenians. Probably distinct from this Rhianus, of whom there is also extant a fragment de Imprudentia in the com­mon Edition of the minor Poets, is he whose Epigrams are cited by Athenaeus and Stobaeus.

Rhinton of Tarentum, see Menander.

Romulus, the first King and Builder of Rome, who is said to have written to his Son Tybertinus certain Fables Ent [...] ­tled Aesopic, from their imitation of Ae­sop.

Rubrenus Lappa, see Curiatius Mater­nus.

Rufinus, an Epigrammatic Poet of whom there are about 28 Epigrams pre­serv'd [Page 156] in the Greec Anthology.

Rufus of Ephesus; see Serapio.

Rufus Festus Avenius, (or as some say, Anienus) a contemporary of, Ma­crobius, who lived under Gratianus and Theodosius; he translated Aratus and Dionysius into Latin Verse, and wrote a Tractate of the Sea coasts in Iambic Verse; something of both which works is to be seen in Rithaeus his Collection together with an Epigram of his about the Syrens, with several other Poems. Moreover, he Translated Aesops Fables into Elegiac, and all Livie into Iambic Verse.

Rusticus Helpidius, see Theodolus.

Rutilius Claudius Numatianus, see Claudius Claudianus.

Rutilius Geminus, an ancient Roman Authour, who besides his Books Enti­tled Pontificals, wrote also a Tragedy called Astyanax.

S

SAbellus, see Curiatius Maternus,

Sabinus, an ancient Epigramma­tist, of whom there is extant a Tetra­stich, in the Sixth Book of the Greec Anthology.

Sacadas or Sacas, an ancient Tragic Poet of Argos, who is said to have been first Authour of the Stroph, and the first Institutor of the Doric Chorus: he is taken notice of by Pindarus, and also by Pausanias and Plutarch. Moreover, Suidas makes mention of Sacas a Tragic Poet, which probably may be the same person.

Salleius Bassus, see Curiatius Mater­nus.

Salomon, the III. King of Israel and Judah, no less glorious in peace than his Father David had been in War, and fa­mous throughout the earth for Riches and Wisdome, the Excellency whereof appeared not only in the Justice and Prudence of his Government, while the vigour of his age lasted, but also in his many Writings, were they all exant; in [Page 168] he shews himself an Excellent both Philosopher, Theologist and Poet; name­ly his natural History of Plants (the loss of which so useful a Subject is much to be lamented, his Gnomonica or Pro­verbs much like in Divinity what the Writings of Phocylides and Theognis are in Morality, his Ecclesiastes, or the Preacher, and his Song of Songs, a sort of Lyric Poem including, under an a­morous argument, relating as some think to the Loves between him and the Queen of Sheba, a divine Allegory.

Sanctus Severus, see Endeleichus.

Sanga, a Roman Poet, mentioned by Paulus Jovius, in his Book de Pisci­bus.

Sannyrio, see Euripides.

Scoeva Memor, see Curiatius Mater­nus.

Scyras, a Comic Poet of Tarentum, whose Meleager is quoted by Athe­naeus.

Scynthinus, an Iambic Poet of T [...]s, mentioned by Laertius in Heraelitus, and Licinius Calvu [...].

Secaeus, an Epigrammatic Poet, of whom there is extant a Tetrastich in [Page 169] the Greec Anthology.

Secundus, another of the same So­ciety.

Sentius Augur, a Roman Epigram­matist said to be an imitator of Catullus, likewise Stobaeus and Stephanus.

Septimus Severus Afer, Twenty second Roman Emperour from Julius Caesar; he is said to have been the Authour of a certain Poem de laudibus Jani, in which he endeavours to imitate Callima­chus.

Serapio an Athenian, both Poet and Physician, very well esteemed by Plu­tarch, who mentions him in his Book of the Delphic Oracle.

Seuleucus, a Halieueic or Piscatory writer in Verse, of Tarsus, mentioned by Athenaeus.

Sextilius Ena, see Publius Ovidius.

Sextus Aurelius Propertius, an Elegiac Poet of Menavia in Vmbria, of whose Poetry, what is extant, is commonly publisht with the Poems of Catullus and Tibullus; he was in great favour with Cornelius Gallus and Mecaenas.

Sextus Turpilius, a Comic writer, contemporary with Terence, of whom [Page 170] was a familiar friend; he is allotted by Sedigitus the Seventh place among the Latin Comaedians.

Silanio, an ancient Poet, mentioned by Plutarch in his Book, Entitled, How young men ought to be hearers of the Poets.

Silius Italicus, see Petronius Ar­biter.

Simmias of Rhodes, see Menander.

Simonides, see Archilochus.

Simulus, a writer of the Roman Af­fairs in Verse; out of whom certain Verses are cited by Plutarch in his life of Romulus.

Simylus, an Iambic writer, out of whom Stobaeus cites Twelve Senaries, in his Sermon pro Artibus.

Socrates, see Euripides.

Solon, see Epimenides.

Sopater, a Parian, sirnamed [...], or [...], several Co­medies, of whose writing are remem­bred by Suidas; besides him, both Athe­naeus and Suidas speak of another Come­dian of the same name, a Phacian, whose Bacchis the first of whom cites.

Sophilus, of Sicyon, see Menander.

[Page 171] Sophocles, a noble Athenian Tragic Poet; of whom see more in Euripides.

Sophron, see Cleanthes.

Sosicles of Syracuse, see Philetas.

Sosiphanes, an Iambic writer, out of whom divers Senaries are cited by Sto­baeus.

Sositheus, see Menander.

So [...]ades Maronides, a writer of such lascivious Iambics, as from him were called Versus Sotadei. There was also of the same name an Athenian Comic, some say Tragic, Poet, whose Encleiome­nae and Paralytromenos are mentioned by Athenaeus, though some will have them to be one and the same person.

Soterichus Oasites, a Heroic Poet who besides his Encomium of Dioclesian, in whose time he lived; wrote also a Po­em Entitled Bassarica, with the life of Apollonius Tyaneus, and some other things, as Suidas witnesseth.

Spintharus, a Tragic Poet of Hera­clea, made mention of by Laertius, his Tragedies were Semele Fulminata, and Hercules Ardens.

Stasimus, or Stasinus, the Authour of a Poem concerning the Affairs of Cy­prus, [Page 172] out of which, two Hexameters are cited by Stobaeus, in his Sermon de Verecundia.

Statius Caecilius, an ancient Latin Comedian of Insubria or Gallia Cisalpi­na, which at this day is called the Dutchy of Milain; of many Comedies which he wrote (among which was his Asotus) divers fragments are collected by Robertus Stephanus; about the same time flourisht Marcus Pacuvius, a Trage­dian of Brundusium, Ennius his Sisters son; of the many Tragedies which he wrote, his Orestes is particularly re­membred by Festus, Nonnius and Cicero in his Dialogue of friendship; and to Pacuvius not inferiour Lucius Accius, of whom Agellus out of Sempronius A­sellio gives a most advantagious Chara­cter; of his Tragedies, his Nuptiae is re­membred by Athenaeus, and his Mercator by Varro, in imitation perhaps of Diphi­lus, by whom two with the same Title were written; also Attilius, whose E­lectra translated from Sophocles, is men­tioned by Suetonius. He is also styl'd by Licinius Poeta Fercus and by Cicero P. durissimus, from the Crabbednes of [Page 173] his style. Also Marcus Accius Plautus, that witty Comedian of Sarsi [...]ae in Vmbria, whom in a great measure we yet injoy, viz. in Twenty Comedies. Also Cneus Aquilius, to whom the Co­medie Boeotia hath by some been attri­buted, which Varro rather adjudgeth to Plautus, as is testified by Agellius; ano­ther Comedian Marcus Acuticus, to whom Varro attributed many Comedies wich had been judg'd to have been writ­ten by Plautus; also the Comedian Plau­tius, who as Agellius observes, is by some mistaken for Plautus, by reason of the nearness of the name; also Caius Lucilius, great Uncle to Pompey; he served under Scipio Africanus, in the Nu­mantine War, and is said to have been the first that brought Satyre in use a­mong the Latines, and to have written a Comedy, Entitled Nummularia and certain Epodes. Then Publius Teren­tius Afer, six of whose Elegant Come­dies remain preserved from Oblivion; he was a great imitator of Menander, whom he professes to have followed in many of his Comedies almost word for word, and was assisted in some of them [Page 174] (as he himself confesseth) by Caius Lae­lius, sirnamed the wise, and P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus, between whom and Terence, there was a very intimate friend­ship and familiarity. Nor do Valgius and Memmius stick to affirm that some Comedies which go under the name of Terence were intirely Scipio's. Quintus Fabius Labeo, and Marcus Popilius, both men of Consular authority, & both Po­ets, and such whom Terence acknow­ledged for his Assistants, as Suetonius in his life observeth. Also Lucius Luscius, whom Volcatius Sedigitus rec­kons in the Ninth rank of Comedians; of whose Comedies that Entitled Thesau­rus, is only remembred. Lastly, Turpilius, who in his Thrasyleon, imitates a Come­dy of Menanders, so Entitled.

Statius Papinius, or as many write him Publius Papinius Statius, a Neapo­litan, who flourisht under Domitian, though by some confounded with Sati­us Surculus the great Rhetorician of Tholouse, in the time of Nero; there are of his writing extant, his Thebais, Achil­leis and Sylvae: the two first being com­mented upon by Placidus Lactantius, [Page 175] with him were contemporary Caius Va­lerius Flaccus: of whose writing we have Eight Books of Argonautics, but left imperfect, which loss Quintilian be­wails. Also Marcus Valerius▪ Marti­alis, a Native of Bilbilis, now called Bilbao in that part of Celtiberia or Can­tabria, now called Biscaia. He was by Domitian, with whom he was in great honour, advanced to the Tribunate and Equestrian dignity, and to whom he directed many of his Epigrams, Four­teen Books of which are happily pre­served to us; he mentions the foresaid Flaccus, in one of his Epigrams, with great testimonies of friendship and kindness. Also Decius Junius Juve­nalis, whose Satyrs are likewise extant, two of which are thought to have been written when he was made Prefect in a Cohort in Aegypt at 80. years of age. About the same time Terentianus Mau­ [...]us is thought to have lived, at least if it were the same Terentianus whom Martial speaks of l. 1. Epigr. 87. as is pro­bable he was, and in like manner the same to whom Longinus dedicates his Book de sublilimate. There is extant [Page 176] an elegant Poem of his de Arte Me­trica.

Statylius Flaccus, an Epigrammatic Poet, of whom there are extant one or two Epigrams in the Greec Antho­logy.

Stephanus, sirnamed Sabbaita, or the follower of St. Sabba (a Saint in the Greec Calender) who is thought to be the Author of a Greec Tragedie, which is extant, of Christs death. The Co­mic Poet of the same name, see in Me­nander.

Stesichorus, a Lyric Poet, who flou­risht about the 42^d. Oiympiad, as ap­pears from Suidas, Eusebius and the A­nonymous Authour. His Palinody up­on the praise of Helena, is mentioned by Philostratus, in his life of Appollonius Ty­sneus. There is also mentioned by some a son of Hestod, nam'd Stesichorus.

Stesimbrotus, see Euripides.

Sthenelus, see Dionysius.

Strabus of Fulda, see Theodulphus.

Strato, a writer of Media Comedia, whose Phoenix is made mention of by Suidas. There was besides him another Strato, an Epigrammatist, of whom [Page 177] there are several Epigrams in the Greec Anthology.

Strattis, see Euripides.

Succius, a Comic Poet, remembred by Suidas. There is chiefly noted a Comedy of his, Entitled Piscatoria: Some think him the same with Sutrius, out of whom several things are quoted by Fulgentius, in his Mythology.

Suevus, an Epic Poet, out of whose Idyl, Entitled Moretum, Macrobius in his Saturnalia cites 8 Verses.

Suffenus, see Aquinius.

Sulpitius Lupercus Servastus junior, a Poetical writer of an uncertain time, but certainly not very ancient: his E­legy de cupiditate, & Ode, de qualitate Temporis, want not the commendation of a happy vein and purity of Latin style.

Sutrius, see Succius.

Syagrus, a Greec Poet, reputed of very great antiquity, even next after the ancient Orpheus and Musaeus, by the testimony of Aelian in his various History, by whom also he is said to have have writ a Poem of the Trojan war.

Sylla, see Decius Laberius.

[Page 178] Symposius, an Authour not unelegant in the esteem of Vossius, though slighted by Giraldus. There are set forth of his writing, with the Notes of Jos [...]phus Ca­stalio, 100 Aenigmatical questions or Riddles in Greec Hexameter Verse.

Syn [...]sius, see Cyrus of Panopolis.

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TEleclides, see Aristophanes.

Telestes, see Oenomaus.

Terentianus Maurus, see Statius Ce­cilius.

Terentius Libo, a Poet of Fregella, re­membred by Donatus from Metius.

Terentius Varro Atracinus, a Contem­porary with Cicero and Hortensius; he wrote Argonautics in imitation of A­pollonius Rhodius, also Epigrams and an Elegy upon his beloved Leucadia. There flourisht also about the same time Cajus Laelius, who is reckoned among the Latin Poets.

Terpander, a most eminent and anci­cient Greec Poet and Musician, whom Eusebius delivers to have flourisht about the 33^d. Olympiad, though Glaucus [Page 179] thinks him to have been much ancienter than Archilochus.

Tertullianus, the Divine Oratour for the Christians; besides what he wrote in Prose, he wrote also five Books in Verse against the Heretic Marcion, to­gether with a little Poem of Sodom, and another of Jonas and Nineve.

Thales Milesius, see Epimenides.

Thamyras, a Thracian Poet, who wrote three Thousand Verses of a Theologi­cal subject.

Theocritus, a Sicilian Poet of Syra­cuse, whom see in Menander; besides whom there was another Theocritus of Chios, as the Syracusian himself testifies in a Tetrastich Epigram upon himself.

Theodectes, see beneath in Theopompus, and also in Euripides.

Theodolus, a Latin Poet, who flou­risht in the time of Zeno and Anastatius. He wrote a History of all the Miracles in the Old Testament in Verse, which is yet extant. Contemporary with him were Godelbertus, whose History from the Creation, to the Birth of our Lord, in Verse, is also extant. And Rusticus Helpidius, a Nobleman, and Physician [Page 180] to Theodoric the Gothish King of Italy. His History of the Old and New Testa­ment in Verse, with his Poem de Benefi­ciis Christi, are set forth by Georgius Fa­britius; but that de Cosolatione doloris, is lost.

Theodonis, a Poet who living in the time of Ptolemaeus Dionysius, is remem­bred by Suidas; among other things he is said to have wrirten Verses upon Cle­opatra.

Theodoridas, a Syracusian Poet, men­tioned by Athenaeus and Stephanus.

Theodorus, a Colophonian, whom Pol­lux mentions to have made Verses to be sung for each season of the year. Of the same name there was a Tragic Poet, mentioned by Laertius; as also another who lived under Domitian, whom see in Curiatius Maternus.

Theodosius, a Poet of Tripolis (not the same with him whose Books of the Sphere are set forth by Pena) he wrote, as saith Suidas, Verses of the Spring, with some other things in Verse Hexa­meter.

Theodu hus, an Abbot of Floriacum, and afterwards B [...]shop of Orle [...]nce, in the [Page 181] time of Ludovicus Pius; he composed a Hymn which was used to be sung on Palm Sunday, which with some things is to be seen in the Bibliotheca Patrum here­tofore mentioned. Contemporary with him was Magnetius Rabanus Maurus, Abbot of Fulda, and afterwards Bishop of Mentz, whom Vicentius of Bellovacum accounts a Poet, second to none of his time; that which is most memorable of his Writings, is, his Isogrammatic Po­em, in praise of the Cross, which he ad­drest to Pope Gregory the Fourth: the Disciple of this Rabanus was one Stra­bus, a Monk of Fulda, who besides his Gloss upon the whole Scripture, is said to have written something in Poetry; about the same time lived Hugubaldus, who dedicated to the Emperour Charls the bald, a Poem which he wrote in the praise of bald men, whereof every word began with C. To whom also Gallus Milo, Abbot of Saint Amand dedicated a Poem which he wrote de Sobrie­tate.

Theogenes, a Megarensian, who flou­rishing in the 59^th: Olympiad, wrote Elegies and other Poems.

[Page 182] Theognetus, a Greec Comic Wri­ter, cited by Athenaeus.

Theognis, a Megarensian Poet, whose Sentences in Greec Verse, are extant, and commonly printed with H [...]siod, Theocritus and the rest of the Poetae mino­res. He was born, as saith Eusebius, about the 58^•h. or 59^th. Olympiad, and lived untill the Persian War, being contemporary with Simonides Ceus, and Onomacritus, of both whom he makes mention; the Tragic Poet of the same name, see in Euripides.

Theolytus, a Lesbian of Mitylene, whose Poem Entitled Bacchiea, is cited by Athenaeus, he is also taken notice of by the Scholiast of Apollonius.

Theophanes, a Lesbian, who flourisht in the time of Ptolomeus Auletes; besides his History of the Acts of Pompey (whom out of fr [...]endship and kindness, he ac­companied in the Wars) he is said to have written the Mithridatic war in Verse, as Janus Douza is of Opinion; there are moreover, two Epigrams of his in the Greec Anthology. Of the same name was likewise a Bishop of Nice, whose divine Hymns are mentioned by [Page 183] Theodorus Prodromus. The Latin Ver­sion of one whereof viz. that upon the Aununciation of the Sacred Virgin, be­ing an Acrostich, is to be found in the Bibliotheca patrum heretofore mentio­ned.

Theophilus, see Philistion.

Theopompus (not the same with that Noble Oratour and Historian the Dis­ciple of Isocrates) a writer of Vetus Co­maedia, contemporary with Plato, at whom he had a fling in some of his Co­medies (if it were the same) his [...], and several others of his Come­dies are cited by Athenaeus, and some by Pollux. Of the same name was an Epic Poet of Colophon celebrated by Athe­naeus. Contemporary with him were Naucrates, Isocrates, and Theodectes, who all three contended with him at the so­lemnity of Mausolus his Funeral, insti­tuted by Artemisia, at which as Suidas saith, Theopompus; as the nameless de­scriber of the Olympiads, Theodectes o­vercame: this last was of Phaselus in Lycia, the Disciple of Plato and Isocr [...] ­tes, and as some say of Aristotle; he is said to have written the Art of Rheto­ric [Page 184] in Verse, and Fifty Tragedies, where­of one was Entitled Mausolus. Besides these were Nicostratus, not he of Olyn­thus who was a Historian, a Comic Poet sirnamed, by Laertius, Clytemnaestra, Fif­teen of whose Fables are remembred by Athenaeus, and for the excellent conduct of his Action, P [...]llux calls him [...] and Stephanus [...], se­veral S [...]nary Iambics also are quoted by Stobaeus. Tigretus, otherwise called Pigres (the Brother of Artemisia) who turned Homers Ilias into an Elegiac Po­em by subjoyning a Pentameter after e­very Hexameter; some likewise attri­bute to him Margites, Batrachomyomachia, and some other things. Also Ephippas, a writer of Media Comaedia, out of whose Codoniastae, Philyra, and Obeliaphori, cer­tain passages are cited by Athenaeus. Al­so Epicrates of Ambracia, a writer of Media Comoedia, among whose Come­dies (in some of which he is said to have been somewhat Scoptic against Plato and Speucippus) his Amazones and Emp [...]ros are mentioned by Suidas: and much of the same time Philippus, a writer in like manner of Media Comoedia, whose [...] [Page 185] is remembred by Suidas from Athenaeus as he saith, perhaps confoun­ding it with [...], which is in­deed mentioned by Athenaeus, also Xe­noclides whom Vlpian affirms to have been an Athenian; he is commended by Demosthenes for a very good Poet.

Thespis, see Epimenides.

Thuscus, see Publius Ovidius.

Tiberianus, see Rhemnius Fannius.

Ticida, an old Latin Epigrammatist, Contemporary with Catullus.

Tigretus, see Theopompus.

Timachidas, a Rhodian; who as saith Suidas, wrote in Verse the manner of setting forth of Feasts and Banquets out of which work Athenaeus cites cer­tain Verses of the fish Pompilius.

Timesitheus, a Tragic Poet of whose writing there are remembred his Danai­des, and a 11 more Tragedies.

Timocles, an Athenian Comic Poet, whose Demosatyri, Centaurus, Cauniae E­pistolae, Epichaerecacus, and Philodicast [...] are remembred by Suidas, together with Dionysiazusae, Polypragmon and E­leven more of another Comic Poet of the same name.

[Page 386] Timocreon of Rhodes, a writer of Ve­tus Comaedia, who flourisht about the 75th. Olympiad: he wrote among o­thers, as Suidas testifieth, a Comedy a­gainst Simonides Melicus and Themisto­cles, with both of whom he was at ve­ry great enmity; what his Epitaph was, is to be seen in Athenaeus.

Timon of Phliasus, see Callimachus.

Timotheus of Gaza, see Christodo­rus.

Timotheus of Miletus, see Oen [...] ­maus.

Titianus, a Rhetorician, who erected a School at Lyons; he is remembred by Ausonius for his Apologies in Trimeter Iambics.

Titinnius, a Latin Comic Poet, whose Barathrum, and 7 other Comedies are cited by Charisius.

Titius Septimius, see Publius Ovi­dius.

Titus Annianus, see Annianus.

Titus Calsurinus Piso, a Sicilian Poet, whose Bucolic Eglogues are commonly printed with Gratius, the Faliscan, his Poem of Hunting.

Titus Lucretius Carus, one of the most [Page 187] ancient, for he flourisht about 168th. Olympiad, in the time of the Cymbrian War, and for Majesty and Elegancy of Style, to be rankt among the best of Latin Poets; whoever shall observe his neat Digressions, for there he chiefly shews himself, his main Subject being a kind of System of Epicurean Philoso­phy, in Heroic Verse, Entitled de Rerum Natura. There is also another Titus Lucretius, a Roman Knight, and wri­ter of Mimes, in the time of Julius Coesar.

Titus Pomponius Atticus, see Decius Laberius.

Titus Quintius Atta, an old Latin writer of those sort of Comedies, called, from the kind of Garment used by the Actors, Togatae.

Titus Valgius, an old Latin Poet, of whom several Verses are cited by Cri­nitus and Servius,

Titus Vespatianus, a Roman Empe­rour, who besides his great actions in War, for which he is renowned in Hi­story, was considerable in Poetry, ha­ving written Tragedies in Greec, with several other Poems both in Greec and [Page 188] Latine by the Testimony of Eutropius, Isidorus and Suidas,

Toxotius, a Roman Senator, whose Poems were extant in the time of Capi­tolinus.

Trabea, a Comic Poet, quoted by Cicero and Charisius, see Qu. Trabeas.

Tribonianus Sidetes, see Agathias.

Triphyllius a Cyprian Bishop, who, as Suidas testifieth, wrote the life and mi­racles (in Iambic Verse) of Spiridion, Bishop of Tremithus in Cyprus, who was present at the Nicene Councell.

Tryphon, the Son of Ammonius a Grammarian and Poet of Alexandria, cited by Athenaeus and Suidas. There is a Tetrastich of Tryphon, sirnamed Mer­curius, in the first Book of the Greec An­thology.

Tryphiodorus, see Christodorus.

Turanius, see Publius Ovidius.

Turcius Rnfus Festus Asterius, a Ro­man Consul, together with Flavius Prae­sidius, in the time of Anastatius; he is said to have written in Verse a Compa­ration of the Old Testament with the New, which some nevertheless attribute to Sedulius, others to Momertus.

[Page 189] Turnus, see Curiatius Maternus.

Turpilius, see Statius Caecilins.

Tyrtaeus, an Elegiac Poet, who as Suidas saith, flourisht about the 35th. Olympiad. In the Messinian War he was once chosen by the Lacedemonians (into whom he inspired courage by the Mar­tial spirit which his Verses breathed) General against the Messenians.

V

VAgellius, an old Latin Poet, re­membred by Seneca, of whom he was an intimate friend.

Valerius Aedituns, an old Latin Epi­grammatist, in whose Verses, his two Mistresses Pamphilia and Philerote are very much celebrated.

Valerius Cato, a Grammarian and Po­et, who flourisht in the time of Sylla: Besides what he wrote in Grammar, he wrote also several Poems, among which his Lydia and Diana are principally approved. He is mentioned most par­ticularly by Suetonius in his Book de Il­lustribus Grammaticis.

Venantius Honorius Clementianus For­tunatus, [Page 191] a Christian Poet, who flourisht in the time of the Emperour Justinus the younger; he wrote in Verse, de par­tu Virginis, de Beneficiis Christi, de B. Martino; besides his Hymns, and seve­ral divine Poems mentioned by Giral­dus, among which are thought to be some which have been attributed to La­ctantius.

Vestritius Spurina, a no less famous Souldier (for he overcame King Breve­terius, for which he was honoured with a Statue) than Lyric Poet, in the time of the Vespatians. He addicted him­self much to the Imitation of Horace.

Victorinus Pictaviensis, see Caecilius Cyprianus.

Victorius, a Contemporary of Sido­nius Apollinaris; by whom he is celebra­ted in the last Epistle of his fifth Book.

Virgilius Romanus, a Comic Poet, in the time of the Emperour Trajan; he is mentioned with great commendati­on by Pliny, in his Epistle to Caninius Rufus.

Voconius Victor, see Curiatius Maternus.

Volcatius Sedigitus, the Authour of a Treatise of the old Latin Poets, both [Page 190] before and in his time, in Senary Iambic verse.

Vomanus, one of the 12. sirnamed Scolastici, of whom see in Julianus.

Votienus, see Curiatius Maternus.

X

XEnarchus, a Comic Poet remem­bred by Aristotle in his Poetics; several of his Comedies are reckon'd up by Athenaeus and Suidas.

Xenoclides, see Theopompus.

Xenophanes, a Physical Poet of Colo­phon, who Flourish'd until the 72^d O­lympiad, and farther, as appearr from Athenaeus; he is deliver'd by Laertius, who wrote his Life, to have written of the Foundation and Antiquities of Co­lophon, and of the Colonie transplanted from thence to Elea, in Verse, & by Hie­ronymus, in his Eusebian Chronicle, to have Composed several Tragedies, though with what ground I know not; but there is nothing Extant of his, except certain Fragments in H. Ste­phanus his Collection; it is doubted by Vossius whether Xenophanes, cited by [Page 192] Athenaeus be this of Colophon, or ano­ther; but that Xenophanes, mentioned by Fulgentius was of Heracleopolis. A­bout the same time flonrisht Ibycus (not he of Rhegium) otherwise Hippicus, Hip­pias or Hipys; certain fragments of whom are to be seen in H. Stephanus his Collection of the fragments of the Ly­ric Poets. Phocylides, a Milesian, com­monly reputed the Authour of that Nu­thetic Poem, printed among the Minor Poets, though Vossius judgeth the Au­thour thereof, of a much later time, an Alexandrine Jew, or else Christian of the same name also. Hipponax, a Poet men­tioned by Pliny, l. 35. c. 5. and perhaps the same Ephesian Poet, whose Senary Iambics are quoted by Stobaeus; his Pa­rodia and Synonyma by Athenaeus, and who is also mentioned by Suidas.

Z

ZEnodotus of Ephesus, see Menan­der.

AAron Batalaeus the Au­thor of a little Poem, Entitled, Plausus Tri­viliensis, Printed at Basil, with some small Poetical peices of the choicest of the Modern Poets.

Abraham Cowly, the most applaud­ed Poet of our Nation both of the present and past Ages; his early Muse began to down at the Thirteenth Year of his Age, he being then a Scholar at Westminster School, in Two little Poems [Page 2] Antonius and Melida, and Pyramus and Thisbe; which discovering a Maturity of sence above the Years that writ them, were thought worthy to be then publisht, though not to be in­serted into the now compleated Edi­tion of his Works, divided into 4 parts, his Mistress being the amorous pro­lusions of his Youthful Muse, his Mis­cellanies or Poems of various Argu­ments, his most admir'd Heroick Poem Davideis, the first Books whereof he Compos'd, while but a young Stu­dent at Trinity Colledge in Cambridge; and lastly that is in order of time though not of place, his Pindaric Odes, so call'd, I suppose, ftom the mea­sure in which he Translated the first Ithmian and Nemean Odes, whereas the form of those Odes in the Original, is ve­ry different, & yet in Imitation of him, 'tis pleasant to observe what a notable Trade hath been driven of late in Pin­daric Odes: Besides these Poems of his in English, there is Extant of his writing in a Volume by it self a Latin Poem of Herbs and Plants; also he hath Translated Two Books of his Davideis into Latin [Page 3] Verse, which are in the large Volume among the rest of his Works.

Abraham France, a Versisier in Queen Elizabeth's time, who imitat­ing Latin measure in English Verse, wrote his Iviechurch and some other things in Hexameter, some also in Hexameter and Pentameter, nor was he altogether singular in this way of writing; for Sir Philip Sidny in the pastoral interludes of his Arcadiae, uses not only these but all other sorts of Latin Measure, in which no wonder he is follow'd by so few, since they nei­ther become the English nor any other Modern Language.

Abrahamus Laescherus, the Author of a Poem Entitled the Monomachie or single Combat between David and Goliah, his Two Books of King [...] also, and Lamentations of Jeremie in Latin Verse were printed by the famous Oporinus, not to mention his Epicedes, Epithalamies, and other Poems.

Actius Sincerus Sanazarius, a Nea­politan Poet, of principal Fame and Reputation for Latin Verse, gain'd [Page 4] by his Poem de partu Virginis, his piscatory Eclogues, Epigrams, &c.

Adamus Regius a Scoth-man, whose Latin Verses are Extant among the works of some of the chief Latin Poets of that Nation.

Adamus Schroterus a Silesian, who wrote an Epithalamium upon the Nup­tials of Sigismund K. of Poland, with Catharine the Daughter of the Empe­rour Ferdinand.

Adamus Siberus a Germane, the Author of Proseucha pro Ecclesia, Epi­nicia, Acholastica, and several other Poems.

Adriano Polito a Comic writer among the Italians.

Adrianus Blienbergius, Adrianus Laurentius, and Adr. Marius a Trium­virat of Adrians, of no obscure name among the Belgick Poets.

Adrianus Junius, a most learned Physician of Holland, and moreover by the Testimony of Melchior Adams a Critic, Poet and most exact Historian aud Antiquary.

Adrianus Turnebus Professor Regius at Paris of Philosophy and the Greec [Page 5] Tongue, he is reckon'd among the French writers of Latin Poesie.

Aegidius Menagius a French-man, whose not uneloquent Poems consist­ing of Elegies, Epigrams, and Varia Garmina in Latin, Ecloge of various Poems in Greec his Italian Rime, his Sonnets, Madrigals, Balades and Epi­stles in French were printed at Amster­dam Anno 1663.

Aemilianus an Elegiac Poet, who wrote Epigrams, and an Epicedium upon the Emperour Frideric.

Aenaeas Sylvius a Hetrurian, born in the City of Siena, and by the name of Pius Secundus, Exalted to the Papal Chair, if ever any, by the merit of his great Learning and Excellent Parts, which produc'd almost innumerable Volumes of various Arguments, and among the rest some in Verse not of the meanest value for Wit and Poetic Fancy, particularly his Epigrams, his Niraphilenticum, and his Epistolar Poems.

Agnobo Firenzuola, see Ottavio Rinue­cini.

[Page 6] Alexander Brassicanus, see Joannes Alexander Br.

Alexander Brome an Atturny of the Mayors Conrt, yet Poetically addicted, a Man of Law and Poetry at once, (strange incongruity one would think) and that of so Jovial a strain, that among the Sons of Mirth & Bacchus, to whom his Sack-inspired Songs have been so often Sung to the sprightly Vi­olin, his name cannot chuse but be im­mortal, and in this respect he may well be stil'd the English Anacreon; many also of the Odes of Horacc, who was like­wise a good Fellow, are of his Translat­ing; nor are there wanting among his Extant Poems many other various Subjects as well serious as otherwise; there is also of his writing a Comedy called the Cunning Lovers.

Albertus Cistarellus the Author of a Poem in praise of St. Anna Goriciana.

Alcadinus a Sicilian Poet, who wrote in Verse the Tryumphs of the Empe­rour Henry, and the acts of his Son Friderie.

Alessandro Gatti, an Italian writer of Madrigals.

[Page 7] Alexander Prior of the Monastery of Essebie, in the Reign of K. Edw. the Third, and reckon'd among the chief of English Poets and Orators of that Age.

Alexander Rosse a Scotch writer, of whose Poetry the only thing noted is his Cento out of Virgil, Entitled Virgi­lius Evangelizans.

Aloysius Cherchiarius a Regular of the Congregation of Somascha, who professing Poetry and Oratory, open'd an Academy at Venice, called the Aca­demy of the Generosi.

Andreas Alciatus, a famous Juris-consult of Milan, who though a wri­ter of many learned works in Prose, is yet best known by his Book of Hiero­glyphical Emblems Elegantly illustrat­ed and explained in Elegiac Verse.

Andrea di Bergamo an Italian writer of Satyrs, which were printed at Ve­nice Anno 1556.

Andreas Canonherius a German of much esteem for Latin Verse, and therefore by Learned men rank'd among the German Poets.

[Page 8] Andreas Dactius, a Florentine, the Author of a Poem Entitled Aeluro-Myomachia, or the Battle between the Cat and Mice; besides underwoods, Epicediums, and other Poems of various Argument.

Andreas Fabricius, a Poet of Chem­nitz, the Author of a Poem Entitled Christus Lachrymans, which was printed at Wittenberg in the Year 1551.

Andreas Janus Lascaris, a writer of Rhyndacum, with whose Treatise of the Roman Militia, Collected out of Polybius his History, are Extant a num­be [...] of Greec and Latin Epigrams of his Composing.

Andreae Giuseppe Rossolo, an Italian, Author of a Poem Entitled Giacobbe Ripatriante, which was printed at Rome Anno 1646..

Andreas Libavius a German, whose not unhappy Vein in Latin Verse ob­tains him a place among the eminent Poets of that Nation.

Andreas Melvinus a witty and learn­ed Scotch-man, and particularly fam'd for Latin Poetry; very notable is his Di­stich to the Lady Arabella, with whom he was fellow prisoner in the Tower.

The cause of his Commitment being his writing Verses against the Altar at Whitehall.

Andreas Navagerius, a Venetian, both Historian Poet and Orator, but among his Poems his Eclogues are particularly fam'd, being printed by Oporinus among the Eclogues of other conspi­cuous Poets.

Andreas Papius, an exact Master of the Two learned Tongues, yet with­all so excellent in Musick and Poetry, as if either of them had been his whole business.

Andreas Bamseius, a Scotch Latin Versifier, of whom what is Extant, or at least attainable, is to be found in a Collection Entituled Deliciae Poetarum Scotorum.

Angelinus Gazaeus, a Belgic Poet, whose Pia Hilaria, or Divine Latin Poems are generally esteemed.

[Page 10] Angelo Badalucchi, see Dominico Cor­nacchini.

Angelo Grilli, an Italian Lyric Poet, or writer of Sonetts, Madrigals and Canzonetts.

Angelus Politianus, a most conspicu­ous Itali [...]n Author, the writer of many learned & polite Volumes, among which those in Verse are not the least in same, viz. his Sylvae, his Treatise of Poetry and Poets, and his Epigrams.

Annibal Nicolini a Dramatic Poet of Eugubium a Town in the Dutchy of Spoleto, but chiefly in the pastoral way.

Antimo Gallo, an Italian Lyric, or, pourer forth of amorous conceits in Sonetts, Madrigals &c

Antonie Brewer a contributer to the English Stage by his Lingua, Loves Loadstone, and the Countrey Girl, Co­medies, The Love-sick King and Landa­gartha, Tragecomedies, and Loves Do­minion a Pastoral.

Antonio Cornazano an Orator and Poet of Ferrara, among whose other Poems of various Subjects the princi­pally noted is that of the Life atd Death of the Blessed Virgin.

[Page 11] Antonio Hungaro, an Italian, both Comic Poet, and writer of Sonetts.

Antonius Brun a writer of certain Lyric Poems printed at Noremberg by Joannes Petreius.

Antonius Codrus Vrseus, a learned and polite Author, in Profe of works of various Subjects, in Verse of 2 Books of Sylvae set forth by a great admirer of them Philippus Beroaldus-junior, be­sides Satyrs, Eglogues and Epigrams.

Antonio Decio de Horta an Italian Tragic Poet.

Antonio Facchenetti, an Italian Dra­matic Poet, but chiefly in the way of Pastoral.

Antonius Fayus an eminent French writer, out of whose writing there is also a Miscellanie of Emblems and Epi­grams.

Antonius Franciscus Rainerius an Ita­lian Versifier, but chiefly in the Latin Idiom.

Antonio Geraldino, Protonotary to the Apostolic See, and Poet Laureat of Rome, he is principally recommended to the World by his Divine Bucolics, which have been Printed in several [Page 12] places; his other chiefest Works are his Acts of the Kings of Spain in various Verse, his Fasti in Elegiac, his Hymns of the Heroes in Lyric, the Acts of the Martyrs in Heroic.

Antonio Mancinelli, a Grammarian most professedly, who wrote several Grammatical Treatises at Venice about the Year 1490. but both many of them, and some also of other Subjects, in Verse; he is much esteemed also for his Comments upon Virgils Eclogues and Georgics, and upon Horace his Odes, his Book of Epigrams, with other things.

Antonius Millaeus the Author of a late Poem Entitled Moses Viaetor, print­ed at Lyons Anno 1636.

M. Antonius Muretus, a most learned Fr. Commentator and Eloquent Ora­tour; and also so much a Poet that Scaevola Samarthanus in his Elogies of the Learned Men of France, among other Commendations, hath also this of him, That he was so like Catullus, that Catullus was not more like himself; he dyed Anno Dom. 1585.

[Page 13] Antonius Sebastianus, a Native of Minturno, who is not asham'd to ap­pear among the choice Latin Poets of Italy. Of like Estimation is,

Aonius Palearius another Italian writer of Latin Verse.

Archangelio Archangelio, see Domi­nico Cornacchini.

Armentoldo Samponiano a Noted Italian writer of Pastoral Dramatic Poesie.

Arthurus Johnstonus, an eminent Scotch Physician, who in his younger Years had the reputation of so excel­lent a Poet, that he was Laureated at Paris before he had fully arriv'd to the 23^d Year of his Age; of his Poetical works there are particularly Collected rogether, his Epigrams, his Parerga, his Musae Aulicae, his Reges Scoti, and his Heroes Scoti, his Paraphrastical Translation of David's Psalms is also remembred with particular Commen­dation.

Sir Aston Cockain the Author (what ever he hath written in Poetry besides) of several things to the Stage, as the Obstinate Lady, a Comedy, Trappolin [Page 14] suppos'd a Prince, and Tyranical Go­vernment, Tragecomedies, and Ther­sites an Interlude.

B.

BAlduinus Berlegomius, a Hollander, whose happy Vein in Latin Verse gives him place among the Belgic Poets.

Baptista Candelarius a Consul of Roan, mention'd by R [...]visius Textor with much Honour among the Learn­ed Men and Poets of his time.

Baptista Faustus a Carmelite Friar of Mantua, and therefore generally Sir­nam'd Mantuanus, vulgarly of such fame for his Poetry, that he is com­par'd even with his Countrey-man Virgil, but not by Lilius Giraldus, who takes the liberty to term him ra­ther an Extemporary than Mature Poet, and indeed whoever looks well into his home-spun and plain Verse, shall find him no Virgil though a Man­tuan, which may in part be attributed to the multitude of his Writings; for besides his 10 Eglogues (the most [Page 15] known and publisht of all his other Works) 8 of which he confesseth to have written when a Young Student at Padua; there are of his writing almost innumerable other Volumes as well in Verse as Prose, of which first kind are his Lives of St. Denis, St. George, St. Lewis Morbiolus in Heroic Verse, his Hymn upon the Nativity of St. John Baptist in Elegiac, his description and praise of Refrigerius his Villa in He­roic, his 4 Books of Sylvae, &c. he dyed Anno 1516. in the 72^d Year of his Age.

Baptista, a Friar of Ferrara, of the Order of St. Mary of Mount Carmel, chiefly fam'd for History, but taken notice of also for his Book of Epi­grams.

Baptista Fiera, a Philosopher and renowned Physician of Mantua, and for Poetry, if not equal in fame to the Mantuan Carmelite before mentio­ned, yet by no means to be omitted, for his 4 Books of Evan [...]ical History in Verse, with several Hymns he dedicated to Pope Adrian the 6^th; besides which there are Extant of his writ­ing [Page 16] Sylvae, Elegies, Epigrams, and other Poems.

Baptista Guarini, a learned Son of a learned Father, of Verona: among his Poetic works, for besides the ma­ny things he wrote in Prose, he had a Vein sufficiently flowing in all kinds of Poetry; his Dramatic peices are not the least in vogue; but above all his Pastor fido hath been naturaliz'd in all parts of Europe, where the Italian Tongue is not a stranger, and perhaps not the latest of all here in England by the Elegant Pen of Sir Richard Fan­shaw, who went Lord Embassador from his present Majesty of Great Britain to his Catholick Majesty Phi­lip the 4^th.

Baptista Persius his Eclogue Thirsis was printed at Strasburg by Jacobus Jucundus in the Year 1540. and at Basil by Oporinus.

Baptista Bishop of Reggio, the Au­thor of several Divine Poems, viz. de flenda cruce in [...]egiac Verse, de morte, de B. Virgine, &c.

[Page 17] Baptista Sanga his Poems are pecu­liarly mentioned by Giraldus and Con­radus Licosthenes.

Battista Spagnolus an Italian, who for his faculty in Latin Verse is remem­bred among the chief Italian Poets of that kind.

Barnabas Brissonius a French-man, no less Eminent for his Learning than for the great place of Trust and Dignity he he held in the State, Equivalent to the Lord Chief Justice with us. B. An­drews calls him the Varro of France, and K. H. the 4^th us'd to boast that he durst oppose him against the learnedst man any Prince in Christendome could produce against him; his most cele­brated Work in Prose is his Book de formulis; and for what he wrote also in Latin Verse he is also rank'd among the principal Poets of his time.

Bartholomaeus Amantius, an Assistant to Petrus Appianus the famous German Cosmographer of Leysnick, in his Col­lection of ancient Inscriptions which was pompously set forth with Orna­ments of Verse (the part of Aman­sius▪) and Sculpture at the charge of [Page 18] Reymundus Fuggerus at Ingolstade; he was flourishing about the Year 1543.

Bartholomaeus Anulns, a French Poet, whose Picta Poesis consisted of the de­scriptions of certain Emblematical Fi­gures in the nature of those of Alciate.

Bartholmew Traheron, a not altoge­ther obscure writer in his time, name­ly in the Reign of K. Edw. the 6^th, as well in Verse as Prose.

Barton Holyday an old Student of Christ-Church in Oxford, who besides his Translation of Juvenal with Ela­borate Notes, hath writ several other things in English Verse rather Learned than Elegant, and particularly a Co­medy called The Mariage of the Arts.

Basilio Zanchio a Canon of the Late­ranensian Order, a Native of Ber­gamo, a Town in the Seigniory of Ve­nice, of whose Works his Eclogues and Epigrams are not the least in re­pute; there is also another Basilius of Parma, whose Verses are mentioned by Baptista Mantuan in the latter end of his Third Book of Sylvae.

Benedetto Varchi, see Ottavio Ri­nuccini.

[Page 19] Benedictus Jovius, the Brother of Paulus, his Epigrams, his Distichs to Laurentio Medici, his Poem of the Fountains of Como, and another En­titled Philautia, are for Verse of no less account than his History of Como, & his Book of Architecture for Prose.

Benedictus Lampridius a Cremonese writer of Epigrams and Lyric Odes both Greec and Latin.

Benedictus Luscius, chiefly to be re­membred for his Epithalamium to John Frideric Prince Elector of Saxony.

Benjamin Johnson, the most learned, judicious and correct, generally so ac­counted, of our English Comedians, and the more to be admired for being so, for that neither the height of na­tural parts, for he was no Shakesphear, nor the cost of Extraordinary Edu­cation; for he is reported but a Brick­layers Son, but his own proper In­dustry and Addiction to Books ad­vanct him to this perfection: In three of his Comedies, namely the Fox, Alchymist and Silent Woman; he may be compared, in the Judgment of Learned Men, for Decorum, Language, [Page 20] and well Humouring of the Parts, as well with the chief of the Ancient Greec and Latin Comedians as the prime of Modern Italians, who have been judg'd the best of Europe for a happy Vein in Comedies, nor is his Bartholmew-Fair much short of them; as for his other Comedies Cinthia's Revells, Poetaster, and the rest, let the name of Ben Johnson protect them against whoever shall think fit to be se­vere in censure against them: The Truth is, his Tragedies Sejanus and Catiline seem to have in them more of an artificial and inflate than of a pa­thetical and naturally Tragic height: In the rest of his Poetry, for he is not wholly Dramatic, as his Underwoods, Epigrams, &c. he is sometimes bold and strenuous, sometimes Magisterial, sometimes Lepid and full enough of conceit, and sometimes a Man as other Men are.

Bernardinus Parthenius, a Native of Spilimberg, who hath a place among the choice Collected Works of the Italian writers of Latin Verse.

Bernardino Percivallo, an Italian Dra­matic [Page 21] Poet, but chiefly in the way of Pastoral.

Bernardino Pino, see Dominico Cor­nac [...]hini.

Bernardino Rota, see Ottavio Rinuc­cini.

Bernardus Bauhusius, a Belgian, the most notable Man was ever heard of for Ring­ing the Changes in Verse; for in a Poem he wrote of the B. Virgin, Entitled, Proteus Parthenicus unius versus, he is said to have chang'd one Verse 1022. times according to the re­putedTot sibi sunt, Virgo, dotes, quot sideracoelo. number of the con­stellations; he is mention­ed by Sweertius in his Athe­noe Belgicae, and by Andreas Valerius in his Bibliotheca Belgica.

Bernardus Praetorius reckon'd a­mong the principal of German wri­ters, who have been Eminent for La­tin Poesie.

Bernardo Tasso, the Father of that Renowned Italian Poet Torquato Tasso, himself also the Author of a noted Poem Entitled Amadei.

Le Sieur de Boisval the Author of a French Heroic Poem Entitled Esther.

[Page 22] Bonaventura Vulcanius, an Author of much Esteem for the many learned Works he hath put forth, and for what he writ in Verse, rank'd in the number of Belgic Latin Poets.

Mr. Bouillon, a French-man, of whose writing there are Extant Epigrams and other pieces of Poetry.

Mr. Boursault, a French writer of Poems, Entitled Poesies d'Obligation & d'Amour printed at Paris Anno 1667.

Mr. Breboef, a late French Poet, of whose Poesie divers things are printed at Paris not many Years since.

Bruno Nolano, see Dominico Cornac­chini.

Burchiello, see Ludovico Dolce.

C.

CArolo Flamma, an Italian Dra­matic Poet, but chiefly in the way of Pastoral.

Carolus Malatesta, an Italian writer reckon'd among the principal of that Nation for Latin Poesie.

Carolus Malepertius, a Belgic writer of Latin Verse.

[Page 23] Carolo Noci one of the chief of the Italian writers of Pastoral.

Carolus Vtenhovius, a Native of Gant, Born of a Noble Family, a Man of a wandring and unsetled kind of life, but stedfastly addicted to Learn­ing in general, and to Poetry in Par­ticular.

Celio Calcagnino, a most universally Learned Italian Writer, among whose many other Volumes in Humanity, An­tiquity, Philosophy and Theology, his 3 Books of Sonnets are not in the least repute, being commonly printed, together with those of Ariosto and Pigna.

Celio Magno, an Italian Poet, es­pecially in the way of Sonnets and other Lyric Poetry.

Cesare Caporale, see Ludovico Dolce.

Cesare Cremonino a Pastoral writer among the Italian Dramatics.

Cesare Rinaldi, a Lyric Poet or Son­net writer of Bononia, an Ancient Town and University of Romania.

Cesare Simonetti, an Italian Drama­tic Poet, but principally in the way of Pastoral.

[Page 24] Le Sieur Chappelain, the Author of a French Poem Entitled la Pucelle, or France's delivery.

Mr. Chevreau, the Author of certain French Poems printed at Paris Anno 1656

Christopherus Aulaeus, his Epicedium upon the death of Anne Queen of Hun­gary and Bohemia, his Tristia, his Epi­grams, aud his Invective against the K. of France, are all mentioned by Gesner in his Bibliotheca.

Christopherus Caseanus, his Querela nostrorum temporum was printed at Basil by Oporinus 1552.

Christophoro Castelletti, see Dominico Cornacchini.

Christopher Marlow, a kind of a se­cond Shakesphear (whose contempo­rary he was) not only because like him he rose from an Actor to be a maker of Plays, though inferiour both in Fame and Merit; but also because in his be­gun Poem of Hero and Leander, he seems to have a resemblance of that clean and unsophisticated Wit, which is natural to that incomparable Poet; this Poem being left unfinished by [Page 25] Marlow, who in some riotous Fray came to an untimely and violent End, was thought worthy of the finishing Hand of Chapman; in the perfor­mance whereof nevertheless he fell short of the Spirit and Invention with which it was begun; of all that he hath written to the Stage his Dr. Faustus hath made the greatest noise with its Devils and such like Tragical sport, nor are his other 2 Tragedies to be forgotten, namely his Edw. the II. and Massacre at Paris, besides his Jew of Malta a Tragecomedie, and his Tragedy of Dido, in which he was joyned with Nash.

Chr. Oclandus, an old English Poet, that is, one of the oldest of the Mo­derns, who wrote in Verse a Historical piece, called Anglorum Praelia.

Christophorus Longolius, a Parisian, who besides many things in Prose, wrote also Elegies aud Epigrams.

Christopherus Palmensis, his Distichs were printed at Basil by Robert Win­ter; he flourish'd about 1486.

[Page 26] Christophorus Pannonius is chiefly re­membred for his Elegy to Nicolas Perenot Granvile printed with Paradin's ancient state of Burgundy, ut Basil.

Cbristophorus Schellembergius, a Ger­man Poet, principally remembred for his Epithalamium upon the Marriage of Wolfangus Meurerus, a noted Phy­sician, his Friend.

Christophoro Sicinio, see Dominico Cornacchini.

Christophorus Stummelius, a German, not unfam'd among the Latin Versi­fiers of that Nation.

Christopherus Syngelius, mentioned for his Elegy upon Magdalen (the Wife of Vdaricus Earl of Reinstein) who great with Ghild perisht misera­bly by an accidental Fire in the Year 1546.

Claudius Paradinus, a writer of Em­blems in Imitation of those of Al­ciate.

Clemens Marotus a French Poet of Cahors, whom Antoin Verd in his Bi­blio [...]hec stiles the Poet of Princes, and the Prince of the Poets of his time.

[Page 27] Clemens Janitius, a Polonian Poet Laureat, whose I. Book of Tristia, I. Book of various Elegies, and ano­ther of Epigrams are said to have been printed at Cracovia.

Conradus Celtes, a German, both Philosopher, Oratour, and Mathema­tician of great Fame, but withall so highly applauded for his singular gift in Poetry, that he was honoured by the Emperour Frederic, at the Suit of the Duke of Saxony, with the Poetical Wreath in the 32d. Year of his Age, as saith Boxhornius in his Monuments and Elogies of Illustrious Men; but Pantaleon in his Book de viris Illustribus saith by the Emperour Maximilian in the 35th. Year of his Age Anno 1494. however all agree he was the first Poet Laureat among the Germans.

Conradus of Alyzeia, a Town of the Palatinate, but in the Diocess of Mentz, of whose Poetical Works (for he wrote also in Prose) the chief are his Poem of the Virgin Mary, and the Redemption of Humane kind, his Epistles to divers Friends and his Book of Odes he is mentioned flourishing in the Year 1370.

[Page 28] Conradus Lautenbachius, a highly re­puted German, Theologist, Historian, and also Poet.

Conradus Leius, a German writer, particularly commended for what he hath written in Latin Verse.

Conradus de Mure, a Canon of the Church of Zurich in Switzerland, whose Poem of the Natures of Ani­mals is not forgotten among the rest of his Works; he is mentioned flou­rishing Anno 1573.

Conradus Ritterhusius, a German of no obscure Fame among the Poetical Writers of that Nation.

Corneille, the great Dramatic writer of France, wonderfully applauded by the present Age, both among his own Countrey-men, and our Frenchly affe­cted English, for the amorous In­treagues, which if not there before, he commonly thrusts into his Tragedies and acted Histories; the Imitation whereof among us, and of the per­petual Colloquy in Rhime, hath of late very much corrupted our English Stage.

[Page 29] Cornelius Musius, a Latin Poet, none of the least considerable of the Mo­derns.

Cornelius Schonaeus, the Author of a well known Work Entitled Terentius Christianus, consisting of several Di­vine Comedies taken out of the Sacred Scripture, and written in Terence his style.

Cosm [...] Manuci, an Italian as his name Imports, but an English writer of the Just General a Tragedy, and the Loyal Lovers, a Tragecomedie.

Curtesius Curtesius a Poet of Padua, who wrote in Verse the death of St. Justina, and the Loves of Orestilla.

Cyril Turner, a writer of Two old Tragedies, the Atheists Tragedy, and the Revengers Tragedy.

D.

DAniel Heinsius, the most fam'd of Hollanders, and most Cele­brated by *Jos. Scali­ger, Douza, Selden, &c. Learned Men for his egregious Wit, and deep proficiency in all kind of Literature, he was Born [Page 30] at Gaunt Anno 1582. came to be Hi­story professour, Secretary, and Li­brary Keeper at the University of Lei­de [...]; in Prose he is Eminent for his Exercitations upon the New Testa­ment, and divers Philological Works, in strict Oration for his Excellent style in Greec and Latin Verse, of which sufficient Testimonies are Extant, and for which he is compar'd by Causabone in his Epistles to Homer for the Greec, and to Ovid and Propertius for the La­tin, besides what he wrote poetically in his Native Tongue.

Damasus Blienburgius, a Hollander, who for what he hath written in Latin Poesie is remembred among the chief of Belgic Latin Poets.

Dantes Aligerus, a most Renowned Florentine, and the first of Italian Poets of any Fame or Note for Vernacular Verse; but that which most proclaims his Fame to the World is his Triple Poem Entitled, Paradice, Purgatory and Hell; besides which he wrote several things in Prose; the Me­ridian of his flourishing time was the Year 1321. the Emperour Lewes [Page 31] the 5^th Sirnamed Bavarus then Reign­ing.

David Echlinus a Scotch-man, whose Poem Entitled Ova Paschalia is to be found in a Collection of the choice Works of several Scotch Latin Poets; as likewise

David Humus his Lusus Poetici.

David Kynalochus, his Poem de Ho­minis procreatione, & de Anatome.

David Wederburnus his various Poems.

Diomede Borghese, a Lyric Poet, or Sonnet writer of Siena.

Dionysius Lebius Taubilius, a learn­ed German writer as well in Verse as Prose.

Dionysio Guazzoni, a Dramatic Poet of Cremona, chiefly in the way of Pa­storal.

Dionysius Gotofredus, a French Civi­lian, of that Eminence, that he is styl'd by Learned Men the Papinian of his time, and by Dilherus in his Academical Disputations is highly com­mended for his Notes upon the Body of the Civil Law, yet amidst so labo­rious a Study, and such a painful Work, [Page 32] he could sometimes be vacant to the Latin Muse.

Dominicus Baudius, a most grateful Associate and Favourite to the most Learned, and also the most noble per­sons of his time both in England, France and the Low-Countries, and among the rest (coming into England in the retinue of a Splendid Embassie from the States to Queen Elizabeth) to the great Patron of all vertue Sir Philip Sidny, for the singular Merit of his Worth and Learning, of which he had given large Proofs in several fa­mous Universities, especially that of Leyden, to which at last he wholly betook himself, and with great Repu­tation read Eloquence and History; his Extant Latin Poems are particularly commended by Grotius and others, the most Excellent of Modern Poets them­selves; he was Born at Lisle in Flanders, the Son of Dominicus and Marie Heems on the 9th. of the Ides of April 1561.

Dominico Cornacchini an Italian Dra­matic, but particularly in the way of Comedy, among the Multitude of which kind of writers scarce to be [Page 33] numbred, these following deserve not to be past by in silence, viz. Christo­phero Sicinio, Archangelo Archangelo, Bernardino Pino, Christophero Castelletti, Gio. Battista Verini, Angelo Badalucchi, M. Hieron: Burgaglio, Ludovioo▪ Fenarolo, Adriano Polito, Bruno Nolano, Raphael Trianoro, Ludovico Contareno, Gio. Battista Gelli, M. Hieron: Razzi, M. Ludovico Paterna.

Dominicus Lampsonius a Belgian, who being equally happy both in the art of Painting and Poetry describ'd in Verse the Life of Lambertus Lom­bardus a most Excellent Painter, and his Master in that Art, 1598.

Dominicus Mancinus, an Author no less Elegant then Learned, who pro­fessing Theology and affecting Poetry, applyed his Muse to Divine and Mo­ral Subjects, his Poem on the passion of our Saviour, and another of the 4 Cardinal Vertues and their Offices, in Elegiac Verse were both printed at Basil Anno 1543. he is Recorded flou­rishing Anno 1494.

[Page 34] Domitio Marino, a Venetian both Philosopher and Physician by professi­on, but a writer also of Poems, which were printed by the Sons of Aldus Manutius Anno 1550.

E.

EDmund Fairfax, one of the most Judicious, Elegant and haply in his time, most approved of English Translatours, both for his choice of so worthily Extoll'd a Heroic Poet as Torquato Tasso; as for the exactness of his Version, in which he is judg'd by some to have approved himself no less a Poet than in what he hath written of his own Genius.

Edmund Prestwich, the Author of a Comedy, which came forth about 20 Years ago, called the Hectors or False Challenge; as also Hippolitus a Tra­gedy, what ever he might have writ­ten besides not remembred.

Edmund Spencer, the first of our English Poets that brought Heroic Po­esie to any perfection, his Faery Queen being for great Invention and Poetic [Page 35] heighth judg'd little inferiour, if not equal to the chief of the ancient Greeks and Latins or Modern Italians, but the first Poem that brought him in­to Esteem was his Shepherds Calendar, which so endear'd him to that Noble Patron of all Vertue and Learning Sir Philip Sidny, that he made him known to Queen Elizabeth, and by that means got him preferr'd to be Secretary to his Brother Sir Henry Sidny, who was sent Deputy into Ireland, where he is said to have written his Faerie Queen, but upon the return of Sir Henry, his Employment ceasing, he also return'd into England, and having lost his great Friend Sir Philip, fell into poverty, yet made his last Refuge to the Queens Bounty, and had 500 l. order'd him for his Support, which nevertheless was abridg'd to 100. by Cecil, who hearing of it, and owing him a grudge for some reflections in Mother Hub­bards Tale, cry'd out to the Queen, What all this for a Song? This he is said to have taken so much to Heart, that he contracted a deep Melancholy, which soon after brought his Life to [Page 36] a Period: So apt is an Ingenious Spi­rit to resent a slighting, even from the greatest Persons; and thus much I must needs say of the Merit of so great a Poet from so great a Mona [...]ch, that as it is incident to the best of Poets sometimes to flatter some Royal or Noble Patron, never did any do it more to the height, or with greater Art and Elegance, if the highest of praises attributed to so Heroic a Prin­cess can justly be term'd Flattery.

Edmund Waller of Beckonsfeild, one of the mo [...] fam'd Poets, and that not unworthily, of the present Age, be­ing yet surviving; especially, and (wherein he is not inferiour to Carew himself,) in the charming sweetness of his Lyric Odes or amorous Son­nets long since wedded to the no less charming Notes of H. Laws, at that time the Prince of Musical Compo­sers, and one of the principal Gen­tlemen of the Chappel, as also of the private Music to his late Majesty King Charles the First. In his other ac­oasional Poems his Verse is smooth, yet strenuous, not barren of con­ceit, [Page 37] and frequently adorn'd with pro­per Similies.

Sir Edward Dier, a person of good account in Queen Elizabeth's Reign, poetically addicted, several of whose Pastoral Odes and Madrigals are Ex­tant in a printed Collection of certain choice pieces of some of the most emi­nent Poets of that time.

Edward Shirburn, an intimate Friend and Acquaintance, as well of the an­cient Greek and Latin, as of the choicest of Modern Poets, both Ita­lian, French and Spanish, and in what he hath Elegantly and Judiciously Translated either of the former or later, a discoverer of a more pure Po­etical Spirit and Fancy, then many others can justly pretend to in their original Works; his Version of those Books of Manilius, which relate meerly to Astronomy, is a very Noble Work, being set forth with most Exact Notes, and other Learned and proper Illu­strations.

Eilardas Alma, a H [...]llander, whose Fame is not altogether unknown to the Learned for what he hath written in Latin Poesie.

[Page 38] Eilardus Lubinus, a Learned Ger­man, who amidst several Elaborate Works in Prose, was not wholly un­conversant with the Muses, being therefore reckon'd among the Latin Poets of that Nation.

Elias Putschius, a Low-Countrey-man, who hath written sufficiently in Latin Verse, to be numbred among the Latin Poets of that Nation.

Elkanah Settle, a present writer to the English Stage, to which he hath already contributed Two Ttagedies, Cambises, and the Empress of Morocco; for which he hath the applause of some, the severe censure of others, and perhaps neither according to ex­act desert; to those that erre on the right hand that is that over-praise, little is to be said; to the others it may be pleaded in his behalf, that his soaring up to too much affected and immoderate heights, which I take to be his chief failing, may possibly be allayed by the more Mature Judg­ment of riper Years, he being yet but a young Man.

[Page 39] Elysius Calentius, a writer in Latin Poesie famous in Italy in the Reign of the Emperour Maximilian; his Elegies, Epigrams, Epistles, Poem of Hectors apparition, and another of the War between the Frogs and Mice, Satyrs against the Poets, and other things were printed at Rome Anno 1503.

Emanuel Thesaurus, a Patrician or Noble-man of Turin, the Capital City of the Dukedom of Savoy, and of the Order of the great Cross of St. Laza­rus and St. Maurice, whose Patriarchae, or Genealogy of Christ divided into Four Periods according to the Four Ages of Man, is written in a style called Lapidaria, so call'd as proper for Inscriptions upon Tombs, being a middle style between Oratory & Poetry, between strict and solute Oration.

Engelhardus Funkius, a Poet of Swobach in Franconia, who wrote in E [...]egiac Ve [...]se an Encomium of his Countrey, Epistles, Epigrams, and several other Miscellaneous pieces; he is Recorded flourishing in the Year of our Lord 1494.

[Page 40] Erasmo Valvasonio, an Italian Poet, who wrote Five Books in Verse de Re Rustica, or of Countrey Affairs, in that kind of Stanza commonly called among the Italians Ottava Rima.

Erycus Puteanus, an Fminent both Historian and Poet, who, as Causabon in his Preface to the Augusta Historia saith, was justly reputed in his time among the chief Ornaments of France; he is most known by his Insubric Hi­story, but withall not unremembred for his Elegant Latin Poems, among which his Musarum Ferculum is parti­cularly quoted by a Learned English Author.

Euricius Cordus, a late German Poet, whose Opera Poetica were print­ed at Helmested Anno 1614.

F.

FAmianus Strada, an Italian, both Poet, Historian & Oratour of prin­cipal Repute, being a Native of Rome, where he was professour of Rhetoric for 15 Years; his History of the Low-Countrey [Page 41] Wars, and his Academical Prolusions are the chiefest and most fam'd of his Works, in the last of which he so ingeniously imitates the style of each of the principal Ancient Latin Poets, that thereby he shews himself a great Master in Latin Poetry.

Le Sieur de Fargues, the Author of a French Heroic Poem Entitled David.

Faustus Sabaeus, a Brescian, of whose Latin Poetry there is sufficient Ex­tant to place him among the chief Ita­lian writers of that kind.

Felix Fidlerus, a German Poet, whose most particularly mentioned Poems are his Eclogue, Entitled Philotas, de­dicated to the Bishop of Arras, and his Elegy upon the death of Cardinal Perenot Granvile.

Florentius Schonhovius, a Belgic wri­ter, Native of Gouda, of whom there is Extant a Poem Entitled Lalage, or Amores Pastorales, with the sele­cted Works of several other noted Latin Poets of that Countrey, in which Society Antonius Schonhovins is also one.

[Page 42] Florentius Volusenus, one of the association, with those other noted Latin Poets of Scotland, the choice of whose Poems are Collected together in a long since publish'd Volume.

Foppius Scheltonus Aesema, a Frisian, whose Juvenilia are to be found with the selected Works of other Belgic Poets already mention'd.

Francis Beaumont, an inseparable Associate and Coadjutor to Fletcher in the making of many of his Plays, be­sides what he made solely himself; there is also Extant a Poem of his Entitled Salmacis and Hermaphroditus a Fable taken out of Ovids Mctamorphoses.

Francesco Biondi, an Italian Poet, whose most noted Work is his Eri­mena.

Francesco Bracciolini, another Ita­lian Poet, the most particularly men­tion'd of whose Works is his Cruce ricuperata, or regaining of the Cross.

Francesco Contareni, a Venetian not of the meanest rank of the Lyric Poets of Italy.

Don Francesco Manuel, a Spaniard, whose Obras Metricas, or Poetical [Page 43] Works were printed at Leon, Anno 1665.

Francesco Maria Molza, a Poet of Modena, reckon'd among the chief of the Ly [...]ics or Sonnet writers of Italy; there is also particularly taken notice of his Elegy in the name of Catharine Queen of England to K. Henry the 7^th.

Francesco Mataracio, a Poet of Pe­rusia, a Town of that part of Tuscany, which is called Lo stato della chiesa, and belongs to the Pope; his mention'd Poems are Epistles to several Friends, and Epigrams but he wrote also in tendency to Poetry, Instructions for the making Hexameter and Pentameter Verses.

Franciscus Niger Bassianus, a Learn­ed writer both in Prose and Verse, in which last way his most fam'd piece is his Epitome of Ovid Metamorphoses in Phaleusian Verse.

Francisco Ottavio, an Italion Poet, known chiefly by his Elegies to Julia, and his Epistles.

Francesco Peto, a Poet of Fondi, a Town of Campania, whose Sylva to Augustinus Niphus is of what he wrote [Page 44] in Verse the most particularly re­membred.

Francisus Franchinus, a retainer e­qually to Mars and the Muses, who attending on the Emperour Charles the Fifth in his Algerine Expedition, at his return wrote an Elegant descri­ption of the said Expedition in Verse.

Franciscus Modius, an Eminent both Civilian and Poet of Bruges in Flan­ders.

Franciscus Panigarola, one of the Society of those Latin Poets of Italy, whose several Works, or what is of them choicest, are published toge­ther.

Francisco Petrarcha, a Florentine Poet, Renowned both for Latin and Italian Poesie; his Italian Sonnets in Celebration of Laura, and his Tri­umps are in very high Esteem.

Franciscus Philelphus, a Knight of Tollentinum, the Author of a Multi­tude of Volumes, whereof very many in Verse, particularly his Sfortias, his Poem in Commendation of Aenicius Davalus, his Odes both Greec and La­tin, which with the rest of his Poetical [Page 45] Works advanc'd his Fame in Poetry to the title of Poet Laureat; he is Re­corded to have Flourish'd about the Year of our Lord 1481.

Franciscus Pigna, a Countrey-man and Associate of the Poet Curte­sius.

Franciscus Portus, a Modern Greec Poet, chiefly Epigrammatic.

Francisco Puteolani, a Poet of Parma, one of the chief setters forth of the Acts of Lodowic Sforza, the Famous Souldier of that Age.

Francis Quarles, the darling of our Plebeian Judgments, that is such as have ingenuity enough to delight in Poetry, but are not sufficiently instru­cted to make a right choice and distin­ction; his Emblems being a Copy from Hermannus Hugo's Original, his Version of Job into English Verse, his Feast of Worms, or History of Jonas, and other Divine Poems have been ever, and still, are in wonderful Vene­ration among the Vulgar, and no less his Argalus and Parthenia, a History taken out of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia; there hath been also Acted a Comedy of his called the Virgin Widow.

[Page 46] Don Francesco de Quevedo, a Spanish writer, of signal Fame and Credit both in Prose and Verse, of which later kind are his Obras Metricas, or Poeti­cal Works, which were printed at Brussels Anno 1660.

Franciscus & Justus Raphelengius, Two Belgic writers, whose Varia Carmina are with the selected Works of others accounted the chief of that Countrey for Latin Verse.

Franciscus Sphondratus, an Italian, whose Latin Poem de Raptu Helenae is Extant among the Collected Works of divers others, accounted the prime of Italy for Latin Poesie.

Francesco Vinta, an Itaelian of prin­cipal Note among the Pastoral and Comic writers of that Nation.

Fredericus Dedecindus, a German Poet, known most especially by his Poem in praise of a Countrey Life, and his Epithalamium upon the Marriage of Paulus Gusebelius with Magdalena Moniera of Wirten-berg.

Fredericus Taubmannus, a German, chiefly fam'd for a most Learned Com­mentator and Philologist, but not [Page 47] to be wholly left out of the Number of Poets.

Fridianus Piginutius, an Italian, who being Oratour and Poet to Erue­stus Duke of Saxony, wrote in the La­tin Idiom Elegies to Conradus Celtes, and Martinus Pollichias, a Saphic Ode to St. Sebastian, to implore an aversion of the Pestilence, which were printed with Celtes his Book of the Art of Ver­sifying.

Sir Fulk Grevil, Lord Brook, a great Friend and Associate of Sir Philip Sidny, whose Life he wrote, as also several things in Poetry both Drama­tic, as his Tragedies of Alaham, Mu­stapha, and Marcus Tullius Cicero, and others commonly of a Political Subject, and among the rest a Posthume Work not publisht till within a very few Years, being a Two-fold Treatise, the first of Monarchy, the second of Religion, in all which is observable a close, my­sterious and sentencious way of wri­ting, without much regard to E­legancy of style▪ or smoothness of Verse.

[Page 48] Le Sieur de Furetiere. the Author of certain French Poems printed at Paris Anno 1650.

G.

GAbriel Cabrera, see Ludovic [...] Dolce.

Gabriel Faernus, a very Learned Man, and diligent Inquirer into La­tin Authors, as his setting forth of Terence, and some pieces of Cicero te­stifie; Moreover he so ingeniously Paraphras'd upon Esops Fables in di­vers kinds of Latin Verse, that he merits to be rank'd among the Po­ets; he is of that Rank of Eminent Men, that in Chronology come under the Year 1561.

Gabriel Zinani, an Italian, whose Extant Sonnets, Madrigals, &c. give him place among the Lyric Poets of that Nation.

Gallus Chrudimenus, a writer in Verse, fo [...] Elegancy reckon'd of the chief of Modern Latin Poets.

[Page 49] Gaspar Barlaeus, a learned and witty Batavian, and of so Eminent a Fame among the Belgic writers of Latin Poesie, that Vossius in his Book de Arte Grammatica, by doubting whether he were the better Philosopher or Poet, seems to Intimate his Excellence in both Faculties; several of his poeti­cal Works are quoted by a Learned English Author, as his Hymns, his Poem in praise of the Garden of Ley­den, his Britannia triumphans, &c.

Gaspar Bruschius, a Poet Laureate of Egra in Bohemia, whose poeti­cal Works are many, and of various kinds, besides what he also wrote in Prose.

Gaspar Ensius, a German Poet, who for what he hath written in Latin Verse is reckon'd among the principal Latin Poets of that Nation.

Gaspar Greterus, Chaplain to the Prince of Wirtenberg, and a copious writer both in Prose and Verse; among his poetical things his Gospels in La­tin Verse are particularly taken no­tice of.

[Page 50] Gaspar Main, a Student of Christ-Church in Oxford, where he lived for many Years in much Credit and Repu­tation for his florid Wit, and Inge­nious Vein in Poetry, which produc'd Two Witty and well approved Come­dies, the City Match and the Amorous War; nor did he, since his applica­tion to Theology, of which he was Dr. and his Ecclesiastical prefer­ment, totally relinquish those po­liter Studies to which he was before addicted, having lately publish'd Lu­cians Works, of his own Translating into English.

Gaspar Vrsinus, a Noble Poet of Veli, among whose Poems his Mo­nostichs of the Alban and Roman Kings, and other Illustrious Men of Rome, as also of the Roman Empe­rours and Popes, down to Charles the 5th. and Pope Hadrian 6th. also his Di­stichs of the Roman Emperours are es­pecially noted.

Sir Geoffry Chaucer, the Prince and Coryphaeus, generally so reputed, till this Age, of our English Poets, and as much as we triumph over his old [Page 51] fashion'd phrase, and obsolete words, one of the first re [...]iners of the English Language, of how great Esteem he was in the Age wherein he flourish'd, namely the Reigns of Henry the 4^th, Henry the 5^th, and part of Henry the 6^th, appears, besides his being Knight and Poet Laureat, by the Honour he had to be allyed by Marriage to the great Earl of Lancaster Jobn of Gaunt: How great a part we have lost of his Works above what we have Extant of him is manifest from an Author of good Credit, who reckons up many considerable Poems, which are not in his publisht Works; besides the Squires Tale, which is said to be compleat in Arundel-house Library.

Georgio Anselmo, an Epigrammatist of Parma.

Georgius Benedictus, a Hollander of principal repute among the Eelgic wti­ters of Latin Poesie.

Georgius Bersmannus, a German of no inferiour Estimation among Learn­ed Men; but particularly fam'd for his happy Genius in Latin Verse.

[Page 52] Georgius Buchananus, the most cele­brated by the Learned Men of his time, of all the famous writers that Scotland hath produc'd, and that not without reason, being in his Prose both Elegant and Judicious, (in so much that Vossius selecting out for seve­ral Countries each of their prime Hi­storians, names him for the History of his own Countrey) and for Verse, if not the chief of Modern Latin Poets, as some account him, yet at least the chief of that Nation, which however barren of Soyl Esteem'd, yet hath been sufficiently fruitful of good VVits, and Men famous particularly for Latin Verse; being so conspicuous a person no wonder he was made choice of for the Education of a Prince that was born to the sole Monarchy of Great Brittain.

George Bullen Lord Rochford, Bro­ther to Queen Anne, 2^d VVife to K. Henry the 8^th, among other things hath the Fame of being the Author of Songs and Sonnets, which doubt­less wanted not the applause of those times.

[Page 53] George Chapman, a Poetical wri­ter, Flourishing in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James, in that repute both for his Translations of Homer and Hesiod, and what he wrote of his own proper Genius; that he is thought not the meanest of English Poets of that time, and parti­cularly for his Dramatic writings, as his Blind Beggar of Alexandria, All Fools, The Gentleman Vsher, May-day, The, Widows Tears, Mounsieur d'Olive, A days Mirth, Eastward hoe, Comedies; Bussy d'Amb [...]ys, Caesar & Pompey Tra­gedies.

George Fletcher, the Author of a Poem Entitled Christs Victory and Tri­umph in Heaven and Earth over and after Death; he wrote in the Reign of King James and King Charles the First.

George Etheridge a Comical writer of the present Age; whose Two Come­dies, Love in a Tub, and She would if She could, for pleasant Wit, and no bad Oeconomy, are judg'd not uu­worthy the Applause they have met with.

[Page 54] Georgio Gradenico, see Ottavio Ri­uuco [...]ni.

George Gascoign, one of the smaller Poets of Queen Elizabeths days, whose poetical Works nevertheless have been thought worthy to be quo­ted among the chief of that time; his Supposes, a Comedy; Glass of [...]overnment, a Tragecomedy; J [...] ­ [...]sta a Tragedy, are particularly re­membred.

George Herbert, a Younger Brother of the Noble Family of the Herberts of Montgomery, whose florid Wit, ob­liging Humour in Conversation, flu­ent Eloquution, and great proficience in the Arts, gain'd him that Reputati­on at Oxford, where he spent his more Youthful age, that he was chosen Uni­versity Oratour; at last taking upon him Holy Orders, not without special incouragement from the King, who took notice of his parts; he was made Parson of Bemmerton near Salisbury; in this state his affection to Poetry be­ing converted to serious aud Divine Subjects, produc'd those so generally known and appro [...]ed Poems Entitled the Temple.

[Page 55] Georgius Macropedius, a German Poet, whose most noted Poems be­side his Comedies Andrisca, Hecastus, Rebelles and others, and some Trage­dies out of Sacred History, are his Bassarus, Lazarns Mendicus, and his Calender of the principal Feasts of the Church in Heroie Verse.

Georgius Myliusa German Poet, whose Two Books of Elegies were printed at Leipsich in the Year 1557.

George Peel, a somewhat antiquated English Bard of Queen Elizabeth Date, some Remnants of whose pretty pastoral Poetry we have Extant in a Collection Entitled Englands Helicon.

George Riplay, a Canon of Bridling­ton in the time of King Henry the 7^th, who in old English Verse wrote several Chymical Misteries pretending to Lead to the attaining of the Philo­sophers Stone.

Georgius Rotallerus, a German Poet, who besides his Latin Version of He­siods opera, & dies, in Elegiac Verse, and also Three of Sophocles his Trage­dies, as his Ajax, Electra and Antigone, hath also written Epigrams and some other Poems. [Page 54] [...] [Page 55] [...]

[Page 56] Georgius Sabinus, a Brandenburger, the Son in Law of Philip Melanchton, a Person of no obscure Fame among German writers both for Verse and Prose.

George Sands, a well approved wri­ter of his Travels into Forrein Parts; but a much more admir'd Tran­slator of Ovid's Metamorphses into English Verse, and Paraphrast of Da­vids Psalms; and not unapplauded for his Tragedy of Christs Passion.

Georgius Siputus Daripenus, a Ger­man Poet, the most particularly re­membred of whose Poems are his Congratulatories upon the Arrival of the Emperour Maximilian to Colen.

Georgius Thurius, a Hungarian, one of the most Eminent of that Nation for Latin Poesie.

Georgius Tilenus, a German writer not forgotten among the chief of the Latin Versisiers of that Nation.

George Withers, a most profuse pourer forth of English Rhime, not without great pretence to a Poetical zeal against the Vices of the times in his Motto, his Remembrancer, and [Page 57] other such like Satyrical Works; be­sides which he turn'd into English Verse the Songs of Moses, and other Hymns of the Old Testament; in all which, and whatever else there is of his dis­perced up and down; for his Works however Voluminous, have been scarce thought worthy to be Collected into a Volume; whoever, shall go about to imitate his lofty style, may boldly venture to ride post and Versi­fie; yet because vulgarly taken for a a great Poet; and by some for a Pro­phet; in regard many things are fan­cied to have come to pass, which he pretended to predict, he must not be omitted; but the most of Poetical Fancy which I remember to have found in any of his Writings, is in a little piece of pastoral Poetry call'd the Shepheards Hunting.

Gerardus Bucoldianus, a German, both Oratour and Poet, the chiefly remembred of whose Poems is that of the Muses progress into Germany: He Flourish'd at Bon [...]nia in the Year 1535.

[Page 58] Germanus Auber [...]us Aurelius, one of principal note among the French Po­etical writers of Latin Verse.

Germanus Brixius of Auxerre, a Canon of Paris, among whose Poeti­cal writings there are principally men­tion'd his Antimorus, or Invective against our Countrey-man Sir Thomas More; his Elegy upon the death of Fran is Deloin; and his Epigrams up­on the death of K. Francis the First of France.

Germanus Valens Guelius, a curious Critic in the Greec Language, and not meanly vers'd in all kind of Humane Li [...]erature; but according to the Te­stimony of Thuanus, principally addi­cted to Poetry.

Giacopo Alegreto, a Poet of Forli a Town in Flaminia, of whom there is Extant a Bucolic Poem, mention'd by Biondi.

Giacopo Gaddi, an Italian, who shares in Fame among the Poetical Wri [...]ers of that Nation.

Giacopo Ca [...]eo, an Italian, Author of a Poem Entitled Peregrino, which was printed Anno 1538.

[Page 59] Giacopo Sadoletti, a Contempo­rary, Associate, and as it were Co-partner with Pietro Bembo, not only in agreement of Studies, they being both Eminent writers as well in Verse as Prose; but also of their Fortunes and Preferment in the World, they being both chosen by Pope Leo, the 10^th, to be his Scretaries together, both advanc'd to the Purple by Paul the 3^d, uuder whose Reign they both dyed.

Gilb [...]rtus Ducherius Vulto, a Poeti­cal writer, of whom, what ever he wrote beside, there are Extant Five Books of Epigrams, and an Eclogue printed by Oporinus at Basil.

Giovanni Ambrogio Marini, an Ita­lian Poet, whose Cal [...]andro Fidele was printed at Venice Anno 1664.

Giovanni Andrea Rosetti, a late Poe­tical writer among the Italians, the Author of a Poem Entitled M [...]rmono d'Helicona▪

Giovanni Andreini, another Italian, Author of a Fantastic Poem, as he himself calls it, Entitled Olivastro, which was printed at Bologna Anno 1642.

[Page 60] Giovanni Antonio Flaminio, see Jo­annes Antonius Flaminius, in regard what he wrote was in Latin Verse.

Giovanni Battista Marini, an Emi­nent Italian writer, who besides his Sonnets wrote an Heroic Poem En­titled Adonis.

Giovanni Battista di Pesaro, another of the same Nation, not to be left out of the Number of Italian Poets.

Giovanni Battista Pigna, a noted Ita­lian Lyric Poet, whose Four Books of Sonnets were printed at Venice by Vincentius Valgrisius Anno 1553. with those of Calcagnino, Ariosto, and other Famous Poets of that kind.

Giovanni Boccaccio de Certaldo, a most generally known and Extolled Floren­tine Writer, and worthily rank'd a­mong the Poets not only for his Bu­colies▪ but several other writings of a poetical nature, as his Genealogia di Dei, his Huomini Illustri, his Decame­ron, &c. besides which he wrote seve­ral other things both Historical and Geographical; he Flourish'd in the Year 1375.

[Page 61] Giovanni della Casa, an Italian Ly­ric Poet, whose Rime or Sonnets were printed at Venice Anno 1559.

Giovanni Georgio Trissini, a Knight and Count of Vicenza, of a very Cele­brated Fame for what he hath written both in Poetry and Oratory; he was Born in the Year 1478. being the Son of Gaspar Trissini, by Cecilia Bevilac­qua, the Daughter of Gulielmo a Gen­tleman of Verona.

Girolamo Caso an Italian Lyric Poet or Sonnet writer of Vderza.

Girolamo Gratiani, an Italian, Au­thor of a Poem Entitled La Cleopatra, which was printed at Venice Anno 1668.

Girolamo Preti, see Ottavio Rinuc­cini.

Girolamo Ronconio, a Dramatic wri­ter of Siena, but chiefly for Pasto­rals.

Giulio Goselani, an Italian writer of Rime or Sonnets, which were printed at Venice Anno 1588.

Mr. Gomb [...]ud, a French Epigram­matist.

[Page 62] Gothofredus Torinus, a French Poet, Eminent among the chief writers of Latin Verse of that Nation.

Godfry Prior of Winchester, an Old English Poet as he is reckon'd, by Camb­den in his Remains; he is indeed a borde [...]er between the Antients and Moderns, for he Flourish'd about the Year 1100.

Gnalterus de Castellione, a Philoso­pher, Theologist, and, as his Poem setting forth the Acts of Alexander the Great in Heroic Verse Testifies, Poet also, of Lisle in Flanders, though some ascribe this Work not to Gual­terus, but Guillermus de Castellione, by whom then it is to be suppos'd to have been Dedicated to Gnalterus▪

Guido Cavalcanti, see Ottavio Rinuc­cini.

Guido, First Presbiter, then Bishop of Ferrara, who wrote in Verse Re­marques upon the Old and New Te­stament, which Work he called the Pearl of the Bible, and Dedicated it to Pope Clement the 5^th, his Fame brake forth about the Year 1310. so that he was Contemporary with Dante, and [Page 63] as it were a Frontier Authour between the Ancients and the Moderns.

Guidus Posthumus Sylvestris, a Poet of Pesaro, who wrote Two Books of Elegies to Pope Leo.

Gulielmus Bigotius de la Valle, a French Poet whose Catoptron, a Poem con­taining precepts for the Instruction of Youth, is the principal of what is Extant of him.

Gulielmus Budaeus, a most learned Parisian, among whose many Treatise; in all sorts of Humane Literature; his Elegies, Epigrams, and other things in Poetry are not forgotten.

Gulielmus Durandus, Sirnamed Spe­culator, from his Treatise Entitled Speculum juris, a learned French Bishop, and one of the most noted Men of his time, (and he was Flourishing about the Year 1300.) for perfe­ction in several Faculties; so that he hath from Pasquier in his recherches de la France, the Character both of an Excellent Poet, solid Divine, and ex­act Lawyer.

Gulielmus Gnapheus, a Poet of Hague, whose most noted Poems, be­sides [Page 64] his Comedies the Prodigal Son, and Misobarbarus, and his Trageco­medy Hypocrisis, are his Triumph of Eloquence in various Verse; and his Poem of Psyche's Calamity and Resto­ration.

Gulielmus Hondius, a late German Poet, whose Cithara Spiritualis Sex Chordarum was printed at Colen Anno 1637.

Gulielmus Modicius, an Italian, for Latin Poesie reckon'd among the prin­cipal of that Nation.

Gulielmus Salustius Bartasius, or du Bartas, a French Poet, whose Poem of the 6 days work of Creation, tran­slated by Joshua Sylvester, hath had a very great Fame here in England, and is yet in great Esteem with many.

Gulielmus X [...]lander, a learned both Logician, Mathematician, Musician, Historian, Philosopher, Linguist, and also Poet (as Melchior Adams in his Life Characters him) of Augusta, born in the Year of our Lord 1530. he was Professor of the Greec Tongue at Heidelberg.

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HAns Sacs Teucherus, a Poet of special note among the Ger­mans.