Chrysopoea or The Art of making Gold in 3 Books which he dedicated to Pope Leo the 10 th another call'd Geronticon in one Book besides 5 Books of Iambics 2 of Sermones and 2 of Odes Joannes Baleus an English writer who flourisht in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth best known by his Treatise which give account of all the Eminent writers of our Nation of what Art or Faculty soever and by what he hath thereby contributed to this work the better meriting to be here inserted to which place the title he derives is by those Dramatic Pieces out of Holy Scripture which we find enumerated among the rest of his works Ioannes Baptista Almadianus a Viterbian of whom there are several Elegies in Latin Verse upon the death of Platina extant at the end of Platina's works Ioannes Baptista Egnatius an Eminent and General Professor of the Liberal Arts at Venice of which Citty he was also a Native the only Monument of whose Poetic Genius we find mentioned among many other of his Volumes is his Panegyric in Heroic Latin Verse upon Francis the first of that Name King of France Ioannes Baptista Pigna another Venetian of whose writings there are 4 Books of Sonnets printed at Venice together with the Sonnets of Celio Calcagnino and Ludovico Ariosto by Vincentio Valgrisio Ioannes Baptista Scaphenatius a Milanese of whose writing something is preserv'd among the Collected works of several Eminent Italian writers of Latin Poetry Ioannes Barclaius a most acute learned and Elegant Scochman and very famous for what he hath writen both in Prose and Verse but especially for his Argenis and his Euphormio both which works though written for the most part in solute Oration yet may very well be accounted Poems not only for that they are intersperst throughout with Verse but also for that they have their Political and Moral truths allegoris'd or coucht under feign'd and invented Story Ioannes Boccatius see Giovanni Boccatio Ioannes Bonfinius a Frenchman of Auvergne whose Basia and other Poems were printed at Leiden an 1656. Ioannes Busmannus a writer of Poems which were printed at Wirtemberg an 1337. Ioannes Carbonirosa an Author of Kirkhoven who among other things wrote certain Dramatic Pieces out of the Holy Scripture Joannes Columbinus the Author of a little Poem entiled Contra Philomusum or against the Contemners of School Divinity Joannes Cotta a native of Ponte Aliaco a Town upon the River Athesis who publisht an Elegant Book of Latin Epigrams but whose Noble Book of Chorographie begun in Verse was not only left unfinisht but also that which was done of it lost together with his learned Scholia upon Plinie Joannes Crato a Silesian born at Vratislaâ—â— the Cheif City of that Country in the year of our Lord 1512 he is styl'd by Boisaâ—dus in his Icones the Hierophantes of all polite Literature and had indeed the general reputation as well of an excellent Poet as of a profound Philosopher and most skilful Physician but for being so great a Philosopher and Physician it was that he remain'd Counsellor and Chief Physician for 26 years to 3 Emperours successively Ferdinand the first Maximilian the second and Rodulphus the second Joannes Dantiscus a Polonian who wrote in Heroic Verse a Poem entitled Soteria to Sigismund de Erberstein a Knight of Poland upon his return from Muscovie another upon the Victory of Sigismund King of Poland against the Waywod of Moldavia also a Sylva in Elegiac Verse upon the calamities of his times He was flourishing in the year 1531. Joannes Elius a writer of Divine Odes mention'd in Hervagius his Catalogue Joannes Fabritius a Native of Berkena in Lower Alsatia who wrote in Verse the History of Gulielmus Thellius which dedicating to Conradus Pellicanus he publisht himself with other Poems of his He flourisht at Zurich in the year 1554. Joannes Filiczkius a Hungarian Poet remembred for what he hath written in Latin Verse among the Chief of that Nation Joannes Franciscus Camaenus a Native of Perusia a Town of Hetruria but under the Pope's Dominion who wrote an Heroic Poem in name at least of the Rape of Philenis which with several other Poems as Eclogues Elegies Epigrams Odes Epicedia c. was printed at Venice by Gulielmo de Fontaneto an 1520. Ioannes Franciscus Mutius an Italian of whom what is extant in Latin Verse is to be found among the selected workes of divers of the principal Latin Poets of that Nation Ioannes Franciscus Picus Mirandula the Nephew of that Miracle of his time Picus Count of Mirandula and as related to him by Blood so also by Ingenuity and perfection of learning both his Books de Veritate Fidei Christianae and also his Sacred Poems are mentioned with high commendation by Paulus Iovius in his Elogies and also by Boissartus in his Icones Ioannes Franciscus Quintianus Stoa an Italian writer of very many Poetical things in Latin Verse besides some in Prose among his first kind are his Threnodies upon the deaths of the K. of France the K. of Scots Queen Anne Philippus Beroaldus c. His Poem of the Amours of Mars and Venus in 8 Books his Cleopolis or Sylva upon the Glory of the City of Paris his Sylva in praise of Marinus Beichemius his Theandrogenosis and Theanastasis the first an Ode upon our Saviours Nativity the second a Sylva upon his Resurrection 7 Tragedies whereof 2 Divine and 5 Comedies Ioannes de Gerson a French Author of a most wonderful multitude of Volumes whereof some in Verse particularly his Epithalamium upon the Mystical Marriage betwen a Divine and the Study of Theology He was Chancellor of the Parisian Academy and is mentioned flourishing in the year of our Lord 1429. Ioannes Fungerus a German who sung in Heroic Verse the Acts of Maurice William Governor of Friseland Ioannes Gigas the Author of a Treatise concerning the Certainty of Christian Religion to which are added his Divine Poems besides which he wrote many things in Poetry as Sylvae Epigrams Elegies and among the rest his Elegy upon the 2 Eclipses of the Moon that hapened in the year 1538. his Funeral Elegy upon John Prince of Saxonie his Encomium upon the City of Leipsich and his Epicedium upon the death of Erasmus Joannes Gilleius a Burgundian who among other things wrote an Elegant Description of the Stately House and Gardens of Pagnâ—l belonging to the Gileian Family and of the City of Salines and the River Furiosa flowing by it together with the Famous Wilderness belonging to the Sieur Du Sachet Joannes Girardus the Author of a Poem entitled Divionensis Stichostratia with two Centuries of Epigrams Joannes Grasserus the Author of certain Latin Poems which were printed at Colen an 1595. Joannes Hasembergius a Bohemian no less mention'd for his Drolling Verses upon Martin Luther then for his being Tutor to the Emperor Ferdinand's Children Joannes Honterus an Eminent Geographer of Cronstadt in Transilvania who among divers Geographical Treatises wrote one in Hexameter
in Poetry Nathan Chytraeus a German whose Vranoscopia Geoscopia and other Poetical pieces of that nature are taken notice of by Learned Men among the works of other writers of Latin Poetry accounted of the Chief of Germany Nicodemus Frischlinus a German writer of nomean account in Poetry not less then Heroic as his Hebreis imports Nicolas Breton a writer of Pastoral Sonnets Canzons and Madrigals in which kind of writing he keeps company with several other Contemporary Aemulators of Spencer and Sr Philip Sidney in a publisht Collection of selected Odes of the chief Pastoral Sonnetters c. of that Age. Nicolaus Causinus a very famous French man Father Confessour joyntly with Iacobus Sirmondus to King Lewis the 13 th of France besides his vulgarly so much admired work The Holy Court his Book De Eloquentia his Thesaurus Graecae Poeseos and other things in Prose he hath also written in Verse several Tragedies Solyma Nebuchadonosor Theodoricus c. and other Latin Poems Nicolaus Cisnerus Mosbachius a Poet of the Palatine or Territory of the Prince Palatine of the Rhine he was in his Prime about the year 1556. Nicolaus Grudius the possessour of a principal Place among the Principal Latin Poets of Germany Nicolaus Kenton an old English Poet that is old in respect of this Age for he wrote in the Reign of K. Edward the 4 th and as Poetry then went was look't upon as a very Famous Man in those times Nicolaus Marius Panicianus a Ferrarese whose Poetic writings were both many and of various subiects Nicolaus Querculus the Author of 2 Books of Moral Hexastichs printed by Reginaldus Calderius at Paris an 1552. Nicolaus Rapinus a Frenchman whose Fame in Latin Poetry hath a Place among the Cheif of that Nation Nicolaus Reusnerus a Professor at Ienes of universal knowledge in all Arts and Sciences by the testimony of Melchior Adams in his Life and Boissardus in his Bibliotheca and for his felicity in Latin Verse rankt among the modern Latin Poets accounted of the Prime of Germany among the rest of his Opera Poetica his Monarchae is peculiarly mentioned Nicolaus Rhedigerus a German one of the principal accounted of that Nation for excellence in Latin Poetry Nicolaus Rigaltius a wriâ—er of Annotations upon Tertullian for which he hath a very high commendation from Grotius in his Epistle to Petrus Puteanus but besides this and several other works in Prose he hath written sufficiently in Latin Verse to gain himself the title to a Place among the modern Latin Poets accounted of the Chief of France He is also mentioned as a Person of universal Literature by Gassendus in his Life of Peireskius Nicolaus Rudingerus one of the number of those that are esteem'd of the Prime of the German Nation for a happy Vein in Latin Poetry Nicolaus Valla a Roman who besides his Latin Version of Homers Ilias and Hesiods Opera Dies hath also left productions of his own invention among which his two Epistles of Rome and Constantinople each to other reciprocal O. OCtavius Boldonius wrote Epigrapica or Elogia in Latin Verse which were printed at Paris anno 1660. Octavius Cleophilus an Elegant Poet of Fano a principal Town of Marca Anconitana among whose Poetical works for he wrote many things both in Prose Verse are his Poem entitled Faneis in 3 Books and his Book De Coetu Poetarum in which he gives a brief touch of all the Ancient both Greec and Latin Poets Octavius Meninus a writer of Latin Poesy among other the Cheif writers of Latin Poesy accounted of the Italians Octavius Rubeus a Paduan born in the year 1570 the Son of Iacobus de Rubeis and Hippolyta of the Family of the Scarpi he wrote the History of Brescia with good success and is moreover reckon'd among the number of Choicest Italians Poets Orlando Pescetti a Tragic writer of Verona Otho of Cremona his Latin Rythms concerning the choice of Simples and Medicinal Ingredients were printed at Francfort anno 1533 by Christianus Egenolphus Ottavio Rinuccini an Italian Lyric Poet or writer of Sonnets one generally so accounted of the first rank after Petrarch for Elegancy and sweetness Of the same Classe with him we may rekon Guido Cavalcanti Girolamo Preti Georgio Gradenico Benedetto Varchi Speron Sperone Francesco Maria Molza Bernardino Rota and Tasso himself who was no less happy in his Sonnets then in his Heroic Poems P. PAcificus Maximus Asculanus an Eminent both Grammarian and Poet among whose Poetical works his Poem Lucretia in 2 Books and his Virginia in as many were seth forth by Hieronymus Soncinus an 1550. He wrote also 20 Books of Elegies a Poem to Joannes Salvalius and an Invective against Angelus Politianus Pamphilius Saxus a Discoverer of his Poetical talent with divers other Italian writers in Latin Poetry whose selected works are publisht together Parthenius Paravicinus a Novocommensian not of the meanest repute of the late Italian writers in Latin Verse Pantaleon Candidus a German Poet of the Chief of those that are fam'd for an Elegant style in Latin Verse M r Paschal a late French writer of a Poem entitled Le Commerce du Parnasse Paulus Areolus an Elegant Poet of Taleacotium born in the year 1570. He was preferr'd to the Government of Lugo by Cardinal Antonius Barberinus Paulus Dolscius a Metaphrast of David's Psalms and Salomon's Book of Wisedom and thereupon mention'd by Conradus Dinnerus in his Catalogue of Greek Poets Paulus Maccius an Italian of Principal note and fame among the Latin Versifiers of that Nation Paulus Marsus a Poet of Piscinae who yet writ also in Prose a Comment upon Ovid's Fasti. Paulus Medius Schedius a French Poet who had so a great repute in Italy that he was made a Citizen of Rome also a Knight and Count of Padua besides his Schediasmata Poetica which were printed at Paris an 1586 he wrote Epigrams upon all the Cities of Italy Paulus Musconius a writer of Latin Tetrastichs containing a System of Christian Religion Paulus Rubigallus a Hungarian whose Hodoeporicon or Itinerary Poem upon his Constantinopolitan journy in Elegiac Verse was printed at Wirtenberg 1554 with his Complaint of Pannonia to Germany Paulus Baron of Swartzenburg and Lord of Lunenberg His Epigrams were printed at Augsburg by Henricus Steiner an 1583. Petrus Aegidius a noted German writer both in Prose and Verse of which last kind are his Threnodie upon the Emperour Maximilian his Epitaphes upon several other great Princes with divers Epigrams Petrus Angelius Bargoeus a Student after several years travel into far Countries in the University at Pisa where among other studies he became chiefly proficient in that of Poetry from whence among other commendable Poems proceeded his Cynegetics and Syrias the mentioned year of his flourishing was 1596. Petrus Bembus a Noble Venetian whose high and well deserved reputation of a most Learned and Eloquent Person soon advanc't him to the Purple among the rest of whose Poetical
is his Description in Verse of the luxurious and splendid Feasts of Ahasuerus and Darius Kings of Persia he was Flourishing in the year 1542. Richard Brathwait the writer of certain Poems which coming forth about 30 years since though of little or no fame in the World yet not totally perishing in oblivion have gain'd the fortune to be here mentioned Remigius Bellaqua one of the principal Poets reputed of France and by some accounted the third from Ronsard that is by those in whose esteem Joachimus Bellaius holds the 2 d place he wrote many things in Latin but most in the Mother Tongue he is commonly chronologis'd under the year 1577. Renatus Rapinus a French both Critical Judge of the Poets as appears by his Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poetry and Poet also him self of no obscure fame by his Latin Poem of Horticulture or Gardening which hath been of late ingeniouly translated by John Evelin the younger of Says Court by Deptford following in the trac of fame the footsteps of his Learned Father sufficiently known by his many both delightful and to the Public most beneficial works Richard Brome a Servant to Ben. Johnson a Servant suitable to such a Master and who what with his faithful service and the sympathy of his Genius was thought worthy his particular commendation in Verse whatever Instructions he might have from his Master Johnson he certainly by his own natural parts improved to a great heighth and at last became not many parasangues inferior to him in fame by divers noted Comedies as The Antipodes the Novella Mock-Marriage the Covent Garden Wedding the Mad couple well Match't the Ambitious Politic the Court Beggar the Citty wit but especially his Nothern Lasse his Jovial Crew and his Asparagus Garden Richard Corbet a no less witty Poetiser in his Youth when his Iter Boreale and other facetious Poems were the effects of his juvenil fancy then grave Divine in his Elder years when his more serious studies advanc't him to the Bishoprie first of Oxford then of Norwich Richard Crashaw Fellow first of Pembroke-Hall afterwards of St. Peters Colledge in Cambridge a Devout pourer forth of his Divine Raptures and Meditations in smooth and Pathetic Verse His Poems consist of 3 parts the first entitled Steps to the Temple being for the most part Epigrams upon several passages of the New Testament the second part The Delights of the Muses or Poem upon several occasions both English and Latin the third and last part Carmen Deo nostro being Hymns and other Sacred Poems addressed to the Countess of Denbigh that Religious solitude and love of a recluse life which made him spend much of his time and even lodge many nights under Tertullian's roof of Angels in St. Mary's Church drew him at length turning Roman Catholick to betake himself to that so zealously frequented place call'd Our Lady 's of Loretto in Italy where he died Sr Richard Fanshaw heretofore Secretary to his present Majesty when Prince of Wales and after his restoration his Embassador into Spain where he died Besides his Translation of Guarini's Pastor Fido into English Verse and of Spencer's Sheapherds Calender into Latin Verse Richard Rablet and Richard Turner two Contemporaries and therefore perhaps worthie of mention for antiquities sake with Drayton with whose Owl and other old Pieces of Poetry two small things of theirs Rablets Cob's Prophesie and Turner's Nosce te Humours were publisht and seem to be but the track of other Poetical works though now lost and forgotten Richard Lovelace an approv'd both Souldier Gentleman Lover and a fair pretender to the Title of Poet a Souldier having Commanded a Regiment in the late King's Army a Gentleman of a Vicounts Name and Family a Lover Militant under the Bannor of of Lucasta the Lady Regent under a Poetical Name of his Poetical endeavours and as to the last of his Qualififications besides the acute and not unpleasant stile of his Verses a Man may discern therein sometimes those sparks of a Poetic fire which had they been the main design and not Parergon in some work of Heroic argument might happily have blaz'd out into the perfection of sublime Poesy Robertus Aytonus a Scotch Poet of whom there is extant a Panegyric to King James in Latin Verse Robert Baron a Dramatic writer who wrote Don Quixot or the Knight of the Ill-favoured Countenance a Comedy Gripus and Hegio a Pastoral Deorum Dona Dick Scorner Destruction of Jerusalem the Marriage of Wit and Science Masques and Interludes Myrza a Tragedy Robertus Bodius a Scotchman whose Latin Verses have a Place among the works of several Eminent Scotch Poets Robert Chamberlain the Author of a Comedy call'd The Swaggering Damsel and Sicelides a Pastoral Robert Fleming an English writer recorded in History among those that Flourisht in the Reign of King Henry the 6 th not only for his Dictionary in Greec and Latin but also for a work he is said to have writ in Verse of various Argument Robert Garnier a French Counsellor of State and writer of Tragedies Robert Sirnam'd of Glocester a not altogether obscure writer in the Reign of Henry the Third and seeming to passe for a Poet in the esteem of Cambden who quotes divers of his old English Rythms in praise of his native Country England Robert Gomersal the Author of Lodowic Sforza a Tragedy and some other things of Poetical subject Robert Green one of the Pastoral Sonnet makers of Qu. Elizabeth's time Contemporary with D r Lodge with whom he was associated in the writing of several Comedies namely The Laws of Nature Lady Alimony Liberality Prodigality and a Masque call'd Luminalia besides which he wrote alone the Comedies of Friar Bacon and Fair Emme Robert Heath the Author of a Book of Poems which about 20 years ago came forth under the Title of Clarastella the ascribed title of that Celebrated Lady who is suppos'd to have been both the Inspirer and cheif subject of them Robert Herric a writer of Poems of much about the same standing and the same Rank in fame with the last mention'd though not particularly influenc't by any Nymph or Goddess except his Maid Pru. That which is chiefly pleasant in these Poems is now and then a pretty Floury and Pastoral gale of Fancy a vernal prospect of some Hill Cave Rcok or Fountain which but for the interruption of other trivial passages might have made up none of the worst Poetic Landskips S r Robert Howard of the Noble Family of the Earls of Berkshire and Brother to the present Earl besides the Dignity of his present Office as being imploy'd in his Majesties Exchequer but of the most considerable Fame by what he hath written in Poetry especially to the Stage viz. The Blind Lady the Surprisal the Comittie Comedies The Great Favourite a Tragedy Inforc't Marriage a Tragy-Comedy and The Indian Queen a Dramatic History Robert Mead the Author of two not altogether obscure Comedies The Combat of Love
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
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
Poet of Melos the Son of Crito he flourisht as saith Suidas about the 65th Olympiad and wrote several things in Heroic verse besides Elegies and Epigrams he is by some confounded with another Menalippides a Milesian of whom already in Euripides Meâ—ander an Athenian the Son of Diopithes and Disciple of Theophrastus he was the Prince and first Author of Nova Comoedia and is said to have written 108 Fables and in 8 of them to have been Victor very many of his Comedies are remembred by Athenaeus Pollux Pliny Stobaeus Sidonius Apolâ—inaris and others he began to flourish about the 114th Olymyiad Ptolomaeus Lagides then reigning Of those 27 Comedies of his said by Michael Neander to have been extant in some Library at Constantinople I find no certain proof contemporary with him and a Writer also as some say of Nova Comoedia was Phileman the Son of Damon he is said in contest with Menander to have had several times the better his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is thought to have been imitated by Plautus in his Mercator Some other Comedies of his are also mention'd by Athenaeus and Pollux He wrote also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but probably not in Verse Stobaeus also quotes divers Senary Iambics out of Philemon but 't is uncertain whether this Philemon or his Son of the same name of whose writing Suidas saith there were 54 Fables Of the same time also was 2. Euhemerus who wrote but whether in Verse is doubted a History of the Ethnic Gods which Ennius translated he is reckoned among the Elegiacs by Censorinus 3. Simmias the Rhodian who besides his Ovum already mentioned wrote a little Poem Entitled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the hatchet 3. Posidippus Cassandrius the Son of Cyniscus who succeeded Menander in Nova Comoedia his Fables as saith Suidas were Thirty among which was his Pomoboscus Some fragments of him are to be found in the common Edition of the Poetae Minores there was besides him another of the same name an Epigrammatist 4. Diphilus of Sinope out of whose Synapothnescontes Plautus is thought to have borrowed Of 100. Comedies he is said to have written 33. are named by Athenaeus he is also quoted by Pollux Stobaeus and Clemens Alexandrinus by whom as also by Eusebius he is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 5. Rhinton of Tarentum a Potters Son who wrote Thirty eight Tragi-Comedies whereof his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was one 6. Sophilus a Comic Poet some say of Sicyon some of Thebes out of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an Iambic verse is cited by Laertius in Stilpo 7. Stephanus the Son of Alexis who is said to have been the Uncle of Menander he was a writer of Media Comoedia 8. Zenodotus the Disciple of Philetas whom he succeeded in the tuition of Lagides his Sons 9. Theocritus of Syracuse the Son of Protagoras aud Philine whose 33 Idyls or Bucolic Elogues with several Greec Epigrams and the Altar if that be his are handsomely set forth by Stephanus with the ancient Scholiasts 10. Antagoras of Rhodes who was in great favour with King Antigonus as appears from Pausanias Plutarch Athenaeus he wrote a Poem Entitled Thebais but there is nothing of his extant saving one Epigram and a few Verses cited by Diogenes Laertius 11. Hermodotus another favourite of Antigonus as appears from Plutarch in his Apophthegms and his Book of Isis Osiris 12. Anaxippus a writer of Media Comoedia whose Citharaedus and other Comedies are cited by Athenaeus Of the above named Philemon the Elder Theophrastus was a familiar acquaintance who as Laertius saith wrote a discourse of Comedy but whether he compos'd any thing in verse is doubted Menecrates a Comic Poet of Syracuse whose Manestor and Hermoncus are cited by Athenaeus Suidas and Volaterranus Menelaus a Heroic Poet of Aegos whose Thebais is mentioned by Suidas and Volaterranus Menippus a Comic writer whose Cercopes and other things are cited by Athenaeus and Volaterranus Merboldus otherwise called Marbodaeus a writer of Gems and precious stones in Hexameter Verse who comes near the Verge of the Moderns for he flourisht about the year 1050. Meroboudes a learned Spaniard sirnamed Scholasticus of whose not unelegant Verses de Christo some fragments are to be seen in Brietius and other Collections according to Labbous his Chronology he flourisht about the Year 400. Meropius Pontius Paulinus see Pontius Paulinus in Claudius Claudianus Mesomedes a Lyric Poet of Crete who living in the time of Adrian celebrated his Minion Antinous Metagenes an Athenian Comic Poet whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is cited by Athenaeus and Suidas Methodius a Christian Greec Poet Bishop of Tyre who suffer'd martyrdom under the Emperours Decins Valerius Metrodorus an old Epigrammatist whose Decastich upon human life and others are extant in the Greec Florilegium Michael sirnamed Grammaticus an Epigrammatist of whom there is extant a Hexastich in the Fourth Book of the Greec Anthologie Milesius see Eudemon Mimnermus see Epimenides Mirteus an old Epigrammatist of whom divers Epigrams are to be found in Paulus Jovius his Icones Mnasalees a Sicyonian certain of whose Epigrams are to be found in Athenaeus Mnesarchius an old Epigrammatist of whom there is extant a Tetrastich in the Greec Anthology Mnesimachus see Anaxandrides Monius an old Jambic Poet and one of the Dipnosophists in Athenaeus Morsimus see Antilochus Morychus see Aristophanes Mâ—schion another Iambic Poet quoted by Stobaeus in several places Moschus a Sicilian contemporary with Aristarchus and Cratinus he wrote Bucolics whereof some few are extant and printed for the most part together with Theocritus Moses the first great Prophet and Law-giver among the Jews and whose Divine gift in Poetry appears not only in those Hymns or Songs he made upon the children of Israels deliverance from the Aegyptian Pharao and others of their enemies but also the Book of Job which is no other than a kind of Tragic Poem and so many learned men judge is supposed to be his Musaeus some very ancient Writer whosoever he was whose name hath been ever illustrious among the Greecs and Latins both for his antiquity and eminence in Poetry if at least there were not more of the same name as there are reckon'd Four namely First Musaeus the Son of Thamyras a Theban he is said to have been a Melic Poet and to have wrote Hymns and Odes Secondly Musaeus the Son of Eumolpus an Athenian who wrote in Greek verse the Generation of the gods Thirdly Musaeus of Eleusis the Son of Antiphonus and Disciple of Orpheus who is said to have wrote Precepts of the life in 400. Verses to his son Eumolpus Fourthly and Lastly Musaeus an Ephesian Poet who was living in the time of Eumenes Attalus King of Pergamus now which of these was that grand Musaeus spoken of by Virgil is hard to determin but probable it is that it was the ancientest of them if there be more then one and the same with Moses the Jewish Law-giver of whom
Cbristophorus Schellembergius a German Poet principally remembred for his Epithalamium upon the Marriage of Wolfangus Meurerus a noted Physician his Friend Christophoro Sicinio see Dominico Cornacchini Christophorus Stummelius a German not unfam'd among the Latin Versifiers of that Nation Christopherus Syngelius mentioned for his Elegy upon Magdalen the Wife of Vdaricus Earl of Reinstein who great with Ghild perisht miserably by an accidental Fire in the Year 1546. Claudius Paradinus a writer of Emblems in Imitation of those of Alciate Clemens Marotus a French Poet of Cahors whom Antoin Verd in his Biblioâ—hec stiles the Poet of Princes and the Prince of the Poets of his time Clemens Janitius a Polonian Poet Laureat whose I. Book of Tristia I. Book of various Elegies and another of Epigrams are said to have been printed at Cracovia Conradus Celtes a German both Philosopher Oratour and Mathematician of great Fame but withall so highly applauded for his singular gift in Poetry that he was honoured by the Emperour Frederic at the Suit of the Duke of Saxony with the Poetical Wreath in the 32d Year of his Age as saith Boxhornius in his Monuments and Elogies of Illustrious Men but Pantaleon in his Book de viris Illustribus saith by the Emperour Maximilian in the 35th Year of his Age Anno 1494. however all agree he was the first Poet Laureat among the Germans Conradus of Alyzeia a Town of the Palatinate but in the Diocess of Mentz of whose Poetical Works for he wrote also in Prose the chief are his Poem of the Virgin Mary and the Redemption of Humane kind his Epistles to divers Friends and his Book of Odes he is mentioned flourishing in the Year 1370. Conradus Lautenbachius a highly reputed German Theologist Historian and also Poet. Conradus Leius a German writer particularly commended for what he hath written in Latin Verse Conradus de Mure a Canon of the Church of Zurich in Switzerland whose Poem of the Natures of Animals is not forgotten among the rest of his Works he is mentioned flourishing Anno 1573. Conradus Ritterhusius a German of no obscure Fame among the Poetical Writers of that Nation Corneille the great Dramatic writer of France wonderfully applauded by the present Age both among his own Countrey-men and our Frenchly affected English for the amorous Intreagues which if not there before he commonly thrusts into his Tragedies and acted Histories the Imitation whereof among us and of the perpetual Colloquy in Rhime hath of late very much corrupted our English Stage Cornelius Musius a Latin Poet none of the least considerable of the Moderns Cornelius Schonaeus the Author of a well known Work Entitled Terentius Christianus consisting of several Divine Comedies taken out of the Sacred Scripture and written in Terence his style Cosmâ— Manuci an Italian as his name Imports but an English writer of the Just General a Tragedy and the Loyal Lovers a Tragecomedie Curtesius Curtesius a Poet of Padua who wrote in Verse the death of St. Justina and the Loves of Orestilla Cyril Turner a writer of Two old Tragedies the Atheists Tragedy and the Revengers Tragedy D. DAniel Heinsius the most fam'd of Hollanders and most Celebrated by * Learned Men for his egregious Wit and deep proficiency in all kind of Literature he was Born at Gaunt Anno 1582. came to be History professour Secretary and Library Keeper at the University of Leideâ— in Prose he is Eminent for his Exercitations upon the New Testament and divers Philological Works in strict Oration for his Excellent style in Greec and Latin Verse of which sufficient Testimonies are Extant and for which he is compar'd by Causabone in his Epistles to Homer for the Greec and to Ovid and Propertius for the Latin besides what he wrote poetically in his Native Tongue Damasus Blienburgius a Hollander who for what he hath written in Latin Poesie is remembred among the chief of Belgic Latin Poets Dante 's Aligerus a most Renowned Florentine and the first of Italian Poets of any Fame or Note for Vernacular Verse but that which most proclaims his Fame to the World is his Triple Poem Entitled Paradice Purgatory and Hell besides which he wrote several things in Prose the Meridian of his flourishing time was the Year 1321. the Emperour Lewes the 5 th Sirnamed Bavarus then Reigning David Echlinus a Scotch-man whose Poem Entitled Ova Paschalia is to be found in a Collection of the choice Works of several Scotch Latin Poets as likewise David Humus his Lusus Poetici David Kynalochus his Poem de Hominis procreatione de Anatome David Wederburnus his various Poems Diomede Borghese a Lyric Poet or Sonnet writer of Siena Dionysius Lebius Taubilius a learned German writer as well in Verse as Prose Dionysio Guazzoni a Dramatic Poet of Cremona chiefly in the way of Pastoral Dionysius Gotofredus a French Civilian of that Eminence that he is styl'd by Learned Men the Papinian of his time and by Dilherus in his Academical Disputations is highly commended for his Notes upon the Body of the Civil Law yet amidst so laborious a Study and such a painful Work he could sometimes be vacant to the Latin Muse. Dominicus Baudius a most grateful Associate and Favourite to the most Learned and also the most noble persons of his time both in England France and the Low-Countries and among the rest coming into England in the retinue of a Splendid Embassie from the States to Queen Elizabeth to the great Patron of all vertue Sir Philip Sidny for the singular Merit of his Worth and Learning of which he had given large Proofs in several famous Universities especially that of Leyden to which at last he wholly betook himself and with great Reputation read Eloquence and History his Extant Latin Poems are particularly commended by Grotius and others the most Excellent of Modern Poets themselves he was Born at Lisle in Flanders the Son of Dominicus and Marie Heems on the 9th of the Ides of April 1561. Dominico Cornacchini an Italian Dramatic but particularly in the way of Comedy among the Multitude of which kind of writers scarce to be numbred these following deserve not to be past by in silence viz. Christophero Sicinio Archangelo Archangelo Bernardino Pino Christophero Castelletti Gio. Battista Verini Angelo Badalucchi M. Hieron Burgaglio Ludovioo Fenarolo Adriano Polito Bruno Nolano Raphael Trianoro Ludovico Contareno Gio. Battista Gelli M. Hieron Razzi M. Ludovico Paterna Dominicus Lampsonius a Belgian who being equally happy both in the art of Painting and Poetry describ'd in Verse the Life of Lambertus Lombardus a most Excellent Painter and his Master in that Art 1598. Dominicus Mancinus an Author no less Elegant then Learned who professing Theology and affecting Poetry applyed his Muse to Divine and Moral Subjects his Poem on the passion of our Saviour and another of the 4 Cardinal Vertues and their Offices in Elegiac Verse were both printed at Basil Anno 1543. he is
very near the Maiesty of Virgil. Hieronymus Donatus an Eminent both Philosopher Theologist Mathematician Oratour and also Poet by the Testimony of Angelus Politianus who mentions him in his Miscellanies Hieronymus Guntius a Poet of Bibrac one of the 35 Free Cities in the Circle of Suevia who supply'd several Greec Poets of the latter date as Prodromus Xanthopulus Psellius Philus Callieles and Nonnus Panopolita a multitude of Verses expung'd and lost by the injury of time and other accidents to which their Manuscripts had been expos'd besides several Epigrams of his own both in Latin and Greec Hieronymus Spartanus the Author of a Poem printed by J. Oporinus at Basil Anno 1550. Entitled Miles Christianus written in Elegiac Verse Hieronymus Zieglerus a writer of divers Tragecomedies and other Dramatic pieces out of the Old and New Testament as his Protoplastus Immolation of Isaac Nomothesia Sampson Heli out of the Old his Vineyard Ophiletes and Royal Marriage out of the New besides a Tragedy out of Prophane History Entitled Cyrus Major Hippolytus Capilupus an Italian of paincipal Note and Fame among the Latin Poets of that Nation Honoratus Tascitellus an Italian Author of a very Elegant Latin Poem Dedicated to the Lady of Piscaria Honorio Navazzotti an Italian Poet who by his Poem Celebrating the Vertues of a 100 Noble Women of Casal celebrates his own memory Hubertus Susannius a Writer of Soissons both in Prose and Verse of which last kind are his Book of Epigrams his Book of Games his Eclogue entitled Sylvius his Poem upon the Resurrection with some other things of various subject Hugo Grotius a Native of Delph in Holland born in the year of our Lord 1513 whose equal in fame for Wit Learning Christendom of late Ages hath rarely produc'd particularly of so happy a Genius in Poetry that had his Annals his Book De Veritate Christianae Religionis De Satisfactione Christi and other his extolled works in Prose never come to Light his extant and universally approved Latin Poems had been sufficient to gain him a Living Name Huldricus Huttenus a German born but Knight of France among whose Poetical works collected together and printed at Frank ford an 1538 are his Satyr against the times of Julius Secundus his Hortatory to the Emperour Maximilian to prosecute his War against the Venetians his Poem in Heroic Verse concerning the Fishing of the Venetians his Marcus in the same kind a pleasant Poem entitled Outis c. Huldricus Scoberus another German Poetical Writer of the number of those Latin Versifiers of that Nation whose fames are not obscure among the Learned Huldricus Vannius a Poet of Ausburg the Author of a Heroic Poem entitled Christs Passion Humbertus Momnoretanus the Authour of a Sylva in praise of Upper Burgundy which is printed with Gilbertus Cognatus his Descriptiou of Burgundy Humphry Mills a Poetical Writer of the last Age but whose name I believe by this time is known to few notwithstanding two Volumes of his Poetry were once publisht under the title of the Melancholy Vision consisting of several Moral and Divine Contemplations I. Jacobus Balde a Jesuit of whom there are extant Miscellaneous Poems divided into 4 tomes Iacobus Catzius an eminent Low-Country Man both for Dignity for he was Syndic of West-Freise Land and Gelder Land and his zeal to Learning and the Arts among which Poetry was not his least excellency as appears by his Patriarcha Bigamus publisht with several Poems of Gaspar Barlaeus and Cornelius Boius by both whom he was highly celebrated Iacobus Ceporinus a learned Grammarian and Commentatour of Zurich one of the Chief Cantons of Switzers much esteem'd for his Scholia's upon Hesiod Dionysius Afer and Aratus as also for a Book of Lepid Greec Epigrams of his own Composing Iacobus Crellius wrote in Greec Verse Arguments upon all the Books of the Old and New Testament Iacobus Crittonius a Scotch Writer particularly in Latin Verse among several other noted Men of that Nation of whose Latin Poems there is a Select collection Iacobus Ghibbesius a late Authour of Lat. Odes which were printed at Rome an 1665. Iacobus Grevinus an advancer in the Study of Poetry to which in his younger years he especially addicted himself to that degree that Thuanus mentioning with praise his Gelodachrys and other Poems thinks him woâ—thy to be compar'd with the most admir'd of his time either of France or other parts and for his Version of Nicander into French Verse when not totally abandoning Poetry he betook himself to Physic with the most elegant of the Ancient Greecs and Latins he was flourishing about the year 1570 but what ever else he intended to oblige the World with immature death prevented Iacobus Iaspar a Danish Poet who wrote a Consolatory Poem to the Prince of Orange upon the death of his First-born Daughter and a Genethliacon upon the Birth of Renatus the young Prince both which are printed with Gilbertus Cognatus his Description of Burgundy Jacobus Lectius a late German Poet whose Varia Poemata were printed at Geneva an 1609. Jacobus Macolonus a Scotch-Man whose Anthroporia Xeniorum is extant among the Selected works of others of the prime Latin Poets accounted of that Nation Jacobus Micyllus a fam'd Writer of Strasburg whose Epigrams both Greec and Latin Elegy of the Falcon and the Pie Epistle to Joachimus Camerarius in Elegiac Verse foretelling the precise time of the ruin of the old Castle of Heidelberg speak him no less a Poet then the rest of his elaborate Works a universal Schollar Jacobus Montanus a Poet of Spire one of the 18 Imperial Cities He wrote Christs Passion in four Books in Elegiac Verse Hymns upon the Feast daies of the whole year in divers kinds of Verse the Heroe of Tarsus or the Life of St. Paul in Heroic Verse beside some things in Prose Jacobus Rueff a Chirurgian of Zurick who besides several useful things in Prose among which is his Catalogue of the Chief Physitians and Astrologers to his time wrote also several things in Dramatic Poetry as his Comedy of William Thel the principal promoter of the Helvetian Conspiracy the Rape of Paulina the Cheat of the Priests of Isis with some others of Divine argument taken out of the Holy Scripture Jacobus Sadoletus see Giacopo Sadoletti Jacobus Schoepperus Fremonianus the Author of a Tragi-Comedy entitled the Monomachie or single Combta between David and Goliab Jacobus Wimphelingus a Native of Sledstadt in Germany and Presbyter of the Church of Spire a very copious and fruitful writer both in Prose and Verse of which last kind were his Poem in praise of the B. Virgin in Elegiac Verse dedicated to Bartholdus Arch-Bishop of Mentz his Angelical Nuncio in Heroic Verse his Poem to Philip Count Palatine in Heroic Verse his Elegy to his Eldest Son Lewis his Poem to Eberhard Duke of Wirtenberg in Heroic not to mention his Hymns Epigrams and other various Pieces of Poetry He flourisht at Spire an
his late Majesty his Poems which being few besides his Dramatics Aglaura Brenoralt the Goblins are collected together with his Letters into a Volume entitled Fragmenta Aurea have a pretty touch of a gentile Spirit and seem to savour more of the Grape then Lamp and still keep up their reputation equal with any Writ so long ago his Plays also still bring audience to the Theater Iohn Webster an Associate with Thomas Decker in several not wholly to be rejected Plays viz. Northward Hoe the Noble Stranger New trick to cheat the Divel Westward Hoe the Weakest goes to the wall Woman will have her Will with Samuel Rowly in the Cure for Cuckolds a Comedy besides what he wrote alone the Divels Law case a Tragy-Comedy the White Devil the Dutches of Malfy Tragedies John Wilson a late Writer with no bad success of two Comedies the Cheats and the Projectors and the Tragedy of Andronicus Commenius Jonas ab Elvervelt an Holsatian who wrote a Description of the State of that Country in Elegiac Verse Josephus Iscanus or Joseph of Exeter the very first of the Moderns both in time and Fame of Latin Poets among the English who accompanying King Richard the first in his Expedition into the Holy Land had the better advantage to celebrate as he did the Acts of that Warlike Prince in a Poem entitled Antiocheis He wrote also 6 Books De Bello Trojano in Heroic Verse which as Cambden well observes appears to be no other then that Version of Dares Phrygius into Latin Verse which hath been generally imputed to Cornelius Nepos have been equal to his undertaking Joshua Sylvester the English Translator of Du Bartas his Poem of the six daies work of Creation by which he is more generally fam'd for that Poem hath ever had many great admirers among us then by his own Poems commonly printed therewith Juan de Mena a Spaniard whose Poetical Works were printed at Antuerp anno 1552. Julius Ascanius a Native of Crenta in the Venetian Territory a tast of whose Poetical Fancy is extant among other the choise collected works of the most noted Italian Writers of Latin Verse Julius Caesar Stella the Author of a Latin Poem of Heroic title Columbeis Justulus an Eminent Author of Spoleto whose writings are chiefly Poetical as his Poem of the Culture of Saffron another of Silk-worms his Epicedium of Pomponius Laeta his Musae Phanestres his Description of the Mountain adjacent to Spoleto his Poem to Ferdinand of Arragon and some others Josephus Justus Julius Caesar two most celebrated Authors Son and Father of the Illustrious Family Della Scala of Verona and therefore generally known by the Sirname of Scaligeri of whom Julius hath the testimony of the Great Thuanus for a Person unparallell'd by any of his Age scarce giving Place to any of the Ancients as Josephus is by the same Historian rankt in the next Place to his Father Julius whose extant Poems both Greec and Latin have gain'd him among Learned Men a particular reputation of an excellent Poet and if in any doubtless in that very respect above all others he is to be preferred before his Son Joseph who though accounted in the number of Poets also yet is much more fam'd for what he hath written in Prose yet as much a Poet as Julius passeth for his judgement of some of the Poets in his Critica might for ought I know if well examined bring in some question whither if he had undertaken those great Provinces in Poetry which require the highest judgement his success would Justus Lipsius one of the most Illustrious Antiquarys Critics and Commentatours of his time in Christendom by the testimony of Thuanus Dilherus and Aubertus Miraeus and though what he hath written in Poetry is not so much taken notice of as his Antiquae Lectiones his Notes upon Tacitus his Saturnalia and other fam'd things in Prose yet to be reckon'd also among the cheif of Belgic Latin Poets for he was born at Brussells for his excellent Genius in Latin Verse he was a constant admirer of Joseph Scaliger and by him no less belov'd He was Flourishing beyond the year 1606. Justus Ricehius a Native of Gaunt who for his Varia Carmina is inserted among the Belgic Writers of Latin Poetry L. LAelius Capilupus a Mantuan who had such an artful and igenious way of making Centones out of his Country-Man Virgil's Verses that by Learned Men he is judged to have excell'd Ausonius and Proba Falconia in that way of writing he is mentioned Flourishing in the year 1560. Laevinus Torrentius see Levinus Lambertus a Benedictine Monk of Liege who besides his Life of Heribertus Arch-Bishop of Coloign wrote a Book of Hymns in various kinds of Verse Lambertus Danaeus a Writer of Geography in Latin Verse Lancinus Curtius wrote decads of Epigrams which were printed at Milan by Rochus Ambrosius de Valle anno 1521. Laurentius Bonicontrius a Commentator upon the Poet Manilius his Astronomica being himself both an Astronomer and Poet his chief Poetic work being his Tractate of things Natural and Celestial in Heroic Verse He was Flourishing an 1494. Laurentius Gambarus a principal Favorite of Cardinal Alexander Farnese and that chiefly for his fine with and gentile Spirit in Poetry Laurentius Niendalius the Author of Latin Poems which were printed at Vtrecht an 1641. Lazarâ— Buonamico an Italian Poet of Basiana Paduan Professour 20 years his most noted things in Poetry are his Epistles in Verse to Vrsinus Velius of Silesia Donatus Rullus of Venice Altenerius Avogarus of Verona and several other Eminent Men of Italy and other parts Within the time of his Professourship is comprehended the year of our Lord 1553 the mentioned time of his Flourishing Leonardo Salviati an Italian Comic writer whose Comedy call'd La Spina being particularly taken notice of was printed at Ferrara an 1592. Leonardus Brunus an Eminent both Philosopher Historian Orator and also Poet of Aretium and thereupon generally known by the Appellation of Leonardus Aretinus Leonardus Pellicanus the Brother of the most learned Conradus and had he liv'd might perhaps have arriv'd somewhat near his perfection if not equall'd him at least in another kind for his Genius was Poetical but he was snatcht away in the flour of his age by an untimely death in the year 1510 at Rubeaqua the place also of his nativity a Town of Upper Alsatia however he left behind him no inconsiderable Fame by his elaborate Elegy upon the death of the Lady Margaret the Wife of Philip Count Palatine and Duke of Bavaria and his Poem upon the Resurrection and Last Judgment besides Epigrams in various kind of Verse Levinus Brechtus a Friar Minorite of Lovain who wrote the Lives of divers Illustrious Martyrs both in Frose and Verse Levinus Torrentinus a Native of Gaunt highly extoll'd by Meibomius for his Learning in general by Sandius for his Notes upon Suetonius and Horace and by Aubertus Miraeus for his Odes
and Friendship and the Costly Whore Robertus Obricius a writer of Latin Hymns D r Robert Wild one of the Poetical Cassock and not of the meanest rank being in some sort a kind of Anti-Cleaveland in regard he stands up in behalf of the Presbyterians as notably as ever Cleaveland did against them the first thing that recommended him to public Fame was his Iter Boreale the same in Title though not in Argument with that little but much commended Poem of Dr Corbet's before mention'd this being upon Monk's Journy iuto Scotland in order to His Majesty's Restoration and lookt upon for a lofty and conceitful style his other things are for the most part of a lepid and facetious nature Rochus a Chartreux Monk mentioned in History among other Eminent Men of K. Edw. the Fourth's time Sr De Roquigni the Author of a late French Poem entitled Muse Chrestienne Rodulphus Agricola a most Famous writer of Groeningen in Friseland who among many other works wrote also Epitaphs and other Poems There were moreover two others of the same name both Poets the first Rodolphus Agricola junior a Poet Laureat the other of Wassenburg Rodolphus Avincatius his Poems dedicated to the Farnesi were printed at Rome an 1543. Rodolphus Avantius an Italian writer of Odes or Sonnets Rodolphus Gualtherus a Native of Zurich in Switzerland and Pastor of the Church of Zurich In Prose he wrote very many things in Heroic verse The Monomachie or Single Combat between David and Goliah with the Allegorical Exposition thereof Rodolphus Langius a German writer Prebend of Munster who wrote a Poem of the 3 Magi or Wisemen another of the Siege of Nuis to the Dean of Colen besides others of various subjects Roger Ascham a Man of that Eminence for learning that he was thought worthy to be chosen Preceptor to that most Glorious Princess Queen Elizabeth and though principally fam'd for his Latin Epistles and other things in Prose yet mentioned with commendation by Balaeus for Epigrams and other Latin Poems Roger Boile Lord Broghil and Earl of Orery the Credit of the Irish Nobility for wit and ingenuous parts and a smooth stile both in Prose and Verse in which last he hath written several Dramatic Histories as Mustapha Edw. the Third Henry the Fifth Tryphon and that with good success applause for the way he writes in namely the continual Riming and love and honour way of the French M r Rostrou a French Tragedian censured by Renatus Rapinus in his Reflections on Aristotle's Treatise of Poetry Ruccelaio an Italian Poet who wrote in Blank Verse of the Culture of Bees S. Mr Sabliquy his Muse Dauphine publisht an 1661. Salmonius Macrinus an Ingenious Poet of Laudun sufficiently known by his 6 Books of Odes in which he made it his study to imitate Horace both in the Argument and manner of Verse but especially Famous for his Lyric Poem entitled Gelonide which he wrote when weary of a single he betook himself to a Married Life Samuel Daniel an Author of good note and reputation in King James his Reign whose History of the 11 first Kings of England from the Norman Conquest though it be of all the rest of his Works most principally sought after and regarded yet are not his Poetical writings totally forgotten as namely his Historical Poem of the Civil Wars between the House of York and Lancaster his Letter of Octavia to Antoninus his Complaint of Rosamund his Panegyric c. and of Dramatic pieces his Tragedy of Philotas and Cleopatra Hymen's Triumph and the Queens Arcadia a Pastoral Samuel Purchas see William Slatyer Samuel Rowly remember'd by his Comical History When you see me you know me and his Tragedy The Noble Spanish Souldier Samuel Woodford a late commended Translator if not rather Paraphrast of David's Psalms in the Pindaric vulgarly so call'd and other various sorts of Verse Scoevola Samarthanus a Learned Frenchman who wrote in Latin Verse Elogies upon all the Eminent Men of France to his time for Learning and Arts. Scipio Capycius the Author of two learned Poems viz. De Vate Maximo and De Principiis rerum M r De Scudery Governour of Nostre-Dome the most Voluminous and of the most Famous of late French Romancers or rather Adulterators of true History with Romantic entreagues of Love yet to say truth in a style and conduct much more gentile and polite then any of the old Romances could boast not without a pretty representing of the heighth of the French Galantry conversation this way of writing will easily be allow'd to be a sort of Poetry but there are besides not very long since publisht his Poesies diverses Sebastianus Aerichalcus a Polonian who describ'd in Heroic Verse the Affections of the Mind out of Philip Melanchton's Book De Anima as also the Solar Eclipse of the year 1546. Sebastianus Castalio the fam'd Author of many learned Works both in Prose and Verse among those in Prose the most known are his Sacred Dialogues as being frequently taught in Grammar Schools His chief things in Poetry are his Eclogue Sirillus upon our Saviour's Nativity his History of the Prophet Jonas in Latin Heroic Verse his Life of St. John Baptist in Heroic Greec Verse his Version of 40 of David's Psalms and of two of Moses's Songs He was Flourishing at Basil about the year 1540. Sebastianus Titio alias Brant an Eminent Jurisconsult of Strasburgh Professour both of Civil and Canon Law but his Writings which were very many were of various subjects and several of them in Verse as his Rosary of the B. Virgin in Sapphics his Elegy upon the death of the Emperour Frederic a Book of Epigrams Divine Satyrs both in Latin and Vernacular Verse the Encomiums of several Saints an Epithalamium upon the Marriage of King Maximilian with Blanca Maria M r Segrais his Poesies printed at Paris anno 1661. Sethus Calvisius a German most learned Historian Poet and Musician whose Opus Chronologicum and other Works have their deserv'd same He died at Leipsich in the 60 th year of his age an 1615. Shakerly Marmion a not obscure or uncopious Writer of English Comedy having sufficiently testified his success therein in his Antiquary his Holland Leaguer his Fleir Fine Companion Fair Maid of the Exchange Sigismundus Fulginas Secretary of the Apostolic Chamber one of the Authors of those Eminent Funeral Poems upon Platina which in honour of that Learned Writer are printed at the end of his works Simon Fagellus Villaticus a Bohemian whose Poetical Works are his Hymns Epigrams Funeral Epitaphs Distichs c. Simon Lemnius a German who besides his Translations of Dionysius Aser and Homer's Odysses into Latin Verse hath left from the product of his own Genius Episodes upon Joachimus Marquese of Brandenburgh and his Lady 5 Bucolic Eglogues and 4 Books of Ethics in Verse He died at Chur in Switzerland of the Pestilence anno 1550. Simon Ogerius a Writer of Silvae and other Latin Poems
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
Epinausimache Aceratus an ancient Grammarian and Epigrammatist who hath a name in the Greek Anthologie Achaeus the Son of Pythodorus and Pythoris he flourish't from the Seventy fourth to the Eighty second Olympiad wrote very many comoedies whereof two are remembred by Athenaeus viz. his Cycnus and his Maerae Addaeus of Mitilene and Addaeus of Macedon both cited in the Greec Anthologie Admetus a foolish Poet in the time of the Emperours Trajan and Adrian the Epigram he orderd to be inscrib'd upon his Tomb is derided by Demonaâ—c in Lucian Adrianus a Roman Emperour under whose name there is a witty Epigram in the Greec Anthologie besides several Anacreontics and Iambies in Latin mention'd by Spartianus Aeantides one of the Seven Greec Poets the other Six being Homerus Junior the Son of Myro a Poetess of Byzantium Sositheus Lycophron Alexander Philiscus and Dionysiades who according to the account of the Scholia's of Hephaestion were called the Pleiades though Isacius Tâ—etzes reckons but two of the above mention'd in this famous Septemvirate viz. Lycophron and Homerus junior and makes the rest to be Theocritus Nicander Callimachus Apollonius and Aratus and the Scholiast of Theocritus in stead of Nicander and Callimachus puts in Philiscus and Aeâ—n-a tides Aegidius a Greec Benedictine Monke who flourish't about the year Seven hundred he wrote a book de Pulsibus in verse and another de urinis there is also an Epigram of one Aegidius in the Greec Anthologie Aelius Julius Crottus an ancient writer of Eglogues and also of Iambics Hendecasyllables and other sorts of Lyric verse Aelius Saturninus a Roman who for certain libelling verses against Tiberius was condemn'd to death and thrown down headlong from the Capitol he is reckon'd among the Poets by Lilius Giraldus There flourisht also about the same time Caius Germanicus Caesar the Son of Drusus whom Ovid in his Fasti celebrates for a Poet the Epigram upon the Thracian Boy who had his head cut off by ice is thought to have been his Caius Lutorius Priscus a Roman Knight famous for his Elegie upon Germanicus poyson'd by Piso but put to death by the Senate for writing against Drusus Phaedrus a Thracian who turn'd into Jambic verse certain Fables of Aesop which are mention'd by Avienus in his Praeface to Theod osius Macrobius Marcus Aemilius Scaurus a Tragic Poet who for some expressions in his Atreus which were interpreted by Tiberius as meant of him was driven to lay violent hands on himself Caius Cominius a Roman Knight who notwithstanding his Libelling verses against Tiberius mention'd by Tacitus is scarce allow'd a Poet by Vossius Lucius Fenestella whom Vossius imagines to have been a Historian mistaken for a Poet and lastly Alphius Avitus whom see in Flavus Aemilianus a Greec Epigrammatist whose name is in the foresaid Anthologie Aemilius Mercer a Latin Poet of Verona whom see in Publius Ovidius he is also mention'd by Servius upon the Fourth book of Virgils Georgics and the first of his Aeneids also by Charisius and others though it is doubted whether that Poem which we have extant under his name de virtutibus Plantarum be really his Aenicus a writer of Tragedies whose Antea is by some ascribed to Pollux Aeschines an Athenian whom Plutarch writing his life among the Ten famous Oratours relates to have been first a Tragic Poet he is also mention'd by Philostratus in the lives of the Sophisters Aeschrion a Poet of Mitylene in high esteem with Aristotle as Nicander in his book de disciplina Aristotelie testifies Aescâ—ylus an Athenian Tragic Poet born in the Village of Eleusis contemporary with Pindarus in the Sixty ninth Olympiad according to the old Scholiast but as Mr. Stanly in his most accurate Edition of this Authour makes out by diligent computation and his Collection out of Mr. Seldens Marmora Arundeliana in the Sixty third The Son of Euphorion and Brother of Cynegyruâ— and Aminias who signaliz'd themselves in the battle of Marathon and the Sea-fight of Salamis in which our Poet also was present of Sixty six Drama's which he wrote being Victor in 13 and Five Satyrs we have extant onely Seven Tragedies his Prometheus Vinctus his Septem contra Thebas Agamemâ—on Persae Eumenides Icetides and Choephorae But though he was Victor 13 times yet it is said he took it so to heart to be vanquisht by Sophocles then a young man that he left his Coâ—ntrey and betook himself to Hiero King of Sicily where he made his Tragedy Aetna so called from the City of that name which Hiero was then building Homonimous to the Mountain others say it was because he was vanquisht by Simonides in his Elegiac verse upon the slain at Marathon after he had been resident at Gela Three years he dyed of a fracture of his skull caus'd by an Eagles letting fall a shell-fish out of his claw upon his bald head which seems to have been portended by the Oracle which being consulted upon the manner of his death answered 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this hapned in the Sixty ninth year of his age according to the above mention'd computation he is mention'd by Horace as the first bringer up of the Tragic pall and of the splendid apparate of Scenes and persons by some of the Tr. Buskin There was also of this name a Poet of Alexandria whose Amphitryo and his Carmina Meseniaca are mention'd by Athenaeus Aeschylus the Tragedian had two Sons Euphorion and Bion who were both Victors by their Poems in the Olympic games Agathias a Smyrnaean who flourisht in the time of the Emperour Justinian and wrote besides his History of Belisarius and Narses a Poem Intituled Dionysiaca and also several Epigrams which are extant in the Greec Anthologie contemporary with whom was Tribonianus Sidetes who wrote in verse a Comment upon Ptolomi'es Canon with some other things mention'd by Suidas Agathon a Tragic Poet who flourisht in the first year of the Ninetieth Olympiad and was Victor by his Lenaei he is mention'd by Athenaeus and Philostratus There liv'd also much about the same time a Comic Poet of the same name who is cited by Aristotle Agathyllus an Arcadian Elegiographer mention'd with praise by Dionysius Halicarnassaeus Agidius Delphus a Greec Poet who flourisht in the primitive time of Christianity and deserves to be remembred for his version of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans into Greec verse Agis Amphiptolemus several verses of his are cited by Pausanias Agis a Poet of Argos whom Curtius brands for a bad Poet and yokes with him one Chaerilus both for time and badness of verses This Chaerilus was in high favour with Alexander the Great and as ill as his verses were for they are very much condemned by Horace l. 11 Epist they were received as the Celebrators of his Acts there were also two others of the same name â—he one a Samian who Elegantly set forth the victory of the Athenians over Xerxes for which he was both highly rewarded and honoured
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
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
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
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
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
an old Student of Christ-Church in Oxford who besides his Translation of Juvenal with Elaborate Notes hath writ several other things in English Verse rather Learned than Elegant and particularly a Comedy called The Mariage of the Arts. Basilio Zanchio a Canon of the Lateranensian Order a Native of Bergamo a Town in the Seigniory of Venice of whose Works his Eclogues and Epigrams are not the least in repute there is also another Basilius of Parma whose Verses are mentioned by Baptista Mantuan in the latter end of his Third Book of Sylvae Benedetto Varchi see Ottavio Rinuccini Benedictus Jovius the Brother of Paulus his Epigrams his Distichs to Laurentio Medici his Poem of the Fountains of Como and another Entitled Philautia are for Verse of no less account than his History of Como his Book of Architecture for Prose Benedictus Lampridius a Cremonese writer of Epigrams and Lyric Odes both Greec and Latin Benedictus Luscius chiefly to be remembred for his Epithalamium to John Frideric Prince Elector of Saxony Benjamin Johnson the most learned judicious and correct generally so accounted of our English Comedians and the more to be admired for being so for that neither the height of natural parts for he was no Shakesphear nor the cost of Extraordinary Education for he is reported but a Bricklayers Son but his own proper Industry and Addiction to Books advanct him to this perfection In three of his Comedies namely the Fox Alchymist and Silent Woman he may be compared in the Judgment of Learned Men for Decorum Language and well Humouring of the Parts as well with the chief of the Ancient Greec and Latin Comedians as the prime of Modern Italians who have been judg'd the best of Europe for a happy Vein in Comedies nor is his Bartholmew-Fair much short of them as for his other Comedies Cinthia's Revells Poetaster and the rest let the name of Ben Johnson protect them against whoever shall think fit to be severe in censure against them The Truth is his Tragedies Sejanus and Catiline seem to have in them more of an artificial and inflate than of a pathetical and naturally Tragic height In the rest of his Poetry for he is not wholly Dramatic as his Underwoods Epigrams c. he is sometimes bold and strenuous sometimes Magisterial sometimes Lepid and full enough of conceit and sometimes a Man as other Men are Bernardinus Parthenius a Native of Spilimberg who hath a place among the choice Collected Works of the Italian writers of Latin Verse Bernardino Percivallo an Italian Dramatic Poet but chiefly in the way of Pastoral Bernardino Pino see Dominico Cornacâ—hini Bernardino Rota see Ottavio Rinuccini Bernardus Bauhusius a Belgian the most notable Man was ever heard of for Ringing the Changes in Verse for in a Poem he wrote of the B. Virgin Entitled Proteus Parthenicus unius versus he is said to have chang'd one Verse 1022. times according to the reputed number of the constellations he is mentioned by Sweertius in his Athenoe Belgicae and by Andreas Valerius in his Bibliotheca Belgica Bernardus Praetorius reckon'd among the principal of German writers who have been Eminent for Latin Poesie Bernardo Tasso the Father of that Renowned Italian Poet Torquato Tasso himself also the Author of a noted Poem Entitled Amadei Le Sieur de Boisval the Author of a French Heroic Poem Entitled Esther Bonaventura Vulcanius an Author of much Esteem for the many learned Works he hath put forth and for what he writ in Verse rank'd in the number of Belgic Latin Poets Mr. Bouillon a French-man of whose writing there are Extant Epigrams and other pieces of Poetry Mr. Boursault a French writer of Poems Entitled Poesies d'Obligation d'Amour printed at Paris Anno 1667. Mr. Breboef a late French Poet of whose Poesie divers things are printed at Paris not many Years since Bruno Nolano see Dominico Cornacchini Burchiello see Ludovico Dolce C. CArolo Flamma an Italian Dramatic Poet but chiefly in the way of Pastoral Carolus Malatesta an Italian writer reckon'd among the principal of that Nation for Latin Poesie Carolus Malepertius a Belgic writer of Latin Verse Carolo Noci one of the chief of the Italian writers of Pastoral Carolus Vtenhovius a Native of Gant Born of a Noble Family a Man of a wandring and unsetled kind of life but stedfastly addicted to Learning in general and to Poetry in Particular Celio Calcagnino a most universally Learned Italian Writer among whose many other Volumes in Humanity Antiquity Philosophy and Theology his 3 Books of Sonnets are not in the least repute being commonly printed together with those of Ariosto and Pigna Celio Magno an Italian Poet especially in the way of Sonnets and other Lyric Poetry Cesare Caporale see Ludovico Dolce Cesare Cremonino a Pastoral writer among the Italian Dramatics Cesare Rinaldi a Lyric Poet or Sonnet writer of Bononia an Ancient Town and University of Romania Cesare Simonetti an Italian Dramatic Poet but principally in the way of Pastoral Le Sieur Chappelain the Author of a French Poem Entitled la Pucelle or France's delivery Mr. Chevreau the Author of certain French Poems printed at Paris Anno 1656 Christopherus Aulaeus his Epicedium upon the death of Anne Queen of Hungary and Bohemia his Tristia his Epigrams aud his Invective against the K. of France are all mentioned by Gesner in his Bibliotheca Christopherus Caseanus his Querela nostrorum temporum was printed at Basil by Oporinus 1552. Christophoro Castelletti see Dominico Cornacchini Christopher Marlow a kind of a second Shakesphear whose contemporary he was not only because like him he rose from an Actor to be a maker of Plays though inferiour both in Fame and Merit but also because in his begun Poem of Hero and Leander he seems to have a resemblance of that clean and unsophisticated Wit which is natural to that incomparable Poet this Poem being left unfinished by Marlow who in some riotous Fray came to an untimely and violent End was thought worthy of the finishing Hand of Chapman in the performance whereof nevertheless he fell short of the Spirit and Invention with which it was begun of all that he hath written to the Stage his Dr. Faustus hath made the greatest noise with its Devils and such like Tragical sport nor are his other 2 Tragedies to be forgotten namely his Edw. the II. and Massacre at Paris besides his Jew of Malta a Tragecomedie and his Tragedy of Dido in which he was joyned with Nash. Chr. Oclandus an old English Poet that is one of the oldest of the Moderns who wrote in Verse a Historical piece called Anglorum Praelia Christophorus Longolius a Parisian who besides many things in Prose wrote also Elegies aud Epigrams Christopherus Palmensis his Distichs were printed at Basil by Robert Winter he flourish'd about 1486. Christophorus Pannonius is chiefly remembred for his Elegy to Nicolas Perenot Granvile printed with Paradin's ancient state of Burgundy ut Basil.
among the chief of the Latin Versisiers of that Nation George Withers a most profuse pourer forth of English Rhime not without great pretence to a Poetical zeal against the Vices of the times in his Motto his Remembrancer and other such like Satyrical Works besides which he turn'd into English Verse the Songs of Moses and other Hymns of the Old Testament in all which and whatever else there is of his disperced up and down for his Works however Voluminous have been scarce thought worthy to be Collected into a Volume whoever shall go about to imitate his lofty style may boldly venture to ride post and Versifie yet because vulgarly taken for a a great Poet and by some for a Prophet in regard many things are fancied to have come to pass which he pretended to predict he must not be omitted but the most of Poetical Fancy which I remember to have found in any of his Writings is in a little piece of pastoral Poetry call'd the Shepheards Hunting Gerardus Bucoldianus a German both Oratour and Poet the chiefly remembred of whose Poems is that of the Muses progress into Germany He Flourish'd at Bonâ—nia in the Year 1535. Germanus Auberâ—us Aurelius one of principal note among the French Poetical writers of Latin Verse Germanus Brixius of Auxerre a Canon of Paris among whose Poetical writings there are principally mention'd his Antimorus or Invective against our Countrey-man Sir Thomas More his Elegy upon the death of Fran is Deloin and his Epigrams upon the death of K. Francis the First of France Germanus Valens Guelius a curious Critic in the Greec Language and not meanly vers'd in all kind of Humane Liâ—erature but according to the Testimony of Thuanus principally addicted to Poetry Giacopo Alegreto a Poet of Forli a Town in Flaminia of whom there is Extant a Bucolic Poem mention'd by Biondi Giacopo Gaddi an Italian who shares in Fame among the Poetical Wriâ—ers of that Nation Giacopo Caâ—â—â—eo an Italian Author of a Poem Entitled Peregrino which was printed Anno 1538. Giacopo Sadoletti a Contemporary Associate and as it were Co-partner with Pietro Bembo not only in agreement of Studies they being both Eminent writers as well in Verse as Prose but also of their Fortunes and Preferment in the World they being both chosen by Pope Leo the 10 th to be his Scretaries together both advanc'd to the Purple by Paul the 3 d uuder whose Reign they both dyed Gilbâ—rtus Ducherius Vulto a Poetical writer of whom what ever he wrote beside there are Extant Five Books of Epigrams and an Eclogue printed by Oporinus at Basil. Giovanni Ambrogio Marini an Italian Poet whose Calâ—andro Fidele was printed at Venice Anno 1664. Giovanni Andrea Rosetti a late Poetical writer among the Italians the Author of a Poem Entitled Mâ—rmono d'Helicona Giovanni Andreini another Italian Author of a Fantastic Poem as he himself calls it Entitled Olivastro which was printed at Bologna Anno 1642. Giovanni Antonio Flaminio see Joannes Antonius Flaminius in regard what he wrote was in Latin Verse Giovanni Battista Marini an Eminent Italian writer who besides his Sonnets wrote an Heroic Poem Entitled Adonis Giovanni Battista di Pesaro another of the same Nation not to be left out of the Number of Italian Poets Giovanni Battista Pigna a noted Italian Lyric Poet whose Four Books of Sonnets were printed at Venice by Vincentius Valgrisius Anno 1553. with those of Calcagnino Ariosto and other Famous Poets of that kind Giovanni Boccaccio de Certaldo a most generally known and Extolled Florentine Writer and worthily rank'd among the Poets not only for his Bucolies but several other writings of a poetical nature as his Genealogia di Dei his Huomini Illustri his Decameron c. besides which he wrote several other things both Historical and Geographical he Flourish'd in the Year 1375. Giovanni della Casa an Italian Lyric Poet whose Rime or Sonnets were printed at Venice Anno 1559. Giovanni Georgio Trissini a Knight and Count of Vicenza of a very Celebrated Fame for what he hath written both in Poetry and Oratory he was Born in the Year 1478. being the Son of Gaspar Trissini by Cecilia Bevilacqua the Daughter of Gulielmo a Gentleman of Verona Girolamo Caso an Italian Lyric Poet or Sonnet writer of Vderza Girolamo Gratiani an Italian Author of a Poem Entitled La Cleopatra which was printed at Venice Anno 1668. Girolamo Preti see Ottavio Rinuccini Girolamo Ronconio a Dramatic writer of Siena but chiefly for Pastorals Giulio Goselani an Italian writer of Rime or Sonnets which were printed at Venice Anno 1588. Mr. Gombâ—ud a French Epigrammatist Gothofredus Torinus a French Poet Eminent among the chief writers of Latin Verse of that Nation Godfry Prior of Winchester an Old English Poet as he is reckon'd by Cambden in his Remains he is indeed a bordeâ—er between the Antients and Moderns for he Flourish'd about the Year 1100. Gnalterus de Castellione a Philosopher Theologist and as his Poem setting forth the Acts of Alexander the Great in Heroic Verse Testifies Poet also of Lisle in Flanders though some ascribe this Work not to Gualterus but Guillermus de Castellione by whom then it is to be suppos'd to have been Dedicated to Gnalterus Guido Cavalcanti see Ottavio Rinuccini Guido First Presbiter then Bishop of Ferrara who wrote in Verse Remarques upon the Old and New Testament which Work he called the Pearl of the Bible and Dedicated it to Pope Clement the 5 th his Fame brake forth about the Year 1310. so that he was Contemporary with Dante and as it were a Frontier Authour between the Ancients and the Moderns Guidus Posthumus Sylvestris a Poet of Pesaro who wrote Two Books of Elegies to Pope Leo. Gulielmus Bigotius de la Valle a French Poet whose Catoptron a Poem containing precepts for the Instruction of Youth is the principal of what is Extant of him Gulielmus Budaeus a most learned Parisian among whose many Treatise in all sorts of Humane Literature his Elegies Epigrams and other things in Poetry are not forgotten Gulielmus Durandus Sirnamed Speculator from his Treatise Entitled Speculum juris a learned French Bishop and one of the most noted Men of his time and he was Flourishing about the Year 1300. for perfection in several Faculties so that he hath from Pasquier in his recherches de la France the Character both of an Excellent Poet solid Divine and exact Lawyer Gulielmus Gnapheus a Poet of Hague whose most noted Poems besides his Comedies the Prodigal Son and Misobarbarus and his Tragecomedy Hypocrisis are his Triumph of Eloquence in various Verse and his Poem of Psyche's Calamity and Restoration Gulielmus Hondius a late German Poet whose Cithara Spiritualis Sex Chordarum was printed at Colen Anno 1637. Gulielmus Modicius an Italian for Latin Poesie reckon'd among the principal of that Nation Gulielmus Salustius Bartasius or du Bartas a French Poet whose Poem of the 6 days work
1494. Iacobus Zevecotius a Hollander esteem'd among the Chief of Belgic writers in Latin Verse and of whose Poems there are particularly quoted by learned Men his Elegies his Tragedy Terris-munda and his Maria Graeca Iames Shirly a just pretender to more then the meanest Place among the English Poets but most especially for Dramatic Poesy in which he hath written both very much and for the most part with that felicity that by some he is accounted little inferiour to Fletcher himself his Comedies are the Ball the Humorous Courtier the Brothers Love in a Maze the Gamester the Grateful Servant the Bird in a cage the Constant Maid the Coronation the Court Secret the Example Hide Park the Lady of pleasure the Opportunity the Wedding the Witty fair one the Royal Master Tragedies the Cardinal the Maids Revenge Chabot Admiral of France the Traitour the Imposture a Tragy-Comedy Arcadia a Pastoral c. Iames Stuart a King of Scotland the first of that Name who being taken prisoner and brought to London where he was educated in all kind of Liberal and accomplishing Arts and Sciences prov'd a great proficient in all and particularly left recorded Memorials behind him of his perfection in Music and Poetry Ianus Antonius Balyfius one of the chief ornaments of his time for polite Learning but most peculiarly eminent for what he hath imparted to the world of his Poetical fancy Ianus Chunradus Rhumelius a writer of Latin Verse with success sufficient to be rankt among the Cheif of modern Latin Poets Ianus Anysius a writer of Satyrs and other Poems which he dedicated to Cardinal Pompeio Colonua Ianus Cornarus a learned German Author of Zwiccaria among whose multitude of other works his Carmen Propempticon to Franciscus a Stiten is not forgotten he is mention'd flou rishing in the year 1551. Janus Douza a Belgic both Poet and Oratour born at Nortwick in Holland of a Noble Family what with his Poems wherein he discovered a most acute wit and sublime fancy and the Annals he wrote of his own Country with no less judgment then learning he obtain'd to be generally styl'd the Varro of Batavia and Common Oracle of the Academy He is recorded flourishing in the year 1604. Janus Lernutius a learned German particularly remember'd among those of that Nation that have a fame in Latin Poetry Jean de Marests a French Author of a Poem entitled Clovis or La France Christienne Janus Pannonius a Poet of Hungary of whose Poems there are extant his Panegyrical Sylva to the Bishop of Funfkirken his Panegyries to Gavariuo of Verona and Giacopo Antonio Marcello of Venice his Proseuâ—htich to Frederik the 3 d for the Peace of Italy besides Epigrams Elegies and other Miscellanies Janus Parrhasius a Calabrian proclam'd by Alstedius the most excellent Poet of his time he was born in the year of our Lord 1470. Joachimus Axonius a Poetical writer among the Latin Versifiers of Belgium or the Low-Countrys Joachimus Bellaius a Kinsman of Cardinal Bellaius in whose Family for he himself was not a Person of any great Fortune he enjoy'd a happy vacancy to his study and Muse to which he was wonderfully addicted his Tristia and his Ludi Rustici are particularly mention'd by Thuanus with commendation Joachimus Camerarius a universally learned and most renowned writer among whose almost innumerable Volumes there are not a few in Verse as particularly his Precepts for Childrens decent behaviour his Description of the Constellations his Prognostics of the weather all in Elegiac Verse also his Epigrams for the Ordering Diet in respect to the alteration of the year Joachimus Myrioianus a German of whose Poetical writings there are extant his Verses against Luther his Elegy upon the death of Empserus his Epicedium to Simon Pistor upon the death of his Wife his Paraphâ—ase in Verse upon the Lords Prayer Ioachimus Mynsingerus Dentatus a Jurisconsult by Profession of Frundeck in Germany but not thereby wholly taken off from his addiction to the Muses by whose instinct he wrote among other things a Poem which by its title Austrias pretends to be Heroic Ioachimus Vadianus a Helvetian both Physician Poet and Orator the chief of whose Poetic works are his Poem in praise of the Emperours Frederic the third and his Son Maximilian his Epiâ—aph of Rodolphus Bishop of Wurtsburg his Eglogue entitled Faustus his Elegy of the Armories and Ensigns of honour given by Sigismund K. of the Romans to the Family of the Vadiani his Elegy describing his combat with Death and his Ode upon the Resurrection he died in the year of our Lord 1551. Ioanâ—es Albinus a German Poet eminent among the writers of Latin Verse of that Nation Ioannes Alexander Brassicanus an industrious publisher of several antient Authors which were before unknown as the workes of Eucherius the Greec Geoponics of Constantine Bishop Salvianus his Book of judgment and Providence and Petronius Arbiter's Satyrs besides what he set forth of the productions of his own fancy which were his Idyliium to Charles King Elect of the Romans Elegies Epigrams Dialogues in Verse and other Poems Ioannes Altus a Poet of Hessen who wrote an Epithalamium to Ioannes Fabricius Montanus and put into Verse Suetonius his History of the 12 Cesars Ioannes Antonius Flaminius a writer of Forum Cornelii a Principal Town of Flaminia who wrote in Latin Verse 2 Books of Sylvae and 3 of Epigrams besides an elegant Paraphrase upon several of Davids Psalms in Prose a Treatise of the several Sects of Philosophers and of the original of Philosophy Ioannes Antonius Hermaphroditus the Author of certain Verses which are extant among other choice Poetical Collections in Albertus de Eyb's Margarita Poetica Joannes Arnolletus the Author of a small triple Poem entitled Faith Hope and Charity which not amounting to a Volume of it self was printed with a Collection of Choice Poems of several Authors by Robert Winter at Basil Joannes Arnoldus a Poet of Bergella who wrote an Encomium upon the Invention of Chalcography in Elegiac Verse Joannes Atrocianus a German Author next after whose Commentaries upon Macer's Book of Planets there is mention'd an Elegy of his upon the Rustic war begun in Germany in the year 1525 he is mention'd flourishing in the year 1528. Joannes Aventinus a writer of several Treatises in Prose especially in Grammar and not altogether a stranger to Verse in which however he is only taken notice of for his Hymn of the Celestial Sphaere Joannes Anratus The Regius Professor of the Greec Tongue at Paris under Charles the 9 th of France and one of the 3 most approved French Poets the other two were Hospitalius and Turnebus whom Vtenhovius in a Latin Distich sets in Competition against 6 Italians namely Sanazarius Fracastorius Flaminius Vidas Navagerius and Bembus Joannes Aurelius Angurellus a Poet of Rimini who being addicted to that kind of Mysterious Philosophy that pretends to the finding out of the Phisopher's Stone wrote a Poem in Heroic Verse entitled
Verse divided into four Books entitled Rudimenta Geographica Joannes Hospinianus Steinanus a Helvetian who besides several Treatises in Prose wrote in Verse a Panegyric upon the Lord Magnus ab Emerâ— shofen several Epithalamia or Nuptial Poems Joannes Jacobus Gabianus the Author of a Poem entitled Romanensium Victoria with the Office and Commendation of St. Columbanus in Verse Tetrasticks of the Saints and Distichs of Morality with other things Joannes Jovianus Pontanus a very renowned Philosopher Orator and Poet first Tutor and afterwards Secretary to Alphonso the Younger King of Naples among his Poetical works were his five Books of the Constellations his Book of Meteors his Poem of the Culture of Citron entitled The Hesperian Gardens in 6 Books his Lepidina or Pastoral Pomps his Bucolics Melissus Maeon Acon c. Joannes Lanterbachius an Author sufficiently Eminent among the German writers in Latin Verse Joannes Leochaeus a learned Scotchman of considerable repute for his Elegant Latin Poems entitled Musae Priores which in his late Majesties Reign were printed at London and dedicated to William Earl of Pembrok Ioannes Linkius a German reputed one of the Chief among the Latin Poets of that Nation Ioannes Lorichius Hadamarus a well approv'd German Author especially for what he hath written in Poetry as his Book of Riddles and his Ecclesiasticus in Latin Verse as also his Catalogue of Ancient Civilians in Elegiac Verse with some other things Ioannes Ludovicus Brassicanus a German whose Carmen Odoeporicon to Ioachimus Camerarius is the cheif of what I find mentioned of his Poetry In Prose he wrote a Comment upon Cicero's Book De Legibus and other noted things Ioannes Major a Belgian reckon'd among the Principal writers of that Country in Latin Poetry Ioannes Maria Velmatius an Italian whose Latin Muse travell'd through the whole Bible Joannes Maurus the Author of a late Latin Poem entitled Theatrum Vniversae vanitatis printed at Paris anno 1668. Joannes Mercurius Morsheimerus a German who wrote a Poem in Elegiac Verse in praise of Autumn he flourisht at Heidelberg an 1552. Joannes Metellanus a Scotchman whose Epigrams are publisht among the selected Poems of several others esteemed the Cheif Latin Versifiers of that Nation Joannes Morisotus a Physician of Dole who besides what he wrote in Prose both in Physic and several other subjects wrote also in Verse Ethologia in 10 Eclogus 6 Aucupatory Eclogues 7 Books of Odes a Poem entitled Herculeis another Antonias or the Life of St. Antony the Tragedy of Dido 2 Books of Divine Epigrams and other things Joannes Muscopius a German mention'd particularly for his Epithalamium upon the Nuptials of Simon Râ—stius with Margereta the Daughter of Antonius Turlera Ioannes Passeratius a Professor of the Latin Tongue in the University of Paris where what he wrote as well in Verse as in solute Oration both in the French and Latin Tongues had no vulgar repute the mention'd time of his Flourishing is the year 1602. Ioannes Phernandus a German who besides other things in Verse wrote the hours of the Holy Cross and of the Compassion of the B. Virgin in Elegiac Verse he flourisht an 1494. Ioannes Picus Count of Mirandula the Phoenix of his Age and darling of the Muses as he is styl'd by Scaliger Sixtus Senensis also in his Bibliotheca for his many concurring excellencies as his rare Beauty of Body and Mind his Nobility of Birth admirable Wit and profound Literature Sirnames him the Phoenix but Politian in his Epistles among other great Characters gives him particularly that of egregious Poet what Miracle then would he have been had be liv'd longer for he died in the 32 year of his age being the year of our Lord 1449. Joannes Pierius a Poet of Valeria among whose Poems there are noted his Fable of Leucippus and that of the Carp-Fish his Epistle of Protesilaus to Laodamia his Amicitia Romana his Joathas c. Joannes Pedioneus a Writer of Hymns in Latin Verse Joannes Posselius a learned Writer among other things of Rules or Precepts of human Life in Greec Verse Joannes Posthius a learned both Physitian and Poet born in the Palatinate anno 1537 his Poetical works were his Parerga Poetica his works belonging to Physic his Anatomical Observations and some other things Joannes Rhellicanus a Poet of Zurich in Switzerland who at the end of Homer's Life which he translated out of Plutarch hath a Poem entitled Stockhornias in which he describes a journy he made over the Mountain Stockhorn in the Territory of Bearn He wrote also another Poem of the 3 Men of Baden who were beheaded for Religion he was flourishing anno 1538. Joannes Richius a Poet of Annoveriacum who in a Poem which he wrote in Heroic Verse of the Nuptials of Volradus Count of Waldec and Anastasia the Daughter of the Count of Swarzemburg gives a summary view of the Lives and Transactions of several of the Counts of Waldec he also wrote a Propempticon of the Lord Franciscus a Stiten taking a Journy into Livonia Joannes Rosa one of those Latin Poets accounted of the prime of Scotland who are joyn'd together in a publisht Collection of their several Selected Works Joannes Sambucus a Hungarian accounted one of the Chief of that Country for Latin Poesy there are principally taken notice of his Carmina Ethica or Moral Precepts in Verse Joannes Sapidus a Poet of Schledstadt one of the Imperial Cities in the Circle of Rhine He wrote besides Epigrams and other Miscellaneous Poems his Anabion or Lazarus redivivus a Divine Comedy Joannes Schosserus a German Writer well approv'd for his Latin Poems Ioannes Scotus Scototarvatius a Scotch Knight and Person of Eminent Dignity in the State yet more advanc't in Fame by the Place his Elegies have obtain'd among the most esteem'd Latin Poets of that Nation Joannes Secundus an Elegant Poetical Writer of Hague as appears by his 3 Books of Elegies his Funera Epigrams Basia Odes Epistles and Sylvae Joannes Sekervius a Poet of Vratislaw one of the Chief Cities of Poland of whose Poetical invention there are principally mention'd 2 Elegies of Jacob and Esau reciprocal from one to the other Joannes Serranus a Gallic Writer of Vivar whose Version of several of the Psalms of David exceed in the judgement of Duport what ever had been done before of that kind Joannes Simonius a German among whose Poems we find his Princeps most especially quoted Joannes Sommerus a Hungarian of no obscure Note for what he hath written in Latin Verse Joannes Spangenbergius a German Theologist and Preacher at Northausen an Imperial Town in the Circle of Saxonie who as he wrote many things in Prose so he was not averse to Poetry as appears by his Version of David's Psalms into Elegiac Verse Joannes Stabius an Austrian both Poet and Mathematician and honour'd with the Title of Historian to the Emperour Maximilian several things he wrote in Verse but what he wrote in Prose were chiefly
Warbec S r John Gowr a very Famous English Poet in his time and counted little inferiour if not equal to Chaucer himself who was his Contemporary and some say his Scholar and Successor in the Laurel For Gowr was also both Poet Laureat and Knight His Cheif Works may be gather'd from his Tomb in St. Mary Overeis Church where lying buried he is represented with his head upon three large Volumes thus inscribed the first Votum Meditantis the next Confessio Amantis the 3 d Vox clamantis of which last being printed in the Reign of King Henry the 8 th the Impression is not yet totally extinguisht the other two doubtless if not printed are preserved in Public Libraries For his Confessio Amantis I have seen in a private Library in a large Folio Manuscript of Vellam fair written containing the whole circuit of Natural Philosophy and the allegories of all the Poeticall Fictions but that there were other things of his writing appears by what is extant of him in Chaucers publisht Works Iohn Hall a Poetical writer who never having had any great Fame that ever I heard of no wonder if now totally forgotten especially since his Poem entitled The Court of Vertue was publisht no less while ago then the year 1565. Of the same name also flourisht within these 30 years a Bishopric of Durham Man who besides his juvenile Poems memorable only for their airy and youthful wit improv'd afterwards to a more substantial reputation for what he has wrote as well in Verse as Profe but a Poem he began of great and general expectation among his Friends had he liv'd to compleat it would doubtless have very much advanc't and compleated his Fame Iohn Harding a writer recorded in History for one of the Chief of his time viz. the Reign of K. Edward the 4 th and claiming his Seat among the Poetical Writers by his Chronicle in English Verse Iohn Hauvise a Monk of St. Albans whom living about the Reign of K. Richard the first or not long after Camden quoting him in several places of his remains reckons among the Chief of English Latin Poets of that Age. Iohn Hoddesdon one of the last Age who with his Sion and Parnassus makes a shift to croud in among many others not of the greatest Fame And so likewise Iohn Kennedie a Scotchman with his History in Verse of Lycanthropos and Lucilla Iohn Lane a fine old Queen Elizabeth Gentleman who was living within my remembrance and whose several Poems had they not had the ill fate to remain unpublisht when much better meriting then many that are in print might possibly have gain'd him a name not much inferiour if not equal to Drayton and others of the next rank to Spencer but they are all to be produc't in Manuscript namely his Poetical Vision his Alarm to the Poets his Twelve Months his Guy of Warwic a Heroic Poem at least as much as many others that are so Entitled and lastly his Supplement to Chaucers Squires Tale. Iohn Leland an Antiquary of London who Flourisht in the year 1546 and wrote among many other Volumes several Books of Epigrams his Cignea Cantio a Genethliae of Prince Edward Naeniae upon the death of S r Thomas Wiat and several other things in Verse Iohn Lilly a Writer of several old fashion'd Comedies and Tragedies which have been printed together in a Volume and might perhaps when time was be in very good request namely Endymion The Woman in the Moon Midas Mother Boniby Galatea Sapho Phao Comedies a Warning for Fair Wâ—men â—â—hn Lydgate an Augustin Monk of St. Edmunds-Bury who had the reputation of a person much accomplisht by his travels into Italy and France and besides several things of his of polite Argument in Prose was much esteem'd for what he wrote also in Verse as his Eglogues Odes Satyres and other Poems Iohn Marston a Tragic and Comic Writer not of the meanest Ranck among our English Dramatics His Comedies are the Dutch Curtisan the Fawn What you will His Tragedies Antonio and Melida the Insatiate Countess besides the Malecontent a Tragy Comedy the Faithful Sheapheard a Pastoral Iohn Milton the Author not to mention his other Works both in Latin and English both in strict and solute Oration by which his Fame is sufficiently known to all the Learned of Europe of two Heroic Poems and a Tragedy namely Paradice lost Paradice Regain'd and Sampson Agonista in which how far he hath reviv'd the Majesty and true Decornm of Heroic Poesy and Tragedy it will better become a person less related then my self to deliver his judgement John Ogilby one of the prodigies of our Age for producing from so late an initiation into Literature so many large learned Vol. as well in verse as Prose in Prose his Volumes of the Atlas and other Geographical Works which have gain'd him the Style and Office of his Majestie 's Cosmographer in Verse his Translat of Homer Virgil which is the chief of all as Compos'd propria Minerva his Paraphrase upon Aesop's Fables which for Ingenuity Fancy besides the Invention of new Fables is generally confess 't to have exceeded what ever hath been done before in that kind John Philips the Maternal Nephew and Disciple of an Author of most deserved Fame late deceas't being the exactest of Heroic Poets if the truth were well examin'd and it is the opinion of many both Learned and Judicious persons either of the Ancients or Moderns either of our own or what ever Nation else from whose Education as he hath receiv'd a judicious command of style both in Prose and Verse so from his own natural Ingenuity he hath his Vein of Burlesque and facetious Poetry which produc't the Satyr against Hypocrites and the Travested Metaphrase of two Books of Virgil besides what is dispeirc't among other things nevertheless what he hath writ in a serious Vein of Poetry whereof very little hath yet been made public is in my opinion nothing inferior to what he hath done in the other kind John Skelton a jolly English Rimer and I warrant ye accounted a notable Poet as Poetry went in those daies namely King Edward the fourth's Reign when doubtless good Poets were scarce for however he had the good fortune to be chosen Poet Laureat methinks he hath a miserable loos rambling style and galloping measure of Verse so that no wonder he is so utterly forgotten at this present when so many better Poets of not much later a date are wholly laid aside His chief Works as many as I could collect out of an old printed Book but imperfect are his Philip Sparrow Speak Parrot The death of K. Edward the fourth A Treatise of the Scots Ware the hawk The tunning of Eleanor Rumpkin in many of which following the humour of the ancientest of our modern Poers he takes a Poetical libertie of Satyrically gibing at the vices and corruptions of the Clergy S r Iohn Sucking a witty and elegant Courtier under
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
the difference of time makes the clearer distinction the one appearing to have been Contemporary with the Emperor Adrian the other as is generally receiv'd living about the time of Septimius Severus M. Martinus Sirnamed Dumensis from the place of which he was Abbot afterwards Arch-Bishop of Bracata of whose Verses collected by Jacobus Sirmondus being indeed but low heavy what notice hath been taken may well be judged owing to their antiquity for he died an D. 580. Maximianus the real Author as he is computed by Learned Inquirers of those 6 most obscoene Elegies which are vulgarly ascribed to Cornelius Gallus there is also one of the same Name but whether it be the same Person is not certainly determin'd among the twelve Sirnamed Scholastici or Grammatici of whom see more in Julianus in the foregoing Treatise Minos not that King of Crete so famous for his Labyrinth but the second Tragic writer as he is delivered after Theomis Modestus a Name only known by 2 Hexastichs upon Lucretia in Gillius his Collection of Epigrams and old Poems N. Nicochares an Athenian Comic Poet of whose Fables several are mentioned by Suidas and Athenaeus he is said to have been Contemporary with and by some judg'd equal to Aristophanes Nicocles a Comic Poet whose Fable Acarii is cited by Athenaeus lib. 8. P. Palladius Rutilius Taurus Aemilianus a Latin writer of good note and Antiquity though in what Age he Flourisht is not certainly determined whose Books of Agriculture are commonly publisht with those other Antient writers De Re Rustica and among the rest of his Books there is one De Insitione Arborum wholly in Verse and that in a style that might render him esteem'd a Poet though he were not of the Antients Phaedrus a Thracian who living in the Reign of Augustus whose Freed-man he is said to have been and Tiberius is applauded for his Version of Aesop's Fables into such Elegant Verse as savours of the purity of those times Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus the most Illustrious of Roman Captains if at least we suppose him to be that Scipio Africanus the elder whose incomparable sobriety and incontinence of liâ—e so well agrees with that only Verse which is delivered to be extant of his writings Maxima cunctarum victoria victa voluptas Publius Terentius Varro see Terentius Varro Atracinus in the foregoing Treatise Puppius an old Latin Poet of whom we only find remaining one Distich an Epitaph upon Publius Scipio Africanus in the Epigrammata Poematia vetera printed by Gillius at Paris an 1580. Q. Quintus Aurelius Symmachus a Roman Patrician Senator and Consul Contemporary with Boethius whose Father in Law he was besides his Epistles and other things in Prose there are some Fragments of his in Latin Verse in the above mentioned Collection of Epigrams and old Poems R. Rufus Sirnamed Domesticus subscribed to an Epigram in the seventh Book of the Greec Anthology S. Samius a Name subscribed to an Epigram in the third Book of the Greec Anthology and thought to be the same with Sammius and Ammius in other places Sosicrates a Comic Poet whose Diadochae Cretica and Philadelphi are cited by Athenaeus and if Sosicrates Phanagorites be the same Person his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 there is also an Iambic Distich of Sosicrates in Stobaeus his Sermon De Philantia Sulpitius a Noble Roman Poet and Orator who was Tribunus Plebis in the contention between Cajus Caesar the Aedile his Brother Lucius the Praetor besides what Giraldus mentions of him out of Asconius Pedianus his choose Heroic Verses 70 Epigrams may probably be judged to be which bearing his Name were found in a Monastery near Bobio in Italy an 1494. Symeon an antient Greec Presbyter whose Sermones and Hymns are preserved in the Library at Auspurgh by the testimony of Conradus Gesner T. Thaletas a Cretan or Illyrian Lyric Poet whom Suidas delivers to have written before Homer's time there was also of the same name a Gnossian Rhapsodist who as the same Suidas testifies wrote certain Fabulous Stories in Verse Thallus an antient Epigrammatist remember'd only by one Hexastich in the second Book of the Greec Florilegium Theodoritus an old Grammarian of whom there is a Distich in the second Book of the Greec Florilegium Theomis a Contemporary of Orestes and said by some to have been the first Deviser of Tragical Melodies Timolaus a Larissaean Rhetorician who to each Verse of Homer's Iliads inserted another of his own yet keeping the sence entire the beginning of which Poems is recited by Suidas U. Valerianus his Lepid acute and not unelegant Epigram for such is the commendation given it by a judicious Author upon the death of Cicero is to be found in Gillius his Collection of Epigrams and and old Poems together with a Tristich in praise of Hercules he may probably be taken for the same Person with the Emperor Valerianus of whom there is said to be a Fragment in the Gregorian Codex Vitalis one of the 12 sirnamed Scholastici mentioned in Julianus in the foregoing Treatise Vomanus another of the forementioned twelve but moreover peculiarly mentioned and commended for his Verses De Laudibus Hortuli which are to be found in Gillius his Collection X. Xanthus a Contemporary and Colleague of Stosichorus Himeraeus there are divers of his Verses cited by Aelian lib. 4. of his Varia Historia Xenocrates and Xenocritus two Epigrammatic Poets the first remember'd by a Tetrastich in the fourth Book the second by an Octostich in the 3 d Book of the Greec Anthology Z. Zelotas a Name preserved by only 2 Epigrams in the Greec Florilegium Zenobius a Grammarian besides whose Distich in the fourth Book of the Gr. Flor. there are Verses of him cited in the Greec Cornucopia of Varinus Phavorinus Camers Zonas another Pillar of the Gr. Floril named to a Octostich in the first Book two Hexastichs in the sixth Zosimus a Thasian Epigrammatist but of whom there are only extant 2 Hexastichs in the first and sixth Book of the Greec Florilegium Of the Moderns A. ADrianus Scholasticus an Antuerpian whose Varia Carmina are printed with the selected Latin Poems of divers other not obscure Writers of the Low-Countries Adrianus Scorelius his Elegies are publisht with the selected Works of other Belgic Writers of Latin Poetry Annibal Caro noted for his Rime or Sonnets equal with several other Italian Writers of that kind Alexander Necham Prior of Cirencester the Learnedest English-man of of his Age which was the Reign of King John in the opinion of Balaeus who also particularly honours him with the Appellation of a famous Philosopher Theologist Rhetorician Poet and among the rest of his works mentions his Carmina diversa Allain Chartier Secretary to King Lewis the Eleventh of France by whose Queen the Lady Anne of Brittain he was so admir'd for his Poetry that as she passed by one day to her Lodging and saw him leaning on a tables end a sleep she
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
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
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