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A88706	The true effigies, or portraicture of the chief philosophers, historians, poets, grammarians, and oratours. Or, A compendious view of each, both dignified with, and distinguished by, their peculiar characters. By Ed. Larkin, A.M. late fellow of Kings Colledge in Cambridge, and now of Limesfield in Surrey minister	Larkin, Edward, 1623-1688.	1659 (1659)	Wing L445; Thomason E1786_1; ESTC R202702	74,354	230

scripsisset longe melius eum scripturum fuisse judicamus I believe that Musaeus his stile is far more polite and neat then Homers so that if Musaeus had written upon Homers Subject in my Opinion and Judgment he would have written much better then he Suidas saith that there were no less then three of this Name and all of them Poets Homerus HOmerus so named by the Ionians for his blindness for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in their Language by the Figure Metathesis signifies blind yet his proper Name was Melesigenes because he was born neer the River Meletes He is otherwise called Maeonides from his Parent Maeone though some others would needs have him to be the Son of Apollo and the Muse Calliope he was a Poet of that great Renown that no less then seven Cities strove to have the honour and glory both of his Birth and Breeding The Verses are very wel known Septem urbes pugnant genus obsapientis Homeri Smyrna Chios Colophon Ithace Pylus Argos Athenae Neither only did these 7. lay claim unto him but three times seven if we will give credit to the learned Plutarch and Suidas amongst which Rome is very urgent that he may be accounted hers Now the uncertainty hereof moved Appion the Grammarian to invoke his Ghost to come forth from the dead and to declare the Country that so the Controversie might be decided He wrote in twenty foure Books the Wars of Troy which he calls his Illias and in as many more the Travells of Vlysses which he Names his Odysses They were digested into that Order wherein we now have them not by himself but by other men and as Suidas reports chiefly by Pisistratus the Athenian Tyrant His Works were so admired by Arcesilaus that he would not take his rest untill he had read some portion of them And again in the Morning as soon as he was risen he would say Se ad Amasium ire That he was going to his Darling Alcibiades would strike that Schoolmaster in the Eare whom he found without the Books of this most renowned Author Alexander the great King of Macedon having taken a rich Cabinet from Darius whom he had overcome in Battell resolved that it should serve to keep these famous Works in Elian telleth us That Plato at the beginning studied Poetry and having compiled certain Heroick Verses he came to examine them by these noble Treatises of Homer and finding them to fall very short of this eminent Poeta Art and Faculty he forthwith tare them and burnt them Dionysius Hali●arnasensis calls him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The top of all whence every River Sea and Fountain flows No wonder therefore if the Painter Galaton faigned him Vomiting and all the other Poets like so many Dogs licking up what he had spued out Cicero could say Homero nemo similis None like great Homer And Velleìus Paterculus a most elegant and neat Historian could give him a Character somewhat suitable to his merit Clarissimum Homeri ingenium sine exemplo maximum qui magnitudine operum fulgore carminum solus appellaripoeta meruit in quo hoc maximum est quod neque ante illum quem ille imitaretur neque post illum qui eum imitari possit inventus est The most bright and matchless Wit of Homer who both for the greatness of his Works and the clearness of his Verses did alone deserve the Name of Poet in whom this is most glorious That there was neither any one before him for him to imitate nor any found after him that could imitate him I meet with his Epitaph in Suidas which is as followeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He flourished about 160 years before Rome the Mistress of the World was sounded Hesiodus HEsiodus was called Cumaeus from his Native Soile and Ascreus from the place of his Education he lived an hundred yeares after Homer so sayes Porphyrius and some others as it is in Suidas Plutarch writes of him That being a Boy and keeping his Fathers Flocks and Heards he was beloved of the Muses who gave him Laurell to eat whereupon he commenced a most excellent Poet and a● Homer was called Poeta Lacedaemoniorum The Poet of the Lacedaemonians so this Hesiod was stiled Poeta Helotarum The Poet of the Helots The one teaching the way of Warfare the other of Tillage The Philosopher Jeronymus reports That Pythagoras descending into Hell saw the Soule of this Hesiod fastned to a brazen Pillar and there making a most dolefull and dreadfull noise as also the Ghost of Homer compast about with Serpents and all for this cause because they uttered in their Books false things of the Gods Pliny and Columella affirm that this Poet was the first man that wrote of Agriculture The Criticks have afforded him many worthy Encomiums Hesiodi opuscula sayes Barthius Quantus Thesaurus Infucatae sunt sapientiae The Works of Hesiod how great a Treasury are they of untainted and unadulterated Wisdome And for his Stile Heinsius saith of it That it is Mitis facilis ac amaenus Mild facile and pleasant Amongst the Tragaedians he is compared to Euripides and amongst the Lyricks unto Sappho and amongst the Orators unto Isocrates Paterculus thus Characters this Poet Hesiodus vir perelegantis ingenii molissima dulcedine carminum memorabilis otii quietisque cupidissimus ut Homero tempore ita operis autoritate pr●ximus Hesiod for the clearness of his Wit and the dainty smoothness of his Verse is worthy of memory a man infinitely desirous of rest and quiet and as he was in time so also in esteem the next to Homer Suidas speaking of his death sayes that he was slain upon mistake by the two Brothers Antiphus and Climenus who in the Night thought they had been avenged on him who had been the Deflowrer of their Sister Pindarus PIndarus of Thebes the Prince of the Grecian Lyricks was Eschylus his equall he wrote in the Dorick Dialect whom Horace for his Sentences Figures and Expressions calls unimitable he being indeed a Poet so much abounding with them When Alexander the Macedonian King made an assault upon the City Thebes and took it by storm Curtius informs us that he spared the Family of Pindar for the respect and reverence that he bare him But Suidas is of opinion that it was another Pindar the Son of Scopelinus whom Alxeander so honoured though the Cosin German of this Lyrick Poet. Yet Plato stiles this man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Most wise and divine And Athenaeus expresseth him to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In the Greek Anthologie he is tearmed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The sweet singing Heliconian Swan As other Muses were feigned to inspire other Poets so did Polyhymnia him I 'le say no more but a word from Lipsius Pindarus ex ore humano praefert aliquid non humanum Pindar out of an humane Mouth le ts drop somewhat that is more then humane Anacreon ANacreon was a Poet of Ionia

ARistoteles the Stagyrite the Son of Nicomachus was the Master of great Alexander of Macedon whose Works were had in that reveeence with Chosroes the King of the Persians that he had gotten them all by heart He was Plato's Auditor at Athens for the space of ten years and so profited in the Study of Philosophy that one would think the Characters which the Learned afforded him are Hyperbolicall and yet some there be that think that they do not transcend the mans merit Cicero calls him Aureum eloquentiae flumen A golden River of Eloquence Plutarch Virum eloquentissimum peritum flectendi animos quaqua vellet A man most eloquent and skilfull to incline and draw mens Minds whithersoever he pleased Averroes informs us that he invented three of the Sciences Logicam Naturalem Divinam and in another place the same Author sayes Aristoteles est regula exemplar quod natura Invenit ad demonstrandam ultimam perfectionem humanam Aristotle is that Rule and Sample which Nature hath found out to demonstrate mans ultimate Perfection He is called by Suidas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Natures Scribe and in the Greek Anthology 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 To Arnobius he is Pater peripateticorum The Father of Peripateticks To Julius Scaliger Summus acprimus omnium scienti●rum dictator The chief and prime Dictator of all Sciences And as the same Author further speaketh Neque ipso Pindaro minor neither inferiour to Pindar himself Lastly He is to Lipsius Summus rerum omnium Jude● The chief Judge of all matters It is noys'd that he withstood the learnedst of men divine Plato whence Aelian takes an occasion to bring in great Plato calling his Schollar most unthankfull who like a wanton Calf filled with the Mothers Milk lifts up its Heel against its own Damme He died in the sixty eighth of his Age in the same yeare as did Demosthenes Diogenes Synopensis Diogenes Synopensis the Disciple of the Philosopher Antisthenes who would have him to be his Master even against his will for when he refused to take upon him the charge of Schollars Diogenes would not be put off nor recede from him and when he threatned to strike him with his Staff the Cynick most willingly submitted his Pate to it saying withall Nullus tam dirus baculus est qui me a tuo possit obsequio seperare There is no stick so hard as to be able to seperate me from your Service He was familiarly and frequently called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Dog and being demanded why he was so named his answer was to this purpose Quod iis blandior qui dant in eos vero qui non dant oblatro malos autem mordeo Because I flatter and fawn on those which give and bark at such as give not and for the wicked ones I bite them So that that Verse which the Poet Horace applies to sordid Avidienus may very well suit with this Diogenes Cui Canis ex vero ductum cognomen adhaeret For as it is in Diogenes Laertius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Suidas saith That this Philosopher was eminent for his Valour and Courage as others were for other Vertues Xenocrates for mildness Theophrastus for Gravity Zeno for Austerity and Plato for Majesty The latter of which called this Diogenes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Distracted Socrates Being Courted once by Great Alexander and desired to ask of him any thing he liked In answer He wished that the King would not take that from him which he could not give him Alexander being so great a Potentate wondred greatly what that might be and forth with he understood that it was the comfort of the Sun-beans for indeed the King stood betwixt him and the Sun Theophrastus THeophrastus a Philosopher of the City Eresse whence called Eresseus was the Disciple of great Aristotle who departing from his School to Chalcis left this man behind to be his Successor Suidas saith that at the beginning his Name was Tyrtamus but afterwards he was called by Aristotle Euphrastus and at length by some others Theophrastus his Philosophy indeed being Heavenly and Divine It was a familiar speech of his that a learned man could never be Amicorum inops Without Friends the same Seneca hath delivered of the wise man They say that he had two thousand Schollars the like not being affirmed of any Philosopher either before or after him Casaubon saith of him That he was Vir dignissimus qui eo seculo viveret quod tulit Socratem vidit Platonem Aristotelem generi humano dedit Triumviros constituendae philosophiae divinitus sine dubio excitatos A man most worthy to live in that Age that brought Socrates into the World Saw Plato and gave Aristotle to Mankind the Trium●iri that were raised by Divine Providence for the constitution of Philosophy Therefore he saith further of him Seeing he was as it were bred in the very Bosome of those It is no wonder if he arrived to that deptst of Learning and vein of Eloquence that nothing could seem to proceed from him which was not every way thought perfect by all that were studious of Wisdome He is stiled by Scaliger in his Poetices Divina vir eloquentia A man of divine Eloquence and by Aegllius Suavitate homo insigni linguae pariter ac vitae One both for Tongue ana Life of eminent Sweetness Plutarch affirms how that the Roman Orator M. Tullius was wont to call him his Deliciae his Works are commemorated by Diogenes He died very aged Lucius Annaeus Seneca LVcius Annaeus Seneca of Corduba in Spain was a Stoick Philosopher and the Master of Domitius Nero by whom he was very ill recompensed for all his Learned and good Instructions for that same Monster of men compelled him to open his own Veins and to let out his own blood and that only out of a suspition that he had been one of Piso's Conspiracy He was called as Gyraldus well observes Moralis The Moralist whom Fabius in his tenth Book stiles Egregium vitiorum insectatorem An eminent Scourger of the Vices Quamvis in philosophia parum diligentem Although not so diligent in his Philosophy as the same Author there notes But Pontanus in his Observations upon Macrobius his Saturnals names him Romana philosophiae Syrenem The Syren of the Latine Philosophy And Lipsius Magnum inter magnos virum sapientiae fontem Great amongst the great ones and the Fountain of Wisdome He further calls him an Author amongst all others most praise worthy and for the Study of Vertue almost a Christian his matter was so sweet to him that he could not chuse but break thus out Pura coelo digna mens ad coelum alios subducens O pure Mind and worthy of Heaven and drawing others to Heaven Erasmus could say this also of the man Si legas illum ut paganum scripsit Christiane si ut christianum scripsit paganice If thou readest him as a

of so great a loss Scaliger writes thus of him Cujus cum esset ingenium felix judicium magnum diligentia non vulgaris immatura morte praeventus acerbum poema suum nobis reliquit Whose Wit when it was happy Judgment solid Diligence extraordinary being prevented with an immature death he left us a bitter Poem The same Critick stiles him Omnium duriusculum He expressed Apollonius Rhodius not onely in the Argument of his Work but also in the phrase and stile of all his Verses he held friendly compliance and correspondence with those eminent Worthies of that time namely Secundus Maternus Stella and Martial The later of them counselled him to leave his Muses and to follow the Forum as it appears by this ensuing Epigram Omihi curarum precium non vile mearum Flacce Antenore● spes alumne laris Pierios differ cantusque chorosque sororum Aes dabit ex istis nulla puella tibi Quid tibi cum Cyrrha quid cum Permessidos unda Romanum propius divitiusque forum est Illic aera sonant I 'le let him go with that of Barthius Poeta nobilissimus Romanae Musae genuinus Sonus spiritus eruditio gravitas in eo sunt insignes A most noble Poet and genuine to the Roman Muse Sound Spirit Learning Gravity are all transcendent in him Silius Italicus SIlius Italicus was as some have reported a Spaniard by Birth called Italicus from a noble City in Italy whence the Family first sprang he was an excellent Orator endeavouring to express and from which he fell not much short the Eloquence of Marcus Cicero he was under some Cloud of disgrace in Neroes time having been accused of some notable Crime to that infamous Emperor but he behaved himself wondrous prudently under Vitellius and at last he found favour and speciall grace with Caesar Domitian Martial reverenceth him with these Verses Augusto pia thura victimasque Pro nostro date Silio Camoenae He imitated heroick Virgil whose Wit and Majesty he greatly admi●ed he is called by one Vates Consularis The Consular Poet. Another saies that he writ Verses with more care then wit he would often times recite his Poems publickly to discover thereby mens Judgments of them There is a Critick that speaks thus of him Non Poeta non Historicus sed utrumque est libripunicorum historicum volunt dicendi character poetam He is neither a Poet nor Historian but both his Books of the Wars speak him an Historian and his character of speech a Poet. The same Author saies that he is not unlike to Euripides Martial gives him this great commendation Castalidum decus sororum The Grace or Ornament of the Muses Dempster saith Quod erat Orator verius quam poeta nimius interdum ridiculus Virgilii imitator That he was more truly an Orator then a Poet and too much nay sometimes a ridiculous Imitator of Virgil. Pliny informs us that he died for want of necessaries in his Country-house at Naples Marcus Annaeus Lucanus MAarcus Annaeus Lucanus of Corduba was the Nephew of Seneca the Tragaedian and Son of L. Annaeus Mela he was instructed in Grammar by Palaemon in Rhetorick by Virginius His Condisciples were Saleius Bassus and Aulus Persius he was at first much favoured by Nero but at length put to death by him as being found guilty of Conspiracy against him Martial describes his Birth-day in these Verses and is invective against Nero for killing of him Haec est illa dies quae magni conscia partus Lucanum populis tibi Polla dedit Heu Nero crudelis nullaque invisior umbra Debuit hoc saltem non licuisse tibi Farnaby that set out his Pharsalia with Notes speaking of his River of Poetry saith that it doth not rush with a great noise as Pliny hath written of the River Ni●us but rather seemeth to flow like the calmest stream his Acuteness is divine his Spirit ardent his Muse Masculine and every expression high cleer and chaste Quintilian Characteriseth him thus Lucanus ardens concitatus sententiis clarissimus ut ita dicam quod sentio magis oratoribus quam poetis annumerandus Lucan is ardent and incensed and in Sentences most clear and that I may speak as I think rather to be registred among the Orators then the Poets Boethius also describes him to be Familiaris philosophiae Familiar with Philosophy His wife Polla was very learned if Sidonius Apollinaris and Papinius Statius may be credited He wrote the Civil War which was between Julius Caesar and Pompey but was prevented of finishing it by an immature and suddain death Dempster saith of him that he was not inferiour to Virgil whom indeed he imitated M. Valerius Martialis M. Valerius Martialis was a Spaniard and a most eminent Epigrammatist he was borne at Bilbilis no mean Towne of Celtiberia which he himself is pleased in one of his Epigrams to mention Nec me tacebit Bilbilis In his youth he came to Rome that he might dedicate himself wholly to his studies where finding an unfitness in his Genius for the way of the Forum he applied his Fancy to the composing of Epigrams wherein indeed he did excell all others in the opinion of the Ancients Pliny gives him the Character of an Ingenious and acute Poet Qui plurimum in scribendo salis haberet fellis nec candoris minus who in his writing discovered much Salt and Gall nor less Candor Elius Verus who was wondrous gracious with the Emperor Adrian entertained his wity Jests with much delight and recreation being ever now and then heard to call him his Virgilius In the framing of his Epigrams he imitated those three facetious poets Marsus Pedo and Getulicus and whensoever he was blamed by any for his obsceness he would excuse himself with this That he did but that which others had done before them meaning those to whose pattern he had conformed He highly regarded Licinius Calvus and Catullus for their Abilities in his way of poetry Caspar Barthius tells us that he was called Cocus because most of his Epigrams are conversant about Meat Drink Cloathing good Fellowship and such like And Dempster gives him this Encomium Vnus qui Epigrammatis genium videtur possedisse Indeed his Genius was ever leading him to the composing of Epigrams he returned in the end to his owne Country and there died whose death Pliny doth bewail in an Epistle to Cornelius Priscus Publius Statius Papinius PVblius Statitus Papinius was the Son of Papinius by Birth a Neapolitan he flourished under the Emperour Domitian to whom he dedicated his Thebais● in which Poem of his he followed the Poet Antimachus who had managed the like Argument and therein he had much assistance from his learned Father next to his Thebais he composed his Achilleis but died ere he could accomplish it though some others have thought that Poem was perfected before his death but since in part lost As for his Sylvae he was in doubt whether he should publish

of his Wits loosing all his Eloquence without any visible cause of so suddain and so sad a change This made Antiochus the Sophist as it is in the learned Suidas to play upon him with this following Jeere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hermogenes which was amongst the Boyes as an aged man became at length amongst the aged men a Boy Vossius alluding to his Name calls him Mercury si nomen spectes patrem merito voces ipsum eloquentiae Mercurium If you consider and regard his Name you may very well call him the Father of Eloquence Mercurius Quintilianus QVintilianus by nation a Spaniard called by an eminent Critick Romanae eloquentiae censor oratorum Coryphaeus accompanyed the Emperour Galba unto Rome where he was afterwards made Tutor to the Nephews of Caesar Domitian Angelus Politianus saith and that out of Hierome Quod primus omnium Romae publicum juventutis gymnasium instituit e fisco eximium stipendium accepit That he was the first which taught a publick Freeschool at Rome and upon that account received a large Stipend from the publick Exchequer Trebellius Pollio saith of him That he was the acutest and wittiest Declamator within the whole Roman Empire and that the reading bu● of one of his Chapters will sufficiently declare it no wonder therefore if Sidonius stileth it Acrimoniam Quintiliani The Acrimony of Quintilian and Barthius Omnium qui unquam scripserunt auctorum elegantissimum The most elegant of all Authors that ever writ Another Characterizeth him thus Criticorum omnium 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The most Criticall of all Criticks And Dempster gives him th●se two ensuing Periphrases Orator eximius ac necessarius Optimusque dicendi Artifex A famous and necessary Orator and the best Master of Language Witty Martiall Commemorates him in one of his acute Epigrams Quintiliane vagae moderator summe Juventae Gloria Romanae Quintiliane Togae He is also taken notice of by that same admirable Satyrist Junius Juvenal Lucianus Samosatensis LVcianus Samosatensis lived in the Reign of Trajan he was in the beginning a Professor of the Christian Faith but in the end he Apostatized and fell to disparaging disgracing and reviling of it thereby proving a Blasphemer of that glorious Profession wherof he had been once as it were a noble Champion Suidas sayes that he was at length torn in pieces by fierce and greedy Doggs a very just Judgment from Heaven upon him and a righteous reward to his base Apostasy He was sirnamed Blasphemus or Dysphemus because he would frequently deride the Oracles of God and make but a mock of the true Religion Hence it is that Barthius stiles him Deorum hominumque irrisorem A derider both of Gods and men and sayes Lactantius Lucianus Qui Diis hominibus non pepercit Lucian who spared neither God nor man Eunapius tells us That he was altogether composed for merriment 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A man as it were made for to provoke Laughter Nay he himself who best of all knew his own naturall temper confesseth in his Pseudologista that he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Incontinent of laughing I 'le but ad that which Caspar Barthius hath sayd of all his Writings De philosophia hujus scriptoris dicere ausim n●mini ad nos usque fuisse perspectam cognitam neque impiam esse nisi quatenus veritati sese opponit Christianae non paulo altius oculos in rerum divinarum considerationem immittere quam vulgo censetur Concerning the Philosophy of this Writer I dare affirm that it was never well apprehended and known by any even to our very selves Neither is it impious but where it opposeth Christianity and that it looketh higher into the consideration of divine things then is commonly imagined by the Vulgar Aelianus AeLianus born at Praeneste a Town in Italy was the Auditor of Pausanias he taught Rhetorick at Rome soon after the death of the Emperour Adrian Suidas sayes That for the sweetness of his Speech he was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He writ De animalibus de varia Historia De Re Militari all which are come safe into our hands we find this Character given him by Eunapius That he wrote as Athenian like as the very Athenians themselves a man most praise-worthy for his purity in the Greeke Tongue Gesner speaking as to his History of living Creatures saith thus of it In Aeleani de Animalibus libris Temperamentum quoddam Harmonia utriusque philosophiae moralis inquam naturalis In Aelian's Books of living Creatures there is I say a certain Temperament and Harmony of either Philosophy morall and naturall And sayes another occasionally wherewith I shall let him pass In ejus narrationibus quid non egregium non praestans non Idoneum vel ad cognoscendum vel ad emitandum fugiendumve Quid non in eo tersum elegans politum Atticum In his Narrations what is there that is not egregious and excellent What not fit either to be known or to imitate or to be declined What is there that is not neat polite elegant and Attick Aristides Adrianensis ARistides Adrianensis an excellent Sophist was much affected with Contemplation who not being naturally prompt to Oratory yet through his painfull Industry he attained to an incomparable strain of Elocution When Mark Antonine the Emperour was at Smyrna where he had been for the space of full three dayes ere this Orator would afford him his attendance at length coming to wait upon his princely Majesty it was the Emperours first question Quare te sero vidimus Why so late before we saw thee And the Rhetors reply was Theorema O Rex nos occupabat atqui mens aliquid considerans ab eo quod quaerit suspensa esse non debet We were O King taken up with a Theoreme but the Mind being under meditation must not be withdrawn from that it seeketh Antonine being well pleased with this return put this question also to him Quando audiam te Whom the Orator thus answered Hodie propone cras audies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Propound to day and you shall heare to Morrow for we are not of those that vomit forth things but of them that do all things accurately Philostratus calls him the Builder of Smyrna for that City being destroyed by a most fearfull Earthquake this Aristides wrote a lamentable Letter to the Emperour such a Letter as made him weep and it so far prevailed with him that in the end he condescended to rebuild it He is highly applauded by one that set forth his Orations and that in these ensuing words Certe si quid judicare possum videor mihi in uno hoc oratore subtilitatem Thucididis suavitatem Herodoti vim denique 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Demosthenis accuratissime expressas deprehendere Truly if I am able to judge I seem most accurately to meet within this one Orator the subtility of Thucidides and the sweetness of Herodotus and the force

may strike out for there is in this Author learning to be admired and freeness and bitterness and aboundance of salt Now that he was the first Satyrist we gather it from those words of Pliny Lucilius primus condidit stili nasum He flourished about the time of the second punick War he died at Naples and there was Interred after he had lived to the age of six and forty yeares Some write that he had a publick and solemne Funerall Accius ACcius a Tragaedian Junior to Pacuvius was borne when Macrinus and Seranus were the Roman Consuls a Poet so beloved of Decius Brutus that he would adorne the Frontispieces of the Temples and the Monuments of the dead with his worthy Verses This Poet would not arise to Julius Caesar when he entred the Theater not out of contempt to his Mighty Greatness but because he thought himself in reference to his Abilities far Caesars Superiour and therefore he was not accounted insolent because in those assemblies there was a comparison of Volumes and not of Images This Accius journying into Asia went to Tarentum that he might converse with Pacuvius to whom he recited his Tragedy Atreus which that grave Poet did indeed commend but withall said as it is in Crinitus Simul grandia sonora esse quae ab Accio scripta forent videri tamen sibi duriuscula subacida To which words of Pacuvius Accius thus replyed as I read in the same Author Nec se poenitere quoniam idem ferme ingeniis solet accidere quod pomis quae enim dura admodum acerba nascuntur paulatim mitia fiunt atque perfectiora redduntur Quae vieta gignuntur mollia nunquam ad veram frugem maturitatem perveniunt Sic sentiendum est de hominum Ingeniis Pliny sayes that he was but of low stature although he had placed his Image in the Temple of the Muses in a very large form and proportion his Trajedies are often cited by our Grammarians Quintilian conferring this Poet with Pacuvius sayes thus of both Nitor summa in excolendi● operibus manus magis videtur temporibus quam ipsis defuisse Virium tamen Accio plus tribuitur Pacuvium videri doctiorem qui esse docti aff●ctant volunt Horace also thus compares him Aufert Pacuvius docti famam senis Accius Alti Pacuvius gets the same of being learned and Accius of being sublime and high That comparison of Quintilians makes me altogether forbeare to speak of Pacuvius Quintus Ennius QVintus Ennius called Rudius from Rudium a Town in Calabria where he had his birth and breeding was in the Consulship of Quintus Valerius and Caius Manlius brought by the Quaestor Cato into the City of Rome where he had his habitation in the Mount Aventine He wrote Annals Satyrs Comedies and Tragedies but they are all lost there being nothing else communicated unto us but a few scattered Verses cited by severall Authors Horace calls him Alterum Homerum Another Homer Ennius sapiens fortis alter Homerus For he himself gave out that Homers Soul was the Informer of his Body Aulus Gellius affirms that he would oft-times say that he had three Hearts Quod loqui Graece latine Osce sciret Because he could speak both the Greek Latine and Oscian Languages Whence it is that Gyraldus also stileth him Tricor and Lucretius Tripectorum It s the common fame that Virgil should say Aurum se ex Ennii stercore colligere That he gathered up Gold from Ennius his Dunghill Scipio Africanus so intimatly and intirely affected him that he would needs rest in the same Sepulcher with him he died through immoderate drinking whereupon the Poet Horace in his Epods changeth him with the guilt of drunkenness Quintilian so highly esteemed this Ennius that he thought him worthy to be adored with the same Religion they honoured their sacred Groves Marcus Cicero affirms that this Poet composed these following Verses of himself Aspicite o Cives senis Ennii Imaginis urnam Hic vestrum pinxit maxima facta patrum Nemo me lacrymis decoret nec funera fletu Faxit cur volito vivus per ora virum Titus Lucretius Charus TItus Lucretius Charus of the Family of the Lucretii was a physicall Poet Quintilian joyns him with Macer Macer Lucretius legendi quidem elegantes in sua quisque materia sed alter humilis alter difficilis Macer and Lucretius are to be read indeed as being both of them elegant in their matter the one humble the other hard Lucretius wrote more purely then learnedly shewing the Reader more of his Wit then Art for he did nothing else but illustrate what others had invented by the sweetness of his Verse He wrote six Books of the Nature of things wherein he followed the Doctrine of Epicurus and the Poet Empedocles whose Verse and Wit he did exceedingly admire Some say that this his Work was afterwards corrected by Cicero himself deceasing ere he had time to revise it They say of this Poet that after some intervals of recreation he would return unto his Poetry as one surprised with a spirit of madness whence is that of Statius Et docti furor arduus Lucreti Of whom also thus writes Ovid. Carmina sublimis tum sunt peritura Lucreti Exitio terras cum dabit una dies In Vespatian's time there were those that for Virgil would read Lucretius and for Horace Lucilius so sayes Crinitus Eusebius tells us That his own Wife Lucilia by giving him a Philter cast him into a Phrensie whereof he forthwith died whereas her only intent and design was to make him love her the better he was not much before Cicero's time neither did he live above the age of forty Caius Valer. Catullus CAius Valer. Catullus an Epigrammatist of Verona was born when Terentius Varro that learned Grammarian flourished one yeare before the Historian Salustius much about that time that Sylla and Marius rent the Common-wealth of Rome with their intestine and bloody Factions he was gracious with Virgil as appears by that known Distick Sic forsan tener ausus est Catullus Magno mittere passerem Maroni He was brought unto the City by Mallius when he was but of tender years where by the maturity of his piercing Wit and eminent Learning he soon found grace and acceptance with the Nobles and chiefly with Cicero to whom as his Patron he dedicates this neat and elegant Epigram Disertissime Romuli Nepotum Quot sunt quotque fuere Marce Tulli Quotque post aliis erunt in annis Gratias tibi maximas Catullus Agit pessimus omnium Poeta Tanto pessimus omnium poeta Quanto tu optimus omnium Patronus He merited the name of Learned because he so well expressed in the Latine Tongue what the Greeks thought not immitable for indeed a better Interpreter of the Grecian Poems no Age can present us with then this Catullus whose success therein was so incomparable that Martial could not choose but sound his praise

open and obnoxious to derision Quintilian highly advanceth his smal Volume Multum verae gloriae quamvis uno libro Persius meruit Although Persius wrote one only Book yet he hath merited thereby much of true glory Whence also is that of the Epigrammatist Martial Saepius in libro memoratur Persius uno Quam levis in tota Marsus Amazonide Casaubon saith that he is Gravissimus morum Censor virtutum praeceptor fidissimus A most grave Censurer of our Manners and a most faithfull Master of the Vertues Scaliger in his Poetices tells us That his stile is Morosus and that he endeavoured so to write as that being read none might be able to understand him although now he is become sufficiently intelligible Gyraldus saith of him that he is to be reckoned amongst the laudable Authors notwithstanding his obscurity and darkness for though he be very intricate to some according to that o● Owen Scripta tenebrosi lego non intelligo Persi Lectores nimium negligit ille suos Yet he is well enough apprehended and understood by those that are more Learned Caius Pedo Albinovanus CAius Pedo Albinovanus was an Epigrammatist and flourished in the Reign of Nero in his youth he studied Oratory and was accounted no mean Declamator as may be gathered from some words of Annaeus Seneca concerning him Ovid reckons this Pedo amongst those Poets that were notable that way in his time and Martial relates him to be one of the Authors he imitated in his witty kind of Poetry Indeed his Wit was Elegant and Urbane and for his dexterity in composing of happy Epigrams he was had in great account Quintilian stiles him Sublimem Altiloquum poetam A sublime and lofty Poet. Ovid sydereum starry and Seneca Fabulatorem elegantissimum A most elegant Fabulator Non indignum cognitione si vacet Caspar Barthius likens him to the Poet Naso Quem vulgo Pedonem Albinovanum faciunt non alius est Nasone ipso He whom they call Pedo Albinovanus is no other then Ovid himself Pomponius Secundus POmponius Secundus was of Noble and Illustrious Parentage numbred amongst those Poets which were Tragicall he flourisht when those excellent Orators Porcius Latro Domitius Afer and Albusius Silo were living at Rome Quintilian writes that this Author for exceld all those Poets which in that kind of Verse he had ever seen so transcendent was his Erudition and Sublimity in the composure of his Poems that he was stiled by all that read him The Tragick Pindar Pliny wrote two Books of the Life and Manners of this Tragaedian because he was induced thereunto by the eminency of his Name and Vertues He was much endeared to that renowned worthy Caesar Germanicus whom he entertained with a sumpteous Supper Pliny calls him Civem vatem clarissimum Where he speaks of the Monuments of the two Gracchi Caius and Tiberius Maurus Terentianus a worthy Poet mightily bemoans the loss of this mans Tragedies in a paper of well-composed Verses of his Death Authors mention nothing Aruntius Stella ARuntius Stella was a Poet of great repute in Vespasians time he was of Patavium for Martial sayes that the Region of Apenum was dignified and enobled with the Births of Livius Flaccus and this Stella Papinius mentions him in these his Verses commending thereby the nobleness of his Descent Clarus de gente latina Est juvenis quem patriciis majoribus ortum Nobilitas gavisa tulit praesagaque formae Protinus e nostro posuit cognomina coelo He loved Violantilla a Neapolitan Maiden and at length obtained her for his Wife whom Martial calls Ianthis a Greek Name Amongst many Poems which this Poet writ there were Elegies and his Work De Asteride but none so much cried up and had in admiration as that De Interitu Columbae of the death of his Dove which the Epigrammatist prefers before Catullus his Verses of Lesbia's Sparrow as the Epigram declareth Stellae delicium mei Columba Verona licet audiente dicam Vicit maximi passerem Catulli Statius in his Sylvis acquaints us with the Dignities he was honoured with who had been created Praetor and after that Duumvir only for his admirall qualifications and Embellishments whereupon he was so high in that Poets Affections that he could find none in Rome so worthy to whom he might dedicate his Poems as he This Stella was of intimate acquaintance with Julius Secundus and the Poet Martial of his death I read not Decius Jun. Juvenalis DEcius Jun. Juvenalis a Satyricall Poet of Aquinas flourisht in the Reigns of Caesar Domitian Nerva and Trajan in these following Verses he congratulates the Emperour Nerva for favouring so much those of his profession Et spes ratio studiorum in Caesare tantum Solus enim tristes hac tempestate Camaenas Respexit Yet there are some that think they do refer unto Domitian because he greatly affected Poetry as Suetonius and Tacitus have joyntly testified He was instructed in Grammaticall Learning by Fronto a Grammarian of great Name then in Rome though others affirm that his Master was Quintilian a Rhetor of as excellent Endowments and Abilities his chief Friends were Volusius and Corvinus and also Martial who in this Distick speaks his Intimacy with this Satyrist Cum Juvenale meo quae me committere tentas Quid non audebis per fida lingualoqui He is called by Gifanius Satyricorum haud dubie princeps Without doubt the Prince of Satyrists and is preferd by most of the Ancients before Horatius and Persius as one that had attained to the Perfections of them all the salt and bitterness of Lucilius the Candor and Elegancy of Horace and the Gravity of Aulus Persius It s the same Authors commendation of him Juvenalis Ardet Instat Jugulat Juvenal burns presseth stabs Barthius stiles him Scriptorem eruditissimum elegantissimum poetam censorum morum celeberrimum acutissimum A most learned Writer a most elegant Poet and a most free and sharp Censurer of Mens Manners He is dignified by the Criticks with the Title of Ethicus the Moralist being indeed compared and equald to the most flourishing Philosophers by Sarisburiensis Alanus and other Philologues It s Lipsius his observation of him In Satyra nemo Idoneor ad mores corrigendos Juvenali None more fit for correction of mens Manners then Juvenal And it is also Casaubons Vbertate inventionis copia exemplorum tractandi dexteritate praestat Juvenalis Juvenal excels for plenty of Invention abundance of Examples and dexterity of handling Caius Valerius Flaccus CAius Valerius Flaccus called Setinus from the City Setia in Campania was an heroick Poet and Countryman to Titus Livius and Aruntius Stella Martial stiles him Laris Antenorei alumnum He wrote eight Books De Argonauticis which he dedicated to Domitian or as others will have it to his Father Vespasian He had written much more if sudden death had not prevented Quintilian speaks as one very sensible of it in his Books to Marcellus Victorius wherein he sadly complains