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 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 fashion'd phrase and obsolete words one of the first reâ—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 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 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'Ambâ—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 Georgio Gradenico see Ottavio Riuucoâ—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 â—overnment a Tragecomedy Jâ—â—â—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 approâ—ed Poems Entitled the Temple 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 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
times Tho. Manly one of the croud of Potical writers of the late King's time he wrote among other things the History of Job in Verse Tho. May the vulgarly admir'd Translator of Lucan into English Verse but here cheifly to be mention'd for what he hath written propria Minerva as his Supplement of Lucan in Latin Verse his History of Henry the Second in English Verse besides what he wrote of Dramatic as his Tragedies of Antigone Cleopatra and Agrippina the Heir a Tragi-Comedy the Old Couple and the Old Wives Tale Comedies and the History of Orlando Furioso as for his History of the late Civil Wars of England though it were written in Prose yet he is thought to have vented therein the speen of a Malecontented Poet for having been frustrated in his Expectation of being the Queen's Poet for which he stood Candidate with Sir William Davenant who was prferr'd before him Thomas Metellanus the Author of a small parcel of Latin Poetry which is to be found in a collection of the works of divers of the Chiefest so accounted of the Scotch Latin Poets Tho. Middleton a copious Writer for the English Stage Contemporary with Johnson and Fletcher though not of equal repute and yet on the other side not altogether contemptible especially in many of his Plays his Comedies were Blurt M r Constable the Chast Maid in Cheapside More diffemblers then Women the Game at Chesse A mad World my Masters Michaelmas Term the Phoenix A Trick to catch the old ones His Tragedies The Mayor of Queenborough besides what he wrote associated with W. Rowly Thomas Moravius a Scotchman the Author of a Latin Poem entitled Naupactias or the Description of the battel of Lepanto in Heroic Verse Sir Thomas More a great credit and ornament in his time of the English Nation and with whom the learnedest Forraigners of that Age were proud to have correspodence for his wit and excellent parts he was chosen Speaker of the House of Commons and afterwards advanced to be Lord Chancellour of England by K. Henry the 8 â—h however he fell unfortunately a victim to the displeasure of that Prince His Vtopia though not written in Verse yet in regard of the great Fancy and Invention thereof may well pass for a Poem besides his Latin Epigrams which have receiv'd a general esteem among Learned Men. Thomas Nabbes a Writer for the most part Comical to the English Stage in the Reign of K. Charles the First the Comedies he wrote are The Bride Covent Garden Totnamcourt Woman hater arraign'd his Tragedies The Vnfortunate Mother and the Tragedy of King Charles the First besides two Masques Microcosmus and The Spring 's Glory Thomas Nash one of those that may serve to fill up the Catalogue of English Dramaties Writers his mention'd Comedies are Summers Last Will and Testament and See me and see me not Thomas Naogeorgus or by the vulgar appâ—llation Kirchmayor a German Writer native of Straubing a Town of Lower-Bavaria his works were for the most part Poetical namely 6 Tragedies an Epitome of the Canons of the Church in Heroic Verse as also 5 Books of Sacred Agriculture in the same kind of Verse with some other things Thomas Newton the Author of three Tragedies Thebais the first and second parts of Tamerlane the Great Scythian Emperour Thomas Preston the Author of Cambises King of Persia a Tragi-Comedy Thomas Randol one of the most pregnant young Wits of his time flourishing in the University of Cambridge the quick conceit and clear Poetic Fancy discover'd in his extant Poems seem'd to promise something extraordinary from him had not his indulgence to the too liberal converse with the multitude of his applauders drawn him to such an immoderate way of living as in all probability shortned his dayes besides his two Comedies Amintas and the Muses Looking-Glass and the Interlude Aristippus printed with his other works there are attributed to him a Comedy called Hey for honesty down for knavery and The Jealous Lovers a Tragedy Tho. Rawlins the cheif Graver of the Mint to King Charles the first and also to his present Majesty till the year 1670 in which died he was indeed a more excellent Artist then Poet yet his Tragedy called The Rebellion hath been acted not without good applause Thomas Read a Scotchman whose happy Vein in Latin Verse renders him not unworthy to be remember'd among the Learned Men and Poets of that Nation Thomas Seghetius another Scotch Poet chiefly known by his Meletemata Hypogeia in Latin Verse Thomas Shadwel a noted Dramatic Writer of the present Age happy especially in several witty and ingeuuous Comedies The Humorist the Sullen Lovers Epsom Wells besides his Royal Sheapherdess a Pastoral Tragi-Comedy and his Tragedy of Psyche or rather Tragical Opera as vying with the Opera's of Italy in the pomp of Scenes Machinry and Musical performance Thomas Sprat the commended Author for his smooth and judicious style of the History of the Royal Society and in Verse a very much applauded though little Poem entitled The Plague of Athens Thomas Stanly of Cumberlo Green in Hertfordshire a Gentleman both well deserving of the Common-wealth of Learning in general by his other writings his Lives of the Philosophers and his Learned Edition of Aeschylus and also particularly honoured for his smooth Air and gentile Spirit in Poetry which appears not only in his own Genuine Poems but also from what he hath so well translated out of ancient Greec and modern Italian Spanish and French Poets as to make his own Thomas Sternhold an Associate with John Hopkins in one of the worst of of many bad Translations the Psalms of David yet in regard as first made choise of they have hitherto obtain'd to be the only Psalms sung in all Parochial Churches it hath been long heartily wisht a better choice were made he hath therefore perhaps been thought worthy to be mentioned among the Poets that Flourisht in Qu. Mary's and the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's Rein. Thomas Storer one of the Writers of Queen Elizabeth's time of those Pastoral Airs and Madrigals of which we have a Collection in a Book called England's Helicon Thomas Thomasinus a Veneâ—ian who studying at Padua grew Eminent in Philosophy Logic and Poetry Thomas Watson a Contemporary imitator of Sir Philip Sidny together with Bartholmew Young Doctor Lodge and several others in that Pastoral strain of Poetry in Sonnets and Madrigals already mention'd Sir Thomas Wiâ—t of Allington-Castle in Kent a Person of great esteem and reputation in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth with whom for his honesty and singular parts he was in high Favour which nevertheless he had like to have lost about the Buisiness of Anne Bullein had not his prudence brought him safely off For his Translation of David's Psalms into English Meeter other Poetical Writings Leland forbears not to compare him to Dante and Petrarch being sent Embassador from K. Henry to the Emperour Charles the Fifth then in Spain he
stoopt down to kiss him with this expression in the hearing of many as the Anonymous Author of the Art of English Poetry testifies We may not of Princely Curtesy passe by and not honour with a kiss the Mouth from whence so many sweet Ditties and golden Poems have issued Antonius Schonhovius see Florentius in the foregoing Treatise of the Moderns Antonius Thylesius wr. a Latin Poem Cyclops Galathea Arnulph of Lysieux a French Poet taken notice of by Cambden for his Latin Epitaph upon King Henry the First of England B. Benedictus Arias Montanus that Learned Spaniard famous for his Edition of a Polyglot Bible which nevertheâ—ess is far surpass't by that set forth about 12 years since much to the credit of our Nation by Doctor Walton the first Bishop of Chester since his Majestie 's Restauration There is also mention'd of his writing a Book of Latin Hymns Benedetto del Vva a not obscure Person among the Italian Lyric writers or Sonnetiers Bernardino Tomitano another of the same order and Quality as likewise C. Camillo Peregrino Caesar Delphinus remember'd by his Maxias a Poem in Latin Heroic Verse Camillo Porcetti his Venetia Diffesa is mentioned among the late Heroic Poems of Italy Charles Aleyn wrote in English Verse the Life of K. Henry the 7 th with the Battel of Bosworth also the Battels of Cressy and Poictiers Charles Fitz-Geoffry a Poetical writer of Queen Elizabeth's Reign of some esteem formerly I judge by that Collection of choice flowers Descriptions as well out of his as the works of several others the most renowned Poets of our Nation collected above 60 years ago Charles Middleton another of the same time or there about of the same concernment in the forementioned Collection Claudius Espencaeus a French-Man whose Latin Poem Heroides is the chiefly mentioned of his Poetical works Cornelius Boius his Raptus Benjamitarum Rhodope E tumulo Thalamus and Venus orta Mari are publisht in a Volume together with Jacobus Catzius his Patriarcha Bigamus and several little Poems of Gaspar Barlaeus not mentioned in the foregoing Treatise of the Moderns as his Pharmaceutria and Damon or the Nuptials of Cyrus and Aspatia in 2 Books his Cynismus or the Nuptials of Crates the Theban Philosopher with Hipparcha his Rhadamanthus or Poem of the Rape of the 2 Messenian Virgins Tryphosa and Jocasta his Virgo Androphorus his Amphitryo Tolosanus and his Faces Sacrae or Paraphrase of the Song of Salomon D. Dan Elingham a Benedictin Monk of Linton about the time of K. Henry the Third taken notice by the Learned Cambden among the Latin Rythmers of that time his Verses upon John Baptist painted in a White-Fryars weed at the White-Fryars Church in Nottingham being quoted by the said Author Dionysius Petavius a learned French Jesuite chiefly famous for his most exact Chronology entitled Rationarium temporis but mentioned also with commendation by Dr Duport for his Version of David's Psalms into Greec Verse besides a Book of Latin Poems E. Edw. Dier a Poetical Writer who seems formerly to have been in good esteem being rank't with some of the most noted Poets of Qu. Elizabeth's time and a contributer with the chief of them out of his writings to the above mentioned Collection and with him we may perhaps not unfitly rank John Markham Henry Constable Thomas Achelly John Weever George Turbervile besides Lodge Green Gascoign and others that have been already mentioned Edw. Ferris a writer for the most part to the Stage in K. Henry the 8 th's time in Tragedy and sometimes Comedy or Interlude with much skill magnificence in his Meeter wherein saith the Author of the Art of English Poesy he gave the King so much good Recreation as he had thereby many good rewards Erasmus Michael Laetus remember'd by his Margaretica in Latin Heroic Verse F. Francis Davison's Poetical Rhapsodie dedicated to W. Earl of Pembroke Lord Steward of the Houshold to his late Majesty King Charles the First appears to have been in those daies not ill received since it endured four Impressions Francis Hubart a writer of much about the same time though scarce with the same success of the History of Joseph in English Verse Franciscus Maurus known by a Latin Poem of Heroic title Franciscias in 13 Books Franciscus Sweertius his Varia Carmina are among the selected works of other Belgic writers in Latin Poetry as likewise Franciscus Thorius Bellio his Varia Carmina Fridericus Hofmannus Con-Rector of the Colledge of Elbing his Epigrammatum Poeticum Colludium or Lusuum Epigr. Centuriae was printed at Amsterdam an 1665. G. Gandolpho Porrino his Rime rank him with some others of the noted Sonnetiers of Italy Gaspar Barlaeus see Cornelius Boius Gaspar Schetus Corvinus an Antuerpian whose Varia are publisht with the selected works of other Belgic writers in Latin Poetry Gaulfrid one of the oldest of our Modern Poets for he was Contemporary with Joseph of Exeter he is mentioned by Chaucer in his Description of Chaunticleer the Cock's being carried away by Reynard the Fox with great Veneration for his Elegy upon King Richard the First out of which being in a more judicious Latin strain then was the usual custom of those times divers Verses are quoted by the Learned Cambden in his Remains Georgius Gallus Chrudimenus see Gallus Chrudimenus in the foregoing Treatise of the Moderns Giovan Battista Guarini see Battista Guarini in the foregoing Treatise of the Moderns Giovan Battista Attendolo Giovanni Guidaccione Giovan Moccarello Giovanni Salzilli a Roman Girolamo Bartolomei Girolamo Mentouato and Girolamo Volpe a Knot of Italian Poetisers chiefly in their Lyric way of Sonnets Canzonets c. only Bartolomei is chiefly mentioned for Tragedy Godfry Prior of Winchester an Epigrammatist in the Reign of King Henry the First very much admired by Cambden who in his Remains takes pleasure to quote severall of his Epigrams and commends Winchester likewise for a Nursery of Men excelling in the Poetical Faculty adding that the very Genius loci doth seem Poetical Godofridus Mylandius wrote Latin Idyls and Odes Gulielmus Apulensis wrote in Latin Verse 5 Books of the Affairs of the Normans in Italy H. Henry of Aurench a Frenchman Poet to Philip the Second of France whom nevertheless our Michael the Merry Cornish Poet makes bold to play upon in his old Latin Drolling Rhythmes Henry Bell a Collector of the Customs under King Henry the Fourth out of whose Satyr in Latin Verse against the Exchequer Officers of that time several passages are quoted by Cambden Henry Constable see Edw. Dier Henry Arch-Deacon of Huntingdon one of the most noted and by Polydore and Leland most commended of the Scriptores Angl. but besides his 8 Books De Regibus Anglorum and other things in History he is said to have extoll'd to the Skies and that in elegant Verse in the opinion of Balaeus King Alfred and his Daughter Ethelfleda with other Great Persons of that time he wrote also Odes Epistles and
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 Anachaâ—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 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 Laâ—rtius in his life of Socrates Anaxiles see Plato Anaxipolis of Thasus see in Antipater Anaxippus see in Menander Anitius Manlius Boethius Severiâ—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 Aunaâ—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 Corniâ—icius one of Virgils detractors Caiâ—s Asinius Pollio 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 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 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 Zâ—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 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 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
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 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 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 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 Perit avipedis animula Leporis 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 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 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 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 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 undeâ— 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 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
other things in Verse Henry of Winchester an old Latin Versifier quoted by Cambden among the English Poetical Writers of former Ages Hermannus Blasius wrote a Latin Poem Arethusa Hercole Bentivoglio a noted Person among the Italian Writers of Sonnets and other Lyric Poetry Hildebert Bishop of Main and afterwards Arch-Bishop of Tours a borderer between the Antients Moderns for he flourisht about the year of our Lord 1090 his Exposition upâ— the Office of the Masse in Latin Verse is by some commended for Elegancy of style he wrote also Hymns and Orations in several sort of Verse and is thought to be that old Epigrammatist as Cambden calls him out of whom he cites a parcel of Latin Verses in praise of England Hugh Holland a Poetical Writer thought worthy by some to be mentioned with Spencer Sidny and other the Chief of English Poets with whom nevertheless he must needs be confess 't inferior both in Poetic â—ame ad Merit Hugh Arch-Deacon of York one whom I find mentioned among the Old English Versifiers and the rather to be taken notice of for Antiquities sake I. Jacobus Gaddius an Italian noted for what he writ as well in Latin as Vernacular Poetry Jacobus Sluperius a Flandrian of the Town of Hersel whose Varia are publisht with the collected works of other Belgic Writers of Latin Poetry D r James Duport Master of Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge in which University he was for many years most worthily in respect of his exquisite perfection therein Professor of the Greec Tongue and for Greec Verse how not inferior to the Chief of the Moderns his so well esteemed Metaphrases of Davids's Psalms Job Ecclesiastes and the Canticles sufficiently testifie Joannes Callius a Latin Hymnographer of Erford Joannes Sirnamed from his Order Canonicus an Englishman the Author among other works of a Book of Latin Poems as Balaeus testifies in the Reign of K. Henry the Third Joannes Garisolius a late German Writer of a well approved style in Latin Poetry Joannes Peckam a Franciscan in the Reign of King Edw. the First among whose many other works Balaeus makes mention of his Carmina diversa Sir John Harrington no less noted for his Book of Witty Epigrams then his judicious Translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso John Heywood an old fashioned Dramatic writer as appears by the title of his Interludes viz. The Play of Love the Play of the Weather the Play between Johan and his Wife and the Play between the Pardoner and the Fryar the Curate and his Neighbour the Play of Gentleness and Nobility in two parts besides two Comedies the Pinner of Wakefeild and Philotas Scotch There was of this Name in King Henry the Eighth's Reign an Epigrammatist who saith the Author of the Art of English Poetry for the mirth quickness of his conceits more than any good Learning was in him came to be well benefited by the King John Lacy one of the best and most applauded of our English Actors in this present Age but whose wit not wholly confin'd to Action hath also produc't two ingenuous Comical Pâ—eces viz. Monsieur Ragou and the Dumb Lady John Markham see Edw. Dier John de Mehunes a French Poet out of whom Chaucer is said to have borrowed his Troilus and Cressida and some other of his Poems John Skelton the Poet Laureat mentioned in the foregoing Treatise of the Moderns lived in the time of King Henry the Eighth and for his Satyrical Invectives against Cardinal Woolsy was forc't to fly to Sanctuary at Westminster where in a years time he died either of grief or ill usage John Weever see Edw. Dier M. Marco Antonio Giraldi Marco Bartolomeo Gottifredi Marco Lamberti Marco Paulo Antonio Ciocca a Quaternion of Italian Sonnetiers Marco Girolamo Fracastorio was eâ—ually happy in Vernacular and Latin Poetry See Hieronymus Fracastorius in the foregoing Treatise of the Moderns Monsieur Moliere the pleasantest of French Comedians for smart Comic wit and Mirth and to whom our English Stage hath within a few years been not a little beholding N. Nicholas Lord Vaux a Poetical Writer among the Nobility in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth whose Commendation saith the Author of the Art of English Poesy lyeth chiefly in the facility of his Meeter and the aptness of his Descriptions such as he takes upon him to make namely in sundry of his Songs wherein he sheweth the conunterfeit action very lively and pleasantly Nicolaus Stopius a Fleming of the town of Alost whos 's Varia are publisht with the selected works of other Noted Belgic Writers in Latin Poetry P. Paganus Piscator vulgarly Fisher a Notable undertaker in Latin Verse by his Marston Moor other Latin Pieces besides English ones not a few which however meriting that we shall not stand now to examin he must not be forgotten that was retained Poet Laureat to so Notorious a Man as Oliver Cromwell to whom being usurper if his Muse did homage it must be considered that Poets in all times have been inclinable to ingratiate themselves with the highest in power by what title soever Petronio Barbati da Poligno a Sonnet writer among many others of the Italian Lyrics neither of the brightest nor obscurest fame R. Richard Barnfeild one of the same Rank in Poetry with Doctor Lodge Robert Green Nicholas Breton and other Contemporaries already mention'd in the foregoing Treatise of the Moderns Robertus Baston a Carmelite of a Noble Family in Yorkshire who had so great a fame in Poetry that K. Edw. the First in his Scotish Expedition pitcht upon him to be the Celebrator of his Heroic Acts when being taken prisoner by the Scots he was forc't by torments to change his Note and represent all things to the advantage of Robert Bruce who then laid claim to the Kingdom of Scotland Besides his Poem De Bello Strivilensi there were publisht of his writing a book of Tragedies with other Poems of various subject T. Theophilus Hogersius a Latin Versifier among the Chief of Scotland for Latin Poetry Thomas Achelly see Edw. Dier Thomas Lord Buckhurst in King Henry the Eighth's time is esteem'd by the Author of the Art of English Poetry equal with Edward Ferris another Tragic writer already mentioned of both whom he saith For such doings as I have seen of theirs they deserve the price Thomas Charnock his Breviary of Natural Philosophy in English Verse is publisht together with Tho. Nortons's Ordinal of Alchimy John Dastins's dream Bloomfeild's Blossoms Abraham Andrew ' s Hunting of the green Lyon G. Reply ' s Compound of A'chymy and other collected works of the choicest of our old Poetisers in the Mysteries of Chymical Philosophy by my honoured Freind Mr Ashmole a Learned and most industrious Inquirer into all the Curiosities of Antiquity in his Book entitled Theatrum Chymicum Britannicum Thomas Ocleave a very famous English Poet in his time which was the Reign of King Henry the Fourth and Henry the Fifth to which last he Dedicated
the other if it were not the same as Vossius seems to disprove by the interval of time a companion to 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 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 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 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 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 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 Amipsiâ—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 oâ— them in verse a History of the War against Gaina the Goth. 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 Sardis And lastly Gregorius of Nazianzen whose Divine
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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 Hâ—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 sâ—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 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 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 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 convenâ—ion of the Greecs at Aulis and lastly Simonides the Son of Crineus sirnamed Amorginus who besides several Elegies â—e wrote is thought by some as Suidas 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 Halâ—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 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 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 Mâ—rychus a Tragic Poet though â—a foolish one as 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
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 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 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 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 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 Pyrâ—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 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 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 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. Choerilus see Agis Christodorus an Epick Writer who described in Greek Verse in six Books the taking of Isâ—â—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 Coluthus and the Odysseia and Ilia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Tryphiodorus by the testimony of Suidâ—â— 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 Anaâ—â—asius also flourisht Marianus the Son of Marsus as is testifid by Suidas who also writes that he Metaphras'd upon Theocritus Aratus Niâ—ander's Theriaca and several of Câ—lliâ—â—achus his Works Chrysippus a Writer of Georgiâ—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 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 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 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 Theâ—â— 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 â— Clodius Sabinus an elegant Poet as well as writer of Latin and Greec declamations 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 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 diffâ—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 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 Coâ—mas see Joannes Damascenus Crâ—â—tor Solensis see Philetas Couâ— Crates a Tragic Poet whom some think to be the same with Crâ—tes the Theban Cynic Phylosopher besides whom Laertius reckons Nine more of the same name the chief whereof were 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 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 Callaeâ—schrus an Elegiac Poet mention'd by Athenaeus and out of whom if it be the same Stobaeus quotes several Senarie Jambiâ—s Câ—riatius Maternus a Tragic Poet who liv'd in the time of the Emperour Titus Vespasian who is deliver'd to have 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 Sallâ—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 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 Planâ—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 Britanniâ—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 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 greâ—t esteem with the Empress Eudocia wife of Tâ—eodosius junior in whose 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 Damâ—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 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 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 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 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 preservâ—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 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 Tibiâ—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 Dionysius sirnamed Epaites an Elegiac writeâ—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
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 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 above-mention'd Arrianus Ericus or Hericus a Poet of Altissiodorum or Auxerre who liv'd in the 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 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 concerningâ— 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 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 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 Senaâ—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 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 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 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 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 nick-nam'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 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 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 F 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 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 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 G 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 Nicetâ—s besides some other things of his writing 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
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. 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 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 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 I 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 oâ— 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 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. Lâ—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 Pamprâ—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 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 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 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 Fanniâ—â— Juventius an ancient Comic 〈◊〉 but of an uncertain age mentioned by Varro and Agellius L 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 Centaâ—ri Lamprocles a Dithyrambic writer cited by Athenaeus Lamynthius a Milesianâ— 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 Anciâ— 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 Athenaeâ—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 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 Poet of whose writing there are quoted Fourteen Comedies his Aequales Brundusini Cinerarius Consobrini Dediâ—â—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 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 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 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 Theâ—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 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 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 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 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 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 livâ—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 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 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 Cleoâ—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
the Greecs having but an obscure tradition might possibly frame an Original according their Poetical fancy 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 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 Neopâ—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 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 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 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 Oenâ—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 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 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 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
out 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 't is 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 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 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 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 thâ— History of Pompey's Acts 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 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 attained he betook himself to Lasus Hermioneus to learn on the Harp he was in great esteem among the Greeâ—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 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
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 Constantiâ—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 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 Entâ—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 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 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 Tâ—â—s mentioned by Laertius in Heraelitus and Licinius Calvuâ— Secaeus an Epigrammatic Poet of whom there is extant a Tetrastich in 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 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 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 Soâ—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
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 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 Bâ—shop of Orleâ—nce in the 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 Theognetus a Greec Comic Writer cited by Athenaeus Theognis a Megarensian Poet whose Sentences in Greec Verse are extant and commonly printed with Hâ—siod Theocritus and the rest of the Poetae minores He was born as saith Eusebius about the 58 â—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 frâ—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 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 Isocrâ—tes and as some say of Aristotle he is said to have written the Art of Rhetoric 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 Pâ—llux calls him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Stephanus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 several Sâ—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 Empâ—ros are mentioned by Suidas and much of the same time Philippus a writer in like manner of Media Comoedia whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 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 Philodicastâ— are remembred by Suidas together with Dionysiazusae Polypragmon and Eleven more of another Comic Poet of the same name 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 Oenâ—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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Eminent Poets Among the MODERNS 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 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 't is 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 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 Kingâ— 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 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 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 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 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 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 numbeâ— 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 Causa mihi tecum communis Carceris Ara Bella tibi causa est Carceris Ara mihi 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 Angelo Badalucchi see Dominico Cornacchini Angelo Grilli an Italian Lyric Poet or writer of Sonetts Madrigals and Canzonetts Angelus Politianus a most conspicuous Italiâ—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 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 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. 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 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 Râ—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 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 Evanâ—â—â—ical History in Verse with several Hymns he dedicated to Pope Adrian the 6 th besides which there are Extant of his writing 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 â—â—egiac Verse de morte de B. Virgine c. 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 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
Recorded flourishing Anno 1494. 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 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 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 Monaâ—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 moâ—â— 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 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 Hâ—llander whose Fame is not altogether unknown to the Learned for what he hath written in Latin Poesie 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 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 Eâ—egiac Veâ—se an Encomium of his Countrey Epistles Epigrams and several other Miscellaneous pieces he is Recorded flourishing in the Year of our Lord 1494. 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 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
of Creation translated by Joshua Sylvester hath had a very great Fame here in England and is yet in great Esteem with many Gulielmus Xâ—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 H. HAns Sacs Teucherus a Poet of special note among the Germans Helius Eobanus a Hessian of like authority and preheminence among the German Poets as Tasso hath been among the Italians of his many poetical Works the chief are his Bucoliâ— Idyls his Sylvae his Elogies of Famous Men his sacred Heroines his description of the City Norimberg in Verse and of the Prince of Hessen's Victory against the Sueves besides his Elegant Version of Davids Psalms in Elegiac Verse Henricus Curandinus a German particularly taken notice of among those of that Nation that have been Eminent for Latin Poetry Henricus Andersonus a Scotch-man whose Eglogues and Musarum Querela are among the selected Works of other Noted Latin Poets of that Nation Henricus Bebelius a Poet of Justingen a Town which gives Title to a Barony in the Circle of Suevia who among many other things both in Prose and Verse wrote de Arte Condendorum Carminum Henricus Danskinus one of the Society of those Eminent Latin Poets of Scotland of whose Works a particular selection is publish'd Henricus Ecardus a Poet of Noremberg in which Town his Poems were printed by Georgius Merkelius Anno 1553. Henricus Euticus a Poet of Franconia who wrote in Verse a Book of Jests and Witty Conceits a Satyre aginst Sophists and Enemies of the study of Humanity the praises of the B. Virgin Epigrams and some other things he Flourish'd Anno 1494. Henricus Florentinus wrote a description in Verse of the Grandeur and state of the Emperour Frideric and is quoted by the Learned Felix Malleolus Henry Glaphthorn a Dramatic writer not altogether ill deserving of the English Stage by his Hollander Ladies Priviledge and Wit in a Constable Comedies his Argalus and Parthenia a Pastoral and Albertus Wallestein a Tragedy Henry Howard the most Noble Earl of Surry who Flourishing in the time of King Henry the 8 th as his Name is sufficiently famous for the Martial Exploits of that Family for many Generations so deserves he had he his due the particular Fame of Learning Wit and Poetic Fancy which he was thought once to have made sufficiently appear in his publish'd Poems which nevertheless are now so utterly forgoten as though they had never been Extant so Antiquated at present and as it were out of fashion is the style and way of Poetry of that Age whereas an English writer of those times in a Treatise called the Art of English Poesie alledges That Sir Th. Wiat the Elder and Henry Earl of Surry were the Two Chieftains who having Travelled into Italy and there tasted the sweet and stately Measures and Style of the Italian Poesie greatly polished our rude and homely manner of vulgar Poesie from what it had been before and may therefore justly be shewed to be the Reformers of our English Meeter and Style Henricus Husannus a German conspicuous among the Latin Versifiers of that Nation Henry King late Bishop of Chichester a no less Grave and Reverend Divine in his later time then in his youthful Age of an obliging Conversation by his Wit and Fancy and both in his Younger and Elder Years a constant lover of Music Poetry and all Ingenuous Arts the Effect of his latest and most serious Muse being his generally admired and approved Version of Davids Psalms into English Meeter Henricus Loâ—itus Glareanus a Helvetian of the Town of Clarona among the vast number of whose Elaborate Treatises in various kinds of Learning his poetical pieces were both enow and sufficiently in repute to gain him the Title of Poet Laureate nor was his Name less Eminent in Music He is mentioned Flourishing at Friburg a Town of Bisgoia in the Circle of Alsatia Anno 1551. Henricus Meibomius an Elegant Poet Expert Musitian and Judicious Historian of Lemgoia one of the 7 Free Cities in the Circle of Westphalia Henry Lord Morly a Nobleman of great account in the Reign of King Henry the 8 h by whom he was sent with the Garter to the Arch-Duke of Austria There are mentioned with Honour in our English Histories several Works of his writing for the most part poetical and particularly several Tragedies and Comedies Henricus Oroeus a not uneminent Modern writer of Latin Verse Henricus Petreius a noted both Civilian and Poet of Hardcsia Henry Picardet a French-man whose Poesies Francoises were printed at Paris Anno 1663. Henricus Ranzovius a Learned German particularly fam'd among many others of that Nation for his Excellent faculty in Latin Verse Henricus Smetius a Nobleman and Physitian of Alosta in Flanders who besides his Prosodia a well known and much used Book among the Versifying Boys in public Schools by which they are taught the quantity of words in Latin Verse by Examples out of all the choicest Latin Poets had in his younger Years discover'd also his own petic Genius in several peices of Latin Poesie as his History of the Kings of Judah his History of Susanna his Treatise of several parts of Medicin and his Translation of Homers Batramâ—omachia Henry Vaughan Sirnamed Silurist from that part of Wales whose Inhabitants were formerly called Silures the Author of certain English Poems which came forth Anno 1658. under the Title of Olor Iscanus Henricus Rollochus one of the Number of Scotch writers of Latin Verse whose selected Poems are publish'd together Hercules Strozza see Titus Hercole a Poet of Vdene a Town under the Seignorie of Venice chiefly known by his Psyche oâ— Poem of the Soul Hermannus Hugo an Eminent Philosopher Theologist Musitian and Poet of Brussels in Flanders from whose Original those Divine Emblematical Fancies that bear the Name of Quarles are derived Hermolaus Barbarus a Patrician or Nobleman of Venice whose profound Learning and great Parts advanc'd him to be Arch-Bishop and Patriarch of Aquileia and afterwards to the Colledge of Cardinals Hieronymus Amaltheus a most excellent Philosopher and Physician by profession but moreover a Composer of such Elegant Verses for his diversion that M. Antonins Muretus an Exact Judge of those things gives him the Palm before all the Italian Poets of his time he is mentioned Flourishing in the Year 1574. Hieronymus Balbus a writer of Gorcum who besides several prosaic Treatises wrote a Book of Epigrams concerning the Turkish Affairs to Pope Clement the â— h the mentioned time of his Flourishing is the Year 1520. Hieronymus Fracastorius so profound in Philosophy and the Mathematical Arts especially Astronomy and so happy a professour of Medicine that he might well have been excus'd from Poetry yet his greatest Aemulators saith Thuanus could not but confess that his style came
and Lyric Poetry For his excellent Genius in which he prefers him next after Horace himself he was the next Bishop of Antuerp after Franciscus Sonnius was Flourishing beyond the year 1595. Lodovic Carlisle the Author of divers formerly not unesteem'd and not yet totally forgotten Tragi-Comedies as the two parts of Arviragus and Felicia The Passionate Lovers in 2 parts Osmond the Great Turk or the Noble Servant a Tragedy Lopez de Vega Carpio the most noted writer among the Spaniards of Comedies and other Dramatic Poems but more noted for the multitude for he is exceeding Voluminous then for the goodness of them and for his singularity in making but 3 Acts to each Fable or Play He also wrote a Poem of S r Francis Drake's Exploits in the West-Indies Lorenzo Medici a Noble Florentine as his Name imports whose Poesie Volgari was printed at Venice an 1554. Lucas Shepheard an English Poet of Colchester in Essex of so much note in Queen Mary's Reign that he is thought not unworthy of mention by some of our English Historians Ludolphus Pithopoeus a learned and ingenious Hollander but most particularly taken notice of among the Belgic Latin Poets for his singular faculty in Latin in Verse Ludovicus Alealmus a French Poetical writer having a principal Place among the Latin Versifiers of that Nation Ludovico Ariosto one of the two most celebrated Heroic Poets of Italy and thereupon Competitor with Torquato Tasso the other his Poem entitled Orlando Furioso takes its argument from the Expedition of the Emperor Charles the Great against the Saracens in Spain There are also of his writing several Elegant Comedies Ludovicus Andreas Resendius an Eminent both Poet Orator Theologist and Antiquary Ludovico Bigi Vittorio or Pittorio a Poet of Ferrara among whose other Poems as Hymns Epitaphs upon the Saints Satyrs Elegies Epigrams c. his Hippolyta an Elegant Poem is most especially noted Ludovico Bruno the commended Author of a Poem upon the Coronation of Maximilian King of the Romans he was Flourishing in the year 1494. Ludovico Celio Calcagnino see Celio Ludovicus Celottus a French Man noted for his Latin Tragedies Sapor Chosroes Adrian the Tragical Marriage of Mahomet the Second besides Hendecasyllables upon the Birth of Christ. Ludovicus Crucius the Author of several Latin Tragedies and Comedies which were printed at Leiden anno 1605. Ludovico Dolce an Italian Lyric Poet or writer of Sonnets one of the next Classis after Ottavio Rinuccini and the rest mentioned with him with this Ludovico may be ranked Ludovico Laurentio Martelli Gabriel Chabriera Giovanni de Casa Mario Colonna Agnolo Firenzuola Cesare Caporale and Burchiello Ludovico Laurentio Martelli see above in Ludovico Dolce Ludovicus Lazarellus the Author of a Poetical Dialogue entitled Crater Hermetis dedicated to Ferdinand King of the Romans and printed at Paris by Henricus Stephanus an 1505. Ludovicus Mazurius a Hollander not inconsiderable among the Belgic Writers of Latin Poesy Ludovico or Luigi Pulci a pretender by his Morgante to a Seat among the Italian Heroic Poets Ludovicus Tribaldus the Author of a Latin Poem entitled Epenesis Iberica which was printed at Antuerp an 1632. Luigi Alamanni a Florentine principally famous for his Heroic Poem entitled Avarchis he wrote also 4 Books of Agriculture in Blanc Verse in which kind of writing not only he but also some others of the most judicious of the Italian Poets have succeeded well enough to demonstrate that Rime is not so very essential in the modern Languages to the making up of a Verse Luigi or Ludovico Tansilli an Italian Poet best known by what he hath written for the Stage yet not solely Dramatic there being other things of his writing of which the chief is his Poem entitled Lagrime di Sancto Pietro Luis Galvez a Poetical Writer of Note among the Spaniards whose Pastor de Philida was printed at Madrid anno 1582. Luke Sheapherd see Lucas Sh. M. MAlens Acidalius a Writer in Latin Poetry of the number of those that are esteem'd of the chief German Writers of that kind Maphaeus Barberinus a great Ornament to the Papal Chair to which he was advanc't by the Name of Vrban the 8 th by reason of his polite Learning and Elegance among other Arts and Sciences in which he had attain'd a great perfection his extant Poetry hath gain'd him a very Flourishing Fame Maphaeus Vegius a Poet of Lodi contemporary with Angelus Politianus among his other Poetical Works his most noted is his Supplement to Virgil's Aeneis He is mentioned Flourishing in the year 1403. Marcellus Palingenius Sirnam'd Stellatus Poeta the Author of a well known and approv'd Poem entitled Zodiacus Vitae whose subject is the right Institution of human Life Study and Manners and dedicated to Hercules the Second Duke of Ferrara it consists of 12 Books according to the number of the 12 Signs and each Book accordingly denominated Marcus Antonius Antimachus a Native of Ferrara who by his assiduous and choice converse with Greec Authors made himself so much Master of that Language that he hath among other things both in Prose and Verse written 8 Books of Greec Epigrams with the success of no vulgar repute he out-liv'd the year 1544. Marcus Aemilius Portus the Son of Franciscus a Cretensian or Native of the Isle of Candie a Professor of the Greec Tongue first at Ferrara next at Orleans whose Metaphrase of David's Psalms in Greec Verse is taken notice 〈◊〉 by Duport though with no extraordinary commendation Marco Antonio Tibaldeo a noted Italian Author of a Poem entitled Tibaldeo which was printed at Venice anno 1556. Marcus Antonius Boba a Cardinal whom Thuanus having convers't with him at Rome commends for his Vein in Poetry and his Eloquence both in speaking and writing Marcus Antonius Flaminius an Italian who besides that he was an excellent Philosopher by his sweet Vein in Latin Poesy sufficiently appearing in his 2 Books of Carmina or Odes indeared himself to several Eminent Men of his time and among others to Cardinal Reginald Pool at whose request he made a Version of David's Psalms in Elegant Latin Verse which by mistake hath been by some imputed to Joannes Antonius Fl. of Forum Cornelii Marcus Antonius Muretus see Antonius Marcus Hieronymus Vida a Noble Poet of Cremona who was promoted to the Bishoprie of Alba his works consist chiefly of these following Poems his Christias or Poem of the Life and death of Christ in 6 Books his three Books De Arte Poetio his 2 Books of the care and management of Silk-worms his Description of the Game at Chesse in one Book besides Hymns Odes Bucolic Eclogues c. He is mentioned by Thuanus among other learned Men under the year 1566. Marcus Joannes Croeselius an Elegiac Writer in two remarkable Books the first his Encomiums of the most noted Emperors Kings and Commanders in War from Constantine the second of Men most Famous for Learning and the Arts. Marcus Joannes Fracta a Poet of Verona
chiefly remember'd for his Poem entitled Malteis Marcus Musurus a Cretan Writer of Epigrams whereof those are particularly remember'd which he wrote upon certain Greec Authors set forth by Nicolaus Blastus at Venice an 1500. Mario Colonna see Ludovico Dolâ—e Marius Philelphus the Son of Franciscus already mention'd and Heir of his Father 's both Dignity and Fame for he was also both Knight and Poet Laureat Martinus Earnerus his Sylvâ—â—la in various Latin Verse not unmention'd by the Registers of the Works of Eminent Men. Martin LLeuâ—llin the not uncommended Writer of a Book of Facetious Poems which while he was Student of Christ-Church in Oxford were publisht by the Title of Man-Miracles but now more conversant in another of Apollos Faculties the Study and practice of Physic. Martinus Bovillus the Author of funeral Elegies which were printed at Brescia anno 1519. Martinus Braschius a German Writer of Latin Poesy mentioned and quoted among the choice Latin Poets accounted of that Nation Martinus Opizius an Italian of special esteem for polite Literature but especially for what he hath writen in Latin Verse Martinus Praetorius a German of Poetical Fame chiefly for his Poem of Heroic Title Austrias Martinus Turnemannus a German whose Poem entitled Triumphus Mortis was printed at Francfurt anno 1624. Mattheus Argillander a Writer of Poems which were printed at Basil by Oporinus Mattheus Delius a German one of the principal esteem'd Latin Poets of that Nation Mattheus Gribaldus a Commentator upon the Pandects who also wrote upon the Modern Jurisconsults in Verse allowing to each their several Distich Matteo Maria Boiardoi a Count of Scandiano whose Orlando Inamorato ranks him among the Italian Heroic Poets Matthias Cervus the Author of a Poem in allusion to his own Name upon the picture of a Hart his famous Elegy also upon Philip Melanchthon is particularly taken notice of Matthias Sirnamed from his Country Illyricus a Greec Professor at Tubing who set forth Poems also of various subjects Matthias Mosnaverus a Writer of Strasburg no less fam'd for his learned Epigrams then what he wrote in Prose he is recorded Flourishing an 1543. Matthias Ringmannus Philesius a native of Vogesium the Disciple of Jacobus Wimphelingus and a writer of both Prose and Verse particularly Epigrammatic Matthias Stoius a Poetical writer of Regiomonte in Prussia of whose writing I find particularly mentioned his Elegiac Poem upon Christs Baptism and his Eclogue upon the Nuptials of Gaspar Peucerus and Magdalen the Daughter of Melanchthon Mauritius Marganensis an English-Man who Flourisht in the year of our Lord 1210 and wrote a Book of Epigrams in various Latin Verse Mauritius Neoportus another English writer though much differing in time as being of the present Age and probably now living of a late Latin Poem printed at London and entitled Votum Carolo Secundo Ang. c. Regi Maximilianus Transylvanus Max. Vignacurtius Max. Vriensis a Triad of Maximilians all Low-Country men of the number of those that have a Name for Latin Verse The first of Brussels whose Varia Carmina are publisht with the selected Works of diverse others of that Country the second of Arras whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Res Belgas is of the same publication the third also of the same society by his Book of Latin Epigrams Maximus Margunius a Grecian who at the Dedication of certain Reliques sav'd by him from shipwrack to the Public added also several Copies of his own Verses written in no unelegant style Melchior Acontius a German who hath written many things in Verse among which is his noted Epithalamium upon the Nuptials of Georgius Sabinus with Anne the Daughter of Ph. Melanchton commonly printed with Sabinus his Poems Melchior Agriâ—ola a writer of Latin Epigrams whose Sirname is sufficient to gain him reputation what ever Relation he had to the Great Rodolphus Melchior Barlaeus a writer thouâ—h not of equal fame for Poetry with Gaspar yet reckon'd of the number of the chiefly esteem'd writers of the Low-Countries for Latin Poetry Mr Menage see Aegidius Menagius Mercurius Ronzius a writer of divers Tragedies so wel esteem'd that Albertus de Eyb in his Margarita Poetica hath made a collection of Sentences out of them Michael Sirnamed Anglicus but by Nation French of the Town of Belmont a Professor of Civil and Canon Law who yet gave himself a Vacancy to Poetry and wrote 4 Books of Eclogues to the Bishop of Paris two to Ludovicus Villerius besides several Books of various Poems Michael Sirnamed The Cornish Poet a notable Rimer in Latin Verse in the time of K. Iohn and Henry the third out of whose Rhyms for Merry England as Cambden calls them several passages are quoted by the same Authour in his remains Michael Drayton Contemporary of Spencer and Sr Philip Sidney and for Fame and renoun in Poetry not much inferiour in his time to either however he seems somewhat antiquated in the esteem of the more curious of these times especially in his Polyalbion the old fashion'd kind of Verse whereof seem somewhat to diminish that respect which was formerly pay'd to the subject as being both pleasant and elaborate and thereupon thought worthy to be commented upon by that once walking Library of our Nation Selden his Englands Heroical Epistles are more generally lik't and to such as love the pretty Chat of Nymphs and Sheapherds his Nymphals and other things of that nature cannot be unpleasant Michael Hospitalius a Famous Chancellor of France under Charles the 9 th til he was removed for opposing the Parisian Massacre and one of the celebrated Latin Poets of that Nation for his 6 Books of Epistles in Latin Verse and other Poetical works from a very ancient Medal of Aristotle he is concluded to have much resembled that great Philosopher Michael Tarchaniota Marullus a Constantinopolitan Poet whose Hymns and Epigrams were printed at Fano by Soncinus an 1529. Michael Toxites a Rhetian or Grison who wrote among other things an Elegiac Poem entitled The Complaint of the Goose of the Ingratitude of Mankind Michael Vander Hagen an Antuerpian whose Varia Carmina rank him with other selected Poets of the Low Countries Miguel Cervantes a Spaniard and the Author of that famous Spanish Romance call'd Don Quixot besides Novelles and other things in Prose and in Verse what ever besides a Poem entitled Viaje di Parnasso Miguel a Spanish Licentiate whose Minerva Sacra is mentioned with other late Poetical pieces of that Nation Mr Mole a French both States Man for he was President of the Parliament of Paris and writer of Commended Poems which were publisht not many years since at Paris N. NAtalis Comes a Grave and Learned Venetian Historian though most generally fam'd by his 10 Books of Mythology in which he gives a Summary of the Poetical Fables with an Explication of all their Allegories both Moral and Philosophical to which is annex't his Poem of Hunting in Elegant Latin Verse besides what else he wrote
with reputation inferior to few of the Modern Latin Poets Simon Sinapius Pastor of the Church of Lubin in Lnsatia who wrote a Poem of Christ's Passion distributed into hours Simon Valambertus a Writer of Epigrams and other Poems which were printed at Lyons by Paganus at Paris by Wechelus Speron Sperone see Ottavio Rinuccini Saint Amant one of the Chief in repute of French Poets out of whom several things being render'd English by a Person of our Nation no less considerable for Poetry then the other have for certain lost no advantage Stanislaus Niger a Polonian whose Encomium of the Poets in Elegiac Verse was printed at Leipsich on 1538. Stephanus Paschasius a French Writer among whose other Works are his Icones Epigrams and Epitaphs He was Flourishing in the year of our Lord 1546 and stands in Ludovicus Jacobus his Book De Claris Scriptoribus Cabilionensibus with a high Character for universal Learning and Eloquence Sylvester Giraldus a Person of a Noble Family in Cambro-Britannia or Wales and therefore commonly Sirnamed Cambrensis the same House whence the Giraldines of Ireland descended as Cambden observes who citing some of his Latin verses seems to reckon him among the Poets of those former Ages he Flourishing in the Reigns of K. John K. Henry the third to the first of whom for the esteem his Learning had in those daies he was made Secretary T. THeodericus Gresemundus a Native of Spire out of whose Poem De Historia violatae Crucis printed at Strasburg by Renatus Bek several Verses are quoted by Wimphelingus in his Adolescentia Theodorus Beza a Famous French Theologist and a great Champion of the Reformed Religion as he was a Person generally learned so particularly he was not a stranger to Poetry having with good success written Epigrams and other Latin Poems which were printed at Paris besides a Tragedy entitled Sacrificium Abrahae printed at Lyons he was Flourishing at Lausanna beyond the year 1555. Theodorus Geza a celebrated Writer of Thessalonica particularly a great Master in the Latin Greec Tongues and not the least to be esteem'd among the rest of his Works for his Book of Latin Epigrams upon the most remarkable passages of Sacred Scripture He deceas't in the year of our Lord 1478. Theodorus Reysman a German taken notice of for his Congratulatory upon the Arrival of the Emperor Charles the Fifth into Germany Theophile a late Writer of French Poems which have obtain'd a general fame and esteem Theophilus Folengus a Mantuan both Philosopher and Poet of very high repute Th. Campion a Writer of no extraordinary same but who hath the honour to be nam'd by Cambden with Spencer Sidny Drayton and other the Chief of our English Poets Thomas Carew one of the Gentlemen of the Bed-Chamber to his late Majesty K. Charles the First he was reckon'd among the Chiefest of his time for delicacy of wit and Poetic Fancy by the strength of which his extant Poems still maintain their fame amidst the Curious of the present Age. Thomas Churchyard see William Warner Thomas Collins his Tears of Love or Cupid's Progress publisht anno 1615 since the materials of it have been preserv'd from the injury of time by being bound up with other small Poetical Pieces much of the same Stamp and standing it will seem but an accident of good fortune if the Name also be preserv'd Thomas Craigius one of the Muster Roll of Scotch Latin Poets whose works are collected in a Book call'd Deliciae Poetarum Scotorum Thomas Deckar a High flier in wit even against Ben. Johnson himself in his Comedy call'd The Vntrussing of the humorous Poet besides which he wrote many others as The Wonder of a Kingdom the Honest Whore in 2 parts Fortunatus the Whore of Babylon If this ben't a good Play the Devils in 't See also John Webster Thomas Dempsterus an ample Commentator upon the Grammarian Corippus his Poem in praise of Justin the Second himself also a Latin Vesifier among the Scotch Poets in the above mentioned Collection S r Thomas Eliot a Person of note in the Reign of Q. Elizabeth and of whose Writing there is a learned Treatise of Government which hath been in principal esteem moreover what he hath writ in Poetry is also mention'd with singular commendation Th. Flatman a Gentleman once of the Middle-Temple equally ingenuous in the two noble Faculties of Painting and Poetry as by the several choice Pieces that have been seen of his Pourtraying and Limning by his Book of Poems very lately come forth may appear Thomas Goff the Author of the Courageous Turk Selimus Orestes Tragedies The Careless Sheapherdess a Tragi-Comedy and Cupid's Whirligig a Comedy Thomas Heywood a great Benefactor no doubt to the Red bull and the other common Theaters that flourisht in those times with many but vulgar Comedies as the Brasen Age the Engâ—ish Travellers the first and second part of Edward the Fourth Fortune by Land and Sea the 4 London Prentices the Fair Maid of the West first and second part the Golden Age the Wise Woman of Hogsden The Iron Age in 2 parts the Royal King and Loyal Subject c. Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury a Person of the more consideration for what he hath either judged or writ in Poetry by how much the more his writings in Prose have made work for so many Opposers his Latin Poem De Mirabilibus Pexi want not commendation and he seems to have wisely consulted for his quiet at last after having travail'd through so many Volumes of profounder Argument in giving himself a vacancy to the Muse especially where Invention is no otherwise exercised then in rendring the Inventions of others which he doubts not to have done more truly then any of those that went before him in the same subject from his Preface to which work I should choose rather to collect his judgment of Poetry then from his Preface to Davenants Gondibert where no wonder if Complement and Friendly Complyance doe a little bias and oversway judgment Thomas Kid a writer that seems to have been of pretty good esteem for Versifying in former times being quoted among some of the more fam'd Poets as Spencer Drayton Daniel Lodge c. with whom he was either Contemporary or not much later there is particularly remember'd his Tragedy Cornelia Thomas Killigrow one of the Gentleman of the Bed-Chamber to his present Majesty and besides the general esteem of his Lepid Vein of wit in conversation the Author of divers Comedies Tragedies and Tragi-Comedies publisht together in a Volume and therefore not needing to be particularis'd Thomas Linacer an Eminent Grammarian who Flourisht in the Reign of K. Henry the 8 th and who Verfifying on several subjects had the repute also in those daies of no mean Poet. Thomas Lodge a Doctor of Physic who Flourisht in Qu. Elizabeth's Reign and was one of the writers of those pretty old Pastoral Songs and Madrigals which were very much the strain of those
his Government of a Prince the chiefly remember'd of what he writ in Poetry and so much the more famous he is by being remember'd to have been the Disciple of the most fam'd Chaucer W. Sir Walter Raleigh a Person both sufficiently known in History and by his History of the World and seems also by the Character given him by the forementioned Author of the Art of English Poetry to have express't himself more a Poet then the little we have extant of his Poetry seems to import For ditty and Amorous Ode saith he I find Sir Walter Raleigh's Vein most lofty insolent and passionate William Herbert Earl of Pembroke Lord Steward of the Houshold to his late Majesty King Charles the First not only a great favourer of Learned and Ingenious Men but also of a Poetical Genious himself as he discovers by those Amorous not unelegant Airs which having been many years known by the Musical numbers of H. Laws and N. Laneer were publisht under his Name in the year 1660 and that as a great testimony of his Genuine title to them with the both approbation and desire of Caeciliana Counâ—ess Dowager of Devonshire as Doctor Donne takes notice in an Epistle to her before these Poems to many of which also are printed the answers of Sir Benjamin Ruddyer by way of Repartee William Leighton Dedicated to King James a Poetical Peice entitled Vertue Triumphant or Lively Description of the four Vertues Cardinal which came forth an 1603. William Wicherly a Gentleman of the Inner Temple the Author of two witty Comedies Love in a Wood and the Gentleman Dancing Master WOMEN Among THE ANTIENTS Eminent for Poetry A. ANYLE an Epigrammatic Poetess whose name is to 17 Greec Epigrams in Planudes his Florilegium her Verses of Birds are said to be yet extant Aspasia a Noble Milesian Dame said to have been the Mistress that is the Instructress of Pericles the Great Athenian Philosopher and Orator for she was a Person of high and general Repute for her Wisedom and Learning but most particularly recommended to Posterity for what she hath written in Poetry several of her Verses being remember'd by Athenaeus Astyanassa one of the Maids of Honour to that Helena whose Beauty set Troy on fire whom yet surpassing in the theory of active love she impudently committed by writing to the public view and as 't is suppos'd in Verse the Descriptions of more Spintrian pranks and Gambols then perhaps her Mistress ever practis'd or understood and which seem to have been a Pattern of those lew'd inventions which the witty ribauld Aretine in after Ages broch't for the use of the Sons of Priapus nor were there wanting in those times apt Schollars to such a Mistress who prosecuted and enlarged upon the subject she had begun Philenis a strumpet of Leucadia as unchast saith a late Author in her Verses as her life and Elephantis whose Molles Libelli are mentioned by Martial as she herself by Plinie Tatianus Suidas and others Athenais the Daughter of Leontius an Athenian Sophist her self also a Woman of that Wisdom and Ingenuity as well natural as acquired by learning that she was thought worthy to be chosen for a Wife by the greatest Prince of the World the Emperor Theodosius the Second B. Bocho a poor Woman of Delphos who pronouncing the Delphic Oracles must needs be inspired with a Poetic Spirit besides which she is said to have composed divers Hymns C. Carmenta see Nicostrata Cassandra the Daughter of Priamus King of Troy a great Prophetess and as some think and that probably by vertue of the same inspiration Poetess also Charixena a very Learned Grecian Lady who besides what she wrote in Prose is said to have written many things in Verse and particularly a Poem entitled Crumata she is mentioned by Aristophanes Claudia Ruâ—ina a Noble British Lady the Wife of Aulus Rufus Pudens a Bononian Philosopher and of the Roman Equestrian Order he is delivered to have been a great Associate with the Poet Martial whom his advice prevail'd with to alter many of his Verses and who in many places extols this Lady to the skies for her Beauty Learning and transcendent Vertues of her Poetic writings there are remember'd by Balaeus her Book of Epigrams Elegy upon her Husband's death and other Verses of various kind and subject besides which she is said to have wrought many things both in Prose and Verse Cleobule or Cleobuline the Daughter of Cleobulus Prince of Lindus she is particularly noted for her faculty in Aenigmatical Sentences or Riddles which she uttered or composed for the most part in Greec Verse Corinna a Theban Poetess who wrote 5 Books of Epigrams and is said to have been 5 times Victress over Pindarus she was the Daughter of Archelodorus and Procratia and the Disciple of Myrthis and is mentioned by Propertius lib. 2. Besides her there were two others of the same Name both fam'd for Poetry also namely Corinna the Thespian much extoll'ed by Antient writers especially by Statius and Corinna the Roman Lady who flourishing in the time of Augustus is highly celebrated by Ovid who had a particucular friendship and admiration for her Cornificia a Roman Epigrammatic Poetesse Sister to Cornificius D. Damophila the Cousen-German Associate and Emâ—latrix of Sappho and Wife of Damophilus the Philosopher she is said to have writ a Poem of Diana besides other Poems of an Amoumorous subject and is mentioned by Theophilus in his Life of Apollonius Thyaneus Debora a great Prophess in Israel of whom such was her repute at that time that though a Wife viz. of Lapidoth she was Judge or Supream Governess her divine Hymn or Song upon the Deliverance of the Israelites from Jabin K. of the Gananites shews her to have been divinly inspir'd with a Poetic no less then Prophetic Spirit E. Erinna a Poetess of Teos who is said to have writ a Poem in the Doric Dialect consisting of 300 Verses besides Epigrams though deceasing in the 19 th year of her age which was under the Reign of Dion Tyrant of Syracuse Eucheria an unknown Poetess except by a Fragment of 32 Latin Verses in Gillius his forementioned Collection of Epigrams and old Poems Eâ—docia see Athenais H. Hannah the Wife of Elkanah and Mother of the great Jewish Prophet Samuel for the joy of whose Birth her divine Muse brake forth into a Hymn of thanksgiving Hedyle a Samian or as some say Athenian Poetess of whom there are remember'd two Poems her Scylla our of which Athenaeus quotes several Verses and the Loves of Glaucus which gift of Poetry as she seems to have receiv'd from a Poetess her Mother viz. Mâ—schine noted for Iambic Poetry so to have bequeathed to a Poet her Son no less famous for Epigram Helena Flavia the Daughter of Coil King of Brittain and by him the Mother of the Emperor Constantine the Great among the rest of her works mentioned by Balaeus is her Book of Greec Verses she is said to have been
the first finder out the real Wood of the Cross upon which our Saviour was crucified Helpis the Daughter as saith Ranulphus of a King of Sicily but for certain Wife of the famous Philosopher Boethius Severinus there are extant of her Composing as Giraldus 〈◊〉 several Hymns upon the Apostles famous also and well known is her Epitaph upon her Husband Histiaea an Alexandrian Poetess mentioned by Aristophanes and Strabo in his Homerica Hypatia the Daughter of Theon the famous Geometrician of Alexandria and the Wife of Ifidorus the Philosopher she flourisht under the Emâ—eror Arcadius chiefly for what she wrote in Astronomy but is also mentioned by Suidas and Volaterranus for several Poetical works in various kind of Verse L. Lucia a Roman Poetess Sirnamed Mima from her Mimic or Cornical writings mentioned by Plinie M. Manto a very antient Poetess from whom Mantua is said to have been denominated and who is deliver'd to have been the Daughter of Tyresias Textor Marie the greatest and most exalted of her Sex as being the Virgin Mother of the Saviour of Mankind and though her Heavenly Muse hath produc't but one single Hymn the Magnificat yet in that Hymn as being upon the highest of subjects and the most celebrated in Châ—istian Church the most Divine and Seraphic of all Pâ—ets Megalostrate the Mistress of the fam'd Lyric Poet Alâ—man her self also of no mean repute in Poetry Michaele a she Centaur or at least of that progenie or generation so denominated who as the story goes instructed the Thessalians by an Elegiac Poem in the Art of Love which Poem Ovid is said to have 〈◊〉 Maeroe a Woman who seems to have been of the most considerable of the Antienos for Learning buâ— most particularly remember'd by her Hymn to Neptune Muscaâ— an ancient Lyric and Epigrammatic Poetess whose Epigrams and Lyricâ— Nomi are mentioned by Caelius Rodiginus in the first chapter of his eiâ—hth Book 〈◊〉 a Byzantian Elegiac and Meliâ— Poetess whose Mâ—emosyne is remember'd by Athenaeus lib. 11. of the same Myro most probably for Suidas mentionâ— two of that Name are those various Poems in Elegiac Verse taken notice of by Pausanias in his Boeotica as also an Hexastich in the Book of the Greec Anthology she is delivered to have been the Wife of Andromachus the Philosopher Myrtis an Anthedonian Poetess of whom there is remember'd Poem of the death of the Nymph Ocâ—ne for whose Love 〈◊〉 died N. Nic strata or Carmeâ—ta the Mother of Enander an ancient King of Italy even before the arrival of 〈◊〉 into that Country She is feign'd for it will be look't upon rather as aâ—fâ—ction then real Story to have been the first Inventor of Verse which thence 〈◊〉 to be called Carmey Nossis an Epigrammatic Poetess by Antipater number'd also among the Lyrics P. â—amphila an Epidaurian the Daughter of Soteridas of whose writiâ—â— several works as well in Verse as Prose are reckon'd up by Suidas in all which so great was her Repute that her Statue is said to have been erected by Cephisodorus Perilla a Roman Lady who living in the time of Augustus was in general esteem for her Learning and vertue and for her addiction to Poetry peculiarly admir'd and celebrated by Ovid whose Scholar in Poetry the 7 â—h Elegy of the third Book of his Tristia whereof she is indeed the sole subject intimates her to have been Phemonoe the first Priestess of Apâ—llo as she is delivered to be and utterer of the Delphic Oracles and also the first Inventress of Heroic Verse in which she is said to have written many things as Suidas and Volaterranus tesâ—ify Polla Argentaria the Wife of the Poet Lucan and as is generally beleived his Grand assistant in the correction and polishing of a great part of his Pharsalia she is much extoll'd by Martial and also by Statius in his second Book of Sylvae Praxilla a Sycionian Dithy ambic Poetess of whose writing there is a work entitled Metrum Praxilleum she is said to have flourisht in the 32 d Olympiad and is reckon'd by Antipater Thessalus among the â— most famous Lyrics Proba Valeriae Falconia the Wife of Adelphus the Roman Proconsul in the Reign of Honorius Theodosius junior she compos'd a Virgilian Geâ— to upon the History of the Old and New Testament which was 〈…〉 by Petrus Brubâ—â—chiâ—â— an 1541. 〈…〉 Epitaph also upon her Husband's 〈◊〉 is particularly rememâ—â—â—â— S. Sappho a Lesbian the Daughter of Scamandarus and Wise of 〈◊〉 a â—ich Man of Andros by whom she had a Daughter nam'd Cleâ— nor inferiour in same to the best of Lyric Poets and said to be the first Composeâ— of thaâ— sort of Lyric Verse which from he is call'd Sapphiâ— in which some are extant under her name besides which she is said to have writen Epigrams Elegies Iambiâ—s and Monodies and to have flourisht in the 42 d Olympiad and invented the Plectrum Moreover being a Poetess her self she is likewise the subiect of Poetical Tradition if at least it were the same Sappho for there have been imagin'd others of the same name who falling in love with Phao the 〈◊〉 Man and finding her self slighted was possest with a worse then Poetic madness to throw her self headlong from the rock Leucas into the Sea Ovid Statiuâ— and others of the Latin Poets acknowledge but one Sappho Sibylls several Women whoever they were for it is not certainty agreed on among Authors vulgarly concluded to have been Divinely inspir'd with a Spirit both of Prophesy and Poetry Politian accounts them to have been 12 in number under these Names Amâ—lthea Marpesia Herophile Sabbe Demo Phygo Phaetnnis Carmenta Manto Pythia Phemâ—noe and Deiphobeâ— Sebastianus Franc. 11 Martianus Capella but two Aelianus in his Book de Varia Historia reckons 〈◊〉 Erythraea Samia Egyptia and Sardinia But the general received number of them is 10 according to Vaâ—ro Liactantius Justin Martyr St. Augustin others those entitled as followeth viz. 1 Sibylla Agrippa otherwise Persis or Chaldaea by the name of Sambethe and by some surmis'd to have been the Daughter of Noah 2. Sibylla Lybica remember'd by Euripides in his Prologue of Lamia who haâ—h been conjectur'd to be the same 〈…〉 3 Sibylla 〈…〉 by 〈◊〉 in his Book of 〈…〉 4. Sibylla Italica or 〈…〉 notice of by 〈…〉 and Piso in his Annals 〈…〉 to have been the same with 〈◊〉 the Mother of Eâ—ander 5. Sibylla Eâ—ythroea who particularly 〈◊〉 the Destruction of Troy 6 Sibylla 〈◊〉 by the name of Pytho menâ—ion'â— by â—â—â—tosthenes in his Annals of 〈…〉 Cumana by some nam'd 〈…〉 by others Damophila by others Herophile the same as 't is thoughtâ— that brought the 9 Books to 〈◊〉 Priscus 8 Sibylla 〈…〉 who is deliver'd to have flourisht in the time of Solon 9 Sibylla 〈◊〉 10 〈◊〉 Tiburtina nam'd Albunâ—â—â— who is said to have liv'd in the time of Augustuâ— and to have warned 〈◊〉 to worship a Child that should 〈…〉 of a Virgin to which purpose also 〈◊〉 those