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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

commending him and his Poem rebuked his Sons and sent them away with shame Polemon the Athenian Philosopher was so delighted with this man and Homer that he would frequently say they were both endued with equall wisdome calling Homer Heroicall Sophocles and Sophocles Tragicall Homer Simonides the wise man stiled him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Flower of the Poets Suidas saith that he wrote one hundred and three and twenty Tragedies and in his Contentions for the palme with other Poets he obtained no less then foure and twenty Victories the last wherof happening far beyond his expectation he was so transported with suddain joy that he forthwith expired he dyed about six yeares after Euripides and is preferred before him for the majesty of his stile though short of him for number of Sentences Suidas saith that besides his Tragedies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He wrote an Elegy and Paeans and also solute Prose Euripides EVripides was the Son of Mnesarchus and Clito and had not as some have reported a Seller of Herb● for his Mother Suidas vindicates him from the disparagement of so mean a descent asserting 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That he was of noble Birth as Philochorus doth demonstrate it He was born on that very day wherein that huge and numerous Host of Xerxes was overthrowne by the Athenians At the first he was a Painter but afterwards he became a most excellent Tragedian For Rhetorick he was the Scholar of Prodicus and for Philosophy the Auditor of the most learned Socrates he had his Name from Euripus for his Austerity they called him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Hater of Women and yet Suidas affirmes that he was a married man and had two Wives being divorced from the first for her unchastity neither did he find the second more loyall to his Bed he flourished in the Reign of Archelaus the King of Macedon Suidas saith That he was torne in pieces by ravenous and greedy Dogs or rather in the Night by barbarous and bloody Women The Athenians grievously bemoaned his untimely and suddain death his Monument is all Greece He was aged seventy five yeares and died in the ninety third Olympiad he wrote they say seventy five Tragedies for every year he lived a Tragedy though others will have the number of them to be ninety two however Suidas saith that there are but seventy seven extant He obtained five Victories foure in his life time and one after his death his Brothers Son being the Actor of that Tragedy Heinsius gives him this good commendation Omnium Oratorum non minus pater quam optimus Poeta No less the Father of all Orators then a most excellent Poet. Menander MEnander an ancient Comaedian of Athens was sollicited as Pliny reporteth by solemne Ambassadours from the Kings of Aegypt and Macedon to grace them with his Society craving it from him by very bounteous and magnificent proffers of honour and wealth This Poet wrote according to the Judgment of Suidas an hundred and eight Comedies though others affirm no less then an hundred and eighty They were all translated into elegant Latine by Terentius but the ill success of the times prevented us of the enjoyment of them they being all lost He writ also Epistles to Ptolomeus the Son of Lagus King of Aegypt and some to his friend Glycera he flourished about the hundred and fifteenth Olympiad Suidas calls him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and besides he saith of him that he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Very mad in his love of Women However Quintilian is very large in the setting out his praises Menander vel unus meo judicio diligenter lectus ad cuncta quae praecipimus effingenda sufficiat ita omnem vitae Imaginem expressit Menander alone in my Judgment well read may suffice for all that we command to be done for he hath very well expressed every kind of life The same Author extolleth him both for his copiousness of Invention and for his veine of Eloquence neither is Plutarch less backward in his advancement Aristophanes ARistophanes a Comaedian lived in the hundred and fourteenth Olympiad Suidas speaking of his Birth saith thus of it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Some affirme that his extract was servile The same Author reports him to have been 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because in his Comedy stiled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he doth satyrically traduce Socrates who indeed was by Oracle reputed the wisest of the World Scaliger saith that this Poet is Cum risu mordax Though merry yet without biting It s reported that Plato so admired him that when Dyonisius the Tyrant was desirous of the Athenian Language he sent this mans Comedies unto him And Chrysostome was so taken both with his Eloquence and vehemency in taxing and reproving the Vices of Women that he would spend a great part of the day in reading of him and at Night going to his rest he would put him under his Pillow and so sleep upon him as Alexander the Great was wont to use Homer Quintilian joyning this Comaedian with Aristarchus calls them Poetarum judices The Judges of the Poets and yet Athenaeus ●elleth us that he was ever in drink when he composed his Verses as was also Alcaeus The Athenians so highly honoured him that they would have him and none other to be supream so saith Aelian M. Acc. Plautus M. Acc. Plautus named at the beginning Plotus as Festus reporteth A planicie pedum From the plainess of his feet which the Vmbrians call Plotos was a most witty Comaedian stiled by Scaliger Romanae linguae lex The Law of the Roman Tongue and by Lipsius Decima Musa The tenth Muse as also Gratiarum hortus The Garden of the Graces He lived in those times at Rome wherein those eminent Romans Publius Scipio Fulvius Nobilior and Marcus Cato flourished Horatius Flaccus testifieth that he imitated in his Playes those Greek Authors Demophilus P●i●emon and Epicarmus the Sicilian It was Varroes opinion that if the Muses spake in the Latine Tongue they then used the phrase of Plautus Meursius stileth him Omnium leporum patrem The Father of all witty Conceits He was compeld to grind at a Mill in regard of his extream poverty and when he was tired by that painfull and heavy work then he would by way of recreation compose Comedies and sell them for his provision and sustenance Volcatius Sedigitus writing of the Comaedians and setting every one in his place and order preferreth this Plautus before all others even next unto Caecilius Jerome takes speciall notice of this Author Haec est Plautina elegantia hic lepos Atticus musarum ut dicunt eloquio comparandus This is Plautus his elegancy this is the Athenian Wit and as they say comparable to the elocution of the Muses He died few years after Quintus Ennius in the hundred forty fifth Olympiad what a great loss was sustained by his death he himself witnesseth by these Verses which

doctrinae alterum ut verbosum in historia negligentemque earpebat He thought of abolishing Homers Verses saying Why should it not be as lawfull for him to do it as it was for Plato who cast him out of that City wherof he was the Founder But the Judgment of this Savage Prince was no way prejudiciall to those two renowned Authors and as little to this eminent Historian let us therefore heare what better heads have sayd of him He is called by Barthius Patavina Syren The Patavinian Mearmaid Gruterus stiles him Historiae latinae principem The Prince of the Latine History Lipsius Historicorum uberrimum Of Historians the most plentifull And againe sayes the same Author In Livio nimia nobis bona In Livy we meet with things that are too good for us Valerius Maximus VAlerius Maximus lived after Velleius Paterculus as may be made to appeare from his depressing and disgracing of Sejanus whilst Paterculus beyond the bounds of all Moderation parasitically extolls him which shews that when Paterculus writ Sejanus was in his full Greatness and Glory but when Valerius compiled his Collections he was under judgment contempt and Ignominy as his own words do cleerly manifest which are as followeth Eum speaking of Sejanus omni cum stirpe sua Populi Romani pedibus obtritum etiam apud Inferos si tamen illuc receptus est quae meretur supplicia pendere He flourished under Caesar Tiberius for he saith in his second Book and eighth Chapter That he went with Sextus Pompeius into Asia which Pompey was Consull with Sextus Appuleius on that very yeare that Augustus died and so were the first Consulls which sware Alleagiance to Tiberius Further it s proved that he lived then from another passage in his fifth Book where speaking of Marcus Antonius he saith that he was the famous Orator of his Grandfathers time Now this Antony flourished in Julius Caesars Reign Again considering the Language wherewith he scourgeth the Parricide Brutus all to gratifie the care of Tiberius and that Speech of his also in reference to Cassius whom he would not have named without a Note of the grandest Infamy All these Arguments may cleerly convince that he lived after Paterculus in the Reign of the Emperour Tiberius Neither doth the meanness of his Language any way gainsay it for Cicero himselfe could complaine in his time which was many years before that the Roman Tongue began even then to be corrupt through the reception of Forreiners no wonder therefore if this Authors Speech did somewhat decline from that sweet purity that was in the Age before it However let us heare what Testimonies either of Merit or Demerit the Ancients have afforded him It s Caussinus Character of him Valerius Maximus ut Aegyptus Homerica bonis malis mixtus est in plerisque enim est acutus subtilis in plerisque durus obscurus ad plebeium sermonem abjectus a puritate candore latini sermonis longius discedit Est tamen in eo jucunda tot Historiarum quasi florum congesta varietas brevitas narrationum acuminibus sententiarum non ra●o ●am apte aspersa ut nihil videatur Amaenius Valerius Maximus as Homers Aegyt mixt with good and bad things for he is in very many of them acute and subtile and againe in many hard and obscure and being immerst into the Vulgar Dialect he deviates far from the purity and candor of the Latine Phrase yet there is in him a sweet variety of so many Histories as it were Flowers gathered into a heap and shortness of Narrations with acuteness of Sentences not seldome so aptly scattered that nothing seems more delightfull Thus Caussin Dempster no way detracts from him for he stiles him Authorem rerum varietate eloquentiaque incomparabilem An Author incomparable both for variety of things and for his Eloquence Onely this he saith in his disparagement That he did Sola adulationis foeditate vilescere onely become vile through the deformity of Adulation And another calls him Ineptum affectatorem sententiarum quanquam non inutilem propter exempla A Fond Affectator of Sentences though not unprofitable for examples Quintus Curtius Rufus QVintus Curtius Rufus filled the World with the Exploits of Great Alexander his History being contained in ten Books two whereof are lost yet supplyed by an addition from some other There is a passage in his tenth Book which discovers the Age he lived in which passage is after this manner Proinde jure meritoque Populus Romanus salutem se principi suo debere fatetur Which Prince who it should be the Learned agree not Some wil have him to be Caesar Augustus but that Opinion cannot well stand because he brought not peace along with him as who had civil Wars for the space of thirteen years Others affirm that it may be Claudius Caesar and that those Hurli-burlies before mentioned might relate to the slaughter of Caligula and the Confusions which happened thereupon but this Opinion also is very rationally impugned by some learned Ones Now a third sort refers it to the Reign of the Emperour Vespasian and that because the foregoing words of the Historian may suite well with those Distractions that happened upon the death of Nero when Romes Dominion was sought by force of Armes between Galba Otho and Vitellius And this is the Judgment of Rutgersius and Vossius That he flourisht in the Reign of Vespasian of whom it s reported that he should teach Rhetorick in the last yeare of Tiberius which might well be considering that there were but two and thirty yeares betwixt that and the Reign of Vespasian he being young when a Rhetoritian and old when an Historian Vossius thus advanceth him Vsque adeo auctor est is verborum eligens nec perspicue minus quam terse scribit Acuius etiam est in sententiis inque orationibus mire disertus Imo vel Augustaeo aevo digna esus est dictio vel proxime abit That he is an Author very choice in his words neither writes he less perspicuously then neatly He is also acute in his Sentences and in his Orations wonderfully eloquent Nay his Phrase is worthy of the Age of Augustus or else that which immediatly followed it Lipsius stiles him Historicum proprium principum assidue iis in manu sinuque habendum An Historian proper for Princes and dayly to be had in their hands and Bosomes Floriditas Curtiana quatenus laudanda sayes C. Barthinus Alphonsus King of Arragon being very sick and his Physitians having tryed all the waies they could to cure him with their Physick but therein failing he though very weak on the sudden sell to reading of the History of Great Alexander written by this Curtius and thereupon he recovered crying out Valeant Avicenna Hippocrates caeteri medici vivat Curtius sospitator meus Away with Avicenna Hippocrates and other Physitians and let Curtius live my onely Recoverer Cornelius Tacitus COrnelius Tacitus in some old Editions called by the

name of Publius but misliked of and rejected by the learned he wrote his History in the Reign of the Emperour Nerva and not when Trajane Governed as will appeare by his stiling of Nerva Divus but not Trajan he writ his Annalls after his History although they be placed before it He begins them with the death of Augustus and ends them within two years of the death of Nero. Besides his said Annalls and History he left behind him a Book of the Scituation of Germany and the manners of that People as also a Treatise of the life of his Father-in-Law Julius Agricola which he writ in Trajans time Vossius comparing his History with his Annalls speaketh thus of them Dictio Taciti floridior uberiorque in Historiarum est libris pressior siociorque in Annalibus Interim gravis utrobique disertus The Speech of Tacitus is more florid and copious in the Books of his Histories more contracted and more dry in his Annalls In the mean every where Grave and Eloquent However Alciatus a man well learned prefers Paulus Jovius far before him in comparison of which Author he cals the Lines of this Tacitus but Senticeta Bryars but this was sayd by him in regard of his transcendent Affection to his Friend Jovius But the Emperour M. Claudius Tacitus so highly honoured this Historian that he placed his image in all the Libraries and caused his Books to be ten times transcribed in one yeare by his Notaries for feare of perishing Sidonius saith of him that he should be never mentioned without praise Tacitus nunquam sine laude loquendus Lipsius calls him Sallustii imitatorem The Immitator of Sallustius and of whom he also further saith Quod est omni virtute antiquis proximus si linguae latinae esset eadem puritas caeteris sic perfectus ut vocare illos ipsos antiquos in certamen possit dignitatis That he is in every Vertue next unto the Ancients and if there were but in him the same purity of Language in other matters be is so perfect that he might contend for Dignity with those very Ancients The foresaid Critick moreover stiles him Acrem prudentem scriptorem A sharp and prudent Writer The first five Books of this singular good Author were found hid at Corbeia and being brought to Leo the Great the person which presented them was rewarded with five hundred Pieces Owen has an Epigram upon him with which I shall end his Character Veracem fecit probitas Natura sagacem Obscurum brevitas te Gravitasque brevem Lucius Annaeus Florus LVcius Annaeus Florus flourished as some are of opinion neer the end of the Reign of the Emperour Trajan though others will have it to be in the time of Adrian The Prologue of his History Discovers the Age that he lived in A Caesare Augusto in seculum nostrum saith he sunt non multo minus anni ducenti From Caesar Augustus to our time there are not much fewer then two hundred years But there is a grand mistake in the very number for if we will compute the term of years which interven'd between Augustus and Trajan we shall find that its short of it by fifty and therefore Vossius taking speciall notice thereof will have the number to be but an hundred and fifty It hath been a generall opinion that this Author should be the Epitomizer of that voluminous History of Titus Livius but they which will well observe him will find much of Discrepancy or difference betwixt them There are some that disagree likewise concerning his very name occasioned by Lactantius in his seventh Book of Institutions where he thus writes Non inscite Seneca Romanae urbis tempora distinguit in aetates Soneca doth not unwittily distinguish the times of the Roman City into Ages But questionless they were distinct and different persons onely the one did imitate the other as Florus Seneca However it cannot be denyed but that Florus was of the Family of the Senecaes and therefore called in the ancient Books by the Name of Seneca and Annaeus as well as Julius The Senecaes being all of them Branches of the Annean Family Now for his Character we may receive it from that excellent Grammarian Gerardus Vossius who speaking of him in his Book of the Latine Historians thus extolls him Ea potissima est Flori nostri laus quod scriptor est elegans disertus si paucula exceperis quae frigidius dicta videntur vere floridus That is the principall commendation of our Florus that he is a Writer elegant and eloquent and if you will but except some few things which seem more coldly spoken by him he is truly florid As for his stile it is declamatory and neerer unto Poeticall as one that powreth out Virgils Hemisticks Flavius Josephus FLavius Josephus a Jew was the Son of Matthathias born in the first year of Caius Caligula by the Mother-side neerly related to the Royall Stock of the Maccabes As for his Sect he was a Pharisee which Sext among the Jews was not unlike the Stoicks of the Gentiles He when he was arrived at the Age of twenty six years repaired to the Roman Court that he might there mediate with the Caesarean Majesty for those Priests which Felix the Governour had for some petty Offences cast into Prison Now arriving at Rome and falling into Favour with Poppaea Augustus Caesars Wife his success was such that he did not onely procure liberty for the Captives but was dismissed with bountifull Rewards but soon after returning into his Country and upon an insurrection being chosen chief Captain of those Galilaeans which rebelled was at length besieged in Jotapata and the City being taken by assault he was commmitted unto safe Custody that he might be sent thence to give an account of his Sedition unto Caesar Now being advertized of the Enemies design towards him he requested the favour of Conference with the Generall Vespasian into whose presence as soon as he was admitted he saluted him with a Praediction that he should be Emperour Vespasian at first supposed that he devised that shift thereby to procure his liberty but on the suddain receiving Intelligence of the death both of Nero and Galba as also news of the Civill Wars already commencing between Otho and Vitellius he forthwith not onely discharged him of his Restraint but cloathed him with such Apparell too as might suit with his Education and Condition Now soon after these Attempts and providences that followed them he accompanied that Heroe Titus to the Siege of Jerusalem which Siege he Ingenuously described and commended it when finisht to Vespasian and his Son Titus The latter of the two approving it by a Subscription from his Royall hand and afterwards commanding it to be received into the publick Library This Author writ also the Jewish Antiquities which work was perfected by him in the thirteenth year of the Reign of Domitian Many there were that undervalued the Faith of this Writer

Verona docti syllabas amat vatis Aulus Gellius honours him with this Title Elegantissimus poetarum The most elegant of the Poets However Lasciva est pagina his Book is lascivious and biting too beyond moderation so that its reported of him That he would not spare Caesar himself no not even then when he was in his greatest Glory He loved one Clodia whom by a feigned Name he called Lesbia according to Ovids Verses Sic sua lascivo cantata est soepe Catullo Foemina cui falsum Lesbia nomen erat The same Poet doth oppose this very man to Virgils Majesty and the Epigrammatist Martial prefers him before himself in that Epigram of his to his Friend Macer Nec multos mihi praeferas poetas Uno sed tibi sim minor Catullo Gellius in his Attick Nights commends him for a most elegant and sweet Poet He died but young not exceeding the Age of thirty years I 'le let him pass with that well-known Distick Tantum parva suo debet Verona Catullo Quantum magna suo Mantua Virgilio Publius Virgilius Maro PVblius Virgilius Maro called Virgillius a virga which Calvus alludeth unto in that Verse of his Et Vates cui virga dedit memorabile nomen The Poet to whom the Laurel Rod did give a memorable Name Yet some others wil have it to be the Poplar he was called Parthenias from his modesty of his Birth Martial thus speaketh Maiae Mercurium creastis Idus Augustis redit Idibus Diana Octobres Maro consecravit Idus He was born in the Village Ande not far from Mantua and therefore called by Silius Italicus Andinus vates He studied at Cremina and at Naples his Masters were Orbilius and Scribonius he put on his Viril Gown the same day that Lucretius died In his Bucolicks he imitated Theocritus in his Georgicks Hesiod in his Eneids Parthenius Pisander Apollonius and chiefly Homer and amongst the Latines Ennius Livius Andronicus Naevius and Lucretius His choice Friends he converst with were Asinius Pollio Cornelius Gallu● Quintilius Varus Horatius Flaccus and Maecenas Nay Caesar hims●lf was a transcendent Lover of him they writing familiarly each to other Jerome in one of his Epistles compareth him unto Homer stiling him Alterum Homerum Lampridius writing his life names him Platonem poetarum the Plato of the Poets and so Caelius Rhodiginus Poeta platonicus The Platonick Poet. Alexander Severus the Roman Emperour placed his Picture together with the Image of Cicero in the House of his Lares Columella giveth him this Epithet Sydereus vates The Starry Poet Scaliger calleth his Eneids Altiloquentissima Eneis Whensoever any of his Verses were recited in the Theater the people would all rise up and reverence him being present as though he were Caesar Augustus he was had in so great esteem at Rome that whensoever he did but shew himself in publick the people would cry out Delitias Romae Rome● D●rling I will but add Scaligers report of him and so pass unto the next Vates suavissimus Nitidissimus pulcherrimus dulcissimus politissimus Inest in eo phrasis regia ipsius Apollinis ore digna sic puto loqui Deorum preceres in Conciliis Caelestibus Non si ipse Jupiter poeta fiat melius loquatur Most sweet fair splendid polite Poet There is in him a regall phrase worthy of Apollo's Mouth so I think the principall Gods speak in their heavenly Counsels and if Jupiter himself were become a Poet he could not speak more sweetly Moreover this eminent Critick comparing him with Homer saith thus Virgilius Magister est Homerus discipulus Virgil is the Master and Homer the Scholar Homerus moles quidem est sed rudis indigesta Virgilius autem Deus melior Natura Homer indeed is an heap and that rude and indigested but Virgil is as God and the better nature His death was deplored by Cornelius Gallus amongst many others in a Paper of Verses to Caesar Augustus Cornelius Gallus COrnelius Gallus was excellent for Elegies born that very yeare wherein the most learned of the Romans Terentius Varro died He was of mean Fortune but by the Favour of Octavianus Caesar he was promoted to great dignities he governd Egypt after that it was made a Province by the Romans being suspected to have been in Conspiracy against Augustus he slew himself as Dion and Marcellinus have recorded and whereunto also that Verse of Ovids doth relate Sanguinis atque animae prodige Galle tuae He was Virgilii delitiae Virgils Darling as doth appeare by the fourth Book of his Georgicks wherein he much advanceth the worth of this Gallus he was in love with Cytheris the free-woman of Volumnius which disdaining him went after Antonius into France whereupon Virgil comforted him who in the tenth Eclog of his Buzolicks calleth this same Cytheris Lycoris Dion writes how that Proculeius meeting accidentally with this Poet clapt his hands forthwith unto his Mouth thereby signifying that it was not safe either to speak or breath where that Gallus was in presence so great indeed was his Insolency There are some Verses imputed unto him which are not after his strain being neither suitable to his time nor phrase but they are presumed to be the invention of one Maximianus a meer Juggler So dear was this Poet to Virgil that his fourth Book of Georgicks from the midst thereof unto the end only comprehendeth his praises Diomedes speaking De elegia joyns this Gallus with Tibullus and Propertius Quintilian mentioning him calls him Poetam duriorem A harder Poet. Quintus Horatius Flaccus QVintus Horatius Flaccus of Venusium a Towne in Apulia lived in the Reign of Caesar Augustus with whom he was in high esteem and great credit as also with his Patron Maecenas He was born two years before the Conspiracy of Lucius Catiline His Father was a Libertine and Collector of the publick Loanes and Taxes his Master was Orbilius of Beneventum whom he stiles in his Poems Plagosum he went to Athens and there studied Philosophy chiefly approving of the Epicureans as appears by that Vrbane Speech of his Me pinguem nitidum bene curata cute vises Cum ridere voles Epicuri de grege porcum He was much prone to Cholar however very pleasing gratefull and officious to his friends among the Poets he was very intimate with Tibullus Quintilius Varrus Valgius and Virgil among the Nobles with Julius Florus Maximus Lollius and Maecenus with whom he lived familiarly seven years and upwards as is manifest by these following Verses Septimus octavo propior jam fugerit annus Ex quo Maecenas me caepit habere suorum In numero In the civill Broils of Rome he took part with Brutus and Cassius as Sidonius Apollinaris amongst many others thus testifieth Et tibi Flacce acies Bruti Cassique secuto Carminis est autor qui fuit veniae However Mecaenas restored him to his Princes Favor and therby to all his pristine Dignities As touching the habit and proportion of this Poets Body he