Theatrum Poetarum, OR A COMPLETE COLLECTION of the POETS, Especially The most Eminent, of all Ages. The Ancients distinguished from the Moderns in their several Alphabets. With some Observations and Reflections upon many of them, particularly those of our own Nation. Together With a Prefatory Discourse of the POETS and POETRY in General.  
By EDWARD PHILLIPS.  
— 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉.  Hesiod. Theog. 
London, Printed for CHARLES' SMITH, at the Angel near the Inner Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet. Anno Dom. M.DC.LXXV.   

Perfection of knowledge the one, how immersed in swinish sloth and ignorance the other; I am apt to wonder how it could possibly be imagined that the same rationality of Soul should inform alike, as we are obliged to believe by the authority of Sacred Scriptures, and the Doctrine of the Souls Immortality, the whole mass & frame of Human Nature, and not rather that there should be a gradation of Notion from the lowest brute up to the Angelic Region: But that calling to mind the common maxim of Philosophy, that the perfection of Soul is the same in the Infant, as in the ripe of age, only acting more or less vigorously, according to the capacity of the Organs; I thence collect that there is also a different capacity of the Organs, whence ariseth a different Spirit and Constitution, or some intervening cause, by which it either acts or lies dormant even in Persons of the same age: the first is that Melior Natura, which the Poet speaks of, with which whoever is amply endued, take that Man from his Infancy, throw him into the Deserts of Arabia, there let him converse some years with Tigers and Leopards, and at last bring him where civil society & conversation abides, and ye shall see how on a sudden, the scales and dross of his barbarity purging off by degrees, he will start up a Prince or Legislator, or some such Illustrious Person; the other is that noble thing called Education, this is that Harp of Orphe●s, that Lute of Amphion, so elegantly figured by the Poets to have wrought such Miracles among irrational and insensible Creatures, which raiseth beauty even out of deformity, order and regularity, out of Chaos and confusion; and which if throughly and rightly prosecuted, would be able to civilize the most savage natures, & root out barbarism and ignorance from off the face of the Earth▪ those who have either of these qualifications singly, may justly be termed Men; those who have both united in a happy conjunction more than Men; those who ha●● neither of them in any competent measure, certainly, in the conduct of their lives, less than Men, and of this last sort is composed that greatest part by far of our habitable World, (for what the Nature and distinction is of the Inhabitants of other orb●is● to us utterly unkown though not any where circumscribed, but diffused alike through the 4 quarters) commonly called to Euripides for Tragedy, yet nevertheless sleep inglorious in the crowd of the forgotten vulgar: and for as many of those Names of Writers, whether more or less Eminent, as have been preserved from utter oblivion, together with an account for the most part of what they writ, all Learned Men especially such as are curious of antiquity are obliged to those generous▪ Registers who have been studious to keep alive the memories of Famous Men, of whom it is at least some satisfaction to understand that there were once such Men or Writings in being: However since their works having by what ever casualty perished, their Names, though thus recorded, yet as being dispeirced in several Authors, and some of those not of the most conspicuous note, are scarce known to the generality, even of the Learned themselves, and since of later Ages the memories of many whose works have been once made public; and in general esteem, have nevertheless through tract of time, and the succession of new Generations, fallen to decay and dwindled almost to nothing; I judged it a Work in some sort not unconducing to a public benefit, and to many not ungrateful, to muster up together in a body, though under their several Classes, as many of those that have employed their fancies or inventions in all the several Arts and Sciences, as I could either collect out of the several Authors that have mentioned them in part, or by any other ways could come to the knowledge of, but finding this too various and manifold a task to be managed at once, I pitched upon one Faculty first, which, not more by chance than inclination, falls out to be that of the Poets, a Science certainly of all others the m●st●noble and exalted, and not unworthily termed Divine, since the height of Poetical rapture hath ever been accounted little less than Divine Inspiration: Pardon me therefore most Honoured Friends, if having undertaken a Province more weighty and difficult than the account of any other Art and Science, and which beyond all others exerciseth the utmost nicety and sagacity of judgement, I ambitiously make address to the Patronage of Persons of so fair a reputation, as well in Poetry as other parts of Learning, and who are yourselves parties not obscurely or without just merit concerned, whom against what ever may happen either of deserved or undeserved Censure, vouchsafe but the two first letters of their Names, and these, it is to be supposed, desire to be known only to some Friends, that understand the Interpretation of those letters, or some curning Men in the Art of Divination; now as to the last part of the objection, I have so much the more confidence to stand upon my own justification, by how much I rely upon this Maxim, that it is less injustice to admit of 20 that deserve no notice or mention, then to omit one that really deserves; and here methinks there seems to arise a large field of examination and distinction, between those that are in truth of no value or desert, and those that are generally reputed so; it is to be observed that some have been once of great esteem, and have afterwards grown out of date, others have never arrived to any esteem, and possibly in both cases the merits of the cause may have been various on either side; yet I am apt to believe that as it, is a more frequent thing to over then undervalue, so a universal contempt is a shrewd, not infallible, sign of a universal indesert; the reason is plain, for though no doubt the number of the judicious and knowing is as great if not greater than ever, yet most confessedly not so great as that of the ignorant or only superficially knowing, there are many that think, few only that judge; therefore things of the most transcendent excellence are for the most part only valwed by Persons of transcendent judgement, whereas the indifferent and plausible are received with general and vulgar applause. So that those Works which being advantageously published, nevertheless obtain no Fame, may be justly suspected of little or no worth, since, had they been excellent, they might falling into the hands of the few that judge, have been vuoyed up by their authority, had they been plausible, they would h●●e been cried up by the many that think. And shall such very Ignore and contemptible pretenders, ●e allowed a place among that most renowned of Poetic Writers, among so many Loureated heads, with the triumphant wreath of Parnassus? I beg your ●avourable attentions, yours in the first place, most oft equal Judges, yours in the next, most Courteous Readers, let me plead a little for the well meaners only, as something Sympathising with those for whom I ●lead; Virtue will plead for itself, and ●eeds no Advocate; first let it considered time● some that had their Poetical excellencies if well examined, and chiefly among the rest Chaucer, who through all the neglect of former's aged Poets still keeps a name, being by some few admired for his real worth, to others not unpleasing for his facetious way, which joined with his old English intertains them with a kind of Drollery; however from Qu. Elizabeth's Reign the Language hath been not so unpolisht as to render the Poetry of that time ungrateful, to such as at this day will take the pains to examine it well: besides if 〈◊〉 Poetry should Pleas but what is calculated to every refinement of a Language, of how ill● consequence this would be for the future, let him consider and make it his own case, who being now in fair repute & promising to himself a lasting Fame, shall two or three Ages hence, when the Language comes to be double refined, understand (if Souls have any intelligence after their departure hence, what is done on Earth) that his Works are become obsolete and thrown aside. If then their Antiquated style be no sufficient reason why the Poets of former A●es should be rejected, much less the pre●●●e of their antiquated mode or fashion 〈◊〉 of Poetry, which whether it be altered for the better or not, I cannot but ●ook upon it as a very pleasant humour, that we should be so compliant with the French custom as to follow set fashions; not only in Garments, but also in Music, (wherein the Lydian mood is now most in request) and Poetry: for clothes I leave them to the discretion of the Modish, whether of our own or the French Nation; Breeches and Doublet will not fall under a Metaphysical consideration, but in Arts and Sciences, as well as in Moral Notions, I shall not scruple to maintain that what was verum & bonum once 〈◊〉 to be so always; now whether the Trunk-hose Fancy of Queen Elizabeth's days or the Pantaloon Genius of ours be best; I shall not be hasty to determine, not presuming to call in question the judgement of the present Age, only thus much I must needs see, that Custom & Opinion ofttimes take so deep a root, that Judgement hath not free power to act. To the Ancient Greecs and Latins, the Modern Poets of all Nations and for several Ages, have acknowledged themselves beholding, for those both Precepts and examples which have been thought conducing to the perfection of Poetry; for the manner of its Garb, and dress, which is Verse, we in particular to the Italians, the first of the Moderns that have been eminently Famous in this Faculty, the Measure of the Greece and Latin Verse being no way suitable to the Modern Languages; & truly so far as I have observed the Italian Stanza in Heroic Poem, and the Sonnet, Canzon, and Madrigal in the Lyric, as they have been formerly more frequently made use of by the English than by any▪ so except their own proper Language they become none better than ours, and therefore having been used with so good success, I see no reason why they should be utterly rejected; there is certainly a decency in one sort of Verse more than another which custom cannot really alter, only by familiarity make it seem better; how much more stately and Majestic in Epic Poems ● especially of Heroic Arguments, Spencers's Stanza (which I take to be but an Improvement upon Tasso's Ottava Rima, or the Ottava Rima itself, used by many of our once esteemed Poets) is above the way either of Couplet or Alternation of four Verses only, I am persuaded, were it revived, would soon be acknowledged, and in like manner the Italian Sonnet and Canzon; above Pindaric Ode, which, whatever the name pretends, comes not so near in resemblance to the Odes of Pindarus, as the Canzon, which though it answers not so exactly as to consist of Stroph, Antistroph and Epod, yet the Verses, which in the first Stroph of the Canzon were tied to no fixed number, order or measure, nevertheless in the following Srophs return in the same number, order & measure, as were observed in the ●ir; whereas that which we call the Pindaric, hath a nearer affinity with the Mono●rophic, or Apolelymenon, used in the Cho●●●s of Aeschylus his Tragedies: one thing more is to be observed between the Italian Verse and ours, namely that the Dissyliable, which in that Language is the only way of Rhyming, is also in ours, very applicable to Rhyme, and hath been very much used formerly; I was going to say with as much grace, sometimes, if not more, than the Monosyllable; but that I am loath to appear too singularly addicted to that which is now so utterly exploded, especially since there are other things of much greater consequence than the Verse; though it cannot be denied, but that a Poetical fancy is much seen in the choice of Verse proper to the chosen subject, yet however, let the fashion of the Verse be what it will, according to the different humour of the Writer, if the Style be elegant and suitable, the Verse whatever it is, may be the better dispensed with, and the truth is the use of Measure alone without any Rhyme at all, would give far more ample Scope and liberty, both to Style and fancy than can possibly be observed in Rhyme, as evidently appears from an English Heroic Poem, which came forth not many years ago, and from the Style of Virgil, Horace, Ovid, and others of the Latins, which is so pure and proper, that it could not possiby have been better in Prose: another thing yet more considerable is conduct and design in whatever kind of Poetry, whether the Epic, the Dramatic, the Lyric, the Elegiac, the Epanetic, the Bucolic, or the Epigram; under one of which all the whole▪ circuit of Poetic design, is one way or other included; so that whoever should desire to introduce some 〈◊〉 of Poem of different fashion, from any known to the Ancients, would do no more than he that should study to bring a new Order into Architecture, altogether differe●● both from the Doric, jonic, Corinthian, Tuscan and Composite. Epigram, is as it were the fag end of Poetry, and indeed consists rather of conceit and acumen of Wit, then of Poetical inventions yet it is more commendable to be a Martial in Epigram than Juvenal's Codrus in Heroic Poetry. The Epaenetic, comprehends the Hymn, the Epithalamium, the Genethliacon, or what else tends to the praise or congratulation of Divine, or on Earth Eminent People the Bucolic, on Eclogue, pretends only the familiar discourse of Shepherds about their Loves or such like concernments, yet under that umbrage treats oft times of higher matters thought convenient to be spoken of rather mysteriously and obscurely, then in plain terms: the Elegi●● seems, intended at first for complaint of crosses in Love, or other calamitous accidents, but became applicable afterwards to all manner of subjects and various occasions: the Lyric consists of Songs or Airs of Love, or other the most soft and delightful subject, in verse most apt for Musical Composition, such as the Italian Sonnet; but most especially Canzon and Madrigal before mentioned, and the English Ode heretofore much after the same manner: the Dramatic comprehends satire, and her two Daughters Tragedy and Comedy: the Epic is of the largest extent, and includes all that is narrative either of things or Persons, the high'st degree whereof is the Heroic, as Tragedy of the Dramatic, both which consist in the greatness of the Argument; and this is that which makes up the perfection of a Poet; in other Arguments a Man may appear a good Poet, in the right management of this alone a great Poet; for if Invention be the grand part of a Poet or Maker, and Verse the least, then certainly the more sublime the Argument, the nobler the Invention, and by consequence the greater the Poet; and therefore it is not a mere Historical relation, spiced over with a little slight fiction, now and then a personated virtue or vice rising but of the ground, and uttering a speech, which makes a Heroic Poem but it must be rather a brief obscure or remote Tradition, but of some remarkable piece of story, in which the Poet hath an ample field to enlarge by feigning of probable circumstances, in which and in proper Allegory, Invention, the well management● whereof is indeed no other than decorum, principally consisteth, and wherein there is a kind of truth, even in the midst of Fiction; for what ever is pertinently said by way of Allegory is Morally though not Historically true, and Circumstances the more they have of verisimility, the more they keep up the reputation of the Poet, whose buisiness it is to deliver feigned things as like to truth as may be, that is to say not too much exceeding apprehension, or the belief of what is possible or likely, or positively contradictory to the truth of History. So that it would ●e absurd in a Poet to set his Hero upon Romantic actions (let his courage be what it will) exceeding Human strength and power, as to fight singly against whole Armies, and come off unhurt, at least if a mortal Man, and not a Deity or armed with Power Divine; in like manner to transgress so far the compute of time as to bring together those that lived several Ages asunder; as if Alexander the Great should be brought to fight a single Duel with Julius Caesar, would either argue a shameful ignorance in Chronologie, or an irregular and boundless licence in Poetical fiction, which I reckon is allowed the Poet chiefly upon this consideration; because being supposed as he ought, to understand the ways of Heroic virtue & Magnanimty from better principles than those of common and implicit opinion, he hath the advantage of representing, and setting forth greater Ideas, and more noble Examples then probably can be drawn from known History, and indeed there is no ingenious or excellent quality either native or acquired wherewith he should not be fully acquainted, no part of Learning in which he ought not to be exactly instructed, since as a curious piece of History painting, which is the highest perfection in the Art of Picture, is the result of several other Arts as Perspective, Proportion, the knowledge of History, Morality, the passions of t●e mind, etc. so Heroic Poesy ought to be the result of all that can be contrived of profit, delight or ornament either from experience in human affairs or from the knowledge of all Arts and Sciences, it being but requisite that the same Work which sets forth the highest Acts of Kings and Heroes should be made fit to allure the inclinations of such like Persons to a studious delight in reading of those things, which they are desired to imitate.  
They likewise very much err from probability of circumstance who go about to describe ancient things after a modern Model, which is an untruth, even in Poetry itself, and so against all Decorum, that it shows no otherwise th●n as if a Man should read the Ancient History of the Persians or Egyptians to inform himself of the customs and▪ manners of the modern Italians and Spaniards; besides that our Author should avoid, as much as might be, the making such descriptions as should any way betray his ignorance in ancient customs or any other knowledge, in which he ought industriously to show himself accomplished.  
There is a also a Decorum to be observed in the style of the H. Poem that is that it be not inflate or gingling with an empty noise of Words, nor creepingly low and insipid, but of a Majesty suitable to the Grandeur of the subject, not nice or ashamed of vulgarly unknown, or unusual words, if either terms of Art, well chosen, or proper to the occasion for fear of frighting the Ladies from reading, as if it were not more reasonable that Ladies who will read Heroic Poem should be qualified accordingly, than that the Poet should check his fancy for such either Men or Ladies whose capacities will not ascend above Argalus and Parthenia. Next to the Heroic Poem, if not as some think equal, is Tragedy, in conduct very different, in height of Argument alike as treating only of the Actions and concernments of the most Illustrious Persons, whereas Comedy sets before us the humours, converse and designs of the more ordinary sort of People: the chief parts thereof are the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by which latter is meant that moving and Pathetical manner of expression, which in some respect is to exceed the highest that can be delivered in Heroic Poesy, as being occasioned upon representing to the very life, the unbridled passions of Love, Rage and Ambition, the violent ends or down falls of great Princes, the subversion of Kingdoms and Estates, or what ever else can imagined of funest or Tragical, all which will require a style not ramping, but passionately sedate & moving; as for the Ethos, waving farther large Discourses, as intending a Preface only, not Poetical System, I shall only leave it to consideration whether the use of the Chorus, and the observation of the ancient Law of Tragedy, particularly as to limitation of time, would not rather by reviving the pristine glory of the Tragic all, advance then diminish the present, adding moreover this caution that the same Indecorums are to be avoided in Tragedy as have already been intimated in Heroic Poem, besides one incident to Tragedy alone, as namely that Linsey-wolsey▪ intermixture of Comic mirth with Tragic seriousness, which being so frequently in use, no wonder if the name of Play be applied without distinction as well to Tragedy as Comedy; and for the Verse if it must needs be Rhyme, I am clearly of opinion that way of Versifying; which bears the name of Pindaric, and which hath no necessity of being divided into Strophs or Stanzas would be much more suitable for Tragedy then the 〈◊〉 Rhapsody of Rhyming Couplets, 〈◊〉 whoever shall mark it well, will finds it appear too stiff, and of too much constraint for the liberty of conversation▪ and the interlocution of several Persons: and now before conclude, I cannot but call to 〈◊〉 something that may be yet alleged againt some very noted Writers either Phil●s●●ph●rs, Historians, Mathematicians 〈◊〉 the like, here mentioned, who for what they are said to have written in Poetry, being perhaps but small or inconsiderable, will scarce be thought worth 〈◊〉 played among the Poets; It is true indeed, they do not shine here as in their proper Sphere of Fame, nevertheless since it is not ungrateful to many to know all that hath been written by famous Men▪ as well in the Arts they least, as those they most profess, and since the Register of one Science only may well take the greater Scope within that circuit, I judged it not impertinent to mention as well those Famous Men in other Faculties, who have also writ Poetically, as the most Famous of Poetical Writers, considering especially how largely the Name of Poet is generally taken; for if it were once brought to a strict Scrutiny, who are the right, genuie and true born Poets, I fear me our number would fall short, and there are many that have a Fame deservedly for what they have writ, even in Poetry itself, who if they came to the rest, I question how well they would endure to hold open their Eagle eyes against the Sun: Wit, Ingenuity, and Learning in Verse, even Elegancy itself, though that comes nearest, are one thing, true Native Poetry is another; in which there is a certain Air and Spirit; which perhaps the most Learned and judicious in other Arts do not perfectly apprehend, much less is it attainable by any Study or Industry; nay though all the Laws of Heroic Poem, all the Laws of Tragedy were exactly observed, yet still this tour entrejeant, this Poetic Energy, if I may so call it, would be required to give life to all the rest, which shines through the roughest most unpolished and antiquated Language, and may haply be wanting, in the most polite and reformed: let us observe Spencer, with all his Rusty, obsolete words, with all his roughhewn clowterly Verses; yet take him throughout, and we shall find in him a graceful and Poetic Majesty: in like manner Shakespeare, in spite of all his unfiled expressions, his rambling and indigested Fancies, the laughter of the Critical, yet must be confess't a Poet above many that go beyond him in Literature some degrees. All this while it would be very unreasonable that those who have but attempted well, much more those who have been learned, judicious or Ingenuous in Verse should be forgotten and left out of the circuit of Poets, in the larger acceptation.  
Thus, most Worthy Arbiters, I have laid before you the reason and occasion of this design, have Apologized for what I judged most obnoxious to Censure or Objection; have lastly, delivered my own sentiment in some things relating to Poetry, wherein, if I have differed aught from the received opinion, I can safely aver, that I have not done it out of affectation of singularity, but from a different apprehension, which a strict inquiry into the truth of things (for there is also a Right and a Wrong, a Best and a Worst, as well in Poetical as other Assertions▪) hath suggested to my reason, persuading myself, that no right judgement can be given, or distinction made in the Writings of This or That Author, in whatevor Art or Science; but, without taking aught upon trust, by an unbiass'd, and, from the knowledge of ancient Authors; judicious examination of each; being also sufficiently assured of the concurrence with me in this matter, of all impartial Readers; of yours especially, m● most honoured Friends, whom I wish that fate which I am concerned in for all deserving Writers, a lasting Fame, equal to the merit 〈◊〉 what you have so advantageously published to the World.   

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Eminent Poets Among the ANCIENTS,  

ABARIS, a Scythian, the Disciple (as saith Jamblichus) of Pythagoras, and sent Ambassador (as saith Harpocration) from the Scythians to the Athenians; he wrote in verse the Journey of Apollo to the Hyperborcans, the Scythian Oracles, the Nuptials of Hebrus, with other things; whither he lived in the time of Phalaris, and wrote that Epistle which bears his name, is disputed by Vossius.  
Abbianus, an old Greece Epigramma, 'tis, some of whose Epigrams are to be found in Planudes his Florilegium.  
Abbo, an ancient Monk of St. German a Pratis, who flourished in the time of Carolus Crassus, he wrote a Poem of the siege of Paris by the Normans, which is yet extant. Barthius calls him Albo, and gives him the Surname of Cernuus.  
Abronius Silo, a Poet who flourished in the time of Augustus, and is mentioned by Marcus Seneca to have been a hearer of Porcius Latro; contemporary with, and mentioned by the said Seneca was another Silo, the Son of the foresaid Abronius.  
Accius, a Latin Tragedian contemporary with Pacuvius, but somewhat younger, he was in great favour and esteem with Decius Brutus, who adorned Temples and Monuments with his verses. Of which divers are cited by Charisius out of his Atreus, Bacchis, Io●, Philocteta, Epinausimache.  
Aceratus, an ancient Grammarian and Epigrammatist, who hath a name in the Greek anthology.  
Achaeus, the Son of Pythodorus and Pythoris, he flourished from the Seventy fourth to the Eighty second Olympiad, & wrote very many comedies, whereof two are remembered by Athenaeus, viz. his Cycnus and his Maerae.  
Addaeus of Mitilene, and Addaeus of Macedon, both cited in the Greece anthology.  
Admetus, a foolish Poet in the time of the Emperor's Trajan, and Adrian, the Epigram he ordered to be inscribed upon his Tomb is derided by Demona●c in Lucian.  
Adrianus, a Roman Emperor, under whose name there is a witty Epigram in the Greece anthology; besides several Anacreontics and jambies in Latin mentioned by Spartianus.  
Aeantides, one of the Seven Greece 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 Pleyades; though Isacius T●etzes reckons but two of the above mentioned 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 Ae●n-a tides.  
Aegidius, a Greece Benedictine Monk who flourished 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 Greece anthology.  
Aelius Julius Crottus, an ancient writer of Eglogues, and also of jambics Hendecasyllables, and other sorts of Lyric verse.  
Aelius Saturninus a Roman, who for certain libelling verses against Tiberius was condemned to death, and thrown down headlong from the Capitol, he is reckoned among the Poets by Lilius Giraldus. There flourished 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 Elegy upon Germanicus poisoned by Piso; but put to death by the Senate for writing against Drusus. Phaedrus a Thracian who turned into Jambic verse certain Fables of Aesop, which are mentioned by Avienus in his preface 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 mentioned by Tacitus is scarce allowed 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 Greece Epigrammatist, whose name is in the foresaid anthology.  
Aemilius Mercer, a Latin Poet of Verona, whom see in Publius Ovid, he is also mentioned by Servius upon the Fourth book of Virgil's 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 Orators) relates to have been first a Tragic Poet, he is also mentioned by Philostratus in the lives of the Sophisters.  
Aeschrion, a Poet of Mitylene in high esteem with Aristotle, as Nicander in his book de disciplina. Aristotelie testifies.  
Aesc●ylus an Athenian Tragic Poet, born in the Village of Eleusis, contemporary with Pindarus in the Sixty ninth Olympiad, according to the old Scholiast, but as Mr. Stanley in his most accurate Edition of this Author makes out by diligent computation, and his Collection out of Mr. Seldens Marmora Arundeliana, in the Sixty third. The Son of Euphorion, and Brother of Cynegyru● and Aminias who signalised themselves in the battle of Marathon and the Sea-fight of Salamis in which our Poet also was present, of Sixty six Dramas, which he wrote (being Victor in 13) and Five Satyrs, we have extant only Seven Tragedies, his Prometheus Vinctus, his Septem contra Thebas, Agamem●on, Persae, Eumenideses, Icetides, and Choephorae. But though he was Victor 13 times, yet it is said he took it so to heart to be vanquished by Sophocles then a young man, that he left his Co●ntrey and betook himself to Hiero King of Sicily, where he made his Tragedy Aetna so called from the City of that name which Hiero was then building Homonimous to the Mountain, others say it was because he was vanquished by Simonides in his Elegiac verse upon the slain at Marathon, after he had been resident at Gela Three years, he died of a fracture of his skull caused by an Eagles letting fall a shellfish 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 happened in the Sixty ninth year of his age according to the above mentioned computation; he is mentioned 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 mentioned 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 flourished in the time of the Emperor Justinian, and wrote besides his History of Belisarius and Narses, a Poem Entitled Dionysiaca, and also several Epigrams which are extant in the Greece anthology; contemporary with whom was Tribonianus Sidetes, who wrote in verse a Comment upon Ptolomi'es Canon, with some other things mentioned by Suidas.  
Agathon, a Tragic Poet, who flourished in the first year of the Ninetieth Olympiad, and was Victor by his Lenaei, he is mentioned by Athenaeus and Philostratus. There lived also much about the same time a Comic Poet of the same name, who is cited by Aristotle.  
Agathyllus, an Arcadian Elegiographer mentioned with praise by Dionysius Halicarnassaeus.  
Agidius Delphus a Greece Poet, who flourished in the primitive time of Christianity, and deserves to be remembered for his version of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans into Greece verse.  
Agis Amphiptolemus, several verses of his are cited by Pausanias.  
Agis a Poet of Argos, whom Curtius brands for a bad Poet, and yokes with him one Chaerilus both for time and badness of verses. This Chaerilus was in high favour with Alexander the Great, and as ill as his verses were, for they are very much condemned by Horace. l. 11▪ Epist▪ they were received as the Celebrators of his Acts; there were also two others of the same name, ●he one a Samian, who Elegantly set forth the victory of the Athenians over Xerxes, for which he was both highly rewarded and honoured, the other (if it were not the same as Vossius seems to disprove by the interval of time) a companion to Lisander, and solemnizer of his Victories.  
Alanus a Sicilian, both Poet and Eminent Orator, who wrote a book de planctu▪ Naturae, partly in verse, partly in Solute Oration.  
Albinus see Decius Laberius.  
Albius Tibullus, an Elegant Latin Elegiac Poet, whose works are commonly printed with Catullus, he was a Roman Knight.  
Alcaeus, a Lyric Poet, who according to Eusebius flourished in the Forty fourth Olympiad, and as Diogenes Laertius testifies, was a great Enemy to the Tyrant Pittacus, who was also a Poet, as his Six hundred Elegiac verses mentioned by Suidas testify, and of the number of those accounted the Seven Sages of Greece. He is mentioned by Horace in the Ninth Ode of his Fourth book; There was also of the same name a Comic Poet, whose Endymion and Pasiphae are mentioned by Pollux, and several other Comedies of his by 〈◊〉, he contended at Athens with Aristophanes, whose contemporary he was, together with Aristomenes an Athenian, whose Comedy called Admetus is mentioned by the Scholiast of Aristophanes, he is one of those called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Secundarii by Suidas, and the anonymous Author of the History of the Olympiads; Nicophon, whose Adonis is mentioned by the said Scholiast, as his sirens and other Comedies of his by Suidas, by whom he is called Nicophron. Nicochares the Son of Philonidas, and a contemporary of Aristophanes; his Amymone, Pelops, Galatea, and several other Comedies are mentioned by Suldas, Pollux, Athenaeus and Aristotle; Callistratus an Athenian Comic Poet an Emulatour of Aristophanes; much about the same time also lived Apollophanes, whom Suidas and Aelian mention for Comic poesy, but Fulgentius mentions him (if it be the same) for Epic poesy.  
Alcander, an ancient writer conjectured a Poet by Vossius, from a passage of Clemens Alexandrinus.  
Alcimeenes, a Tragic Poet of Megara mentioned by Suidas, There was also of the same name an Athenian comic Poet, whose Thesaurus and Peccantes are mentioned by the said Authors.  
Alcimus Ecdicius Avitus, an Archbishop of Vienna, who flourished in the times of the Emperor's Zeno and Anastatius, and wrote in Hexameter verse, de Origine mundi, and several other Theological discourses; besides some things in prose, there flourished also in the time of Zeno another Bishop of Vienna, namely Claudianus Mamertus, who wrote a poem, de statu animae, and another, contra vanos poetas; also Claudius Marius Victor, a Rhetorician of Marseilles, who wrote upon Genesis in Hexameter verse to his Son Aethereus, with some other things which are said to be yet extant.  
Alcman a Lyric Poet of Lacedaemon, who began to flourish in the Twenty seventh Olympiad, there was also of the same name, a Messenian, who was also a Lyric, and appeared in the Fourth year of the Thirtieth Olympiad, both mentioned by Suidas, and one of them by Pausanias for his poem of Castor and Pollux.  
Aldhelmus, (from the Saxon word Althelm i e. old Helmet) an ancient Saxon Poet, who flourished in the tim of Justinianus Junior, he was the Son of Kentenus, brother to Ina King of the West Saxons, having visited the chief Universities of France and Italy, at his return he was made Abbot of Malmesbury, and afterwards Bishop of Shirburn; Besides his great proficiency in all parts of Divine and humane learning, he was particularly excellent in Oratory and Poetry; wrote several Odes and other Poems; among which was his Acrostic of Thirty eight verses mentioned by J. Pitseus in his Scriptores Anglici.  
Alexander a Grammarian and Tragic poet of Aetolia, whose verses are cited by Parthenius and Strabo. Of the same name also was he whom Cicero mentions, with such mean approbation of his poetry, whither the same with Alexander the Ephesian▪ Surnamed Lychnus, who wrote Geography in verse, is doubted by Giraldus, also the Roman Emperor of that name surnamed Severus, wrote the lives of some of the foregoing Emperors in Greek Verse, as is testified by Lampridius.  
Alexis, a Thurian Comic Poet, who flourished in the time of Alexander the Great, very many comedies of his are mentioned by Athenaeus and Pollux, he was Uncle to Menander, about the same time was Philippides the Brother of Morsimus; and, as Plutarch affirms, favoured by King Lysimachus, he is said by Suidas to have written Forty five Comedies, and by Agellius to have died for joy; being unexpectedly proclaimed Victor at the Olympian Games; also Neophon or Neophron a Tragic poet of Sicyon, who wrote One hundred and twenty Tragedies, and is thought to have been the Author of that Medea, which is commonly attributed to Euripides, he was put to death with calisthenes the Philosopher, whose intimate friend he was as Suidas affirms; and lastly, Lycon a Comic Poet mentioned by Plutarch in his life of Alexander.  
Alfred, a King of this Island of ever glorious memory, the Fifth from Ecbert, in whom began the English Saxon Monarchy, he was equally Renowned, both for Arms; and Arts, in the first whereof he signalised himself by his frequent Victories over the invading Danes, in the last, both by his favour to learned men; and his own Studious addiction to all sorts of Learning, by which he gained himself the Character of a great, both Theologist, Philosopher, Jurisconsult, Historian, Mathematician, Musician, and among the rest of Poets also.  
Alphenus Varius, see Anser.  
Alphius Avitus, the Author of certain books inscribed Excellentium in dimeter Jambic verse, being much ancienter▪ than Alcimus, for whom he is by some mistaken.  
Amipsi●s, a Contemporary of Aristophanes, his Comedy entitled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, is mentioned by the Anonymous Author of the description of the Olympiads, and by the Scholiast of the said Aristophanes.  
Ammonus and Eusebius Scholasticus, two Authors mentioned by Socrates and Nieephorus; they lived in the time of Theodosius Junior, and wrote both o● them in verse a History of the War against Gaina the Goth.  
Amaenus, a writer of an uncertain age, but for certain ancienter than the time of the Emperor Charles the first, he is mentioned in some old Manuscripts, as the Author of that Enchiridion of the old and new Testament in verse, which Sichardus ascribes to Sedulius.  
Amphilochius, a Bishop of Iconium, who flourished in the time of the Emperor Julianus, and wrote among other things a Poem in jambic verse to Seleucus, concerning the Canonical books of the Scripture. To him St. Basil Dedicated his book, de spiritu Sancto; about the same time lived Eudaemon of Pelusium, who besides what he wrote in Grammar and Rhetoric is said by Suidas to have written several Poems, he was a companion of Libanius the Rhetorician, in Julian's time also lived Calistus, who as Socrates and Nicephorus affirm wrote in Heroic verse the Acts of the said Emperor, also Milesius of Smyrna favoured of Anatolius, and related by Eunapius to have excelled in all kind of Poetry, and with him jonicus, a Poet and Physician of Sardis. And lastly, Gregorius of Nazianzen, whose Divine Poems both in Hexameter and other sort of verse are yet extant, he is remembered by Hieronimus, whose Master he was.  
Amphis an Athenian Comic Poet, the Son of Amphicrates, he was as saith Laertius contemporary with Plato who was sometimes the Subject of his comical wit.  
Anacha●sis, a Scythian mentioned among the Philosophers, he was Brother to a Scythian King, and lived in the time of Croesus' King of Lydia, his Mother being a Grecian Woman▪ he wrote the Scythian Laws in verse; besides a Poem of the frailty of humane life consisting of Eight hundred verses.  
Anacreon, a Lyric Poet of Teos, several of whose Poems are yet extant, he flourished in the 61 and 62 Olympiad, as Eusebius and Suidas affirm, and as Pausanias in his Attics and Strabo testify, was in high favour with Polycrates the Tyrant of Samos, whom he often celebrates in his verses.  
Ananius, an Jambic writer of an uncertain age mentioned by Athenaeus in his Dipuosophists, and Isaacius upon Lyeophron.  
Anaxandrides, a Comic Poet of Rhodes, or as some say Colophon, who flourished in the Second year of the One hundred and first Olympiad, as Suidas and the Author of the Olympiads testify, he is cited by Aristotle in his Rhetorics and Ethics; of the Sixty five Comedies he wrote (in Ten whereof he is said to have been Victor) his Odysseus is chiefly commended by Athenaeus: in the same Olympiad appeared also Eubulus Cettius a writer as saith Suidas of between the Media and Nova Comedia, he wrote Twenty four Comedies, whereof his Nutrices, Clepsydra, and Cercopes are cited by Athenaeus, and his Calatophori by Ammonius, then also flourished Mnesimachus a Writer of Media Comedia, his Hippotrophus, Bustris and Philippus are cited by Athenaeus, this Author is very much commended by Diogenes La●rtius in his life of Socrates.  
Anaxiles, see Plato.  
Anaxipolis of Thasus, see in Antipater.  
Anaxippus see in Menander.  
Anitius Manlius Boethius Severi●us, a most learned and Elegant writer in the time of Zeno and Anastatius, he together with his Wife Helpis, to omit all other parts of Learning, was particularly Eminent in poetry, as his Five books, the Consolation Philosophiae testify, he was put to death, together with Symmachus by Theodoric King of the Goths in Italy.  
Auna●us Cornutus, a Tragic poet, whose works are totally lost, who lived in the time of Claudius and Nero, and was the Master of Persius the Satirist.  
Aunianus, an ingenuous and learned Poet mentioned by Agellius, or Aulus Gellius, as he is generally called; he flourished in the times of the Emperor's Trajan and Adrian, his Fescennine verses are mentioned by Ausonius in his Thirteenth Idyl at the end of the Cento Nuptialis.  
Anser, Bavius, and Maevius, three ill Poets contemporaries of Virgil, by whom the two last are mentioned, about the same time also flourished Publius Syrus a Comic writer, Corni●icius, one of Virgil's detractors, Cai●s Asinius Pollio, Alfenus Varius a more famous Juris Consult than Poet, Cornelius Gallus, Cassius Severus one of Caesar's Assassinats, and as some think the Author of that Tragedy of Thyestes, which is ascribed to Quintus Varus, also Gracchus, Codrus, whom Virgil mentions with praise in his Seventh Eglogue, there being another of the same name in Domitian's time, whose Theseiss is derided by Juvenal, Caius Rabirius, who wrote in verse the War between M. Antonius and Octavius in an inflate style, for which he is taken notice of by Ovid, Lucius Julius Calidius mentioned with singular praise by Pomponius Atticus, to which purpose a passage of the said Atticus is cited by Cornelius Nepos in his life.  
Antagoras of Rhodes, see in Menander.  
Anthippus, a Comic Poet of an uncertain age.  
Antigrammaratus, a Poet mentioned by Lilius Giraldus to have lived since Charles the Great, though in what particular age is uncertain; as likewise several others which are likewise mentioned by him, as Decianus of Emerita a poet and philosopher, Dracontius, who wrote a poem called Hexaemeron, or the Six day's work, Facetus, and Joannes Nantuillensis an Englishman, who wrote a poem called Archithenium; though in a rude and disorderly style, Floretus, Gamphredus and Pamphilus a writer of Elegies.  
Antilochus, a favourite to Lysander the Lacedaemonian, whom he celebrated in his verses, and was rewarded with a Cap full of Silver, he flourished in the Ninety fourth Olympiad, in the first year of which the said Lysander took Athens; contemporary with whom was Morsimus the Son of Philocles, and the Sister of Aeschylus, he wrote a Tragedy, which is mentioned with derision by Aristophanes, also Critias one of the Thirty Tyrants of Athens imposed by Lysander, chiefly noted for his Elegy to Alcibiades and his fragment of Jambic verses extant in Sextus the Philosopher▪ Athenaeus mentions a Poet of the same name the Son of Callaeschrus, but thought to be not the same.  
Antimachus, a Colophonian Poet mentioned by Pausanios and Plutarch, the subject of his Poem was the expedition of the Argives against the Thebans.  
Antipater of Sidon, a Poet and Historian, who appeared in the 179 Olympiad, Ptolomaeus Lathyrus then Reigning, he is taken notice of by Cicero in his books de Oratore; in the Reign of the said Lathyrus, lived also Anaxipolis of Thasus, and Dionysius surnamed Scytobrachion, whom Suidas will have to be of Mitylene, (though others say of Miletus,) and that he wrote the expedition of Bacchus and Minerva, and six books of Argonauts; besides Antipater of Sidon, there was also another of the same name of Thessalonica, who lived in the Reign of Augustus, of which time he and Bathyllus were the chief Pantomimi, as is testified by Dion, Z●simus, Suidas and others, in the Greece Authologie are several Epigrams both of his and the other Antipater.  
Antiphanes Caristius a writer of Media Comedia, who flourished in the first year of the Hundred and fourth Olympiad, very many of his Comedies are mentioned by Julius Pollux and Athenaeus and by this last, his saying to Alexander the Great, about one of his plays, which was recited to the said Alexander.  
Antipho the Rhamnusian, see Dionysius.  
Antistius Sosianus, see Euodus.  
Aphareus, see Isocrates.  
Apollinaris, a Bishop of Laodicea in Syria in the Reigns of Julian, Valentinian and Valens, and the beginning of Theodosius the Great, besides his divine poems, among which some reckon Christus patience, which is generally ascribed to Gregory of Nazianzen, he is highly eminent among the ancient Ecclesiastic writers treated of by Hieronimus for his 30 books against Porphirius, for which Philostorgius prefers him before Eusebius and Methodius, with other things, both in Theology, History and Poetry; Particularly we have extant his Metaphrase upon David's Psalms in Greek verse, besides which he is said by Suidas to have turned the whole book of the Hebrews into Greek verse, for a more particular commendation and Character of him see Joannes Sarisburiensis de Nugis Curialium, Vincentius Lirinensis in his Commonitorie, Theophilus of Alexandria l. 1. paschali and Vossius l. 2. de Historicis Graecis. There was another Apollinaris celebrated by Martial. l. 8. Epigr. 25. yet scarce allowed by Vossius to pass among the number of the poets, but him vulgarly called Sidonius Apollinaris, see in Caius.  
Apollodorus Jealous, a Comic poet, contemporary with Menander, several of whose Comedies are remembered by Athenaeus Suidas and Pollux, and from whom as Donatus testifies Terence took his phormio and H●cyra. There was also a Tragic poet of Tarsus so named Six Tragedies of whose writing are mentioned by Julius Pollux; another of that name was a Grammarian the Son of s●clepiades and Disciple of Aristarchus the Grammarian and panetius the Rhodian philosopher, and this was the Author of the book of the Genealogy of the Gods yet extant, entitled Bibliotheca, which is vulgarly imputed to Apollodorus Atheniensis; Therewas also as Vossius observes out of Suidas, a comic poet of the same name, who wrote 47 Comedies, and was Five times sole Victor at the Olympic games. Athenaeus mentions also Apollodorus Caristius, who whit her he were not the same with Jealous is in some dispute.  
Apollonius of Rhodes, see Eratosthenes.  
Apollophanes, see Alcaeus.  
Aquilius (or as some say Attilius or Cecilius) Severus a Spaniard, who lived in the Reigns of Julian and Valentinian, he is made mention of by Hieronimus among the Ecclesiastic writers for his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or History of his life both in prose and verse.  
Aquinius, Cesius and Suffenus, Three ill poets mentioned by Catullus in his verses to Licinius Calvus, and his Epigram to Varus, and also by Cicero in his Tusculan questions.  
Araros, a comic poet of the Greecs the Son of Aristophanes as Suidas testifies, who mentions his Hymenaeus one of the Six Comedies he is said to have written, Four Comedies of his are cited by Athenaeus.  
Arator, a Latin poet who flourished in the time of the Emperor Justinian, and wrote the History of the Acts of the Apostles in two books in verse, which he is said to have dedicated to Abbot Florianus, and to Vigilius Bishop of Rome.  
Aratus, a Greece poet of Soli, in Cilicia, as saith Eusebius in his Chronicle, he flourished in the time of Ptolomaeus Philadelphus and Antigonus Gonatus, with whom he lived in very great favour and esteem, his poem of the Description of the Celestial constellations, and of the prognostics of the weather which is yet extant, was highly esteemed by those of his time, as Aristarchus of Samos, the two Aristilli Geometricians, the two Euaeneti, Crates, Numenius the Grammarian, Pyrrhus of Magnesia, Zeno and Thales.  
Archedicus a comic poet, who wrote against Demochares; two comedies of his writing, Thesaurus and Diamartanon are cited by Athenaeus.  
Archestratus a Syracusian, or as some say a Geloan the Disciple of Terpsion, he is said to have written a poem of Belly-chear, or things belonging to the Gullet.  
Archias an ancient Greece Epigrammatist, of whom there are extant 28 Epigrams in the Greece anthology, this probably was the Author of that poem mentioned by Cicero, for the description therein, of a strange accident that happened to Roscius the Comedian.  
Archilochus a Parian, who flourished in the Second year of the Twenty ninth Olympiad in the Reign of Candaules and Gyges' Kings of Lydia; he was of so virulent and invective a style, that by the bitterness of his verses he drove Lycambe to self Murder by the halter; contemporary with him were Simonides surnamed Melicus (for there were several others of the same name, as Simonides Ceus (the Son of Leoprexes) a Lyric poet who flourished in the time of Xerxes, Themistocles and Hiero of Syracuse, Simonides Magnesius an Epic poet who wrote the Acts of Antiochus the Great, Simonides Eretriensis who wrote in Trimeter Jambic the convention of the Greecs at Aulis, and lastly Simonides the Son of Crineus sirnamed Amorginus, who besides several Elegies ●e wrote, is thought by some as Suidas testifies to have been the first writer of Jambic verse) and also Aristoxenus of Selinum who is celebrated by Epicharmus.  
Archippus a Comic poet who appeared in the First year of the Ninety first Olympiad, and was once Victor, his Comedy called Ichthys is mentioned with praise by Julius Pollux and Athenaeus, and several Comedies which have been ascribed to Aristophanes are thought to be his as Suidas testifies.  
Architas an ancient Greece Epigrammatist who haply may be thought the same with the famous Pythagorean Philosopher of Tarentum.  
Arctinus of Miletus, an ancient and elegant Greece Poet mentioned by Eusebius in his Chronicle as the Author of two Poems, Aethiopis and Ilii Hal●sis; he was the Disciple of Homer, as is delivered by Tsetzes, and also by Suidas from the Testimony of Artemon of Clazomenus, and is thought to have flourished from the first to the Ninth Olympiad.  
Arion, a Lyric Poet and Musician of Methymna, the same no doubt whom the Poets saved from drowning by the charity of a Dolphin, he began to flourish in the Thirty eighth Olympiad as Suidas affirms, and is thought by some to have been the Disciple of Alcman, and to have been the first beginner of Dithyrambs, Satyrs, and of the Chorus in Tragedy.  
Aristaeus, an ancient Greece Poet of an uncertain age.  
Aristarchus, see Cratinus.  
Aristeas, a contemporary of Anacharsis the Scythian, he wrote the History of the Arimaspi in Hexameter Greece verse; a very strange thing is reported of him (as likewise of Hermotimus of Clazomenus) namely, that at certain times his Soul was wont to pass out of his body and return again.  
Aristius Fuscus a contemporary of Horace, who directs to him the Two and twentieth Ode of his first book, but whither a Poet himself is questioned by Vossius.  
Aristomenes, a comic Poet of Athens who (as Suidas testifies, and the Author of the Olympiads) began to flourish in the Eighty eighth Olympiad, and was one of those called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Secundarii.  
Ariston, a Tragic Poet of Chios of an uncertain age, who as Plutarch and Laertius testify, was banished Athens for writing a Tragedy against Menestheus; also Three Epigrams in the Greece anthology go under the name of Ariston.  
Aristonymus see Callimachus.  
Aristophanes' an Athenian, the most Renowned of comic Poets, and contemporary with Sophocles the Tragic Poet, and also with Socrates whom he makes an object of his wit in his Comedy called Nubes, as he doth Cleon and Nicias two Magistrates of Athens in his Equites, and Georgia; he flourished from the Eighty fifth to the Ninety first Oympiad, and wrote a considerable number of Comedies, whereof many are yet extant, and many lost. At the same time flourished Teleclides a comic Poet also of Athens, several Comedies of whom are mentioned by Athenaeus, who saith also that the History of the Telchines was ascribed to him; then likewise there began to write M●rychus a Tragic Poet, though ●a foolish one as he is accounted by Aristophanes according to his proverb of him Moricho Stultior. There was also another Aristophanes noted among the Grammarians.  
Aristophon, an ancient Greece Poet of an uncertain age, whose Philoctetes is mentioned by Plutarch:  
Aristoteles, the Philosopher of Sagira, who besides the many other works he wrote, among which is his Art of Poetry, is delivered by Ambrose and Brognolus to have written a Paean to Hermias, and some other things in verse.  
Aristoxenus' of Selinum, see Archilochus.  
Arrianus, or as some write him Rhianus, a contemporary of the Emperor Tiberius, who was much delighted with his Greece verses. Lilius Giraldus his mistake concerning him, see rectified by Vossius in his book de poetis Latinis.  
Aruntius Stella a Latin Poet, no less noted for his verses upon his Mistress Violantilla's Dove, than those upon the victory of Domitian (in whose time he lived) over the Sarmatians.  
Asaph, a great Musician among the Jews, and as some think chief Master of King David's Q'uire, and setter of divers of his Psalms to Music, or, as others suppose, the Author of them himself.  
Arystilus, a contemporary of Euripides or thereabout, and reckoned by some among the number of Greece Dramatics.  
Asclepiades a Tragic Poet, the Disciple of Isocrates, he is mentioned by Plutarch in his lives of the Ten Rhetoricians.  
Asius, a Samian, the Son of Amphiptolemus, a Poem of his called Genealogiae, is mentioned by Pausanias in his Messenics, his fable of Metabus and Menalippe by the Scholiast of Homer, supposed to be Didymus; besides some few verses of his cited by Athenaeus from Duris the Historian.  
Astydamas the Son of Morsimus, he began to write in the Second year of the Ninety fifth Olympiad, as Diodorus and the Author of the Olympiads testify, and wrote as saith Suidas 140 Tragedies (in 15 only whereof he was Victor) having abandoned Rhetoric, wherein he was a hearer of Isocrates, he had a Son of the same name, who began to flourish in the 102 Olympiad, his Tragedies mentioned by Suidas are Nine, namely, Hercules, Satyricus, Epigoni, Ajax Furens, Bellerophon, Tyro, Alcmene, Phoenix, Palamedes.  
Attilius, see Statius Caecilius.  
Augeas a writer of Media Comedia of an uncertain age, of whose writing two Comedies, viz. Rusticus and Poeta are mentioned by Suidas.  
Aulus Cornelius Severus, see Publius Ovid.  
Aulus Furius, an ancient Latin Poet of Antium, whom Cicero mentions in his Brutus, he was a contemporary and familiar friend of Quintus Catulus.  
Aulus Persius Flaccus an Eminent Satirist who flourished under Nero, there are Six Satyrs of his extant, which are commonly set forth in a volume together with Juvenal.  
Aulus Cornelius Alpinus, see Publius Ovid.  
Auleas, the Third Tragic writer from Theomis, who is delivered by some to have been the First inventor of Tragedy.  
Aulus Sabinus, see Publius Ovid.  
Aulus Serenus, an ancient Lyric Poet among the Latins of an uncertain age, he is remembered by Terentianus, Diomedes, Nonius, Servius, Hieronymus, Fortunatianus and Capella, which two last Authors cite this verse of his.  Perit avipedis animula Leporis. 
Aurelius Apollinaris, a Celebratour of the Acts of the Emperor Carus in jambic verse, as is testified by Vopiscus in his life of that Prince.  
Aurelius Prudentius Clemens, a Christian Poet, who flourished in the time of Theodosius the Great and his Children, he wrote in Latin verse Psychomachia, de Martyrum Coronis, and some other works which are yet extant; but that Enchiridion of the old and new Testament, which is usually Printed at the end of his works, is said to have been written by Amoenus, or as some say by Sedulius.  
Ausonius, see Decius.  
Autocrates, an Athenian Comic Poet of an uncertain age, whose Timpanista is mentioned by Suidas.  
Axionicus, another Comic writer of the Greecs of an uncertain age, his Phileuripides, Chalcidicus, and Tyrrhenus are mentioned by Athenaeus.   

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BAbrias, by some called Gabrias, a Poet of an uncertain age, who converted Aesop's Fables into Greece jambic verse, as Avienus testifies in his preface to Theodosius Ambrose, those Fables which go under the name of Gabrias, being judged to have been rather the works of Ignatius Diaconus.  
Bacchylides of Ceus, see Cratinus.  
Bassus an old Epigrammatist, several Epigrams of whose writing are extant in the Florilegium of Planudes, he is sometimes mentioned with the surname of Lollius added, if at least it be the same Bassus.  
Batalus, a writer of Lascivious verses, upon the extraordinary deformity of whose body the Poet Antiphanes wittily played.  
Batton, a Comic writer of an uncertain age, whose Androphonos and Euergete are remembered by Athenaeus and Suidas.  
Batulus, an Ephesian, whither Poet, Flutinist or Actor is uncertain.  
Beda, surnamed Venarabilis, an ancient English Priest who flourished from the time of Justinianus the younger to Constantinus Copronymus (which was towards the end of the Saxon Heptarchy) and who being chiefly a Historian, yet claimed the title of a Poet by his Hymns, his Poem of Justin's Martyrdom and some other things, some Mentioned, others Extant in the Collection of Epigrams and Poems, set forth by Pithaeus, and Printed at Paris.  
Bias of Priene, see Epimenides.  
Bentamin Halachadites, his Omeis is Cited by Joannes the Son of Serapion.  
Bion, a Greece Poet of Smyrna, whose Epitaphium Adonidis and other Idyls are Printed with Hesiod and the rest of the Poetae Minores.  
Besantinus, an ancient Epigrammatist, whose Name is found to some Epigrams in the Greek anthology.  
Blaesus, a Latin Poet of an uncertain age, born, as saith Stephanus, in Capriae an Island of Italy.  
Boethius, a Poet of Tarsus, who Celebrated, in Greek Verse, the Victory of Marcus Antonius, as Strabo affirms. Under the Name also of Boethius (probably the same) are certain Epigrams in the Greek anthology. But there was another of the same Name of little Fame and of an uncertain age.  
Boiscus, a Poet of Cyzicum, of an ununcertain age, whom Vossius l. 2. de re poet: affirms to have been the first Author of the Tetrameter Octonarie Jambick.  
Burchardus Pylades a Brixian, whose Five Books of the Genealogies of the Gods, are set forth with Hesiod in Oporinus his Basil Edition.  
Buslidius, a Poet of an uncertain age, of whom what Verses are Extant are in the Book of Epigrams, of the Schola Christiana, Printed at Basil.  
Butas, an elegiac Poet, of an uncertain age, who having written fabulously, de Romanorum rebus in Grverse, is remembered by Plutarch, Arnobius, Pithaeus & Heraldus: But by Plutarch reprehended as fabulous.   

C.  
CAecilius Argivus, a Greek Poet doubtless very ancient, remembered by a Poem he is said to have written de Piscibus.  
Caecilius Cyprianus, an ancient Bishop of Carthage, who lived unde● Philippus Arabs, Decius, Gallus, Volusianus, Valerianus, & Galienus: (the last of whom is himself also received a Poet by certain Verses of his yet Extant) and at length suffered Martyrdom. The Poems that go under his Name are Genesis, Sodoma, an Invective against an Apostate Senator; and a Hymn for Easter-day, the two first whereof Sixtus Senensis believes were written by Tertullian, the last some ascribe to Victorinus.  
Caelius Sedulius, a Scottish Priest, who lived under Theodosius Junior; besides what he wrote in Prose, viz. A Comment upon St. Paul's Epistles, he also wrote in Verse his Opus Paschale, or, Paschal work: of which Pope Gelasius in his Decrees gives a particular commendation. This Work being afterwards by himself put into Prose is yet Extant in the Book called Bibliotheca Patrum Tomo 8°; he wrote besides two Hymns, one upon Christ's Nativity, the other upon Epiphany.  
Caesius Bassus, a Lyric Poet, who flourished in the time of Nero (who was also by the testimony of Seneca and Martial, a very approved Poet himself) and is twice hinted at by Juvena in his Satyrs: he is by Fabius, who knew him, ranked in the next degree of Lyrics to Horace. There was also another Caesius (in the time of Catullus) whom see in Aquinius.  
Cajus Asinius Pollio, see Anser and Publius Ovid.  
Cajus Cilnius Maecenas, ibid.  
Cajus Cominius, see Aelius Saturninus.  
Cajus Cotta, see Publius Ovid.  
Cajus Florus, an ancient Latin Poet, who wrote of the same Subject with Valerius Flaccus in Heroic Verse.  
Cajus Germanicus, see Aelius Saturninus.  
Cajus Helvius Cinna, the Author of an old Latin Poem, entitled Smirna, which, as Servius testifies, was a Work of no less than ten years.  
Cajus Julius Caesar, the Great Roman Captain, who first made himself Master of the Roman Empire, and was also an Elegant writer, besides whose Commentaries which are extant, there are reckoned up several other Works of his writing which are lost, and among the rest a Tragedy, entitled Oedipus.  
Cajus Laelius, see Terentius.  
Cajus Lucilius, a Roman Poet of the Equestrian Order, Born in the 158 Olympiad.  
Cajus Lutorius Priscus, see Aelius Saturninus.  
Cajus Pedo Albinovanus, see Publius Ovid.  
Cajus Rabirius, see Anser.  
Cajus Sollius Apollinaris, a Sidonian Poet, whose Father was an Officer of great Authority under the Emperor Honorius, and he himself under Theosius the younger and Valentinian the third, thrice Master of the Militia, and four times Praefect of the Praetorium: he was also in very high Esteem and Authority with Maximus Augustus, Avitus whose Daughter he Married, and Majorianus by whom he was advanced to the Dignity of a Count: under Severus he defended Arvernia against the Incursions of the Barbarians. Under Anthemius also he was still advanced, and at length made Bishop of Arverni; after which abandoning Poetry he betook himself wholly to the Study of Theology: he is much more happy in his Verse, as is to be seen in 24 little Poems of his yet extant, than in his Prose, wherein his Style is very harsh and crabbed, and very much discommended by Ludovicus Vives.  
Cajus Valerius Catullus, an Epigrammatist of Verona, of whose witty and elegant Poems we have many yet extant.  
Cajus Valerius Flaccus Setinus Balbus, a Latin Poet of Milan, who Dedicated his Argonauticks, or Poem of the Expedition of Jason, for the Golden Fleece to the Emperor Domitian; which Poem being extant, he is said to have written in Imitation of Apollonius Rhodius.  
Calfurnius, see Titus.  
Callias, an Athenian Tragic Poet, of an uncertain age, the Son of Lysimachus, a Rope-maker; his Grammatica is remembered by Athenaeus, his Cyclopes by Pollux, his Aegyptius, Atalanta, Pedetae, Ranae & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by Suidas.  
Callimachus, an excellent Greek Poet of Cyrene, in great favour and esteem with Ptolomaeus Philadelphus, in whose time he lived, and of his Son Euergetes in honour of whose Queen he wrote his Fiction, called Coma Berenice's: he also wrote Hymns, Elegies and Epigrams, whereof many of his Hymns and Epigrams, as also several fragments of his other works are yet extant. There was also of the same Name a Colophonian Poet, mentioned by Tatianus in his Oration to the Gentiles; and Eusebius in his Evangelical preparations. Contemporary with Callimachus of Cyrene were Heraclitus of Halicarnassus (whose Epigram upon the death of the said Callimachus is cited by Laertius in the Life of Heraclitus. And Timon of Phliasus of the Pyr●honian Sect, who was in great favour with Antigonus Gonatus in whose time he lived; he wrote Books of Natural Philosophy in Verse Hexameter, besides 40 Tragedies, 30 Comedies with Satyrs, and several other works, among which his Books called Sylli are particularly treated of by Sotion. There was another Callimachus, a Heroic Poet, Sister's Son to him of Cyrene, as Suidas testifies.  
Callinus, an Elegiac Poet, somewhat ancienter than Archilochus, as Athenaeus, Clemens Alexandrinus, and Strabo testify.  
Callistratus, see Alcaeus.  
Callistus, see Amphilochius.  
Calvus, an ancient Poet, out of whom Verses are cited by Servius, Charisius, and Gellius.  
Camerinus, and Thuscus, see Publius Ovid.  
Caninius Rufus, a writer of the Dacian War in Greek Verse, as Plinius Junior testifies in one of his Epistles.  
Canius, see Curiatius Maternus.  
Cantharus, a Comic writer of Athens, of an uncertain age whose Comedies Medea, Tereus, Symmachiae, Myrmeces, and Aedones, are all mentioned by Suidas, his Tereus, also by Athenaeus.  
Capella, see Publius Ovid.  
Capito, an Alexandrian Poet, of an uncertain age, who besides what he wrote in Prose wrote also a Poem, called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, or of Love affairs, of which Athenaeus makes mention.  
Capnias, an obscure Poet of an uncertain age, whose writings are said by Suidas, to have been of so little esteem that they vanished into smoke, which alludes to his name, their loss not being in the least regarded.  
Carcinus, an Athenian Tragic and Lyric Poet, who began to flourish about the 100th Olympiad, viz. in the time of Philip of Macedon, and contemporary with Plato, who besides his Philosophical writings, is said to have written several Tragedies, which he afterwards burnt, as Laertius testifies. The Tragedies of this Carcinus remembered by Athenaeus, are his Achilles and his Semele. There was also another Carcinus of Agrigentum, whose Comedy entitled Plutus is mentioned by Athenaeus; he lived as appears from Polycritus Mendesius, a little before the other, Contemporary with whom were Eudoxus of Gnidus who wrote Astrology in Hexameter Verse, besides another Eudoxus, a Comic Poet of Sicily, as also Anaxilaus, or Anaxilas, who in a Comedy of his called Botrylion, nips Plato. Two other Comedies of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are cited by Athenaeus.  
Carneades, an Elegiac Poet, of an uncertain age, made mention of by Laertius as a different person from Carneades the Philosopher. Suidas mentions three Philosophers but no Poet of that name.  
Carus, see Publius Ovid.  
Cassius Severus, see Anser.  
Cato, by some called Batto, a Comic Poet of an uncertain age, but the more eminent was Valerius Cato, whom see in Valerius.  
Cephisodorus, see Euripides.  
Chaeremon, see Philistion.  
Choerophon, ibid.  
Charmus, a Syracusian, of an uncertain age whose Poem entitled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 argued him a person more given to his belly than Epicure himself.  
Chedmon, an old British Poet, who as it were by divine Inspiration, to use Cambden's own words, in the year 680 with his sweet Verses full of Compunction drew men from Vice to Virtue.  
Chersias, see Epimenedes.  
Chilo, ibid.  
Chionides, an Athenian writer of Vetus Comoedia, who according to Suidas, began to flourish in the 70th Olympiad; of his Comedies there are remembered his Heroes commended by Pollux and Suidas, his Mendicae commended by Athenaeus, and his Assyrij, or Persae.  
Choerilius, an Athenian Tragedian, who is said to have written 150. Tragedies, and to have overcome in 13.  
Choerilus, see Agis.  
Christodorus, an Epic Writer, who described in Greek Verse in six Books, the taking of Is●●ria, by the Emperor Anastasius, under whom he flourished: besides some other things mentioned by Suidas. About the same time also lived Timotheus of Gaza, a Grammarian, who wrote a Tragedy entitled Argyripus, and also a History of Animals in Verse: Quintus Smyrnaus, Surnamed 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 escaped the gulf of Oblivion, was first published at Venice by Aldus Manutius.  
〈◊〉, an Egyptian 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 Egyptian likewise. The Calidonica and Persica, which Coluthus and the Odysseia, and Ilia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, which Tryphiodorus, by the testimony of Suid●● had written; being all lost. Within the same interval comes in Musaeus, whose little Poem of the Loves of Hero and Leander, in yet extant, which by the good leave of J. Caesar Sealiger, whoever considers the Style may imagine to have been written by a much later Greek Author (as this Musaeus the Grammarian was) than that Grand Musaeus spoken of by Virgil▪ Under the same Ana●●asius also flourished Marianus, the Son of Marsus, as is testifid by Suidas, who also writes that he Metaphrased upon Theocritus, Aratus, Ni●ander's Theriaca, and several of C●lli●●achus his Works.  
Chrysippus, a Writer of Georgics, but whether in Verse as Giraldus only surmiseth, or in Prose, is questioned by Vossius, there was also of the same name reckoned among the Poets one of Tyanea, whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is mentioned by Athenaeus, who lived but an age or thereabout after him.  
Cynaethon, a Lacedaemonian, who began to flourish in the fifth Olympiad, and wrote a Poem called Telegonia.  
Cinaethus, a Chian; who flourished in the Sixty ninth Olympiad (as saith the Scholiast of Pindarus) and wrote a Farce of Homer's Verses.  
Cinesias, a Theban Dithyrambic writer, see Philyrinus.  
Citerius Sidonius, a Syracusan, of whom there is extant a Latin Epigram in the Parisian Collection, Entitled Epigramata & Poematia vetera.  
Claudianus Mamerius, see Alcimus.  
Claudius' Clandianus, an Alexandrian (as it is conjectured) who flourished in the time of Theodosius the great and his children, Christian Emperors, 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) lived 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 birthday 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 Medicine in verse Hexameter, 3 Licentius of Hippo, whom St. Austin, who was of his acquaintance, celebrates for an eminent Poet, and taketh notice of his Poem of Pyramus and Thisbe. He also wrote hymns and several other things, and is remembered 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 Scotchman, who flourished 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 Theology, and is delivered 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 Physics in Hexameter and jambic verse; which work is in H. Stephanus his Collection. It is also affirmed by Laertius, who wrote his iife, that he wrote a Book de Poeta. About that same time also lived Sophron a Comic writer, of whose writing, and not of Sophron's the Syracusian, Vossius thinks the Comedy Nymphonus to be, which is cited by Pollux; contemporary with whom were Damoxenus an Athenian Comic writer, out of one of whose Comedies about 70. Verses are extant in Athenaeus, from whom are cited by Suidas, his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, and also Lycophron, one of the forementioned Seven Pleyades so called, a Grammarian and Tragic Poet of Chalcis (for there were several others of that name) he wrote an obscure Poem, Entitled Alexandra or Cassandra, which is yet extant; besides other things mentioned by Suidas, which are lost.  
Clearchus, a Comic Poet, of an uncertain time, out of whose Corinthii a Sentenee is cited by Athenaeus. The●● is also a small fragment of him in the common Edition of the Poetae Minores.  
Cleobulus of Lindus, one of the Seven Wisemen of Grecce, many of whose Sentences and wise sayings were written in Verse.  
Cleon, an ancient Greece Poet, from whose Poem Entitled 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 mentioned by Suidas.  
Clidemus, another Poet, unknown both as to the place and time he lived in. Whose At this is cited by Athenaeus.  
● Clodius Sabinus, an elegant Poet; as well as writer of Latin and Greece 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 Music.  
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 Egypt; he translated Euphorion a Greece Author into Latin, and wrote four Books of Elegies upon his beloved Cytheris, Volumuius his freed woman, whose forsaking him, and running away with Antonius into Gallia, is the subject of Virgil's Tenth Eglogue, in which she is is called Lycoris.  
Cneus Lentulus Getulicus, a Latin Epigrammatist, of whom there are some fragments in Petrus Crinitus. He loved Cesennia, whom he very much celebrated in his Verses.  
Cneus Matius, the Author of a Poem, Entitled Ilias in Fifteen Books. He is cited by Charisius.  
Codrus see Anser.  
Coluthu see Christodorus.  
Cometas, surnamed Scholasticus, a Greece Epigrammatist, whose name is to an Octostichon in the Fourth Book of the Greece Epigrams. Another Cometas, surnamed Chartularius, hath his name to a Hexastichon in the same book if it were not the same person differently surnamed.  
Corinnus, the first Composer in Verse (as some say) of that Trojan story, out of which Homer took his Iliads, and the Disciple of Palamedes, whence though the certain time when he lived be unknown, he is concluded to have been ancienter than Homer; yet Vossius seems to doubt whether there were ever any such person.  
Corippus, a Grammarian, who living in the time of Justinus junior, wrote in praise of that Emperor in Heroic Verse; for which he is branded with a very ill character, by Nicolaus Alemanuus, in his Preface to Procopius. Contemporary with whom lived Stephanus an African Presbyter, who wrote the life of St. German, as it is thought, in Verse; and that at the desire of St. Anacharius, Bishop of Altisiodorum.  
Cornelius Licinius Gallus, the same most probably with Cneus Cornelius Gallus.  
Cornelius Longinus, an ancient Epigrammatist, of whom there is preserved an Octostichon in the Sixth book of the Greece Anthologia or collection of Epigrams.  
Cornelius Nepos, a Contemporary of Cicero, most noted for his Lives, but for his putting Dares Phrygius his History of the Trojan war into Latin Verse, not to be here omitted.  
Cornelius Severus, see Publius Ovid.  
Cornificius, an old Latin Poet, whose Book de natura Deorum, and of Hymns, are mentioned by Macrobius.  
Corvinus Clemens, an ancient Poet, whom Cuspinian in his Book de Consulibus, affirms to have set forth in Verse the Acts of Alexander the Great.  
Commas, see Joannes Damascenus.  
Cr●●tor Solensis, see Philetas Cou●.  
Crates, a Tragic Poet, whom some think to be the same with Cr●tes the Theban Cynic Philosopher, besides whom Laertius reckons Nine more of the same name; the chief whereof were Crates the Comedian; whom see in Cratinus, Crates Thriasius and Crates Mallotes, the two last whereof I question whether they were not to be accounted rather Critics than Poets.  
Cratinus, an Athenian writer of Vetus Comaedia, who began to flourish in the Second year of the Eghty First Olympiad; he wrote 21 Comedies, in Nine whereof he was Victor, as is testified by Suidas; his Threiciae Horae, and others of his Comedies are mentioned by Pollux, Athenaeus and others. Contemporary with this Cratinus was Plato the Comedian, who is affirmed by Suidas to have written Twenty Eight Comedies, of which his Adonis, Europa, Mammacythus, etc. are remembered by Pollux, Athenaeus, Harpocration and Hesychius. Secondly, Aristarchus of Tegea, a Tragic Poet, who of Seventy Tragedies was Victor only twice: He lived, as saith Suidas, above a hundred years. Thirdly, Bacchylides, a Lyric Poet of Ceus Simonides his Brother's son; he was in great esteem with the Emperor Julian, as saith Ammianus Marcellinus; he wrote Hymns which are remembered by Menander the Rhetorician, and in the Pythian Games his Poems were preferred by Hiero before the Odes of Pindarus. Dionysius Pheraeus reckoned by Plutarch, among the number of Poets. And Lastly, Crates the Comedian, mentioned with commendation by Aristotle in his Poetics; and Aristophanes in his Equites, his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and others of his Comedies, are mentioned by Pollux and Athenaeus.  
Creophylus, an ancient Greece poet, reckoned by some, Contemporary with Homer.  
Cresconius, an African Poet, whom some name Crescentius; he wrote in Verse the Wars of the Emperor Justinian in Africa.  
Crinagoras, an old Epigrammatist, of whom there are found about 19 Epigrams in the Greece Anthology.  
Critias Callae●schrus, an Elegiac Poet mentioned by Athenaeus, and out of whom (if it be the same) Stobaeus quotes several Senarie Jambics.  
C●riatius Maternus, a Tragic Poet, who lived in the time of the Emperor Titus Vespasian (who is delivered to have been himself no contemptible Poet, by Eutropius, Isidorus, Suidas, and Suetonius, by whom mention is made of Tragedies and other Poems of his in Greece) there are remembered of this Curiatius two Tragedies only, Medea and Thyestes'; Contemporary with him were first Sall●ius Bassus, who was so well esteemed by Vespasian, that he bestowed on him Fifty Sesterces, he hath also from Fabius and Tacitus the Character of an excellent Poet. Secondly, Curtius Montanus, an Orator, and by the testimony of Tacitus, if not a Poet, yet at least a writer of Verses. Thirdly, Domitian the Brother of Titus, and after him Emperor▪ a very considerable Poet, by the Testimony of Fabius, Martial, and Valerius Flaccus, and by Vossius affirmed the Author of the Translation of Aratus. Fourthly and Fifthly, Turnus and Scaeva Memor Brothers, the first a Satyric, the other a Tragic Poet, both mentioned by Martial in one of his Epigrams, by the Old Scholiast of Juvenal, and by Sidonius Apollinaris. Fifthly and Sixthly, Canius and Passienus the first, a Gaditan, mentioned by Martial in two of his Epigrams for his facetiousness, as also his wife Theophila being for learning compared with Sapph for chastity preferred; the other an Elegiac and Lyric Poet of Vmbria, mentioned by Pliny in his Sixth Epistle to Romanus; he is said to have been the Grandchild or great Grandchild to Propertius. Seventhly, Fulgentius Plan●iades, of whose writing Scaliger suspects the Tragedy Octavia to be, which is commonly ascribed to Seneca. Eightly, Paccius who wrote Alcithoe. Ninethly, Faustus, whose Thebae and Tereus are remembered by Juvenal in the beginning of his Seventh satire. Tenthly, Rubrenus Lappa, whose Atreus is mentioned by the same Author in the same satire, if the Exposition of Britanni●us and Pulmannus will pass for Barton Holiday, in his Illustration of Juvenal, judges Atreus to be not the Title of a Tragedy, but rather the name of a Usurer, to whom this Lappa pawned his Dishes and Cloak for want. 11ly. 12ly. 13ly. Mareus Vnicus, Ligurinus and Lustricus Brutianus, all mentioned by Martial, and the last by Pliny also. 14ly. Theodorus a Jew, whose House and Poems appear by one of martials Epigrams to have been burnt. 15. Licinianus, martials Countryman, and so celebrated in one of his Epigrams. 16. Voconius Victor, celebrated also by the same Martial, l. 7. Epigr. 29. and remembered by Pliny, in an Epistle to Priscus. 17. Votienus, not only imagined but concluded a Poet from Martial, l. 8. Epigr. 72. 18, and 19 Sabellus and Musaeus (not the Author of Hero and Leander, he writing in Greece, though later and this in Latin) both obscene Poets, and the first remembered by Martial, l. 12. Epigr. 43. besides Aruntins' Stella, Codrus, and Apollinaris above mentioned.  
Cyllenus Petianus, an old Epigrammatist, of whom two Epigrams are preserved in the first Book of the Greece Anthology.  
Cyliscus, a Tragic Poet, whom Pliny delivers to have been painted by Protogenes, in a posture of meditating.  
Cynaethus v. Cinaethus.  
Cyrus, a Panopolitan Epigrammatist, in gre●t esteem with the Empress Eudocia, wife of T●eodosius junior, in whose time he flourished, and by whom he was advanced to be Bishop of Cotyacum in Phrygia; several of his Epigrams are extant in the Fourth Book of the Greek Anthologia. Contemporary with him was Synaesius, Bishop of Ptolemais; who besides other Poems, wrote Ten Hymns which are yet extant. And also Nonnus likewise of Panopolis, the Author 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 ancient Fathers, wrote in Greek Verse, partly in jambic, 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 jambic and Heroic tetrastics upon the Three Great Hierarches, St. Gregory, Basil and chrysostom, with some other things: his Works were Printed at Basil by Bebelius. An. 1536.   

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DAmasus a Spaniard, who lived 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 Greece anthology.  
Damocrates, a Poet of an uncertain time, who wrote in Verse several medicinal passages extracted out of Galens works.  
Dam●xenus, an Athaenian Comedian, whose Syntrophi and Heauton Penthon, are quoted by Athenaeus, he is also mentioned 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 Celestial Hymns or Psalms, which take place among those Sacred Books which make up the Old Testament, of which is generally reputed the entire Author, but was certainly the Author 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 Orator 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 remembered by Agellius, much about the same time also flourished 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 parcel of wanton Verses, which are remembered 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 looked upon; besides him, there was another Varro, surnamed 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 remembered 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 Physician and Poet of Burgedala, who flonrisht in the time of the Emperor Valentinian the Elder, and his two Sons Gratianus and Valentinian the younger, by whom he was preferred 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, surnamed Phalereus (whether the Grammarian so surnamed I find not) out of whose Fable Entitled Sicilia, Athenaeus citys 4 Verses, the other an Epic, the last an jambic writer.  
Demochares, a Solian, whose Fable Entitled Demetrius is remembered by Plutarch in his Life of Demetrius Poliorcetes.  
Democritus and Demodocus, two ancient Epigrammatists, whose Names are preserv●d by several Epigrams yet extant in the Greek anthology.  
Demolchus a Syracusian Comic Poet, who flourished in the 73d. Olympiad, and taught Fourteen Fables in the Doric tongue; he was the Son of Epicharmus a Physician.  
Demonax, an old Greek Poet quoted by Stobaeus, in his Sermon de Superbia.  
Dexicrates, an Athenian, whose Fable Entitled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is remembered by Athenaeus and Suidas.  
Dicaeogenes, a Tragedian and Dithyrambic Poet, remembered by Harpocration, Suidas and Stobaeus.  
Dinolochus, see Euripides.  
Diocles, ibidem.  
Diodorus, an old Greece Poet of Sinope, out of whom several jambic verses, are quoted by Stobaeus, in his Sermon de contrahendis Nuptiis and elsewhere; some think him to be the same with Diodorus a Comic Poet of Syene, whose Tibi●ina, Panegyristae and Epiclerus, are cited by Athenaeus, and who is also mentioned by Suidas.  
Dionysiades, see Aeantides.  
Dionysiodorns, a Trazenian, out of whom a Verse is cited by Plutarch, in the beginning of his Life of Aratus; he is also taken notice of by the Scholiast of Apollonius.  
Dionysius, surnamed Epaites, an Elegiac write●r, out of whom Parthenius is said to have borrowed the 15th. History of his Erotica. Of this name there are several others, not to be forgot. The first and most considerable for a Poet, was Dionysius of Alexandria, vulgarly surnamed Afer, whose Periegesis or description of the World in Greek Verse, jam now in great esteem among the learned; there was also a Poem called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, written either by this or another Dionysius; he is thonght by Vossius to have lived about the time of Tiberius or not long after. Dionysius Pheraeus, whom see in Cratinus; Dionysius Scytobrachion, whom see in Antipater, Dionysius, a Greece Hymnographer, but of what age or surname is not found (if he be not one of those above mentioned) of whom there are some few Hymns now extant, with the Musical notes to them, lately set forth, with the Edition of Aratus, Printed at the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford. Dionysius the Sicilian Tyrant, who is said to have written several Comedies and Tragedies, whereof his Adonis and Thesmophoros are cited by Athenaeus. In his time lived Antipho a Rhamnusian, both Tragic and Comic Poet, mentioned with praise by Aristotle in his Poetics, and one of the Ten Orators, whose lives are written by Plutarch and Philostratus; some say he was put to death by the Thirty Tyrants, others by Dionysius for deriding his Comedies. Also Sthenelus a Tragic Poet, remembered by Aristotle in his Poetics and Harpocration.  
Dioscorides, an ancient Greece Epigrammatist, whose name is to very many Epigrams in the Greek anthology. As like wise  
Diotimus. And also  
Diotiuchus.  
Dioxippus, an Athenian Comedian, of whose writing there are remembered these Comedies, viz. his Philargyrus, Diadicazomenus, Historiographus and Antipornobosci.  
Diphilus, see Menander.  
Domitius Marsus, see Publius Ovid.  
Dorcatius, a Latin Poet of an uncertain time, out of whom Isidorus, l. 8. Orig. l. 69. citys two Verses.  
Doricus, otherwise Dorias, his Octostich upon Milo of Crotona, is cited by Athenaeus, l. 10.  
dorilus, a Tragic Poet, remembered by Suidas.  
Dorotheus, a Sidonian Poet, who wrote Apotelesmata, which M. Manlius is said to have imitated; he is cited by Athenaeus.  
Dorus, a Greek Comic writer quoted by Stobaeus.  
Dosiades, a Rhodian, mentioned by Lucianus and the Scholiast of Simmias; he wrote a Poem called Ara, which was a certain number of Verses in form of an Altar: but that Ara printed at the end of Theocritus is proved by Salmasius who set forth Simmias his Ouunt to have been neither written by Theocritus nor Dosiades.  
Draco, the famously cruel Lawgiver of the Athenians, he is said to have written precepts of life in 3000 Verses.  
Dracontius, see Antigrammaratus.  
Drepanius Florus, (doubtless not the same as Pacatus Drepanius, the Rhetorician) an eminent French Poet who lived in the time of Constantinus Pogonatus and Clodovaeus Secundus, King of France, his Psalms, Hymns and other divine Poems are extant in the Book called Bibliotheca Patrum.  
Dromo, a Comic Poet, whose Psaltria is quoted by Athenaeus.  
Dropides, see Epimenides.  
Duris, an Epigrammatist of Elea, whose Epigram upon the deluge of Ephesus, is extant in the Florilegium of Planudes.   

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ECdorus, an old Greek Poet out of whom several jambic Verses are quoted by Stobaeus in his Sermon de Ignobilitate.  
Ecphantides, a Comic Poet, to whom one of the Chaerili (but which of them is uncertain) was amanuensis in the writing of his Comedies, as is testified by Hesychius.  
Egemon, see Hegemon.  
Egnatius, a Deacon of Constantinople, who wrote in Verse the lives of two Patriarches, Tarisius and Nicephorus; jambics against Thomas Aucartes a grand conspirator against the State, with some other things.  
Empedocles of Agrigentum, a writer of natural Philosophy in Heroic Verse, following therein Parmenides, whose Disciple he is said by some to have been, though by others the Disciple of Telauges the Son of Pythagoras, in the Collection of Philosophical poesy, set out by H. Stephanus, are certain fragments both of him and of Parmenides the Disciple of Xenophanes, besides which there is extant a small Astronomical Tractat Entitled Empedocles his Sphaera; he began to flourish in the 48th. Olympiad, as the Anonymus Author and Laertius testify. At the same time with Empedocles flourished Epicharmus a Sicilian also, and Physiological Poet, there being fragments of his among the rest in the above mentioned Collection; besides very many Fables of his which were in much request; many whereof are cited by Pollux and Athenaeus, Likewise at the same time (besides Simonides the Son of the Lyric, to whom Vossius scruples to allow a place among the Poets) Archelaus an Athenaean, some say a Milesian whom Giraldus will have to be a physiological Poet, though Vossius makes a Question.  
Endeleichus, otherwise called Severus Sanctus, a Rhetorician of an uncertain time, whose Eclogue about the death of Oxen, is extant in the Collectiset forth by Pithaeus.  
Ennodius, by Bernardus Saccus surnamed Juvenalis, and by some called Euodius, of whose writing certain Hymns, Panegyrics, Epigrams, etc. are set forth by Andrea's Schottus.  
Ephippus, see Theopompus.  
Ephraem, one that wrote the History of the Constinople Emperors in jambic Verse; he lived about the time of Michael Ducas.  
Epicharneus, see Empedocles.  
Epibycus, a Chian Poet of an uncertain time, taken notice of by Athenaeus and Suidas.  
Epicrates, see Theopompus.  
Epigenes, a Comic Poet, of whom four Comedies are cited by Athenaeus.  
Epigonus, an Epigrammatist of Thessalonica, whose name is to several Epigrams in the Grece anthology.  
Epilycus, an Athenian Comic Poet, whose Coraliscus and Phoraliscus are cited by Athenaeus.  
Epimenides, a Cretan, who is delivered by Suidas, to have written in Verse Argonautics; also certain old heathen Rites called Expiationes, the Genealogy of the Gods, and of the Curetes, and Corybantes, & of the different nature of things, in 9500 Verses; he was also a famous Philosopher, & by Athenaeus accounted the Author of the Telchinian History. He began to flourish about the 44th. Olympiad, and is by some reckoned among the Seven Wisemen in the place of Periander. About the same time with Epemenides flourished 1st. Bias of Priene, one of those Seven, accounted the Wise men of Greece, who is said by Laertius to have written the affairs of Jonia in Verse. 2 Solon, the great Lawgiver of Athens, whose life see in Plutarch and Laertius; he was very considerable in Poetry, and so was his Brother Dropides, though inferior to him. 3 Chilo, another of the Seven, all that is remembered of him is an Elegy consisting of 200 Verses. 4 Thales of Miletus, another of the Seven, who is said to have written in verse concerning Meteors and other things in natural Philosophy. 5. Pittacus, Tyrant of Mitylene, whom see in Alcaeus. 6. Periander, Tyrant of Corinth, another of the Seven, but of whose poetry I find little or nothing remembered. 7. Chersias of Orchomenus, who was a great enemy to the Tyrant Periander; certain Verses of his are cited by Pansanias in his Boeotics. 8. Thespis a Tragic Poet, as saith Laertius, though Suidas saith an Actor only, and that he first brought in the use of Vizards, whereas some there be who affirm him to have been the first of Tragedians, others, that Epigenes of Sicyon was before him: 9 Mimnermus a Colophonian, some say Smyrnaean, whom Pausanias in his Boeotics affirms to have described in Elegiac verse a fight between the Smyrnaeans and Lydians, under Gyges; he is also reckoned 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 Ambrose) a Cyrenean, not only Philosopher, Astronomer and Geometrician (whose Astrismes, Epistle to Ptolemy about the duplication of the Cube, and some other fragments have been lately published with Aratus from the Sheldonian Theatre at Oxford) but (according to Suidas and Strabo) excellent Poet, contemporary with him (he living in the time of Philadelphus and his Successor) and succedent to him in the custody of Ptolemy's 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 abovementioned Arrianus.  
Ericus or Hericus, a Poet of Altissiodorum or Auxerre, who lived in the time of the Emperor Charles the 3d. surnamed 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 Greece anthology, and cited by the Commentatour of Apollonius.  
Ethelwolphus Bernicius, surnamed Lupus an English Poet, who flourished in the Year of our Lord 750. being in the Reign of the Emperor Constantinus Copronymus, Pipin King of France, and Ethelwolph of Northumberland; he wrote a Poem of the Original of St. Peter's Church in the Western part of Northumberland, which Poem he dedicated to Bishop Egbert.  
Euages, a Greece 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 citys certain passages concerning Glaucus Anthedonius and of Ariadne.  
Evax, a King of Arabia, who is said to have wrote a Book of precious stones in Verse.  
Eubulus Cittius, see Anaxandrides. Eudaemon, see Amphilochius.  
Eudemus, a writer of several things in the art of Medicine in Greece 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 preserved in the Greece anthology.  
Euhemerus see Menander.  
Eumelus, a very ancient Greece Poet, contemporary as some think with Hesiod.  
Eumolpus, the ancientest of Greece 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 Greece anthology; Contemporary with him was Labeo, who is delivered by the old Commentator upon Persius, who mentioned him in the first satire, to have translated into Latin verse, though with little acuteness or judgement Homer's Iliads and Odysseus; also Antistius Sosianus who was banished for the Libels which he made in verse against Nero.  
Euphanes, an ancient Poet, out of whose Musae divers Senary jambic verses are cited by Athenaeus.  
Euphantus of Olynthus, see Philetas.  
Euphorion, a Poet of Chalcis remembered by several poetical Works, as his Elegies, his Hesiodus, his Mopsopia or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, his Five Books of Oracles, his Epicedium upon Protogoras the Astronomer, etc. Certain verses out of Euphorion, but whether this of Chalcis, or another the Son of Aeschylus, is uncertain, for both are mentioned by Suidas, are quoted by Stobaeus.  
Euphron, a Comic Poet of an uncertain time, whose Musae, Synephebi, Theori and Aeschra are remembered by Athenaeus, Suidas, and Stobaeus.  
Euphronius, a Poet of an uncertain time who is delivered by Strabo to have written of Priapus in Greece verse.  
Eupolis a Comic Poet, who flourished 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 Greece Tragedians, who was born in the Seventy fifth Olympiad (as Laertius, Suidas and Emanuel Moscopulus testify) 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 King's dogs, by the instigation of two envious poets Aribeus a Macedonian, and Cratevas a Thessalonian, in the Seventy sith year of his age, leaving behind him 3 Sons Mnesarchus, Mnesilochus and Euripides; And having flourished from the 77th. to the 92d. Olymp. equal with that other excellent Tragedian 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 Forty Tragedies, and to have been Seven times Victor; much about the same time with Euripides flourished 1st. Panyasis a Heroic poet, the Uncle or Cousin German of Herodotus; he was one of those Six, as saith the Interpreter of Oppian, who were called by way of Eminence the Poets; the other Five being Homerus, Eupolis, Hesiodus, Antimachus and Nicander. 2d. Menalippides, a Lyric and Dithyrambic Writer, Sister's Son of another Menalippides, whom see in his proper place. 3d. Stesimbrotus, of whom, as also of Panyasis, Antimachus Clarius was a hearer. 4th. Hermippus, a one-eyed Comedian who is delivered by Suidas to have written Forty Fables, several of which are remembered 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 mentioned by Athenaeus, Pollux, Harpocration, Suidas, and the Scholiast of Aristophanes. 6, 7. Lycus or Lycis and Amipsias (the last already mentioned) two Insipid Poets derided by Aristophanes. 8, Theodectes, a kind of Tragedian, 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 Tragedian also much celebrated for his Oedipus, and sometimes Victor over Sophocles and Euripides themselves, as Suidas testifies. 10. Theognis, a Comedian, who from his frigidity or faintness of style, was surnamed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, i. e. Snow he contended with Nicomachus, and was vanquished by him, together with Euripides. 11. Philocles' Comedian, Aeschylus his sister's Son, he was derided for his deformity by Aristophanes in his Thesmophoriazusai, his Tereus is mentioned 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, amazons, Trophonius and Sus are remembered 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 Aesop's Fables into Verse (a little before his death) for which he is commended by Cebes in Plato, approved himself a Poet. 14. Diocles an Athenian writer of Vetus Comoedia, whose Melissa and Thalatta are both mentioned (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, nicknamed Canabus by Strattis, 16 Philondes an Athenian Writer of old Comedy remembered by Athenaeus; he, having been formerly a Fuller, escapes 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 Tragedian, 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, remembered by Athenaeus and Pollux (as also another of the same name of an uncertain time, who wrote a Poem of Cities in jambic 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 jambic 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 Tragedy of Moses, Entitled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is extant with a Latin Translation set forth by Fridericus Morellus.   

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Fabius' Dorsenus, or Dossennus an ancient Latin Comic Poet, though of what time is not known; he is remembered 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 flourished since the time of Charles the Great, but in what particular age is unknown to Giraldus, who makes mention of him.  
Fannius, see Publius Ovid.  
Faustus, see Curiatius.  
Ferius Hilpericus, see Paulus Diaconus.  
Flavius, see Claudius Claudianus.  
Floretus, one of the uncertain aged Poets, mentioned by Giraldus; some have thought him to be the same with St. Bernard, Abbot of Claraeval.  
Florus, a Latin Poet, who flourished in the time of the Emperor Adrian; whether the same with that Florus mentioned by Polianus among the Greece Epigrammatists is uncertain, but there are besides Three others differenced by their Praenomina, viz. Caius Florus already mentioned, 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 lived 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 flourished about the Year of our Lord 1010. among other things he wrote divers Hymns in honour of the B. Virgin.   

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GAllienus, see Caecilius Cyprianus. Gallus Milo, see Theodulphus.  
Gamphredus, one of the uncertain aged Poets, mentioned by Giraldus.  
Gannius, a Latin Poet, who lived 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 Greece Anthology.  
Georgius Pisides, Dean of Constantinople, and Keeper of the Emperor's papers and Records, as Suidas and Nicephorus testify; he wrote a Poem of vanity, and also of the six days work of Creation, a good part is yet extant, and of that which is lost, some fragments are cited by Suidas, Cedrenus and Nicet●s, besides some other things of his writing, mentioned by Suidas.  
Gerbertus, a Frenchman, brought up in the Abbey of Floriac, and for his great proficiency in the Mathematics (for which he was by some accounted a Magician) and other learning preferred to be Bishop of Rheims, afterwards Archbishop 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 Author surnamed 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 flourished in the Sixtieth year, from our Saviour's Nativity, under the Reign of Arviragus King of Britain, according to Ponticus Virunnius) chiefly for Poetry, his Cambreidos' being remembered by the forementioned Baleus, besides Egrams and other Poems of various argument; however Badonicus so called from Badonia or Bath, the place of his Nativity, Besides his Epistle of the Conquest of Britain, is said to have written some things in Verse; and there are who think him to have been the Author of the Comedy Aulularia or Querolus, vulgarly ascribed to Plautus, which Vossius thinks to have been written by neither of them, but by an unknown Author.  
Gitiadas, a Lacedaemonian, who having made the Statue of Pallas Chalcioeca, composed a Hymn, which was to be sung yearly by the Lacedæmonians at the Anniversary of that Goddess; also several Odes in the Doric Dialect.  
Godebertus, a Presbyter, who flourishing in the Year 500 wrote in Heroic Verse Historical passages from the beginning to the birth of Christ.  
Gordianus, one of the Caesars, or rather the Father of him who was afterwards Emperor; he wrote, as saith Capitolinus, a Poem Entitled Antoninias or the lives of the two Antonives Pius and Marcus Emperors.  
Gracchus, see Anser.  
Gratius, se● Publius Ovid.  
Gregorius Nazianzenus, one of most eminent of the Greece Fathers, who besides his very many Volumes in Prose, wrote also several things in Verse, as his Poem in Hexameter, containing a Dialogue between Virginity and Marriage. The praise of the Macchabees, and of Maximus the Philosopher, with other things.   

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HEcataeus, an Epigrammatist of Thasus, who makes one among the rest in the Greece anthology.  
Hedylogus a Samian, or as some say Athenian Poet, of whose writing several Epigrams are cited by Athenaeus, he was the Son of Hedyle a Samian Poetess.  
Hedylus, a noted Epigrammatist, cited by Athenaeus in several places, and it is probably the same Hedylus whose name is to several Epigrams in the Greece anthology  
Hegemon, an Alexandrian Epic Poet, whose Description of the Battle of Leuctra is cited by Stephanus, and out of whose Dardanics (if it were the same Hegemon that wrote them) Aelian citys several passages: there was also another of the same name a Thasian surnamed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, i. e. a Lentil; he wrote a Poem Entitle Gigantomachia, a Comedy called Philinna, as also several Inscriptions and Impresa's in Verse: he is mentioned by Aristotle.  
Hegesianax, or as some call him, Agesianax, a writer of Mythology in verse, as Hyginus testifies, certain of whose verses are cited by Plutarch in his discourse of the apparition in the Moon.  
Hegesilaus, a Comic Poet, whose Fables are mentioned by Tatianus, in his Book against the Greecs.  
Hegesinus, a famous Greece Poet, out of whom divers Verses are cited by Pausanias in his Baeotics.  
Hegesippus, a Comic Poet of Tarentum, whose Adelphi, Opsartica and Phileteri, are cited by Athenaeus; Suidas surnames him Crobylus, and ascribes to him the Seventh Philippic Oration, commonly ascribed to Demosthenes, as others do the Oration for Halonesus. There are also several Epigrams of his in the Greece anthology.  
Hegias, a Poet of an uncertain time made mention of by Pausanias.  
Heliodorus, a Medicinal Writer in Verse, out of whom several verses are cited by Galen, whether the same Heliodorus, out of whose Poem de Spectaculis Italicis, Stobaeus citys several Verses in his Sermon de morbis, may be quaeried.  
Hemitheon, a Obscene Poet of Sybaris, who lived in the time of Augustus; he is mentioned by Philo Lucian. Ovid. l. 11. de tristibus and Martial.  
Heniochus, a writer of Media Comoedia, whose Fables are reckoned up by Suidas; he is also mentioned by Athenaeus and Theophilus.  
Heraclides, surnamed Poeticus, to distinguish him from Heraclides Ponticus the Grammarian (who also is said to have written several Tragedies which go under the name of Thespis) a writer of Sentences and Precepts in Verse, besides whom there was also an Epigrammatist of the same name remembered by Laertius.  
Heraclitus, a Lyric Poet, whose Poem of the Twelve Gods is mentioned by Laertius. Of those of the same name, that famous Philosopher of Ephesus, is also reckoned among the Poets, besides him of Halicarnassns; whom see in Callimachus.  
Hermesianax, an Elegiac Poet of Colephon, whose Poem of the Description of his own Country, is remembered by Pausanias, besides whom there was also another of the same name who wrote a Poem of the Persian Affairs.  
Hermippus, see Euripides.  
Hermocreon, the Author of several Epigrams which are extant in the Greece anthology.  
Hermodorus, or Hermeodorus another Epigrammatist of the same society.  
Hermodotus, see Menander.  
Herodes, an jambic writer quoted by Stobaeus.  
Herodicus, a Babylonian, of whose Verses against the Grammarians, divers are repeated by Athenaeus at the end of the Fifth Book of his Deipnosophists.  
Hesiodus so named, 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the chastity of his Poetry, an ancient Greece Poet surnamed Ascraeus from Ascra, a Town in Boeotia, the place not of his birth (as hath been generally supposed) but of his Education according to Herodotus, Strabo, Stephanus and Valerius Probus; for he was born at Cuma in Aeolia; the Son of Dius and Pycimede; he is affirmed by Philostratus, Velleius Paterculus, and M. Varro contrary to the Opinion of Porphyrius and Solinus (the First of whom sets him 100 the other 130 years after) Contemporary with Homer, which opinion is confirmed by an Epigram of Dion, and the Discourse in the 5th. Book of Plutarch's Symposiaca, which makes out that Homer and He contended at the Exequys of Oelycus the Thessalian, and Amphidamas of Chalcis: some say Stesichorus the Poet was his Son by Ctemene the Daughter of Physigaeus, others that Ctemene was not his Wife, but deflowered by him, for which he was slain at Oenone by her Brothers Ampiphanes and Ganetor; however it were, it is agreed by all, though differently related by Pausanias, Thucydides and Plutarch; his several Works are reckoned up in all Fourteen, as well extant as not extant, in a Catalogue, which is inserted in Daniel Heinsius his Edition of this Poet. his Extant works are a Poem Entitled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 (which containeth certain rules and precepts of husbandry) another called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Generation of the Gods, a third 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the shield of Hercules, Besides some fr●gments of another Poem which is not entirely extant, Entitled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, but neither 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 are judged by Scaliger to have been written by Hesiod, but some other ancient poet, whose name is unknown  
Hetruscus Messenius, an old Epigrammatist, whose name lives only in the Greek anthology.  
Hiero Ferreus, an Athenian, whose Poems were extant in Plutarch's time, as he testifies in his Nicias.  
Hilarius, a Bishop of Poriton, who flourished in the time of Constantius the son of Constantine, he is celebrated by Isidorus for the Hymns he wrote among which three that bear his name are yet extant; about the same time Marius Victorius taught Rhetoric at Rome, and was St. Jerome's Master in that Art; he wrote a Poem in Heroic verse concerning the Seven Maccabaean Brethren martyred 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, surnamed the Grammatic or Scholastic Poets.  
Hildephonsus, otherwise called Illephonsus or Alphonsus, a Bishop of Toledo who flourished in the time of Heraclius and his children, as also of Pope Honorius (to whom are attributed Twelve Distiches concerning Christ's ascension and the Apostles looking on; Extant in the Book called Bibliotheca Patrum) he wrote several Hymns, Epitaphs and Epigrams, and is thought to have been the first institutor of the B. Virgin's conception; he died Anno 667.  
Hincmarus, surnamed Senior, (to distinguish him from his Grandchild Hincmarus' Bishop of Laudunum) an Archbishop of Rheims 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 Greece writer of Vetus Comedia, mentioned 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 jambics are repeated by Stobaeus in his Sermon pro Artibus out of his Zographus.  
Hippicus the same with Ibycus.  
Hipponax, see Xenophanes.  
Hipposthenes, an jambic Poet, quoted by Stobaeus.  
Hippothoon, another whose Senary jambics upon envy, are alleged by the same Author, in his Sermon upon the same Subject.  
Hippothoos, an old Greece Poet of little fame, but for the same Stobaeus, who sometimes quotes his verses.  
Hipys, see Xenophanes.  
Homerus, the Apposititious, rather than true name (which was Melesigenes) of the most renowned of Greece Heroic Poets, and as is most generally alleged, the ancientest of those of whose works we have any entirely 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 wand'ring life of Ulysses 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 Annals in Verse, out of whom one Verse is cited by Priscian in his sixth Book, there was also of the same name a Mimographer, remembered 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 remembered by Athenaeus and Pausanias.   

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IBycus, a Poet of Rhegium of an uncertain age. See also in Xenophanes.  
Idaeus, surnamed 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 Greece Florilegium.  
Joannes Damascenus, a writer in the time of Leo Isaurus and Constantinus Copronyinus, who besides several things which he wrote in Prose which are yet extant, wrote also a Dramatic Poem o● Susanna remembered by Eustathius upon Dionysius Afer, but not now extant; about the same time lived Cosmas of Jerusalem surnamed 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 Englishman who wrote a Poem called Archithemium, remembered by Giraldus.  
Joannes Psellus, wrote in Greece verse upon the three ancient Greece Fathers St. chrysostom, 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 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 surnamed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Early.  
Jonicus, see Amphilochius.  
Jophon, an ancient Greece Poet mentioned by Suidas.  
Isaacus, a Priest of Antioch, who lived in the year of our Lord 458. L●o being Emperor 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 ruin 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 flourished Pelagius Patricius, who composed a Poem of the History of the life of Christ out of a Cento of of Homer's Verses, which some (though without ground) have ascribed to the Empress Eudocia; moreover there were reckoned among the Poets of that time Pampr●pius of Panopolis and Marcinus of Neapolis, both the Disciples of Proclus according to Suidas, the first, if not both persisting to the last in Gentilism.  
Isagoras, a Tragic Poet of Byzantium the Disciple of Chrestus, he flourished in the time of the Emperor M. Antoninus surnamed the Philosopher, and is remembered by Philostratus.  
Isocrates, a Tragic Poet, whom Giraldus thinks to have been the same with Isocrates the Orator, though Suidas more probably judgeth him to have been another person the Disciple of the Orator; he was of Appollonia, or as some say of Heraclea. His Son in Law Aphareus was the Author of Thirty seven Tragedies, as saith Plutarch, in the lives of the ten Rhetoricians.  
Juba, a King of Manritania, in the time of the Emperor 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 aged 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 Tragedian, whose Medea, Thyestes' 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 Greece anthology.  
Julius Caesar, see Caius.  
Julius Florus, see Florus,  
Julius Montanus, see Publius Ovid.  
Julius Paulus, an ancient Latin Poet mentioned with particular commendation by Agellius; he flourished in the time of the Emperor's 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 Satirist (as appears by his Sixteen extant Satyrs) of Aquinum, a Town of the Volsci; he flourished in the time of the Emperor Domitian.  
Juvencus, see Rhemnius Fanni●●  
Juventius, an ancient Comic 〈◊〉 but of an uncertain age, mentioned by Varro and Agellius.   

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LAbeo, a Latin Poet, of whom Fulgentius in his Mythology makes mention.  
Lactantius Firmianus, see Rhemnius.  
Laelius (otherwise Laevius being probably judged the same person) a Poet of an uncertain time, though sufficiently ancient; he wrote a Poem called Erotopaegnia or amorous Sports; and if he were the same with Laevius, as is not to be doubted) another Entitled Centa●ri.  
Lamprocles, a Dithyrambic writer, cited by Athenaeus.  
Lamynthius, a Milesian● Elegiac Poet, whose Poem upon his Lyde, in various kind of Verse, is mentioned by Athenaeus.  
Largus, a Latin Poet Contemporary with Ovid, who makes mention of him, with reference to something he wrote of Antenor.  
Lasus Hermioneus, see Onomacritus.  
Latronianus, a Spaniard, very much commended by St. Jerome for his excellent Genius in Poetry; he was put to death as the same Author testifieth, at Triers, by Maximus the Emperor, upon pretence of Heresy, together with Priscilianus, who was his Colleague, Foelicissimus and others.  
Laureas Tullius, the Freedman of Marcus Tullius; there are said be extant of his composing several Greece Epigrams; that upon the Fountains of Cicero's Academy is cited by Pliny in his natural History.  
Lentulus, a Mimic writer mentioned with commendation by Tertullian, and associated with Hostilius.  
Leonides, see Peritus.  
Leontius, a Tragic Poet of Argos, of an uncertain time but among the Anci●  
Lesches, or Leschides a Lesbian, whose Poem Entitled Ilias parva is mentioned by Eusebius; out of this Poem Pindarus is observed by his own Interpreters to have borrowed: 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 customs of Nations in Verse.  
Leucon, a Comic Writer, whose Fable Phrateres is mentioned by Athenae●s.  
Liberius and Belisarius, Two, but very indifferent Poets according to the account of Brietius, however mentioned for their Achrostiches 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, remembered 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 Music, Poetry, and other Arts, and to have been the inventour of Lyric Poesy. 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 flourished immediately after the first Punic War, being about the beginning of the 135th. Olympiad, he is said to have been the first Author of Latin Fable or Comedy, the next after whom was Cnaeus Naevius, who also wrote a History of the first Puny 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, Dedi●●o; Emancipatus, Materierae, Pantaleo, Pompa, Repudiatus, Sorores, Talio, Temerarius, Vopiscus.  
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, a Corduban, both Philosopher and Poet, and Uncle of Lucan; there are several Tragedies which go under his name, whereof Medea, and some others are generally believed not to be his, if the rest or part of the rest be.  
Lucius Coelius Lactantius Firmianus, see Rhemnius.  
Lucius Cornelius Sylla, see Sylla.  
Lucius Domitius Nero, see Nere.  
Lucius Julius Calidius, a Roman Poet, made mention of by Cornelius Nepos in his life of Pomponius Atticus, as the next for elegancy after Lucretius and Catullus.  
Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella, a Gaditan, who flourished under the Roman Emperor Claudius, and wrote his Tenth Book de Re Rustica (which whole work is commonly put forth with Cato, Varro and other Latin Authors 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 Ovid.  
Lucullus, a Satirist 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, remembered by Lucian.  
Lysippus, a Tragic Poet remembered by Athenaeus and Suidas for his Bacchaes 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.   

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MAcedonius Hypatus, an Epigrammatist, of whom there are divers Epigrams to be found in the Greece anthology.  
Machon, a Sicyonian, or as some say a corinth bian, remembered by Athenaeus.  
Maecius, or Maecius, see Quintus.  
Magnus, an Athenian writer of antiqua Comoedia; he is remembered by Aristophanes in his Equites, and by Julius Pollux, Suidas, and Athenaeus, who quotes two of his Comedies which are haply those two of the Nine which he wrote in which Raphael Volaterranus mentions him to have been Victor in the Olympic Games.  
Magnetius Rabanus Maurus, see The●dulphus  
Majoranus Salentinus his Epitaphs upon Bessarion and Argyropolus are to be read in the Icones of Paulus Jovius. Manethos, a Mendesian or of Diospolis, testified by Suidas to have written certain things of natural Philosophy and Astronomy in Verse.  
Marcus Manilius, see Publius Ovid.  
Marachus, otherwise called Malachus an ancient Poet (but of an uncertain time) of Syracuse mentioned by Aristotle.  
Marcellus, surnamed Sidites from Sida a City of Pamphylia; a Poet who flourished in the time of the Emperor M. Antoninus, as Suidas testifies, and wrote the whole Art of Medicine 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 mentioned 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 Author of a Tragedy Entitled Atreus, for which he was put to death by the Emperor 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 Greece Anthology.  
Marcus Attilius, a Tragic writer styled 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 showed to Giraldus; he lived in the time of the Emperor 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 flourished under Theodoricus King of Italy (by whom he was made Bishop of Ticinum) and Anastasius the Emperor, to whom he was sent Ambassador, 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 Emperor 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 ancient Epigrammatist, of whom there is extant an Hexastich, in the first Book of the Greece anthology.  
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 published 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 extolled 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 Orators, and moreover the Author of several Poetical works, as his three Books of his Consulship in Heroic Verse; his Poem or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Caesar, 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 styles him, of Berytus in Phoenicia, who from a Centurion's Office in the Roman service betook himself to Letters, as Suetonius testifies, from whom and from Eusebius his Chronicle he appears to have flourished 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 successor of Proclus, whose life he wrote in Verse.  
Marius, see Publius Ovid.  
Marius Victorinus, see Hilarius.  
Marsus, an old Latin Poet, cited by Pliny in his 33d. and 34th. Book of his natural History.  
Martianus Mineus Foelix Capella, an African, who is judged by Schaenerus and others to have liv●d about the time of the Emperor Mauritius; he wrote (besides his Book of the Nuptials of Mercury and the Arts, which is extant) Satyrica, a work mixed of Prose and Verse together; he is mentioned by Severinus Boethius, and divers learned men of the Moderns.  
Matro, one of the uncertain aged Poets; a little Poem of whose not altogether unelegant, is to be seen in Athenaeus.  
Maximianus, a Roman Emperor, some of whose Poetry is cited in the fragments of the Gregorian Codex.  
Melanopus, an ancient Poet of Cuma remembered 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 Greece 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 styled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, 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 charged by her Guardian Cleo●tax of not coming fairly by her great belly: but this imputation of his spurious birth is removed by those that affirm Critheis married to Maeon, from whom (whether he were her father's brother, to whose charge she was committed, as saith Aristotle, or a King of Lydia, to whom she was presented by Pirates, as saith Plutarch,) he was called Maeonides; he flourished 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 jias 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 flourished 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.  
Me●ander an Athenian, the Son of Diopithes, and Disciple of Theophrastus, he was the Prince and first Author of Nova Comoedia, and is said to have written 108 Fables, and in 8 of them to have been Victor; very many of his Comedies are remembered by Athenaeus, Pollux, Pliny, Stobaeus, Sidonius Apol●inaris, and others; he began to flourish about the 114th Olymyiad, Ptolomaeus Lagides then reigning. Of those 27 Comedies of his, said by Michael Neander, to have been extant in some Library at Constantinople, I find no certain proof; contemporary with him, and a Writer also as some say, of Nova Comoedia, was Phileman the Son of Damon; he is said, in contest with Menander, to have had several times the better; his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is thought to have been imitated by Plautus in his Mercator. Some other Comedies of his are also mentioned by Athenaeus and Pollux: He wrote also 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, but probably not in Verse. Stobaeus also quotes divers Senary jambics out of Philemon, but 'tis uncertain whether this Philemon or his Son of the same name, of whose writing Suidas saith there were 54 Fables. Of the same time also was 2. Euhemerus, who wrote (but whether in Verse is doubted) a History of the Ethnic Gods which Ennius translated; he is reckoned among the Elegiacs by Censorinus. 3. Simmias the Rhodian, who besides his Ouum 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 Potter's Son, who wrote Thirty eight Tragicomedies, whereof his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was one. 6. Sophilus a Comic Poet, some say of Sicyon, some of Thebes, out of his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an jambic 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 and Philine, whose 33 Idyls or Bucolic Elogues, with several Greece 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 composed 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 flourished about the year 1050.  
Meroboudes, a learned Spaniard surnamed 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 flourished 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 Greece Poet, Bishop of Tyre, who suffered martyrdom under the Emperor's Decins & Valerius.  
Metrodorus, an old Epigrammatist, whose Decastich upon human life, and others are extant in the Greece Florilegium.  
Michael, surnamed Grammaticus, an Epigrammatist, of whom there is extant a Hexastich in the Fourth Book of the Greece anthology.  
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 Greece Anthology.  
Mnesimachus, see Anaxandrides.  
Monius, an old Jambic Poet, and one of the Dipnosophists in Athenaeus.  
Morsimus, see Antilochus.  
Morychus, see Aristophanes.  
M●schion, another jambic 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 Lawgiver among the Jews, and whose Divine gift in Poetry appears not only in those Hymns or Songs he made upon the children of Israel's deliverance from the Egyptian Pharaoh 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 reckoned 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 determine; but probable it is, that it was the ancientest of them (if there be more than one) and the same with Moses the Jewish Lawgiver, of whom 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 Greece 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 mentioned by Aulus Gellius, some things also of his writings, are cited by Fulgentius in his Mythology.  
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 remembered 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 Author of Persis and Now 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, mentioned by Suidas and several times by Athenaeus.  
Neophon or Neophron, see Alexis.  
Neop●olemus, a Epigrammatist, quoted by Stoboeus in his Book De Laude Martis.  
Nero, the Fifth Roman Emperor 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, than it was his delight to be an Actor of the most Tragical and funest deeds.  
Nestor Larendensis, the Author of a Poem Entitled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, he lived in the time of the Emperor Alexander severus.  
Nicander, a Colophonian (some say Aetolian) of whom two Poems, his Theriaca and Alexipharmica are yet extant; he flourished (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 Greece Epigrammatist, of whom there are several Epigrams to be found in Planudes his Florileginm.  
Nicenaetus, an ancient, but uncertain aged Epic Poet of Samos (some say Abdera) remembered by Athenaeus, Parthenius, and of the Moderns, Lilius Giraldus; he also wrote divers Epigrams, whereof 2. Testratiches are to be found in the Greece Anthology.  
Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopulus, a Constantinopolitan writer of Greece Epigrams consisting of loose Senarie jambics, that is loose in quantity though not in measure.  
Niceratus, an Epigrammatist, whose name is preserved in the Greece Anthology.  
Nicias, another Epigrammatist, of whom only five Epigrams are extant in the Greece Anthology.  
Nicodemus, an Epigrammatic Poet of Heraclea, of whom there is extant an Antistroph of 14 Verses in the sixth Book of the Greece Anthology.  
Nicolaus Damascenus, a very learned man who living in the time of Augustus Caesar, was highly honoured and loved by that Emperor (who was himself also addicted to Poetry, and a Composer of Greece 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 remembered by Eustathius upon Dionysius.  
Nichomachus, see Euripides.  
Nicostratus, see Theopompus.  
Nonnus, see Cyrus Panopolitanus.  
Nothippus, a Tragic Poet of an uncertain time, surnamed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 mentioned by Athenaeus.  
Numa, see Quintus Horatius.  
Numorianus, one of the Roman Emperors, 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 Ovid.  
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 consuls.  
Oen●maus, otherwise called Diogenes, an Athenian Tragic Poet, who wrote Eight Tragedies which are mentioned by Suidas and Athenaeus. Contemporary with him were Melitus, an Orator 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 citys 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 Cythera, 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 Musician and Elegiac Poet, mentioned by Suidas to have flourished before the time of the Trojan War.  
Onestas, surnamed Corinthius, hath his name in Planudes to several Epigrams there collected.  
Onomacritus an Athenian, who lived about the time of the Tyrant Pisistratus, and is judged by many to have been the Author 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 remembered 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 mentioned by Athenaeus; he hath been reckoned by some in the number of the Seven surnamed 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 Emperors, whom Julius Capitolinus reporteth to have made Epigrams and several other Verses.  
Oppianus a Cilician, who living in the time of the Emperor's Severus and Caracalla, dedicated to the latter his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Poem of Fishing, and his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Poem of Hunting, both yet extant.  
Oroebantius, an ancienter Greece Poet, as the Traezenians affirm, than Homer himself, whose Ilias Phrygia, for that is said to have been the Title of his Poem, was reserved to Aelian's time, as that Author himself testifies.  
Orentius, an ancient Bishop of Arragon, who lived in the time of Anastatius, and is reported by Sigebertus Gemblacensis to have turned the Commonitory into Hexameser Verse.  
Orpheus, a Poet of Crotona, who flourishing in the time of Pisistratus the Tyrant, wrote Argonautica a Poem de Gemmis and Hymns, all which are extant; but Orpheus the great Thracian Poet and Musician celebrated by Virgil, must needs have been of a far higher antiquity (and some suppose him to have lived about the time of the Hebrew Judges) in so much that the Greecs probably ignorant of his true Original, thought good to find out for him a Poetical extraction, as the Poets had ever at hand some God or Goddess for any ancient Hero, as well in Arts as Arms, that wanted a mortal Father or Mother; and so Orpheus must be supposed to have been the Son of Apollo and Calliope, besides that in other respects he was the Subject of Poetical Fable; though rather as a Musician than Poet, for he is said, by the charming power of his Harp, to have tamed the wildest beasts of the Forest, and made the Woods and Rocks to follow him, and to have recovered his Wife Eurydice from the shades beneath, had not her own folly caused her to be snatched back again; for grief whereof abandoning the company of all women, he was, as the story goes, torn in pieces by the Thracian women that sacrificed to Bacchus, amidst their raving Orgies. Certain Verses out of Orpheus are quoted by Stobaeus and other ancient Authors; but whether of this Son of Apollo may be questioned; for as there are mentioned several Musoeus', so Suidas reckons up divers Orpheus'.  
Osidius, or Hosidius Geta, an ancient Roman Poet, but of uncertain time, who as is testified by Tertullian, out of a Cento of Virgil's Verses, composed a Tragedy of Medea.   

P  
PAccius, see Curiatius Maternus.  
Pacuvius, see Statins Caecilius.  
Palaephatus an Athenian Poet, who by the Testimony of Suidas and Volaterranus, wrote a Poem de Situ Orbis, another of the Contention between Minerva and Neptune, consisting of a Thousand Verses; a Colloquy between Venus and Cupid, consisting of 5000 Verses, Latona's hair, and some other things.  
Palamedes, an Epic Poet of Argos, whose works Homer, for envy, is said to have suppressed.  
Palladas, an Epigrammatist, mentioned by Isaacius Tzetzes with commendation; several Epigrams of his are extant in the Greece Anthology.  
Palladius, surnamed Grammati●us, an Epigrammatist, of whom there are several Epigrams in Brietius, the Parisian, and other Collections; he is one of the Twelve Scholastici already mentioned. See Julianus.  
Pamphilus, an Elegiac Poet mentioned by Giraldus.  
Pamphus, an Athenian Poet, who wrote Hymns which were publicly sung by the Athenians, as is testified by Pausanias, l. 7.  
Pamprepius, see Isaacus.  
Pancrates, an Arcadian Poet, who wrote of Sea Affairs, out of whom some things are cited by Athenaeus.  
Panolbius, an ancient Poet, who besides some other things, wrote an Epitaph upon Hypatia the Daughter of Erythraeus.  
Panyasis, see Euripides.  
Parmenides, Ibid.  
Parmeno, a Byzantin Poet, cited by Athenaeus.  
Parthenius Nicaeus, an Erotic or writer of amorous Affairs in Verse; he was taken in the Mithridatic War, as is testified by Maerobius, and is thought to have been Virgil's Master in the Greece tongue.  
Patrocles, an jambic Poet, out of whom certain Verses are cited by Stobaeus; he may happily be the same with Patrocles Thurius, a Tragic Poet, mentioned by Clemens Alexandrinus.  
Paulinus, alias Pontius Paulinus, a Native of Burdegala, and Bishop of Nola, whom see in Claudus Claudianus.  
Paulus Cyrus Florus, Silentiary of Constantinople in the time of the Emperor Justinian, whose Acts he wrote in Verse, as is testified by Cuspinian; also Paulus Silentiarius (whom some make to be a distinct person from Paulus Florus) his Description of the Temple of Constantinople in Verse, and other Poems, are mentioned with high commendation by Agathias, he hath also very many Epigrams in the Greece Anthology.  
Paulus Diaconus, an Aquileian, taken by Charles the Great, in the Lombard War, together with Desiderius; besides what he wrote of History which is extant, and other things in Prose; he also wrote several Hymns, some whereof are sung at this day in the Roman Church. Contemporary with him were Ferius Hilpericus, who wrote in Verse the meeting of Charles with Leo, rather than Alcuin, to whom some have ascribed that work, and also Petrus Apollonius Collatius, who wrote the destruction of Jerusalem in Heroic Verse.  
Paulus Passienus, see Curiatius Maternus.  
Pedo Albinovanus, see Publius Ovid.  
Pelagius Patricius, see Isaacus.  
Pentadius, an uncertain aged Poet, though not very ancient, of whom several acute and pretty conceited Epigrams are to be found in Pithaeus, and the Parisian Collection, as his Epigram of Fortune, Narcissus, the Tomb of Hector, Lupus the Statuary, the approach of the Spring, and several other things, and some fragments in Brietius his Acute Dicta.  
Periander, see Epimenides.  
Peritus, a lias Leonidas, an Epigrammatist, scarce remembered, but by what he hath in the Greece Anthology.  
Perisaulus Faustinus, an uncertain aged Poet, whose Poem de Appetitu, Encomium Stulstitiae and other things are said to be extant at Rome.  
Perses, the Brother of Hesiod, who wrote to him his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉; he is reported to have written something in Epic Poetry. He was also an Epigrammatist, if it were the same Perses who hath three Tetrastiches in the Greece Anthology.  
Petreius, otherwise called Petridius, and the same, as 'tis thought, whom Pliny calls Petrius, mentioning his Poem Entitled Ophiaca● or Remedies against the biting of Serpents.  
Petronius Arbiter, an Elegant writer in the time of Nero; he is called by Tacitus alluding to his name Arbiter Eloquentiae, his Satyrica mixed of Prose and Verse together, with several fragments, is yet extant, though very much maimed and defective in many places. Contemporary with him was Silius Italicus a Spaniard, thrice advanced to the Consulship of Rome, and in great favour with the Emperor Domitian, ● his Poem of the Punic War, is yet extant.  
Petrus Collatius Apollononius, a Presbyter of Novara, whom Margaritus Binius judges to have flourished about the year of our Lord, 690. in the Reign of the Emperor Charles the Great; and with Binius, Brietius, inclines to agree against Barthius and Vossius, who would have him Contemporary with Angelus Politianus; his Latin Poem, in four Books, of the taking Jerusalem by Titus, was set forth by Gagnaeus a Parisian Theologist, and afterwards more correct by Hadrianus Vanderbruchius.  
Petrus Edissenus, see Isaacus.  
Phacellus, an Epigrammatic Poet, remembered but by one Tetrastich in the Greece Anthology.  
Phoedimns, an ancient Elegiac Poet, of Bysanthe in Macedon, as Stephanus observes.  
Phaennus, the Author of two Tetrastiches in the Greece Anthology.  
Phanocles, the Author of a Poem Entitled, The Rape of Ganymede, and another of the death of Orph●us, out of which certain Verses are cited by Stobaeus.  
Phanias, an Epigrammatic Poet, remembered but by one Octostich in the Greece Anthology.  
Pherecrates, a Comic writer, Contemporary with Aristophanes and Plato the Comedian. Nineteen Comedies of his are cited by Athenaeus, Eretianus and Pollux; he is also mentioned by Suidas and Stobaeus.  
Pherenicus, an Epic Poet of Heraclea, whose writings are cited by Athenaeus.  
Phidamus, an Epicurean Poet and writer of Lascivious Verses.  
Philacus, an Epigrammatist cited by Athenaeus.  
Phileas, an ancient Epigrammmatist cited by Stobaeus in his Perigorica.  
Philemon, see Menander.  
Philetaetus, the Son of Aristophanes (the Comedian as 'tis thought) himself also a Comic writer, of the Twenty Comedies which he is said to have written, his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Seven more are quoted by Athenaeus, and others of them by Suidas.  
Philetas, an Elegiac Poet and Fpigrammatist of Cous, who flourished 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 flourished Sosicles a Tragic Poet of Syracuse; he is said to have written Seventy three Tragedies, and to have vanquished seven times and hath been reckoned by some one of the Pleyades 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 Forty 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 remembered, his name was famous in Rome, he being taken notice of by Martial, Sidonius Apollinaris and Ammianus Marcellinus. He flourished towards the Ninety 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 Ulpian affirmeth; the only Tragedy of his remembered is his Expedition of the Heraclidoe; also Chaeremon a Comedian, the Disciple of Socrates, as Giraldus affirmeth; his Pentheus is remembered by Aristotle; his Hippocentaurus, Vreus and Alphesibaea by Athenaeus, besides many more mentioned by Suidas; about the same time lived Theophilus a Comic Poet and Physician 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.  
Phylocalus, 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 flourished in the time of Ptolomeus Auletes, being contemporary with Alexander and Parthenius aforementioned, and Theophanes the Lesbian, who besides th● History of Pompey's Acts, being his Companion in the Wars, he wrote, composed also the History of the Mithridatic War in Verse; and the same Theophanes, as is supposed, was the Author of two Epigrams which are yet extant in the Greece Anthology.  
Philolaus, the Author, 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 Greece Anthology.  
Philoxenus, see Oenomaus.  
Philyllius, see Euripides.  
Philyrinus Cinesias, a Dithyrambic Poet, mentioned by Suidas.  
Phlegides, an ancient Poet remembered 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 remembered 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 remembered 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 Gree●s, as the Favourite of Apollo and Pan, which last was reported to have delighted to hear him sing in the mountains, and to have danced at the singing of one of his Paeans. 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 died about the 66th. or as some say, the 80th. year of his age, in the 86th. Olympiad.  
Pisander Camyraeus, a very ancient Poet, some say ancienter than Hesiod, and contemporary with Eumolpus, but the most agree that he flourished in the 33d d Olympiad, in the Reign of Xerxes; his Poem, Entitled Heracleis, or the labours of Hercules, is remembered 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 Alcaeus.  
Plautius, see Statius Caecilius.  
Plotius Crispinus, and Plotius Tueca, two Contemporaries of Horace and Virgil, both mentioned for Poets by Horace, but the first with contempt, the other with honour.  
Polyeritus, a writer of the Sicilian Affairs in Verse; for which he is mentioned by the Author de admir●ndis additionibus generally reputed to be Aristotle.  
Polyeidus, see Oenomaus.  
Polyeuctus, a Comic Writer, whose Heniochus is mentioned with commendation by Athenaeus and Suidas.  
Polyides, an uncertain aged Poet out of whom Stobaeus quotes several Verses, which by some are attributed to Euripides, he may be probably conjectured to be the same with Polyidus.  
Polymnestus, a Colophonian, the Son of Miletus; he is remembered by Aristophanes, Cratinus, Alcman, Pindarus, Pausanias, Plutarch, Athenaeus and Suidas.  
Polyochus, remembered by Athenaeus, who out of his Corynthiasta citys several Senary jambics.  
Polyphradmon, see Phrynichus.  
Polystratus, one of the Society of Epigrammatists, in the Greece anthology.  
Polyzelus, an ancient Poet, though of an uncertain time; he wrote a Poem called Niptra, the birth of the Muses, the birth of Dionysius and Venus, with other Poems.  
Pompeianus, see Julianus.  
Pomponius Secundus, an ancient Latin Comic writer, whose Auctoratus, Capella, Lena, Machomalites, Synephebi are quoted by Charisius: of his life Caius Plinius wrote two Books, he was also favoured by Germanicus.  
Pontianus, an old Epigrammatist, who hath a name in the Greece Anthology.  
Pontius Paulinus, see Claudius Claudianus,  
Ponticus, see Quintus Horatius.  
Porcius Licinius, of the noble Family of the Licinij, an ancient Latin Poet, out of whom Agellius citys some few Verses. He is generally supposed to have been contemporary with Cato.  
Posidippus, see Menander.  
Pratinas, a Tragic Poet of Phliasus, who contended, as saith Suidas, with Aeschylus and Chaerilus; he is also said by the same Author to have been the first writer 〈◊〉 tyrs, moreover he is cited by Athenaeus.  
Priscianus, a Grammarian of Caesarea, who flourished under the Emperor Julianus, and wrote a Book of the Art of Grammar to Julianus, and a Book of Natural questions to Chosroes King of Persia, besides which, he wrote in Latin Verse a Version of Dionysius Afer's Periegesis or Poem, de situ Orbis.  
Priscus, see Publius Ovid.  
Proclus, see Cyrus.  
Proculus, see Publius Ovid.  
Prodicus, an eminent poet of Phocis, out of whose fabulous Poem Entitled Mynias the Painter; Polygnotus is said by Pausanias to have drawn several designs.  
Promithidas, a Mimic jambic Poet of Heraclea, cited by Athenaeus.  
Prosper, a Poet of Aquitain, therefore surnamed Aquitanicus, who flourished in the latter end of the Reign of of Valentinian the Third, and afterwards under Maximus, Avitus, Majoranus and Severus; besides several things in prose, the chief whereof is his Chronicle to the year 155. 〈◊〉 or the next is said to have been the last year of his life; he wrote also Epigrams, and also (if it were not as some say writ by Claudianus Mamertus) a Poem de providentia Dei. He was, as saith Licosthenes, Bishop of Rheginum, others of Orleans, though Labbaeus with whom Brietius agrees, learnedly proves him to have been neither.  
Ptolomaeus, surnamed Chemnus, an Alexandrian, who flourished under the Emperor's Trajan & Adrian, he wrote, besides what in History, a Historical Drama, Entitled Sphinx, and another Poem Entitled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as consisting of an equal number of Books, with Homer's Ilias. There was also another Ptolomaeus an Epic poet of Cythera, who wrote of the virtues of the herb Psalacantha, as saith Suidas; besides several Epigrams of his (if it were the same Ptolemy) in the Greece Anthology.  
Publius Licinius Tegula, an ancient Latin Poet who as Livy the Historian testifieth, composed a Song) in like manner as Livius Andronicus had done before him) to be sung through the City of Rome by Twenty seven Virgins: whether this Licinius were the same with Licinius Imbrex, the ancient Comic Writer, cited by Agellius is disputed.  
Publius, or Publilius Optatianus Porphyries, a Poetical writer, in the time of Constantine the Great, for his Panegyric to whom, and the favour of that Emperor upon it, in recalling him from banishment, he is rather to be taken notice of, than for the goodness of his poetry, which is very crabbed and obscure; nevertheless this work of his being preserved in the Augustane Library of Velserus, was set forth by Pithaeus in the year  
Publius Ovid Naso, the most fluent of Latin Poets, whose Metamorphos●s, Epistles, Fasti, Tristia, Amores, etc. are in most public credit and familiar use. He flourished together with Virgil (whose most excellent Poems, viz. his Eglogues, Georgics, and Aeneis, have their deserved esteem ameng all learned men) and Horace (whose Odes, Satyrs, Sermons, Epistles, and Art poetic have the like) in the time of Augustus by whom Ovid was banished for his familiarity with Julia, the said Emperor's daughter. Contemporary with these three renowned Poets, were First, Caius Asinius Pollio, a Tragedian, Historian, and eminent Captain in War; he is mentioned with honour, both by Horace and Virgil. ● Gaius Cilnius Maecenas, a favourite of Augustus, and not only a favourer and patron of Poets, especially of Virgil and Horace, but also a Composer of Verses himself, whereof some are collected by Giraldus, others are to be seen in the Collection of old Epigrams. 3. Lucius Varius, who hath a very honourable mention from Horace in several places; he is said to have written several Tragedies, among which that of Thyestes is disputed whether his or no. 4. Sextus Propertius, an Elegiac Poet of Vmbria, whose Elegies we have extant, besides whom there seems to have been an●●her Propertius, cited by Fulgentius Planciades; he was a great Emulator of Philetas and Callimachus. 5. Aulus Cornelius Alpinus, a Turgid Poet, if it were the same whom Horace mentions. l. 1. of his Sermons, Sat. 10. To him some have ascribed a Poem Entitled Memnonia, or the History of Memnon. 6. Sextilius Ena, a Poet of Corduba; the beginning of whose Poem, concerning Cicero's Proscription, is mentioned by Marcus Seneca. 7. Gratius, a Faliscan, whose Cynegetics or Poem of Hunting, is not forgotten by Ovid. This Poem was first brought out of France, and published by Sanazarius. 8. Caius Pedo of Albinova, the Author of a Poem Entitled Theseis, which is taken notice of by Ovid, in his Pontic Elegies; of the Tenth whereof in l. 4. the said Author is wholly the Subject; one whom Horace takes notice of twice, though little to his praise, yet his poems had the fortune to be laid up in the Temple of Apollo, and the Muses, together with his Picture. 14. Titus Valgius, whom Tibullus ranks next to Homer, and Horace compares with Virgil and Varius. 15. Octavius, a principal, both Poet and Historian in the esteem of Horace; The manner of his death is signified by a Verse in the Virgilian Appendix. 16. Ponticus, an intimate Friend both of Propertius and Ovid, by the last of whom he is mentioned, and by the first compared with Homer. 17. Cajus Melissus, a freedman of Maecenas, and preferred to be Keeper of Augustus his Library in the Octavian Portico; he is reckoned by Ovid among the Comedians. 18. Caius Asinius Gallus, the Son of Asinius Pollio; he is reckoned among the Poets by Giraldus, from the commendation of Pliny; and Tranquillus citys an Epigram of his against Pomponius Marcellus. Besides these, there were several others; as, Tu●anius, a Tragic Poet; Lupulus Siculus, a Comedian, and Actor of his own Co-and also of an elegy upon the death of Maecenas. 9 Aulus Sabinus, another of the same order remembered several times by the said Ovid, and said to be the Author of some of those Epistles which are ascribed to Ovid; as of Paris to Helena, and four or five others; he left some things unfinished, as appears from l. 4. Eleg. 16. of the Pontics. 10. Titus Septimius, a Lyric and Tragic Poet, mentioned by Horace in his Epistles. 11. Aulus Cornelius Severus, the Author of a Poem Entitled Aetna, which hath been heretofore attributed to Virgil; also certain Verses are cited by Marcus Seneca concerning the death of Cieero, as is supposed out of a Poem of the Sicilian War, which by Fabius the Historian, he is delivered to have written: to him belongs one Elegy in the fourth Book of Ovid's Pontics. 12. Domitius Marsus, the Author of a Poem Entitled Amazonis, mentioned by Martial in one of his Epigrams; he makes one in Ovid's Catalogue, and is also taken notice of by Petronius Arbiter. There is extant of his, an Epigram against Tibullus. 13. Fannius, medies; Carus Numa Marius (whether the famous Rhetorician of that name and time is uncertain) the two Priscus', Proculus an imitator of Callimachus, Fontanus, Capella, Cajus Cotta, Julius Montanus, Camerinus and Thuscus, Aemilius Macer of Verona, with others already mentioned, all celebrated by Ovid, with an account for the most part of the subject of their Poems, only Marcus Manilius or Manlius, whose Astronomical Poem we have yet extant: of all the Poets that we hear of, of that time, (for to think as Guevartius, that he was the same with Manlius Theodorus, in the time of Theodocius the elder; his dedicating his Poem to Augustus, renders it absurd) is omitted by him.  
Publius Porcius, the Author of a Poem, Entitled, de pugna poreorum, of which every Verse begins with the letter P.  
Publius Statius Papinius, see Sta●ius.  
Publius Syrus, a Mimic writer, who after the death of Decius Laberius, kept up the reputation of the Scene at Rome.  
Publius' Volumnius, a Latin Poet, out of whom several Verses are cited by Plutarch, in his life of Marcus Brutus.  
Publius Terentius Afer, see Statius C●cilius.  
Publius Virgilius Maro, the Prince of Latin Heroic Poets; his Aeneis, however not uncensured by some, being equalled by none of the ancient Latins that are extant; and so particularly esteemed by Augustus Caesar, that after Virgil's death, who had left in charge with some friends to have that Poem burnt, he committed it to the custody and strict care of Lucius Varius, and Plotius Tucca, with command, that nothing should be altered. He was the Son of Maro, a mean person; some say a Potter, and Maia (whose dream of her bringing forth a Laurel branch, boded very significantly) born in the 177th. Olympiad, in the Ides of October, at Andes, a Village not far from Mantua, whence he is styled the Mantuan Swan, also see Publius Ovid.  
Pythagoras, a Samian, one of the most famed of ancient Greece: philosopher's, and the reputed Author of those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or golden Verses, which are commonly published under his name, in the common Edition of the poetae mino●es, though by some ascribed to Philolaus.  
Pythangelus, a Tragic Poet, and Grammarian, not less notorious for his lewdness, than for his poetry.  
Pythostratus, an Athenian, who is said to have written a Poem Entitled Theseis; he is remembered by Laertius in the life of Xenophon, together with a Brother named also Xenophon.   

Q  
QVintus Cicero, see Decius Laberius.  
Quintus Cornificius, an old Latin Epigrammatist, contemporary with Sallust; having a command in the Wars, he was slain by his Soldiers, for calling them Helmetted Hares.  
Quintus Ennius, the ancientest of Latin Poets that we hear of next after Livius Andronicus, and Cnaeus Naevius; he wrote besides his Annals in Verse, Satyrs, Comedies and Tragedies; of all which we have nothing now remaining, excepting some few fragments.  
Quintus Fabius Labeo, see Statius Cecilius.  
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, a most illustrious Lyric Poet of Venusium in Apulia; not for the Nobility of his birth, for he is reported the son but of a mean person, some say a Salter; but for that delicacy of wit, purity of style, and weight of judgement, both in his Lyrics & other Writings, which gained him the esteem of the noblest of Favourites, Maecenas, and by his means, of the greatest Prince upon earth, Augustus, by whom he was advanced to such a Fortune, 
a Farm in the Sabine Territory.  as being returned back again, at his death, which was in the Fifty sixth year of his age, made Posterity take notice, that Horace made Augustus his Heir. He is certainly not equalled in that kind of Poetry he undertook, to any of the ancient Greecs and Latins that are extant, Pindarus himself only, and that scarcely too, excepted.  
Quintus Hortensius, a Noble Roman Orator, if not Poet also, as some represent him, though we have nothing of his extant.  
Quintus Lutatius Catulus, an ancient Latin Epigrammatist of a witty and voluptuous strain, suitable to his Conversation, very much in favour with Cornelius Cotta and Lucius Crassus.  
Quintus Maecius, sometimes simply Maecius, subscribed to Eight Epigrams in the Greece Anthology.  
Quintus Nonius, an old Latin writer of those Comedies called Attellanae.  
Quintus Rhemnius Palaemon a Contemporary of Claudian. He is reported to have been very fluent in making Verses ex tempore; for which he is vilified by Martial. Some confound him with Rhemnius Fannius, but erroneously.  
Quintus Septimius florence Tertullianus, see Tertullianus.  
Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, a sufficiently esteemed Latin Poet, in the time of the Emp●rour Severus; of the many things he is said to have written in Verse, we have only something of his left de Medicina. He was slain by Antonius Caracalla, as saith Spartianus, in the life of that Emperor, and as Capitolinus affirms, left his Son a most noble Library, consisting of 62000 Volumes, of which he made so good use, that he became Preceptor to the Emperor Gordianus junior.  
Quintus Smyrnaeus, see Christodorus.  
Quintus Trabeas, the Eighth in place among the ancient Latin Comic writers, according to the opinion of Volcatius, Sedigitus.  
Quintus Valerius Saranus, a very ancient Versifier, honoured by Cicero, with the Title Doctissimus Togatorum.   

R  
RAbanus Maurus, see Theodulphus. Regianus, a writer of an uncertain age, whose Poem of the waters of Baiae is commended by Brietius, both for the ingenuity of the Matter, and as written in no bad Verse.  
Rhemnius Fannius, an elegant, both Grammarian and Poet, who flourished in the time of Constantine the Great; he was the Disciple of Ar●obius; and so was Lactantius Firmianus, who had the education of Crispus Caesar, and wrote a Poem Entitled Odoeporicon, being a description of his journey 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 flourished Tiberianus, one or two of whose Verses is cited by Giraldus; Publius Optatianus Porphyrius, who wrote a Panegyric in Verse to Constanti●e the Great, for which he was recalled from banishment; he is remembered 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 Mycenae; 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 Lacedæmonians 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 Entitled Aesopic, from their imitation of Aesop.  
Rubrenus Lappa, see Curiatius Maternus.  
Rufinus, an Epigrammatic Poet of whom there are about 28 Epigrams preserved in the Greece 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 jambic Verse; something of both which works is to be seen in Rithaeus his Collection together with an Epigram of his about the Sirens, with several other Poems. Moreover, he Translated Aesop's Fables into Elegiac, and all Livy into jambic Verse.  
Rusticus Helpidius, see Theodolus.  
Rutilius Claudius Numatianus, see Claudius Claudianus.  
Rutilius Geminus, an ancient Roman Author, 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 Greece Anthology.  
Sacadas or Sacas, an ancient Tragic Poet of Argos, who is said to have been first Author 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.  
Solomon, 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 Wisdom, 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 shows 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 jambic Poet of T●●s, mentioned by Laertius in Heraelitus, and Licinius Calvu●.  
Secaeus, an Epigrammatic Poet, of whom there is extant a Tetrastich in the Greece 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 2. Roman Emperor from Julius Caesar; he is said to have been the Author 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 Halieveic or Piscatory writer in Verse, of Tarsus, mentioned by Athenaeus.  
Sextilius Ena, see Publius Ovid.  
Sextus Aurelius Propertius, an Elegiac Poet of Menavia in Vmbria, of whose Poetry, what is extant, is commonly published with the Poems of Catullus and Tibullus; he was in great favour with Cornelius Gallus and Maecenas.  
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 Comedians.  
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 jambic writer, out of whom Stobaeus citys Twelve Senaries, in his Sermon pro Artibus.  
Socrates, see Euripides.  
Solon, see Epimenides.  
Sopater, a Parian, surnamed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, several Comedies, of whose writing are remembered by Suidas; besides him, both Athenaeus and Suidas speak of another Comedian of the same name, a Phacian, whose Bacchis the first of whom citys.  
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 jambic writer, out of whom divers Senaries are cited by Stobaeus.  
Sositheus, see Menander.  
So●ades Maronides, a writer of such lascivious jambics, 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 Arden's.  
Stasimus, or Stasinus, the Author of a Poem concerning the Affairs of Cyprus, out of which, two Hexameters are cited by Stobaeus, in his Sermon de Verecundia.  
Statius Caecilius, an ancient Latin Comedian of Insubria or Gallia Cisalpina, which at this day is called the Duchy of Milan; of many Comedies which he wrote (among which was his Asotus) divers fragments are collected by Robertus Stephanus; about the same time flourished Marcus Pacuvius, a Tragedian of Brundisium, Ennius his Sister's son; of the many Tragedies which he wrote, his Orestes is particularly remembered by Festus, Nonnius and Cicero in his Dialogue of friendship; and to Pacuvius not inferior Lucius Accius, of whom Agellus out of Sempronius Asellio gives a most advantageous Character; of his Tragedies, his Nuptiae is remembered by Athenaeus, and his Mercator by Varro, in imitation perhaps of Diphilus, by whom two with the same Title were written; also Attilius, whose Electra translated from Sophocles, is mentioned by Suetonius. He is also styled by Licinius Poeta Fercus and by Cicero P. durissimus, from the Crabbedness of his style. Also Marcus Accius Plautus, that witty Comedian of Sarsi●ae in Vmbria, whom in a great measure we yet enjoy, viz. in Twenty Comedies. Also Cneus Aquilius, to whom the Comedy Boeotia hath by some been attributed, which Varro rather adjudgeth to Plautus, as is testified by Agellius; another Comedian Marcus Acuticus, to whom Varro attributed many Comedies which had been judged to have been written by Plautus; also the Comedian Plautius, who as Agellius observes, is by some mistaken for Plautus, by reason of the nearness of the name; also Caius Lucilius, great Uncle to Pompey; he served under Scipio Africanus, in the Numantine War, and is said to have been the first that brought Satire in use among the Latins, and to have written a Comedy, Entitled Nummularia and certain Epodes. Then Publius Terentius Afer, six of whose Elegant Comedies remain preserved from Oblivion; he was a great imitator of Menander, whom he professes to have followed in many of his Comedies almost word for word, and was assisted in some of them (as he himself confesseth) by Caius Laelius, surnamed the wise, and P. Cornelius Scipio Africanus, between whom and Terence, there was a very intimate friendship and familiarity. Nor do Valgius and Memmius stick to affirm that some Comedies which go under the name of Terence were entirely Scipio's. Quintus Fabius Labeo, and Marcus Popilius, both men of Consular authority, & both Poets, and such whom Terence acknowledged for his Assistants, as Suetonius in his life observeth. Also Lucius Luscius, whom Volcatius Sedigitus reckons in the Ninth rank of Comedians; of whose Comedies that Entitled Thesaurus, is only remembered. Lastly, Turpilius, who in his Thrasyleon, imitates a Comedy of Menander's, so Entitled.  
Statius Papinius, or as many write him Publius Papinius Statius, a Neapolitan, who flourished under Domitian, though by some confounded with Satius Surculus the great Rhetorician of Tholouse, in the time of Nero; there are of his writing extant, his Thebais, Achilleis and Sylvae: the two first being commented upon by Placidus Lactantius, with him were contemporary Caius Valerius Flaccus: of whose writing we have Eight Books of Argonautics, but left imperfect, which loss Quintilian bewails. Also Marcus Valerius▪ Martialis, a Native of Bilbilis, now called Bilbao in that part of Celtiberia or Cantabria, now called Biscaia. He was by Domitian, with whom he was in great honour, advanced to the Tribunate and Equestrian dignity, and to whom he directed many of his Epigrams, Fourteen Books of which are happily preserved to us; he mentions the foresaid Flaccus, in one of his Epigrams, with great testimonies of friendship and kindness. Also Decius Junius Juvenalis, whose Satyrs are likewise extant, two of which are thought to have been written when he was made Perfect in a Cohort in Egypt at 80. years of age. About the same time Terentianus Mau●us is thought to have lived, at least if it were the same Terentianus whom Marshal speaks of l. 1. Epigr. 87. as is probable he was, and in like manner the same to whom Longinus dedicates his Book de sublilimate. There is extant an elegant Poem of his the Art Metrica.  
Statylius Flaccus, an Epigrammatic Poet, of whom there are extant one or two Epigrams in the Greece Anthology.  
Stephanus, surnamed Sabbaita, or the follower of St. Sabba (a Saint in the Greece Calendar) who is thought to be the Author of a Greece Tragedy, which is extant, of Christ's death. The Comic Poet of the same name, see in Menander.  
Stesichorus, a Lyric Poet, who flourished about the 42d. Oiympiad, as appears from Suidas, Eusebius and the Anonymous Author. His Palinody upon the praise of Helena, is mentioned by Philostratus, in his life of Appollonius Tysneus. There is also mentioned by some a son of Hestod, named Stesichorus.  
Stesimbrotus, see Euripides.  
Sthenelus, see Dionysius.  
Strabus of Fulda, see Theodulphus.  
Strato, a writer of Media Comedia, whose Phoenix is made mention of by Suidas. There was besides him another Strato, an Epigrammatist, of whom there are several Epigrams in the Greece Anthology.  
Strattis, see Euripides.  
Succius, a Comic Poet, remembered by Suidas. There is chiefly noted a Comedy of his, Entitled Piscatoria: Some think him the same with Sutrius, out of whom several things are quoted by Fulgentius, in his Mythology.  
Suevus, an Epic Poet, out of whose Idyl, Entitled Moretum, Macrobius in his Saturnalia citys 8 Verses.  
Suffenus, see Aquinius.  
Sulpitius Lupercus Servastus junior, a Poetical writer of an uncertain time, but certainly not very ancient: his Elegy de cupiditate, & Ode, de qualitate Temporis, want not the commendation of a happy vein and purity of Latin style.  
Sutrius, see Succius.  
Syagrus, a Greece Poet, reputed of very great antiquity, even next after the ancient Orpheus and Musaeus, by the testimony of Aelian in his various History, by whom also he is said to have have writ a Poem of the Trojan war.  
Sylla, see Decius Laberius.  
Symposius, an Author not unelegant in the esteem of Vossius, though slighted by Giraldus. There are set forth of his writing, with the Notes of Jos●phus Castalio, 100 Enigmatical questions or Riddles in Greece Hexameter Verse.  
Syn●sius, see Cyrus of Panopolis.   

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TEleclides, see Aristophanes.  
Telestes, see Oenomaus.  
Terentianus Maurus, see Statius Cecilius.  
Terentius Libo, a Poet of Fregella, remembered by Donatus from Metius.  
Terentius Varro Atracinus, a Contemporary with Cicero and Hortensius; he wrote Argonautics in imitation of Apollonius Rhodius, also Epigrams and an Elegy upon his beloved Leucadia. There flourished also about the same time Cajus Laelius, who is reckoned among the Latin Poets.  
Terpander, a most eminent and ancicient Greece Poet and Musician, whom Eusebius delivers to have flourished about the 33d. Olympiad, though Glaucus thinks him to have been much ancienter than Archilochus.  
Tertullianus, the Divine Orator for the Christians; besides what he wrote in Prose, he wrote also five Books in Verse against the Heretic Martion, together with a little Poem of Sodom, and another of Ionas and Nineve.  
Thales Milesius, see Epimenides.  
Thamyras, a Thracian Poet, who wrote three Thousand Verses of a Theological subject.  
Theocritus, a Sicilian Poet of Syracuse, whom see in Menander; besides whom there was another Theocritus of Chios, as the Syracusian himself testifies in a Tetrastich Epigram upon himself.  
Theodectes, see beneath in Theopompus, and also in Euripides.  
Theodolus, a Latin Poet, who flourished in the time of Zeno and Anastatius. He wrote a History of all the Miracles in the Old Testament in Verse, which is yet extant. Contemporary with him were Godelbertus, whose History from the Creation, to the Birth of our Lord, in Verse, is also extant. And Rusticus Helpidius, a Nobleman, and Physician to Theodoric the Gothish King of Italy. His History of the Old and New Testament in Verse, with his Poem de Beneficiis Christi, are set forth by Georgius Fabritius; but that de Cosolatione doloris, is lost.  
Theodonis, a Poet who living in the time of Ptolemaeus Dionysius, is remembered by Suidas; among other things he is said to have wrirten Verses upon Cleopatra.  
Theodoridas, a Syracusian Poet, mentioned by Athenaeus and Stephanus.  
Theodorus, a Colophonian, whom Pollux mentions to have made Verses to be sung for each season of the year. Of the same name there was a Tragic Poet, mentioned by Laertius; as also another who lived under Domitian, whom see in Curiatius Maternus.  
Theodosius, a Poet of Tripoli (not the same with him whose Books of the Sphere are set forth by Pena) he wrote, as saith Suidas, Verses of the Spring, with some other things in Verse Hexameter.  
Theodu hus, an Abbot of Floriacum, and afterwards B●shop of Orle●nce, in the time of Ludovicus Pius; he composed a Hymn which was used to be sung on Palm Sunday, which with some things is to be seen in the Bibliotheca Patrum heretofore mentioned. Contemporary with him was Magnetius Rabanus Maurus, Abbot of Fulda, and afterwards Bishop of Mentz, whom Vicentius of Bellovacum accounts a Poet, second to none of his time; that which is most memorable of his Writings, is, his Isogrammatic Poem, in praise of the Cross, which he addressed to Pope Gregory the Fourth: the Disciple of this Rabanus was one Strabus, a Monk of Fulda, who besides his Gloss upon the whole Scripture, is said to have written something in Poetry; about the same time lived Hugubaldus, who dedicated to the Emperor Charles the bald, a Poem which he wrote in the praise of bald men, whereof every word began with C. To whom also Gallus Milo, Abbot of Saint Amand dedicated a Poem which he wrote de Sobrietate.  
Theogenes, a Megarensian, who flourishing in the 59th: Olympiad, wrote Elegies and other Poems.  
Theognetus, a Greece Comic Writer, cited by Athenaeus.  
Theognis, a Megarensian Poet, whose Sentences in Greece Verse, are extant, and commonly printed with H●siod, Theocritus and the rest of the Poetae minores. He was born, as saith Eusebius, about the 58 ●h. or 59th. Olympiad, and lived until the Persian War, being contemporary with Simonides Ceus, and Onomacritus, of both whom he makes mention; the Tragic Poet of the same name, see in Euripides.  
Theolytus, a Lesbian of Mitylene, whose Poem Entitled Bacchiea, is cited by Athenaeus, he is also taken notice of by the Scholiast of Apollonius.  
Theophanes, a Lesbian, who flourished in the time of Ptolomeus Auletes; besides his History of the Acts of Pompey (whom out of friendship and kindness, he accompanied in the Wars) he is said to have written the Mithridatic war in Verse, as Janus Douza is of Opinion; there are moreover, two Epigrams of his in the Greece Anthology. Of the same name was likewise a Bishop of Nice, whose divine Hymns are mentioned by Theodorus Prodromus. The Latin Version of one whereof viz. that upon the Aununciation of the Sacred Virgin, being an Acrostich, is to be found in the Bibliotheca patrum heretofore mentioned.  
Theophilus, see Philistion.  
Theopompus (not the same with that Noble Orator and Historian the Disciple of Isocrates) a writer of Vetus Comaedia, contemporary with Plato, at whom he had a fling in some of his Comedies (if it were the same) his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, and several others of his Comedies are cited by Athenaeus, and some by Pollux. Of the same name was an Epic Poet of Colophon celebrated by Athenaeus. Contemporary with him were Naucrates, Isocrates, and Theodectes, who all three contended with him at the solemnity of Mausolus his Funeral, instituted by Artemisia, at which as Suidas saith, Theopompus; as the nameless describer of the Olympiads, Theodectes overcame: this last was of Phaselus in Lycia, the Disciple of Plato and Isocr●tes, and as some say of Aristotle; he is said to have written the Art of Rhetoric in Verse, and Fifty Tragedies, whereof one was Entitled Mausolus. Besides these were Nicostratus, not he of Olynthus who was a Historian, a Comic Poet surnamed, by Laertius, Clytemnaestra, Fifteen of whose Fables are remembered by Athenaeus, and for the excellent conduct of his Action, P●llux calls him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Stephanus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, several Senary jambics also are quoted by Stobaeus. Tigretus, otherwise called Pigres (the Brother of Artemisia) who turned Homer's Ilias into an Elegiac Poem by subjoyning a Pentameter after every Hexameter; some likewise attribute to him Margites, Batrachomyomachia, and some other things. Also Ephippas', a writer of Media Comaedia, out of whose Codoniastae, Philyra, and Obeliaphori, certain passages are cited by Athenaeus. Also Epicrates of Ambracia, a writer of Media Comoedia, among whose Comedies (in some of which he is said to have been somewhat Scoptic against Plato and Speucippus) his amazons and Emp●ros are mentioned by Suidas: and much of the same time Philippus, a writer in like manner of Media Comoedia, whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is remembered by Suidas from Athenaeus as he saith, perhaps confounding it with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, which is indeed mentioned by Athenaeus, also Xenoclides whom Ulpian affirms to have been an Athenian; he is commended by Demosthenes for a very good Poet.  
Thespis, see Epimenides.  
Thuscus, see Publius Ovid.  
Tiberianus, see Rhemnius Fannius.  
Ticida, an old Latin Epigrammatist, Contemporary with Catullus.  
Tigretus, see Theopompus.  
Timachidas, a Rhodian; who as saith Suidas, wrote in Verse the manner of setting forth of Feasts and Banquets out of which work Athenaeus citys certain Verses of the fish Pompilius.  
Timesitheus, a Tragic Poet of whose writing there are remembered his Danaides, and a 11 more Tragedies.  
Timocles, an Athenian Comic Poet, whose Demosatyri, Centaurus, Cauniae Epistolae, Epichaerecacus, and Philodicast● are remembered by Suidas, together with Dionysiazusae, Polypragmon and Eleven more of another Comic Poet of the same name.  
Timocreon of Rhodes, a writer of Vetus Comaedia, who flourished about the 75th. Olympiad: he wrote among others, as Suidas testifieth, a Comedy against Simonides Melicus and Themistocles, with both of whom he was at very great enmity; what his Epitaph was, is to be seen in Athenaeus.  
Timon of Phliasus, see Callimachus.  
Timotheus of Gaza, see Christodorus.  
Timotheus of Miletus, see Oen●maus.  
Titianus, a Rhetorician, who erected a School at Lions; he is remembered by Ausonius for his Apologies in Trimeter jambics.  
Titinnius, a Latin Comic Poet, whose Barathrum, and 7 other Comedies are cited by Charisius.  
Titius Septimius, see Publius Ovid.  
Titus Annianus, see Annianus.  
Titus Calsurinus Piso, a Sicilian Poet, whose Bucolic Eglogues are commonly printed with Gratius, the Faliscan, his Poem of Hunting.  
Titus Lucretius Carus, one of the most ancient, for he flourished about 168th. Olympiad, in the time of the Cymbrian War, and for Majesty and Elegancy of Style, to be ranked among the best of Latin Poets; whoever shall observe his neat Digressions, for there he chiefly shows himself, his main Subject being a kind of System of Epicurean Philosophy, in Heroic Verse, Entitled de Rerum Natura. There is also another Titus Lucretius, a Roman Knight, and writer of Mimes, in the time of Julius Caesar.  
Titus Pomponius Atticus, see Decius Laberius.  
Titus Quintius Atta, an old Latin writer of those sort of Comedies, called, from the kind of Garment used by the Actors, Togatae.  
Titus Valgius, an old Latin Poet, of whom several Verses are cited by Crinitus and Servius,  
Titus Vespatianus, a Roman Emperor, who besides his great actions in War, for which he is renowned in History, was considerable in Poetry, having written Tragedies in Greece, with several other Poems both in Greece and Latin by the Testimony of Eutropius, Isidorus and Suidas,  
Toxotius, a Roman Senator, whose Poems were extant in the time of Capitolinus.  
Trabea, a Comic Poet, quoted by Cicero and Charisius, see Qu. Trabeas.  
Tribonianus Sidetes, see Agathias.  
Triphyllius a Cyprian Bishop, who, as Suidas testifieth, wrote the life and miracles (in jambic Verse) of Spiridion, Bishop of Tremithus in Cyprus, who was present at the Nicene Council.  
Tryphon, the Son of Ammonius a Grammarian and Poet of Alexandria, cited by Athenaeus and Suidas. There is a Tetrastich of Tryphon, surnamed Mercurius, in the first Book of the Greece Anthology.  
Tryphiodorus, see Christodorus.  
Turanius, see Publius Ovid.  
Turcius Rnfus Festus Asterius, a Roman Consul, together with Flavius Praesidius, in the time of Anastatius; he is said to have written in Verse a Comparation of the Old Testament with the New, which some nevertheless attribute to Sedulius, others to Momertus.  
Turnus, see Curiatius Maternus.  
Turpilius, see Statius Caecilins.  
Tyrtaeus, an Elegiac Poet, who as Suidas saith, flourished about the 35th. Olympiad. In the Messinian War he was once chosen by the Lacedæmonians (into whom he inspired courage by the Martial spirit which his Verses breathed) General against the Messenians.   

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VAgellius, an old Latin Poet, remembered by Seneca, of whom he was an intimate friend.  
Valerius Aedituns, an old Latin Epigrammatist, in whose Verses, his two Mistresses Pamphilia and Philerote are very much celebrated.  
Valerius Cato, a Grammarian and Poet, who flourished in the time of Sylla: Besides what he wrote in Grammar, he wrote also several Poems, among which his Lydia and Diana are principally approved. He is mentioned most particularly by Suetonius in his Book de Illustribus Grammaticis.  
Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus, a Christian Poet, who flourished in the time of the Emperor Justinus the younger; he wrote in Verse, de partu Virgins, de Beneficiis Christi, de B. Martino; besides his Hymns, and several divine Poems mentioned by Giraldus, among which are thought to be some which have been attributed to Lactantius.  
Vestritius Spurina, a no less famous Soldier (for he overcame King Breveterius, for which he was honoured with a Statue) than Lyric Poet, in the time of the Vespasian's. He addicted himself much to the Imitation of Horace.  
Victorinus Pictaviensis, see Caecilius Cyprianus.  
Victorius, a Contemporary of Sidonius Apollinaris; by whom he is celebrated in the last Epistle of his fifth Book.  
Virgilius Romanus, a Comic Poet, in the time of the Emperor Trajan; he is mentioned with great commendation by Pliny, in his Epistle to Caninius Rufus.  
Voconius Victor, see Curiatius Maternus.  
Volcatius Sedigitus, the Author of a Treatise of the old Latin Poets, both before and in his time, in Senary jambic verse.  
Vomanus, one of the 12. surnamed Scolastici, of whom see in Julianus.  
Votienus, see Curiatius Maternus.   

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

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ZEnodotus of Ephesus, see Menander.    

Eminent Poets Among the MODERNS.  

AAron Batalaeus the Author of a little Poem, Entitled, Plausus Triviliensis, Printed at Basil, with some small Poetical pieces of the choicest of the Modern Poets.  
Abraham Cow, the most applauded Poet of our Nation both of the present and past Ages; his early Muse began to down at the Thirteenth Year of his Age, he being then a Scholar at Westminster School, in Two little Poems Antonius and Melida, and Pyramus and Thisbe; which discovering a Maturity of sense above the Years that writ them, were thought worthy to be then published, though not to be inserted into the now completed Edition of his Works, divided into 4 parts, his Mistress being the amorous prolusions of his Youthful Muse, his Miscellanies or Poems of various Arguments, his most admired Heroic Poem Davideis, the first Books whereof he Composed, while but a young Student at Trinity College in Cambridge; and lastly that is in order of time though not of place, his Pindaric Odes, so called, I suppose, ftom the measure in which he Translated the first Ithmian and Nemean Odes, whereas the form of those Odes in the Original, is very different, & yet in Imitation of him, 'tis pleasant to observe what a notable Trade hath been driven of late in Pindaric Odes: Besides these Poems of his in English, there is Extant of his writing in a Volume by itself 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 Arcadia, uses not only these but all other sorts of Latin Measure, in which no wonder he is followed by so few, since they neither become the English nor any other Modern Language.  
Abrahamus' Laescherus, the Author of a Poem Entitled the Monomachy or single Combat between David and Goliath, his Two Books of King● also, and Lamentations of Jeremy 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, gained by his Poem de partu Virgins, his piscatory Eclogues, Epigrams, etc.  
Adamus Regius a Scothman, 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 Sigismond K. of Poland, with Catharine the Daughter of the Emperor Ferdinand.  
Adamus Siberus a German, 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 Triumvirate of Adrian's, of no obscure name among the Belgic Poets.  
Adrianus Junius, a most learned Physician of Holland, and moreover by the Testimony of Melchior adam's a Critic, Poet and most exact Historian and Antiquary.  
Adrianus Turnebus Professor Regius at Paris of Philosophy and the Greece Tongue, he is reckoned among the French writers of Latin Poesy.  
Aegidius Menagius a Frenchman, whose not uneloquent Poems consisting of Elegies, Epigrams, and Varia Garmina in Latin, Ecloge of various Poems in Greece his Italian Rhyme, his Sonnets, Madrigals, Ballads and Epistles in French were printed at Amsterdam Anno 1663.  
Aemilianus an Elegiac Poet, who wrote Epigrams, and an Epicedium upon the Emperor Frideric.  
Aenaeas Silvius a Hetrurian, born in the City of Sienna, 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 produced 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 Attorney of the Mayor's 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 choose but be immortal, and in this respect he may well be styled 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 Triumphs of the Emperor 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 reckoned 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, opened an Academy at Venice, called the Academy of the Generosi.  
Andrea's 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.  
Andrea's Canonherius a Germane of much esteem for Latin Verse, and therefore by Learned men ranked among the Germane Poets.  
Andrea's 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.  
Andrea's Fabricius, a Poet of Chemnitz, the Author of a Poem Entitled Christus Lachrymen, which was printed at Wittenberg in the Year 1551.  
Andrea's Janus Lascaris, a writer of Rhyndacum, with whose Treatise of the Roman Militia, Collected out of Polybius his History, are Extant a numbe● of Greece 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..  
Andrea's Libavius a German, whose not unhappy Vein in Latin Verse obtains him a place among the eminent Poets of that Nation.  
Andrea's Melvinus a witty and learned Scotchman, and particularly famed 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.  
Andrea's Navagerius, a Venetian, both Historian Poet and Orator, but among his Poems his Eclogues are particularly famed, being printed by Oporinus among the Eclogues of other conspicuous Poets.  
Andrea's Papius, an exact Master of the Two learned Tongues, yet withal so excellent in Music and Poetry, as if either of them had been his whole business.  
Andrea's Bamseius, a Scotch Latin Versifier, of whom what is Extant, or at least attainable, is to be found in a Collection Entitled 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 Sonnets, Madrigals and Canzonetts.  
Angelus Politianus, a most conspicuous Italian 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 Duchy of Spoleto, but chiefly in the pastoral way.  
Antimo Gallo, an Italian Lyric, or, pourer forth of amorous conceits in Sonnets, Madrigals &c  
Antony Brewer a contributer to the English Stage by his Lingua, Loves Loadstone, and the Country Girl, Comedies, The Lovesick King and Landagartha, Tragecomedies, and Love's 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 Sonnets.  
Antonius Brun a writer of certain Lyric Poems printed at Noremberg by Joannes Petreius.  
Antonius Codrus Vrseus, a learned and polite Author, in Proof 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 miscellany 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 Laureate 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 Virgil's 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 Lion's Anno 1636.  
M. Antonius Muretus, a most learned Fr. Commentator and Eloquent Orator; and also so much a Poet that Scaevola Samarthanus in his Eulogies 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 died Anno Dom. 1585.  
Antonius Sebastianus, a Native of Minturno, who is not ashamed 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 Poesy.  
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 arrived to the 23d 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 remembered 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 supposed a Prince, and Tyrannical 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 Rouen, mentioned by R●visius Textor with much Honour among the Learned Men and Poets of his time.  
Baptista Faustus a Carmelite Friar of Mantua, and therefore generally Surnamed Mantuanus, vulgarly of such fame for his Poetry, that he is compared even with his Countryman 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 homespun 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 published of all his other Works) 8 of which he confesseth to have written when a Young Student at Milan; 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, etc. he died Anno 1516. in the 72d d Year of his Age.  
Baptista, a Friar of Ferrara, of the Order of St. Mary of Mount Carmel, chiefly famed for History, but taken notice of also for his Book of Epigrams.  
Baptista Fiera, a Philosopher and renowned Physician of Mantua, and for Poetry, if not equal in fame to the Mantuan Carmelite before mentioned, yet by no means to be omitted, for his 4 Books of Evan●●●ical History in Verse, with several Hymns he dedicated to Pope Adrian the 6th; 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 pieces are not the least in vogue; but above all his Pastor fido hath been naturalised 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 Ambassador from his present Majesty of Great Britain to his Catholic Majesty Philip the 4th.  
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 cruse in elegiac Verse, de morte, de B. Virgin, etc.  
Baptista Sanga his Poems are peculiarly mentioned by Giraldus and Conradus Licosthenes.  
Battista Spagnolus an Italian, who for his faculty in Latin Verse is remembered among the chief Italian Poets of that kind.  
Barnabas Brissonius a Frenchman, 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 4th used to boast that he durst oppose him against the learnedst man any Prince in Christendom 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 ranked among the principal Poets of his time.  
Bartholomaeus Amantius, an Assistant to Petrus Appianus the famous Germane 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.  
Bartholomew Traheron, a not altogether obscure writer in his time, namely in the Reign of K. Edw. the 6th, as well in Verse as Prose.  
Barton Holiday 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 Marriage of the Arts.  
Basilio Zanchio a Canon of the Lateranensian Order, a Native of Bergamo, a Town in the signory 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 Distiches 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 Greece and Latin.  
Benedictus Luscius, chiefly to be remembered 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, Alchemist and Silent Woman; he may be compared, in the Judgement of Learned Men, for Decorum, Language, and well Humouring of the Parts, as well with the chief of the Ancient Greece and Latin Comedians as the prime of Modern Italians, who have been judged 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 Revels, 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, etc. 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 Cornac●hini.  
Bernardino Rota, see Ottavio Rinuccini.  
Bernardus Bauhusius, a Belgian, the most notable Man was ever heard of for Ringing the Changes in Verse; for in a Poem he wrote of the B. Virgin, Entitled, Proteus Parthenicus unius versus, he is said to have changed one Verse 1022. times according to the reputed 
* Tot sibi sunt, Virgo, dotes, quot sideracoelo.  number of the constellations; he is mentioned by Sweertius in his Athenoe Belgicae, and by Andrea's Valerius in his Bibliotheca Belgica.  
Bernardus Praetorius reckoned among the principal of Germane writers, who have been Eminent for Latin Poesy.  
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, ranked in the number of Belgic Latin Poets.  
Mr. Bovillon, a Frenchman, 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 Poesy 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 reckoned among the principal of that Nation for Latin Poesy.  
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 wand'ring and unsettled kind of life, but steadfastly 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 lafoy Pucelle, or France's delivery.  
Mr. Cheureau, 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, and 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 Marlowe, 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 inferior 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 Marlowe, 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 joined 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 and Epigrams.  
Christopherus Palmensis, his Distiches were printed at Basil by Robert Winter; he flourished about 1486.  
Christophorus Pannonius is chiefly remembered for his Elegy to Nicolas Perenot Granvile printed with Paradin's ancient state of Burgundy, ut Basil.  
Cbristophorus Schellembergius, a Germane Poet, principally remembered for his Epithalamium upon the Marriage of Wolfangus Meurerus, a noted Physician, his Friend.  
Christophoro Sicinio, see Dominico Cornacchini.  
Christophorus Stummelius, a Germane, not unfamed 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 perished miserably by an accidental Fire in the Year 1546.  
Claudius' Paradinus, a writer of Emblems in Imitation of those of Alciate.  
Clemens Marotus a French Poet of Cahors, whom Antoin Verd in his Biblio●hec styles the Poet of Princes, and the Prince of the Poets of his time.  
Clemens Janitius, a Polonian Poet Laureate, 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 Germane, both Philosopher, Orator, and Mathematician of great Fame, but withal so highly applauded for his singular gift in Poetry, that he was honoured by the Emperor 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 Eulogies of Illustrious Men; but Pantaleon in his Book de viris Illustribus saith by the Emperor Maximilian in the 35th. Year of his Age Anno 1494. however all agree he was the first Poet Laureate among the Germans.  
Conradus of Alyzeia, a Town of the Palatinate, but in the Diocese 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 Germane 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 Germane 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 Countrymen, and our Frenchly affected English, for the amorous Intrigues, 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 Rhyme, 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.  
Cosm● Manuci, an Italian as his name Imports, but an English writer of the Just General a Tragedy, and the Loyal Lovers, a Tragecomedie.  
Curtesius Curtesius a Poet of Milan, 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 famed of Hollanders, and most Celebrated by * 
Jos. Scaliger, Douza, Selden, etc.  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 professor, Secretary, and Library Keeper at the University of Leide●; in Prose he is Eminent for his Exercitations upon the New Testament, and divers Philological Works, in strict Oration for his Excellent style in Greece and Latin Verse, of which sufficient Testimonies are Extant, and for which he is compared by Causabone in his Epistles to Homer for the Greece, 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 Poesy is remembered among the chief of Belgic Latin Poets.  
Dantes Aligerus, a most Renowned Florentine, and the first of Italian Poets of any Fame or Note for Vernacular Verse; but that which most proclaims his Fame to the World is his Triple Poem Entitled, Paradise, Purgatory and Hell; besides which he wrote several things in Prose; the Meridian of his flourishing time was the Year 1321. the Emperor jews the 5th Surnamed Bavarus then Reigning.  
David Echlinus a Scotchman, 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.  
Diomedes Borghese, a Lyric Poet, or Sonnet writer of Sienna.  
Dionysius Lebius Taubilius, a learned Germane 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 styled 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 Embassy from the States to Queen Elizabeth) to the great Patron of all virtue 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 numbered, these following deserve not to be passed by in silence, viz. Christopher Sicinio, Archangelo Archangelo, Bernardino Pino, Christopher 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 described 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 than Learned, who professing Theology and affecting Poetry, applied his Muse to Divine and Moral Subjects, his Poem on the passion of our Saviour, and another of the 4 Cardinal Virtues and their Offices, in Elegiac Verse were both printed at Basil Anno 1543. he is Recorded flourishing Anno 1494.  
Domitio Marino, a Venetian both Philosopher and Physician by profession, but a writer also of Poems, which were printed by the Sons of Aldus Manutius Anno 1550.   

E.  
EDmund Fairfax, one of the most Judicious, Elegant and haply in his time, most approved of English Translatours, both for his choice of so worthily Extolled a Heroic Poet as Torquato Tasso; as for the exactness of his Version, in which he is judged by some to have approved himself no less a Poet than in what he hath written of his own Genius.  
Edmund Prestwich, the Author of a Comedy, which came forth about 20 Years ago, called the Hectors or False Challenge; as also Hippolytus a Tragedy, what ever he might have written besides not remembered.  
Edmund Spencer, the first of our English Poets that brought Heroic Poesy to any perfection, his Fairy Queen being for great Invention and Poetic height judged little inferior, if not equal to the chief of the ancient Greeks and Latins or Modern Italians, but the first Poem that brought him into Esteem was his Shepherd's Calendar, which so endeared him to that Noble Patron of all Virtue and Learning Sir Philip Sidny, that he made him known to Queen Elizabeth, and by that means got him preferred to be Secretary to his Brother Sir Henry Sidny, who was sent Deputy into Ireland, where he is said to have written his Fairy Queen, but upon the return of Sir Henry, his Employment ceasing, he also returned into England, and having lost his great Friend Sir Philip, fell into poverty, yet made his last Refuge to the Queen's Bounty, and had 500 l. ordered him for his Support, which nevertheless was abridged to 100 by Cecil, who hearing of it, and owing him a grudge for some reflections in Mother Hubbards' Tale, cried out to the Queen, What all this for a Song? This he is said to have taken so much to Heart, that he contracted a deep Melancholy, which soon after brought his Life to a Period: So apt is an Ingenious Spirit to resent a slighting, even from the greatest Persons; and thus much I must needs say of the Merit of so great a Poet from so great a Monarch, that as it is incident to the best of Poets sometimes to flatter some Royal or Noble Patron, never did any do it more to the height, or with greater Art and Elegance, if the highest of praises attributed to so Heroic a Princess can justly be termed Flattery.  
Edmund Waller of Beckonsfeild, one of the mo●● famed Poets, and that not unworthily, of the present Age, being yet surviving; especially, and (wherein he is not inferior to Carew himself,) in the charming sweetness of his Lyric Odes or amorous Sonnets long since wedded to the no less charming Notes of H. Laws, at that time the Prince of Musical Composers, and one of the principal Gentlemen of the Chapel, as also of the private Music to his late Majesty King Charles the First. In his other acoasional Poems his Verse is smooth, yet strenuous, not barren of conceit, and frequently adorned with proper Similes.  
Sir Edward Dier, a person of good account in Queen Elizabeth's Reign, poetically addicted, several of whose Pastoral Odes and Madrigals are Extant in a printed Collection of certain choice pieces of some of the most eminent Poets of that time.  
Edward Shirburn, an intimate Friend and Acquaintance, as well of the ancient Greek and Latin, as of the choicest of Modern Poets, both Italian, French and Spanish, and in what he hath Elegantly and Judiciously Translated either of the former or later, a discoverer of a more pure Poetical Spirit and Fancy, than many others can justly pretend to in their original Works; his Version of those Books of Manilius, which relate merely to Astronomy, is a very Noble Work, being set forth with most Exact Notes, and other Learned and proper Illustrations.  
Eilardas' Alma, a H●llander, whose Fame is not altogether unknown to the Learned for what he hath written in Latin Poesy.  
Eilardus Lubinus, a Learned Germane, who amidst several Elaborate Works in Prose, was not wholly unconversant with the Muses, being therefore reckoned among the Latin Poets of that Nation.  
Elias Putschius, a Low-Countrey-man, who hath written sufficiently in Latin Verse, to be numbered among the Latin Poets of that Nation.  
Elkanah Settle, a present writer to the English Stage, to which he hath already contributed Two Ttagedies, Cambyses, and the Empress of Morocco; for which he hath the applause of some, the severe censure of others, and perhaps neither according to exact desert; to those that err on the right hand that is that over-praise, little is to be said; to the others it may be pleaded in his behalf, that his soaring up to too much affected and immoderate heights, which I take to be his chief failing, may possibly be allayed by the more Mature Judgement of riper Years, he being yet but a young Man.  
Elysius' Calentius, a writer in Latin Poesy famous in Italy in the Reign of the Emperor Maximilian; his Elegies, Epigrams, Epistles, Poem of Hector's apparition, and another of the War between the Frogs and Mice, Satyrs against the Poets, and other things were printed at Rome Anno 1503.  
Emanuel Thesaurus, a Patrician or Nobleman of Turin, the Capital City of the Dukedom of Savoy, and of the Order of the great Cross of St. Lazarus and St. Maurice, whose Patriarchae, or Genealogy of Christ divided into Four Periods according to the Four Ages of Man, is written in a style called Lapidaria, so called as proper for Inscriptions upon Tombs, being a middle style between Oratory & Poetry, between strict and solute Oration.  
Engelhardus Funkius, a Poet of Swobach in Franconia, who wrote in Elegiac Ve●se an Encomium of his Country, Epistles, Epigrams, and several other Miscellaneous pieces; he is Recorded flourishing in the Year of our Lord 1494.  
Erasmo Valvasonio, an Italian Poet, who wrote Five Books in Verse de Re Rustica, or of Country Affairs, in that kind of Stanza commonly called among the Italians Ottava Rima.  
Erycus Puteanus, an Fminent both Historian and Poet, who, as Causabon in his Preface to the Augusta Historia saith, was justly reputed in his time among the chief Ornaments of France; he is most known by his Insubric History, but withal not unremembered for his Elegant Latin Poems, among which his Musarum Ferculum is particularly quoted by a Learned English Author.  
Euricius Cordus, a late Germane Poet, whose Opera Poetica were printed at Helmested Anno 1614   

F.  
FAmianus Strada, an Italian, both Poet, Historian & Orator of principal Repute, being a Native of Rome, where he was professor of Rhetoric for 15 Years; his History of the Low-country Wars, and his Academical Prolusions are the chiefest and most famed of his Works, in the last of which he so ingeniously imitates the style of each of the principal Ancient Latin Poets, that thereby he shows himself a great Master in Latin Poetry.  
Le Sieur de Fargues, the Author of a French Heroic Poem Entitled David.  
Faustus Sabaeus, a Brescian, of whose Latin Poetry there is sufficient Extant to place him among the chief Italian writers of that kind.  
Felix Fidlerus, a Germane Poet, whose most particularly mentioned Poems are his Eclogue, Entitled Philotas, dedicated to the Bishop of Arras, and his Elegy upon the death of Cardinal Perenot Granvile.  
Florentius Schonhovius, a Belgic writer, Native of Gouda, of whom there is Extant a Poem Entitled Lalage, or Amores Pastorales, with the selected Works of several other noted Latin Poets of that Country, in which Society Antonius Schonhovins is also one.  
Florentius Volusenus, one of the association, with those other noted Latin Poets of Scotland, the choice of whose Poems are Collected together in a long since published Volume.  
Foppius Scheltonus Aesema, a Frisian, whose Juvenilia are to be found with the selected Works of other Belgic Poets already mentioned.  
Francis Beaumond, an inseparable Associate and Coadjutor to Fletcher in the making of many of his Plays, besides what he made solely himself; there is also Extant a Poem of his Entitled Salmacis and Hermaphroditus a Fable taken out of Ovid's Mctamorphoses.  
Francisco Biondi, an Italian Poet, whose most noted Work is his Erimena.  
Francisco Bracciolini, another Italian Poet, the most particularly mentioned of whose Works is his Cruse ricuperata, or regaining of the Cross.  
Francisco Contareni, a Venetian not of the meanest rank of the Lyric Poets of Italy.  
Don Francisco Manuel, a Spaniard, whose Obras Metricas, or Poetical Works were printed at Leon, Anno 1665.  
Francisco Maria Molza, a Poet of Modena, reckoned among the chief of the Lyrics or Sonnet writers of Italy; there is also particularly taken notice of his Elegy in the name of Catharine Queen of England to K. Henry the 7th.  
Francisco Mataracio, a Poet of Perusia, a Town of that part of Tuscany, which is called Lo stato della chiesa, and belongs to the Pope; his mentioned Poems are Epistles to several Friends, and Epigrams but he wrote also in tendency to Poetry, Instructions for the making Hexameter and Pentameter Verses.  
Franciscus Niger Bassianus, a Learned writer both in Prose and Verse, in which last way his most famed piece is his Epitome of Ovid Metamorphoses in Phaleusian Verse.  
Francisco Ottavio, an Italion Poet, known chiefly by his Elegies to Julia, and his Epistles.  
Francisco Peto, a Poet of Fondi, a Town of Campania, whose Sylva to Augustinus Niphus is of what he wrote in Verse the most particularly remembered.  
Francisus Franchinus, a retainer equally to Mars and the Muses, who attending on the Emperor Charles the Fifth in his Algerine Expedition, at his return wrote an Elegant description of the said Expedition in Verse.  
Franciscus Modius, an Eminent both Civilian and Poet of Bruges in Flanders.  
Franciscus Panigarola, one of the Society of those Latin Poets of Italy, whose several Works, or what is of them choicest, are published together.  
Francisco Petrarcha, a Florentine Poet, Renowned both for Latin and Italian Poesy; his Italian Sonnets in Celebration of Laura, and his Triumphs are in very high Esteem.  
Franciscus Philelphus, a Knight of Tollentinum, the Author of a Multitude of Volumes, whereof very many in Verse, particularly his Sfortias', his Poem in Commendation of Aenicius Davalus, his Odes both Greece and Latin, which with the rest of his Poetical Works advanced his Fame in Poetry to the title of Poet Laureate; he is Recorded to have Flourished about the Year of our Lord 1481.  
Franciscus Pigna, a Countryman and Associate of the Poet Curtesius.  
Franciscus Portus, a Modern Greece Poet, chiefly Epigrammatic.  
Francisco Puteolani, a Poet of Parma, one of the chief setters forth of the Acts of Lodowic Sforza, the Famous Soldier of that Age.  
Francis Quarles, the darling of our Plebeian Judgements, that is such as have ingenuity enough to delight in Poetry, but are not sufficiently instructed to make a right choice and distinction; his Emblems being a Copy from Hermannus Hugoes Original, his Version of Job into English Verse, his Feast of Worms, or History of Ionas, and other Divine Poems have been ever, and still, are in wonderful Veneration among the Vulgar, and no less his Argalus and Parthenia, a History taken out of Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia; there hath been also Acted a Comedy of his called the Virgin Widow.  
Don Francisco de Quevedo, a Spanish writer, of signal Fame and Credit both in Prose and Verse, of which later kind are his Obras Metricas, or Poetical Works, which were printed at Brussels Anno 1660.  
Franciscus & Justus Raphelengius, Two Belgic writers, whose Varia Carmina are with the selected Works of others accounted the chief of that Country for Latin Verse.  
Franciscus Sphondratus, an Italian, whose Latin Poem de Raptu Helenae is Extant among the Collected Works of divers others, accounted the prime of Italy for Latin Poesy.  
Francisco Vinta, an Itaelian of principal Note among the Pastoral and Comic writers of that Nation.  
Fredericus Dedecindus, a Germane Poet, known most especially by his Poem in praise of a Country Life, and his Epithalamium upon the Marriage of Paulus Gusebelius with Magdalena Moniera of Wirtenberg.  
Fredericus Taubmannus, a Germane, chiefly famed for a most Learned Commentator and Philologist, but not to be wholly left out of the Number of Poets.  
Fridianus Piginutius, an Italian, who being Orator and Poet to Eruestus Duke of Saxony, wrote in the Latin Idiom Elegies to Conradus Celtes, and Martinus Pollichias, a Saphic Ode to St. Sebastian, to implore an aversion of the Pestilence, which were printed with Celtes his Book of the Art of Versifying.  
Sir Fulk Grevil, Lord Brook, a great Friend and Associate of Sir Philip Sidny, whose Life he wrote, as also several things in Poetry both Dramatic, as his Tragedies of Alaham, Mustapha, and Marcus Tullius Cicero, and others commonly of a Political Subject, and among the rest a Posthume Work not published till within a very few Years, being a Twofold Treatise, the first of Monarchy, the second of Religion, in all which is observable a close, mysterious and sententious way of writing, without much regard to Elegancy of style▪ or smoothness of Verse.  
Le Sieur de Furetiere. the Author of certain French Poems printed at Paris Anno 1650.   

G.  
GAbriel Cabrera, see Ludovic● Dolce.  
Gabriel Faernus, a very Learned Man, and diligent Inquirer into Latin Authors, as his setting forth of Terence, and some pieces of Cicero testify; Moreover he so ingeniously paraphrased upon Esop's Fables in divers kinds of Latin Verse, that he merits to be ranked among the Poets; he is of that Rank of Eminent Men, that in Chronology come under the Year 1561.  
Gabriel Zinani, an Italian, whose Extant Sonnets, Madrigals, etc. give him place among the Lyric Poets of that Nation.  
Gallus Chrudimenus, a writer in Verse, fo● Elegancy reckoned of the chief of Modern Latin Poets.  
Gaspar Barlaeus, a learned and witty Batavian, and of so Eminent a Fame among the Belgic writers of Latin Poesy, that Vossius in his Book de Arte Grammatica, by doubting whether he were the better Philosopher or Poet, seems to Intimate his Excellence in both Faculties; several of his poetical Works are quoted by a Learned English Author, as his Hymns, his Poem in praise of the Garden of Leyden, his Britannia triumphans, etc.  
Gaspar Bruschius, a Poet Laureate of Egra in Bohemia, whose poetical Works are many, and of various kinds, besides what he also wrote in Prose.  
Gaspar Ensius, a Germane Poet, who for what he hath written in Latin Verse is reckoned among the principal Latin Poets of that Nation.  
Gaspar Greterus, Chaplain to the Prince of Wirtenberg, and a copious writer both in Prose and Verse; among his poetical things his Gospels in Latin Verse are particularly taken notice of.  
Gaspar Main, a Student of Christ-Church in Oxford, where he lived for many Years in much Credit and Reputation for his florid Wit, and Ingenious Vein in Poetry, which produced Two Witty and well approved Comedies, the City Match and the Amorous War; nor did he, since his application to Theology, of which he was Dr. and his Ecclesiastical preferment, totally relinquish those politer Studies to which he was before addicted, having lately published Lucian's Works, of his own Translating into English.  
Gaspar Vrsinus, a Noble Poet of Veli, among whose Poems his Monostiches of the Alban and Roman Kings, and other Illustrious Men of Rome, as also of the Roman Emperors and Popes, down to Charles the 5th. and Pope Hadrian 6th. also his Distiches of the Roman Emperors are especially noted.  
Sir Geoffry Chaucer, the Prince and Coryphaeus, generally so reputed, till this Age, of our English Poets, and as much as we triumph over his old fashioned phrase, and obsolete words, one of the first re●iners of the English Language, of how great Esteem he was in the Age wherein he flourished, namely the Reigns of Henry the 4th, Henry the 5th, and part of Henry the 6th, appears, besides his being Knight and Poet Laureate, by the Honour he had to be allied by Marriage to the great Earl of Lancaster Jobn of Gaunt: How great a part we have lost of his Works above what we have Extant of him is manifest from an Author of good Credit, who reckons up many considerable Poems, which are not in his published Works; besides the Squire's Tale, which is said to be complete in Arundel-house Library.  
Georgio Anselmo, an Epigrammatist of Parma.  
Georgius Benedictus, a Hollander of principal repute among the Eelgic wtiters of Latin Poesy.  
Georgius Bersmannus, a Germane of no inferior Estimation among Learned Men; but particularly famed for his happy Genius in Latin Verse.  
Georgius Buchananus, the most celebrated by the Learned Men of his time, of all the famous writers that Scotland hath produced, and that not without reason, being in his Prose both Elegant and Judicious, (in so much that Vossius selecting out for several Countries each of their prime Historians, names him for the History of his own Country) and for Verse, if not the chief of Modern Latin Poets, as some account him, yet at least the chief of that Nation, which however barren of Soil Esteemed, yet hath been sufficiently fruitful of good Wits, and Men famous particularly for Latin Verse; being so conspicuous a person no wonder he was made choice of for the Education of a Prince that was born to the sole Monarchy of Great Britain.  
George Bullen Lord Rochfort, Brother to Queen Anne, 2d Wife to K. Henry the 8th, among other things hath the Fame of being the Author of Songs and Sonnets, which doubtless wanted not the applause of those times.  
George Chapman, a Poetical writer, Flourishing in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James, in that repute both for his Translations of Homer and Hesiod, and what he wrote of his own proper Genius; that he is thought not the meanest of English Poets of that time, and particularly for his Dramatic writings, as his Blind Beggar of Alexandria, All Fools, The Gentleman Usher, May-day, The, Widows Tears, Mounsieur d'Olive, A days Mirth, Eastward ho, Comedies; Bussy d'Amb●ys, Caesar & Pompey Tragedies.  
George Fletcher, the Author of a Poem Entitled Christ's Victory and Triumph in Heaven and Earth over and after Death; he wrote in the Reign of King James and King Charles the First.  
George Etheridge a Comical writer of the present Age; whose Two Comedies, Love in a Tub, and She would if She could, for pleasant Wit, and no bad Oeconomy, are judged not vuworthy the Applause they have met with.  
Georgio Gradenico, see Ottavio Riuuco●ni.  
George Gascoign, one of the smaller Poets of Queen Elizabeth's days, whose poetical Works nevertheless have been thought worthy to be quoted among the chief of that time; his Supposes, a Comedy; Glass of government, a Tragicomedy; J●●●sta a Tragedy, are particularly remembered.  
George Herbert, a Younger Brother of the Noble Family of the Epirotes of Montgomery, whose florid Wit, obliging Humour in Conversation, fluent Elocution, and great proficience in the Arts, gained him that Reputation at Oxford, where he spent his more Youthful age, that he was chosen University Orator; at last taking upon him Holy Orders, not without special encouragement from the King, who took notice of his parts; he was made Parson of Bemmerton near Salisbury; in this state his affection to Poetry being converted to serious and Divine Subjects, produced those so generally known and approved Poems Entitled the Temple.  
Georgius Macropedius, a Germane Poet, whose most noted Poems beside his Comedies Andrisca, Hecastus, Rebels and others, and some Tragedies out of Sacred History, are his Bassarus, Lazarns Mendicus, and his Calendar of the principal Feasts of the Church in Heroie Verse.  
Georgius Myliusa Germane Poet, whose Two Books of Elegies were printed at Leipsich in the Year 1557.  
George Peel, a somewhat antiquated English Bard of Queen Elizabeth Date, some Remnants of whose pretty pastoral Poetry we have Extant in a Collection Entitled England's Helicon.  
George Riplay, a Canon of Bridlington in the time of King Henry the 7th, who in old English Verse wrote several Chemical Mysteries pretending to Led to the attaining of the Philosopher's Stone.  
Georgius Rotallerus, a Germane Poet, who besides his Latin Version of Hesiods opera, & dies, in Elegiac Verse, and also Three of Sophocles his Tragedies, as his Ajax, Electra and Antigone, hath also written Epigrams and some other Poems.  
Georgius Sabinus, a Brandenburger, the Son in Law of Philip Melanchton, a Person of no obscure Fame among Germane writers both for Verse and Prose.  
George Sands, a well approved writer of his Travels into Foreign Parts; but a much more admired Translator of Ovid's Metamorphses into English Verse, and Paraphrast of David's Psalms; and not unapplauded for his Tragedy of Christ's Passion.  
Georgius Siputus Daripenus, a Germane Poet, the most particularly remembered of whose Poems are his Congratulatories upon the Arrival of the Emperor Maximilian to Colen.  
Georgius Thurius, a Hungarian, one of the most Eminent of that Nation for Latin Poesy.  
Georgius Tilenus, a Germane writer not forgotten among the chief of the Latin Versisiers of that Nation.  
George Withers, a most profuse pourer forth of English Rhyme, 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 turned into English Verse the Songs of Moses, and other Hymns of the Old Testament; in all which, and whatever else there is of his dispersed 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 Versify; 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 called the Shepherd's Hunting.  
Gerardus Bucoldianus, a Germane, both Orator and Poet, the chiefly remembered of whose Poems is that of the Muse's progress into Germany: He Flourished at Bon●nia in the Year 1535.  
Germanus Auber●us Aurelius, one of principal note among the French Poetical writers of Latin Verse.  
Germanus Brixius of Auxerre, a Canon of Paris, among whose Poetical writings there are principally mentioned his Antimorus, or Invective against our Countryman 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 Greece Language, and not meanly versed in all kind of Humane Literature; 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, mentioned by Biondi.  
Giacopo Gaddi, an Italian, who shares in Fame among the Poetical Writers of that Nation.  
Giacopo Ca●●●eo, an Italian, Author of a Poem Entitled Peregrino, which was printed Anno 1538.  
Giacopo Sadoletti, a Contemporary, Associate, and as it were Copartner 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 10th, to be his Scretaries together, both advanced to the Purple by Paul the 3d, vuder whose Reign they both died.  
Gilb●rtus Ducherius Vulto, a Poetical writer, of whom, what ever he wrote beside, there are Extant Five Books of Epigrams, and an Eclogue printed by Oporinus at Basil.  
Giovanni Ambrogio Marini, an Italian Poet, whose Cal●andro Fidele was printed at Venice Anno 1664.  
Giovanni Andrea Rosetti, a late Poetical writer among the Italians, the Author of a Poem Entitled M●rmono d'Helicona▪  
Giovanni Andreini, another Italian, Author of a Fantastic Poem, as he himself calls it, Entitled Olivastro, which was printed at Bologna Anno 1642.  
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 ranked 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, etc. besides which he wrote several other things both Historical and Geographical; he Flourished in the Year 1375.  
Giovanni della Casa, an Italian Lyric Poet, whose Rhyme 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 Sienna, but chiefly for Pastorals.  
Giulio Goselani, an Italian writer of Rhyme or Sonnets, which were printed at Venice Anno 1588.  
Mr. Gomb●ud, a French Epigrammatist.  
Gothofredus Torinus, a French Poet, Eminent among the chief writers of Latin Verse of that Nation.  
Godfrey Prior of Winchester, an Old English Poet as he is reckoned, by Cambden in his Remains; he is indeed a borderer between the Ancients and Moderns, for he Flourished 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 supposed to have been Dedicated to Gnalterus▪  
Guido Cavalcanti, see Ottavio Rinuccini.  
Guido, First Presbyter, than Bishop of Ferrara, who wrote in Verse remarks upon the Old and New Testament, which Work he called the Pearl of the Bible, and Dedicated it to Pope Clement the 5th, his Fame broke forth about the Year 1310. so that he was Contemporary with Dante, and as it were a Frontier Author 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, Surnamed 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 Tragicomedy Hypocrisis, are his Triumph of Eloquence in various Verse; and his Poem of Psyche's Calamity and Restoration.  
Gulielmus Hondius, a late Germane Poet, whose Cithara Spiritualis Sex Chordarum was printed at Colen Anno 1637.  
Gulielmus Modicius, an Italian, for Latin Poesy reckoned among the principal of that Nation.  
Gulielmus Salustius Bartasius, or du Bartas, a French Poet, whose Poem of the 6 days work of Creation, translated by Joshua Sylvester, hath had a very great Fame here in England, and is yet in great Esteem with many.  
Gulielmus X●lander, a learned both Logician, Mathematician, Musician, Historian, Philosopher, Linguist, and also Poet (as Melchior adam's in his Life Characters him) of Augusta, born in the Year of our Lord 1530. he was Professor of the Greece Tongue at Heidelberg.   

H.  
HAns Sacs' Teucherus, a Poet of special note among the Germans.  
Helius Eobanus, a Hessian of like authority, and pre-eminence among the Germane Poets, as Tasso hath been among the Italians; of his many poetical Works the chief are his Bucolic Idyls, his Sylvae, his Eulogies of Famous Men, his sacred Heroines, his description of the City Norimberg in Verse, and of the Prince of Hessen's Victory against the Sueves, besides his Elegant Version of David's Psalms in Elegiac Verse.  
Henricus Curandinus, a Germane particularly taken notice of among those of that Nation that have been Eminent for Latin Poetry.  
Henricus Andersonus, a Scotchman, whose Eglogues, and Musarum Querela are among the selected Works of other Noted Latin Poets of that Nation.  
Henricus Bebelius, a Poet of Justingen, a Town which gives Title to a Barony in the Circle of Suevia, who among many other things both in Prose and Verse wrote the Art Condendorum Carminum.  
Henricus Danskinus one of the Society of those Eminent Latin Poets of Scotland, of whose Works a particular selection is published.  
Henricus Ecardus, a Poet of Noremberg, in which Town his Poems were printed by Georgius Merkelius Anno 1553.  
Henricus Euticus, a Poet of Franconia, who wrote in Verse a Book of Jests, and Witty Conceits, a Satire against Sophists, and Enemies of the study of Humanity, the praises of the B. Virgin, Epigrams, and some other things; he Flourished Anno 1494.  
Henricus Florentinus wrote a description in Verse of the Grandeur and state of the Emperor Frideric, and is quoted by the Learned Felix Malleolus.  
Henry Glaphthorn, a Dramatic writer not altogether ill deserving of the English Stage by his Hollander, Lady's Privilege and Wit in a Constable Comedies; his Argalus and Parthenia a Pastoral; and Albertus Wallestein a Tragedy.  
Henry Howard, the most Noble Earl of Surry, who Flourishing in the time of King Henry the 8th, as his Name is sufficiently famous for the Martial Exploits of that Family for many Generations, so deserves he, had he his due, the particular Fame of Learning, Wit, and Poetic Fancy, which he was thought once to have made sufficiently appear in his published Poems, which nevertheless are now so utterly forgotten, as though they had never been Extant, so Antiquated at present, and as it were out of fashion is the style and way of Poetry of that Age; whereas an English writer of those times in a Treatise called the Art of English Poesy alleges, That Sir Th. Wyatt the Elder, and Henry Earl of Surry were the Two Chieftains, who having Traveled into Italy, and there tasted the sweet and stately Measures and Style of the Italian Poesy, greatly polished our rude and homely manner of vulgar Poesy from what it had been before, and may therefore justly be showed to be the Reformers of our English Meeter and Style.  
Henricus Husannus, a Germane conspicuous among the Latin Versifiers of that Nation.  
Henry King, late Bishop of Chichester, a no less Grave and Reverend Divine in his later time then, in his youthful Age, of an obliging Conversation by his Wit and Fancy, and both in his Younger and Elder Years a constant lover of Music, Poetry, and all Ingenuous Arts; the Effect of his latest and most serious Muse being his generally admired and approved Version of David's Psalms into English Meeter.  
Henricus Lo●itus Glareanus, a Helvetian of the Town of Clarona, among the vast number of whose Elaborate Treatises in various kinds of Learning; his poetical pieces were both enough, and sufficiently in repute to gain him the Title of Poet Laureate; nor was his Name less Eminent in Music: He is mentioned Flourishing at Friburg a Town of Bisgoia, in the Circle of Alsatia Anno 1551.  
Henricus Meibomius, an Elegant Poet, Expert Musician, and Judicious Historian of Lemgoia, one of the 7 Free Cities in the Circle of Westphalia.  
Henry Lord Morly. a Nobleman of great account in the Reign of King Henry the 8h, by whom he was sent with the Garter to the Archduke of Austria: There are mentioned with Honour in our English Histories several Works of his writing, for the most part poetical, and particularly several Tragedies and Comedies.  
Henricus Oroeus, a not uneminent Modern writer of Latin Verse.  
Henricus Petreius, a noted both Civilian, and Poet of Hardcsia.  
Henry Picardet, a Frenchman, whose Poesies Francoises were printed at Paris Anno 1663.  
Henricus Ranzovius, a Learned Germane, particularly famed among many others of that Nation for his Excellent faculty in Latin Verse.  
Henricus Smetius, a Nobleman and Physician of Alosta in Flanders, who besides his Prosodia, a well known and much used Book among the Versifying Boys in public Schools, by which they are taught the quantity of words in Latin Verse, by Examples out of all the choicest Latin Poets, had in his younger Years discovered also his own petic Genius, in several pieces of Latin Poesy, as his History of the Kings of Judah, his History of Susanna, his Treatise of several parts of Medicine, and his Translation of Homer's Batram●omachia.  
Henry Vaughan, Surnamed Silurist, from that part of Wales whose Inhabitants were formerly called Silures; the Author of certain English Poems, which came forth Anno 1658. under the Title of Olor Iscanus.  
Henricus Rollochus, one of the Number of Scotch writers of Latin Verse, whose selected Poems are published together.  
Hercules Strozza, see Titus.  
Hercole a Poet of Vdene, a Town under the signory of Venice, chiefly known by his Psyche, o● Poem of the Soul.  
Hermannus Hugo, an Eminent Philosopher, Theologist, Musician and Poet of Brussels in Flanders, from whose Original those Divine Emblematical Fancies that bear the Name of Quarles are derived.  
Hermolaus Barbarus, a Patrician, or Nobleman of Venice, whose profound Learning and great Parts advanced him to be Archbishop and Patriarch of Aquileia, and afterwards to the College of Cardinals.  
Hieronymus Amaltheus, a most excellent Philosopher and Physician by profession; but moreover a Composer of such Elegant Verses for his diversion, that M. Antonins Muretus, an Exact Judge of those things, gives him the Palm before all the Italian Poets of his time; he is mentioned Flourishing in the Year 1574.  
Hieronymus Balbus, a writer of Gorcum, who besides several prosaic Treatises, wrote a Book of Epigrams concerning the Turkish Affairs, to Pope Clement the ● h; the mentioned time of his Flourishing is the Year 1520.  
Hieronymus Fracastorius, so profound in Philosophy, and the Mathematical Arts, especially Astronomy, and so happy a professor of Medicine, that he might well have been excused from Poetry; yet his greatest Aemulators, saith Thuanus, could not but confess that his style came very near the Majesty of Virgil.  
Hieronymus Donatus, an Eminent both Philosopher, Theologist, Mathematician, Orator, 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 supplied several Greece Poets of the latter date, as Prodromus, Xanthopulus, Psellius, Philus, Callieles, and Nonnus Panopolita, a multitude of Verses expunged and lost by the injury of time, and other accidents, to which their Manuscripts had been exposed, besides several Epigrams of his own both in Latin and Greece.  
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, Samson, Heli, out of the Old; his Vineyard, Ophiletes, and Royal Marriage out of the New; besides a Tragedy out of Profane 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 Virtues 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 Silvius, his Poem upon the Resurrection, with some other things of various subject.  
Hugo Grotius, a Native of Delft in Holland, born in the year of our Lord 1513, whose equal in fame for Wit & Learning, Christendom of late Ages hath rarely produced, 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 Germane born, but Knight of France, among whose Poetical works collected together and printed at Frank ford an. 1538, are his satire against the times of Julius Secundus, his Hortatory to the Emperor 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, etc.  
Huldricus Scoberus, another Germane 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 Christ's Passion.  
Humbertus Momnoretanus, the Author of a Sylva in praise of Upper Burgundy, which is printed with Gilbertus Cognatus his Descriptiou of Burgundy.  
Humphrey 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 published under the title of the Melancholy Vision, consisting of several Moral and Divine Contemplations.   

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Jacobus Balde, a Jesuit, of whom there are extant Miscellaneous Poems, divided into 4 tomes.  
jacobus 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 published with several Poems of Gaspar Barlaeus, and Cornelius Boius, by both whom he was highly celebrated.  
jacobus Ceporinus, a learned Grammarian and Commentatour of Zurich one of the Chief Cantons of Swissers, much esteemed for his Scholia's upon Hesiod, Dionysius Afer, and Aratus, as also for a Book of Lepid Greece Epigrams of his own Composing.  
jacobus Crellius, wrote in Greece Verse Arguments upon all the Books of the Old and New Testament.  
jacobus 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.  
jacobus Ghibbesius; a late Author of Lat. Odes, which were printed at Rome an. 1665.  
jacobus 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 worthy to be compared with the most admired 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.  
jacobus jaspar, a Danish Poet, who wrote a Consolatory Poem to the Prince of Orange, upon the death of his Firstborn 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 Germane Poet, whose Varia Poemata were printed at Geneva, an. 1609.  
Jacobus Macolonus, a Scotchman, whose Anthroporia Xeniorum is extant among the Selected works of others of the prime Latin Poets accounted of that Nation  
Jacobus Micyllus, a famed Writer of Strasburg, whose Epigrams both Greece 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 Scholar.  
Jacobus Montanus, a Poet of Spire, one of the 18 Imperial Cities: He wrote Christ's Passion in four Books in Elegiac Verse, Hymns upon the Feast days of the whole year, in divers kinds of Verse, the Hero of Tarsus, or the Life of St. Paul, in Heroic Verse, beside some things in Prose.  
Jacobus Rueff, a Chirurgeon of Zurick, who besides several useful things in Prose, among which is his Catalogue of the Chief Physicians 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 Tragicomedy entitled the Monomachy, 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 Archbishop 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 flourished at Spire an. 1494.  
jacobus Zevecotius, a Hollander esteemed 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.  
james Shirley, a just pretender to more than 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 inferior 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 Maid's Revenge, Chabot Admiral of France, the Traitor; the Imposture, a Tragicomedy; Arcadia, a Pastoral, etc.  
james 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, proved a great proficient in all, and particularly left recorded Memorials behind him of his perfection in Music and Poetry.  
janus' 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.  
janus' Chunradus Rhumelius, a writer of Latin Verse, with success sufficient to be ranked among the Chief of modern Latin Poets.  
janus' Anysius, a writer of Satyrs and other Poems, which he dedicated to Cardinal Pompeio Colonua.  
janus' Cornarus, a learned Germane Author of Zwiccaria, among whose multitude of other works, his Carmen Propempticon to Franciscus a Stiten, is not forgotten, he is mentioned flou rishing in the year 1551.  
Janus Douza, a Belgic both Poet and Orator, 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 judgement than learning, he obtained to be generally styled the Varro of Batavia, and Common Oracle of the Academy. He is recorded flourishing in the year 1604.  
Janus Lernutius, a learned Germane, particularly remembered 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 Gavarivo of Verona, and Giacopo Antonio Marcello of Venice, his Proseu●htich to Frederik the 3d d for the Peace of Italy, besides Epigrams, Elegies and other Miscellanies.  
Janus Parrhasius, a Portuguese, proclaimed 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-countries.  
Joachimus Bellaius, a Kinsman of Cardinal Bellaius, in whose Family, for he himself was not a Person of any great Fortune, he enjoyed a happy vacancy to his study and Muse, to which he was wonderfully addicted: his Tristia, and his Ludi Rustici are particularly mentioned 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 children's 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 Germane 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 Paraphrase in Verse upon the Lord's Prayer.  
joachimus 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 Austria's pretends to be Heroic.  
joachimus Vadianus, a Helvetian, both Physician, Poet and Orator; the chief of whose Poetic works are his Poem in praise of the Emperor's Frederic the third, and his Son Maximilian, his Epitaph of Rodolphus Bishop of Wurtsburg, his Eglogue entitled Faustus, his Elegy of the Armouries and Ensigns of honour given by Sigismond K. of the Romans to the Family of the Vadianis, his Elegy describing his combat with Death, and his Ode upon the Resurrection; he died in the year of our Lord 1551.  
Ioan●es Albinus, a Germane Poet eminent among the writers of Latin Verse of that Nation.  
joannes Alexander Brassicanus, an industrious publisher of several ancient Authors, which were before unknown, as the works of Eucherius, the Greece Geoponics of Constantine, Bishop Salvianus his Book of judgement 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.  
joannes Altus, a Poet of Hessen, who wrote an Epithalamium to joannes Fabricius Montanus, and put into Verse Suetonius his History of the 12 Caesar's.  
joannes 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 David's Psalms; in Prose a Treatise of the several Sects of Philosophers, and of the original of Philosophy.  
joannes 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 itself, 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 Germane Author next after whose Commentaries upon Macer's Book of Planets, there is mentioned an Elegy of his upon the Rustic war, begun in Germany in the year 1525; he is mentioned 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 Sphere.  
Joannes Anratus, The Regius Professor of the Greece Tongue at Paris under Charles the 9th 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 Chrysopoea, or The Art of making Gold in 3 Books, which he dedicated to Pope Leo the 10th; another called Geronticon in one Book, besides 5 Books of jambics, 2 of Sermons, and 2 of Odes.  
Joannes Baleus, an English writer, who flourished 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.  
joannes 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.  
joannes Baptista Egnatius, an Eminent and General Professor of the Liberal Arts at Venice, of which City 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.  

* Giovanni Battista Pigna.  joannes 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.  
joannes Baptista Scaphenatius, a Milanese, of whose writing something is preserved among the Collected works of several Eminent Italian writers of Latin Poetry.  
joannes Barclaius, a most acute learned and Elegant Scochman, and very famous for what he hath written 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 allegorised or couched under feigned and invented Story.  
joannes Boccatius, see Giovanni Boccatio.  
joannes Bonfinius, a Frenchman of Auvergne, whose Basia and other Poems were printed at Leiden an. 1656.  
joannes Busmannus, a writer of Poems which were printed at Wirtemberg an. 1337.  
joannes 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 published an Elegant Book of Latin Epigrams; but whose Noble Book of chorography begun in Verse, was not only left unfinished, but also that which was done of it lost, together with his learned Scholia upon Pliny.  
Joannes Crato, a Silesian, born at Vratisla●● the Chief City of that Country, in the year of our Lord 1512; he is styled by Boisa●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 remained Counsellor and Chief Physician for 26 years to 3 Emperors 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 Sigismond de Erberstein, a Knight of Poland, upon his return from Muscovie; another upon the Victory of Sigismond 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, mentioned 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 published himself with other Poems of his: He flourished at Zurich in the year 1554.  
Joannes Filiczkius, a Hungarian Poet, remembered 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, etc. was printed at Venice, by Gulielmo de Fontaneto an. 1520.  
joannes Franciscus Mutius, an Italian, of whom what is extant in Latin Verse is to be found among the selected works of divers of the principal Latin Poets of that Nation.  
joannes 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 jovius, in his Eulogies, and also by Boissartus in his Icones.  
joannes 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, etc. 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 Saviour's Nativity, the second a Sylva upon his Resurrection, 7 Tragedies, whereof 2 Divine; and 5 Comedies.  
joannes de Gerson, a French Author of a most wonderful multitude of Volumes, whereof some in Verse, particularly his Epithalamium upon the Mystical Marriage between 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.  
joannes Fungerus, a Germane, who sung in Heroic Verse the Acts of Maurice William Governor of Friesland.  
joannes 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 happened in the year 1538. his Funeral Elegy upon John Prince of Saxony, 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 Pagn●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 mentioned 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 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 Emer● 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, tetrastics of the Saints, and Distiches 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, etc.  
Joannes Lanterbachius, an Author sufficiently Eminent among the Germane writers in Latin Verse.  
Joannes Leochaeus, a learned Scotchman, of considerable repute for his Elegant Latin Poems entitled Musae Priores, which in his late Majesty's Reign were printed at London, and dedicated to William Earl of Pembroke.  
joannes Linkius, a Germane, reputed one of the Chief among the Latin Poets of that Nation.  
joannes Lorichius Hadamarus, a well approved Germane 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.  
joannes Ludovicus Brassicanus, a Germane, whose Carmen Odoeporicon to joachimus Camerarius, is the chief of what I find mentioned of his Poetry: In Prose he wrote a Comment upon Cicero's Book De Legibus, and other noted things.  
joannes Major, a Belgian, reckoned among the Principal writers of that Country in Latin Poetry.  
joannes Maria Velmatius, an Italian, whose Latin Muse travelled 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 Germane, who wrote a Poem in Elegiac Verse, in praise of Autumn; he flourished at Heidelberg an. 1552.  
Joannes Metellanus, a Scotchman, whose Epigrams are published among the selected Poems of several others, esteemed the Chief 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 Germane, mentioned particularly for his Epithalamium upon the Nuptials of Simon R●stius, with Margereta, the Daughter of Antonius Turlera.  
joannes 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 mentioned time of his Flourishing is the year 1602.  
joannes Phernandus, a Germane, 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 flourished an. 1494.  
joannes Picus, Count of Mirandula, the Phoenix of his Age, and darling of the Muses, as he is styled 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, Surnames 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 lived 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, etc.  
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 Greece Verse.  
Joannes Posthius, a learned both Physician 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 journey 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 Journey into Livonia.  
Joannes Rosa, one of those Latin Poets accounted of the prime of Scotland, who are joined together in a published 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 Germane Writer, well approved for his Latin Poems.  
joannes Scotus Scototarvatius, a Scotch Knight, and Person of Eminent Dignity in the State, yet more advanced in Fame, by the Place his Elegies have obtained among the most esteemed 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 mentioned 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 Germane, 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 Germane Theologist and Preacher at Northausen, an Imperial Town in the Circle of Saxony, 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 honoured with the Title of Historian to the Emperor Maximilian: several things he wrote in Verse, but what he wrote in Prose were chiefly Astronomical and Geographical.  
Joannes Stella, a Venetian Poet, who wrote the Lives of several Popes, in Latin Verse.  
Joannes Stigelius, a famous Germane Astronomer, and not obscure Poet, which last Character he bears from his Epithalamium of Georgius Sabinus, and Anne the Daughter of Philip Melanction; his Versification of several of David's Psalms, with other Scripture Hymns; his Epicedium upon the death of Euricius Cordus, another upon the death of Anne Wife of Philip Earl of Nassaw; his Eclogue Jolas, upon the Emperor Charles 5th, etc. He Flourished in the year 1554.  
Joannes Tetthingerus, an Author of Tubingen, one of the 16 Earldoms in the Circle of Suevia, who set forth in Heroic Verse the 4 Wirtembergs wars, which lasted for many years; he flourished at Pfullendorf anno 1534.  
Joannes Thomas Musconius, a Member of that Society of Italian Poets, who are joined together in a Published Collection of their selected Works in Latin Verse.  
Joannes Thuilius, a Poet of Mons-Mariae, who saluted Nicolaus Contarenus' Duke of Venice, with a Solemn Panegyric in Verse, and was highly in Favour with Andreas Maurocenus, and Dominicus Molinus for his Exalted Vein in Poetry.  
Joannes Versola, a Spaniard, who by King Philip the Second then in England, and Married to our Queen Mary, was sent Ambassador to Rome. The Verses which he took delight to Compose in the interval of his more serious affairs, had the esteem of Learned Men, and were printed at Panormus in Sicily, under the Title of Epistles.  
joannes Vrsinus, an Eminent Professor of Medicine, which Apollo-like he joined with Poetry: he described in Elegiac Verse the Prosopopoea or Metaphorical Representation of divers Animals, as also the Diaetetical part of Medicine: besides a little Book of Moral Sentences in Verse, like that of Cato.  
jodocus Badius Ascentius, a Commentatour upon Tully's Offices and Epistles, and Boethius de Consolation Philosophiae: Erasmus compares him to Budaeus, whom he calls the Ornament of France. Moreover, by a late English Author he is charactered the most famous Philosopher, Rhetorician and Poet of his time.  
jodocus Gallus, a Dr of Theology of Rubeaqua, a Town in Upper Alsatia, and Pastor of the Church of Spire, who besides several Theological Treatises, in Prose, wrote Epigrams in divers kinds of Verse.  
john Cleaveland, a Notable High soaring Witty Loyalist of Cambridge, whose Verses in the time of the Civil War begun to be in great request, both for their Wit and zeal to the King's cause, for which indeed he appeared the first, if not only, Eminent Champion in Verse against the Presbyterian Party; but most especially against the Kirck and Scotch Covenant, which he prosecuted with such a Satirical fury, that the whole Nation fares the worse for it, lying under a most grievous Poetical Censure. In fine, so great a Man hath Cleaveland been in the Estimation of the generality, in regard his Conceits were out of the common road, and Wittily far fetch't, that Grave Men in outward appearance have not spared in my hearing to affirm him the best of English Poets, and let them think so still, who ever please, provided it be made no Article of Faith.  
Sr John Davis, the Learned and well accomplished Father of a no less learned and accomplished Daughter the present Countess Dowager of Huntingdon: his Poem Nosce teipsum, (besides which and his Orchestra published together with it, both the products of his younger years) I remember to have seen from the hands of the Countess a judicious Metaphrase of several of David's Psalms) is said to have made him first known to Queen Elizabeth, and afterwards brought him in favour with King James, under whose auspexes addicting himself to the Study of the Common Law of England, he was made the King's First Sergeant, and afterwards his Attorney General in Ireland.  
Sr John Denham, late Surveyour of his majesty's Works; but of a much more celebrated memory by the Fame of what he hath written in Poetry, especially his Cooper's Hill, and his Tragedy The Sophi, which having been long since published and in general esteem, came forth again a few years since, joined with the rest of his Poetical Works, which together amount to a considerable Volume.  
John Donne, a Student in his younger years in Lincoln's Inn, whither he betook himself from the University of Oxford; but instead of po●ing upon readious Reports, Judgements and Statute Books, he accomplished himself with the politer kind of Learning, moderately enjoyed the pleasures of the Town, and frequented good Company, to which the sharpness of his Wit, and gaiety of Fancy, rendered him not a little grateful; in which state of life he composed his more brisk and Youthful Poems, which are rather commended for the height of Fancy and acutness of conceit, then for the smoothness of the Verse. At last by King James his command, or rather earnest persuasion, setting himself to the study of Theology, and entering into Holy Orders, he was first made Preacher of Lincoln's Inn, afterwards advanced to be Dean of Paul's: and as of an Eminent Poet he became a much more Eminent Preacher, so he rather improved then relinquished his Poetical Fancy; only converting it from human and worldly to Divine and Heavenly subjects.  
John Driden, Poet Laureate, and Historiographer to His present Majesty: with whom such hath been the approbation and acceptance his Poetry hath obtained, especially what he hath written of Dramatic, with wonderful success to the Theatre Royal, viz. Comedies, several abounding with no vulgar wit and ingenuity, as the Maiden Queen, the Wild Gallant, the Mock ginger, Marriage a la mode, the Amorous Old Woman, the Assignation: Tyrannic Love, and Amboyna Tragedies; besides Historical Dramas; viz. the Indian Emperor, and two parts of the Conquests of Granada, in which if he have indulged a little too much to the French way of continual Rhyme and interlarding of History with ascititious Love and Honour, I am apt to impute it rather to his complying with the modyfied an gallantish humour of the time, then to his own well examined judgement.  
john Fletcher, one of the happy Trinmvirat (the other two being johnson and Shakespeare) of the Chief Dramatic Poets of our Nation, in the last foregoing Age, among whom there might be said to be a symmetry of perfection, while each excelled in his peculiar way: Ben. johnson in his elaborate pains and knowledge of Authors, Shakespeare in his pure vein of wit, and natural Poetic height; Fletcher in a courtly Elegance, and gentile familiarity of style, and withal a wit and invention so overflowing, that the luxuriant branches thereof were frequently thought convenient to be lopped off by his almost inseparable Companion Francis Beaumond.  
john Ford, a Dramatic Writer some years since, of Tragedies and Comedies, in their season I suppose not wholly strangers to the English Stage: His Tragedies The Broken Heart, Loves Sacrifice, and 'Tis pity she's a Whore; his Comedies the Fancies & the Lady's Trial, he wrote also a Tragicomedy Loves Labyrinth, besides the Dramatic History of Perkin Warbec.  
Sr John Gowr, a very Famous English Poet in his time, and counted little inferior, 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 Laureate and Knight. His Chief Works may be gathered 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 3d d Vox clamantis, of which last being printed in the Reign of King Henry the 8th, the Impression is not yet totally extinguished: 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 Vellum fair written, containing the whole circuit of Natural Philosophy, and the allegories of all the Poetical Fictions; but that there were other things of his writing appears by what is extant of him in Chaucer's published Works.  
john 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 Virtue, was published no less while ago then the year 1565. Of the same name also flourished within these 30 years a Bishopric of Durham Man, who besides his juvenile Poems, memorable only for their airy and youthful wit, improved afterwards to a more substantial reputation for what, he has wrote as well in Verse as Proof; but a Poem he began of great and general expectation among his Friends, had he lived to complete it, would doubtless have very much advanced and completed his Fame.  
john Harding, a writer recorded in History for one of the Chief of his time; viz. the Reign of K. Edward the 4th, and claiming his Seat among the Poetical Writers, by his Chronicle in English Verse.  
john Hauvise, a Monk of St. Alban, 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.  
john Hoddesdon, one of the last Age, who with his Zion and Parnassus, makes a shift to crowd in among many others, not of the greatest Fame. And so likewise,  
john kennedy, a Scotchman, with his History in Verse of Lycanthropos and Lucilla.  
john 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 gained him a name not much inferior, if not equal to Drayton, and others of the next rank to Spencer; but they are all to be produced 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 last his Supplement to Chaucer's Squires Tale.  
john Leland, an Antiquary of London, who Flourished 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 Sr Thomas Wyatt; and several other things in Verse.  
john Lily, a Writer of several old fashioned 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, Sappho & Phao: Comedies, a Warning for Fair W●men.  
●●hn Lydgate, an Augustin Monk of St. Edmunds-Bury, who had the reputation of a person much accomplished, by his travels into Italy and France; and besides several things of his of polite Argument in Prose, was much esteemed for what he wrote also in Verse; as his Eglogues, Odes, Satyrs, and other Poems.  
john Marston, a Tragic and Comic Writer, not of the meanest Rank among our English Dramatics. His Comedies are the Dutch Courtesan, the Fawn, What you will; His Tragedies Antonio and Melida, the Insatiate Countess, besides the Malcontent a Tragy Comedy; the Faithful Shepherd a Pastoral.  
john 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 Paradise lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonista; in which how far he hath revived the Majesty and true Decornm of Heroic Poesy and Tragedy: it will better become a person less related than myself, 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 gained him the Style and Office of his majesty's Cosmographer; in Verse his Translat. of Homer & Virgil, & which is the chief of all, as Composed 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 deceased, being the exactest of Heroic Poets, (if the truth were well examined, 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 received 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 produced the satire against Hypocrites, and the Travested Metaphrase of two Books of Virgil, besides what is dispeirced 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 Rhymer, and I warrant ye accounted a notable Poet, as Poetry went in those days, namely King Edward the fourth's Reign, when doubtless good Poets were scarce; for however he had the good fortune to be chosen Poet Laureate: methinks he hath a miserable loose, 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, Beware 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 liberty of Satirically gibing at the vices and corruptions of the Clergy.  
Sr john Sucking, a witty and elegant Courtier under 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 than Lamp, and still keep up their reputation equal with any Writ so long ago; his Plays also still bring audience to the Theatre.  
john Webster, an Associate with Thomas Decker, in several not wholly to be rejected Plays; viz. Northward Ho, the Noble Stranger, New trick to cheat the Devil; Westward Ho, 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 Devil's Law case, a Tragicomedy, the White Devil, the Duchess of Malfi, Tragedies.  
John Wilson, a late Writer with no bad success of two Comedies, the Cheats and the Projectors; and the Tragedy of Andronicus Commenius.  
Ionas 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 than 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 day's work of Creation, by which he is more generally famed; (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 taste of whose Poetical Fancy is extant among other the choice 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 Silkworms, 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 Surname of Scaligeri; of whom Julius hath the testimony of the Great Thuanus, for a Person unparallelled by any of his Age, & scarce giving Place to any of the Ancients, as Josephus is by the same Historian ranked in the next Place to his Father Julius, whose extant Poems, both Greece and Latin have gained 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 famed 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 aught 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 famed things in Prose; yet to be reckoned also among the chief of Belgic Latin Poets, for he was born at brussels, for his excellent Genius in Latin Verse: he was a constant admirer of Joseph Scaliger, and by him no less beloved: 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 Countryman Virgil's Verses, that by Learned Men he is judged to have excelled 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' Archbishop of Coloign, wrote a Book of Hymns in various kinds of Verse.  
Lambertus Danaeus, a Writer of Geography in Latin Verse.  
Lancinus Curtius, wrote decades of Epigrams, which were printed at Milan by Rochus & Ambrose de Valle anno 1521.  

* Lorenzo Bonicontri.  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.  

* Lorenzo Gambaro.  Laurentius Gambarus, a principal Favourite 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.  
Lazar● Buonamico, an Italian Poet of Basiana & Paduan Professor 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 called 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 lived, might perhaps have arrived somewhat near his perfection, if not equalled him at least in another kind; for his Genius was Poetical, but he was snatched 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 Judgement, besides Epigrams in various kind of Verse.  
Levinus Brechtus, a Friar Minorite of Louvain, who wrote the Lives of divers Illustrious Martyrs, both in Froze and Verse.  
Levinus Torrentinus, a Native of Gaunt, highly extolled by Meibomius, for his Learning in general; by Sandius for his Notes upon Suetonius and Horace; and by Aubertus Miraeus for his Odes 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 unesteemed, and not yet totally forgotten Tragicomedies; 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 Sr Francis Drake's Exploits in the West-Indies.  
Lorenzo Medici, a Noble Florentine, as his Name imports, whose Poesy Volgari was printed at Venice an. 1554.  
Lucas Shepherd, 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, etc. 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 Rhyme 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 Shepherd; see Lucas Sh.   

M.  
MAlens Acidalius, a Writer in Latin Poetry of the number of those that are esteemed of the chief Germane Writers of that kind.  
Maphaeus Barberinus, a great Ornament to the Papal Chair, to which he was advanced by the Name of urban the 8th, by reason of his polite Learning and Elegance; among other Arts and Sciences, in which he had attained a great perfection, his extant Poetry hath gained 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, Surnamed Stellatus Poeta, the Author of a well known and approved 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 Greece Authors, made himself so much Master of that Language, that he hath among other things both in Prose and Verse, written 8 Books of Greece Epigrams with the success of no vulgar repute; he outlived the year 1544.  
Marcus Aemilius Portus, the Son of Franciscus a Cretensian, or Native of the Isle of Candie, a Professor of the Greece Tongue; first at Ferrara, next at Orleans; whose Metaphrase of David's Psalms in Greece 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 conversed 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, endeared 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 Silkworms; his Description of the Game at Chess; in one Book; besides Hymns, Odes, Bucolic, Eclogues, etc. 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 remembered for his Poem entitled Malteis.  
Marcus Musurus, a Cretan Writer of Epigrams, whereof those are particularly remembered which he wrote upon certain Greece Authors, set forth by Nicolaus Blastus at Venice an. 1500.  
Mario Colonna; see Ludovico Dol●e.  
Marius Philelphus, the Son of Franciscus already mentioned, and Heir of his Father's both Dignity and Fame for he was also both Knight and Poet Laureate.  
Martinus Earnerus, his Sylv●●la in various Latin Verse, not unmentioned by the Registers of the Works of Eminent Men.  
Martin LLeu●llin, the not uncommended Writer of a Book of Facetious Poems, which while he was Student of Christ-Church in Oxford, were published by the Title of Man-Miracles; but now more conversant in another of Apollo's Faculties the Study and practice of Physic.  
Martinus Bovillus, the Author of funeral Elegies, which were printed at Brescia anno 1519.  
Martinus Braschius, a Germane 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 written in Latin Verse.  
Martinus Praetorius, a Germane of Poetical Fame, chiefly for his Poem of Heroic Title Austria's.  
Martinus Turnemannus, a Germane, 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 Germane, one of the principal esteemed 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.  
Mathias 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.  
Mathias Surnamed from his Country Illyricus, a Greece Professor at Tubing, who set forth Poems also of various subjects.  
Mathias Mosnaverus, a Writer of Strasburg, no less famed for his learned Epigrams then what he wrote in Prose; he is recorded Flourishing an. 1543.  
Mathias Ringmannus Philesius, a native of Vogesium, the Disciple of Jacobus Wimphelingus, and a writer of both Prose and Verse, particularly Epigrammatic.  
Mathias Stoius, a Poetical writer of Regiomonte in Prussia, of whose writing I find particularly mentioned his Elegiac Poem upon Christ's Baptism, and his Eclogue upon the Nuptials of Gaspar Peucerus, and Magdalen the Daughter of Melanchthon.  
Mauritius Marganensis, an English-Man, who Flourished 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. etc. 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 published with the selected Works of divers 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 Relics, saved by him from shipwreck, to the Public, added also several Copies of his own Verses, written in no unelegant style.  
Melchior Acontius, a Germane, 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 Agri●ola, a writer of Latin Epigrams, whose Surname is sufficient to gain him reputation, what ever Relation he had to the Great Rodolphus.  
Melchior Barlaeus, a writer, though not of equal fame for Poetry with Gaspar, yet reckoned of the number of the chiefly esteemed writers of the Low-Countries, for Latin Poetry.  
Mr Menage; see Aegidius Menagius.  
Mercurius Ronzius, a writer of divers Tragedies so well esteemed, that Albertus de Eyb in his Margarita Poetica, hath made a collection of Sentences out of them.  
Michael Surnamed 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 Surnamed The Cornish, Poet, a notable Rhymer in Latin Verse, in the time of K. john and Henry the third; out of whose Rhyms for Merry England, as Cambden calls them, several passages are quoted by the same Author in his remains.  
Michael Drayton, Contemporary of Spencer and Sir Philip Sidney, and for Fame and renown in Poetry, not much inferior 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 fashioned kind of Verse whereof, seem somewhat to diminish that respect which was formerly paid 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 England's, Heroical Epistles are more generally liked, 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 9th till 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 Ʋander 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 called Don Quixot; besides Novelles and other things in Prose; and in Verse, what ever besides, a Poem entitled Viaje di Parnassus.  
Miguel, a Spanish Licentiate, whose Minerva Sacra, is mentioned with other late Poetical pieces of that Nation.  
Mr Mole, a French both State's Man, for he was Precedent of the Parliament of Paris, and writer of Commended Poems, which were published not many years▪ since at Paris.   

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NAtalis Comes, a Grave and Learned Venetian Historian, though most generally famed 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 annexed his Poem of Hunting, in Elegant Latin Verse; besides what else he wrote in Poetry.  
Nathan Chytraeus, a Germane, 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 Germane writer of nomean account in Poetry, not less than 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 Sir Philip Sidney, in a published Collection of selected Odes, of the chief Pastoral Sonnetters, etc. of that Age.  
Nicolaus Causinus, a very famous French man, Father Confessor jointly with jacobus Sirmondus, to King Lewis the 13th 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, etc. 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 possessor 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 4th; and as Poetry than went, was looked upon as a very Famous Man in those times.  
Nicolaus Marius Panicianus a Ferrarese, whose Poetic writings were both many, and of various subjects.  
Nicolaus Querculus, the Author of 2 Books of Moral Hexastiches, printed by Reginaldus Calderius at Paris an. 1552.  
Nicolaus Rapinus, a Frenchman, whose Fame in Latin Poetry hath a Place among the Chief of that Nation.  
Nicolaus Reusnerus, a Professor at jenes, of universal knowledge in all Arts and Sciences, by the testimony of Melchior adam's, in his Life, and Boissardus in his Bibliotheca; and for his felicity in Latin Verse, ranked 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 Germane, one of the principal accounted of that Nation for excellence in Latin Poetry.  
Nicolaus Rigaltius, a writer 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 esteemed of the Prime of the Germane Nation for a happy Vein in Latin Poetry.  
Nicolaus Valla, a Roman, who besides his Latin Version of Homer's 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.   

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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 Greece and Latin Poets.  
Octavius Meninus, a writer of Latin Poesy, among other the Chief writers of Latin Poesy accounted of the Italians.  
Octavius Rubeus, a Paduan, born in the year 1570, the Son of jacobus de Rubeis, and Hippolyta of the Family of the Scarpi; he wrote the History of Brescia, with good success, and is moreover reckoned 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 Class with him we may reckon Guido Cavalcanti, Girolamo Preti, Georgio Gradenico, Benedetto Varchi, Speron Sperone, Francisco Maria Molza, Bernardino Rota, and Tasso himself, who was no less happy in his Sonnets then in his Heroic Poems.   

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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 talon, with divers other Italian writers in Latin Poetry; whose selected works are published together.  
Parthenius Paravicinus, a Novocommensian, not of the meanest repute of the late Italian writers in Latin Verse.  
Pantaleon Candidus, a Germane Poet of the Chief of those that are famed for an Elegant style in Latin Verse.  
Mr 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 preferred to the Government of Lugo by Cardinal Antonius Barberinus.  
Paulus Dolscius, a Metaphrast of David's Psalms and Salomon's Book of Wisdom, and thereupon mentioned 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 Milan: 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 Tetrastiches containing a System of Christian Religion,  
Paulus Rubigallus, a Hungarian, whose Hodoeporicon or Itinerary Poem, upon his Constantinopolitan journey 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 Germane writer both in Prose and Verse, of which last kind are his Threnodie upon the Emperor Maximilian, his Epitaphs 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 advanced him to the Purple; among the rest of whose Poetical works, for he was also a great Historian, Philosopher and Philologist, that which hath obtained the principal fame is his Benaons', a Heroic Poem. He was arrived to his Meridian Altitude in the year 1640.  
Petrus Bolaneus, his Hymns, his Panegyric in Sapphic Verse upon the Emperor Frederic the third, his Funeral Elegy upon Rudolphus Agricola, his Epigram made of the Sentences of Seneca and Plato, and some other Poems, made his fame known by the year 1494.  
Petrus Bonommus, an Epigrammatic Poet of Triest, a Town of Friuli, Contemporary with the above mentioned Bolaneus.  
Petrus Christianus, a Representer in Latin Verse of the late War between the several Princes & States in Europe; but more especially relating to what hath happened in the Low Countries.  
Petrus Crinitus, the Author of a Treatise in 5 Books, of the Latin Poets, in which there are contained several Fragments of Ancients Poets; whose complete works are lost, besides which Treatise in Prose, he hath extant two Books of Odes, with other Poems: he survived the year 1505.  
Petrus Curtius, the Author of a Poem concerning the Ancient Falisci & Veientes; and another entitled Roma: he was flourishing an. 1526.  
Petrus Labbaeus, a French both judicious Censurer of the Ancient Poets, and accounted not the meanest himself of Modern Poets; whose Latin Elegies and Epitaphs were printed at Grenoble an. 1664.  
Petrus Lindebergius, a Germane both excellent Historian and Laureated Poet, by the testimony of Olaus Wormius, in his Literatura Danica; and of his own works namely his History of the affairs of Europe, and his extant Poems.  
Petrus Lotichius ●cundus, the most excellent of Germane Poets, according to the testimony of Thuanus, next after Eobanus Hessus.  
Petrus Molinaeus, the Son of that generally Learned French man and famous Champion of the Protestant cause Peter du Moulin; himself also not unlearned, as appears by his Latin Poems consisting in 3 parts, Hymns upon the Apostolic Creed, 2 Gemitus Ecclesiae, & 3 Sylva variorum, published a few years since at Cambridge, with the testimony of Dr Gunning, now Bishop of Chichester, and other Learned Men.  
Petrus Paganus, the Author in Latin Heroic Verse of the History of the Triple Combat between the Horatij & Curiatij, the 3 Roman and 3 Alban Brethren.  
Petrus Ronsardus, a French Poet of Vendosme, the most to be esteemed in the judgement of Thuanus, not only of the French, but of all other Poets that have lived since the time of Augustus.  
Petrus Rossetus, a Parisian whose Poem entitled Christus in 2 Books, as also his Paulus, or the D●scription in Verse of the Apostles Acts, were first printed at Paris by Ascentius and Colmaeus afterwards at Basil by Oporinus an. 1547.  
Petrus Scotus, a native of Strasburg, who wrote Encomiums in Elegiac Verse of St. John Baptist, and St. chrysostom: and was flourishing an. 1492.  
Petrus Scriverius, a Belgian of Harlem, both profound Philologist and Antiquary, by the testimony of Boxhornius in his Theatrum Hollandiae, by Vossius highly commended for his Comment upon Martial, by others quoted among the Chief of that Country for Latin Poesy.  
Petrus Tiara, a Frislander of no less account for Latin Poetry among the Belgic Poets, for his Poem of the Ancient State of the Friselanders, & another of Nobility, and the true Ensigns thereof.  
Philippus Gundelius, a Paduan of whose Poetry there are especially remembered his 2 noted Eglogues Apollonodia and Callianera, printed at Vienna 1518.  
Philippus Lonicerus, a Germane, who hath written Icones Liviani in Latin Verse.  
Philip Massinger, a sufficiently famous and very copious writer, both Comic and Tragic to the English Stage; his Comedies are his Bondman, Emperor of the East, Maid of Honour, New-way to pay old debts, the Picture, the Bashful Lover, the Renegad●, the Guardian, the Great Duke of Florence: his Tragedies the Fatal Dowry, the Duke of Milan.  
Philippus Rubenius, a Kinsman of the most admired Painter Petrus Paulus Rubens, upon whom he wrote Elegies; but of chiefest note are his Apobaterion, and Eucharistic to Justus Lipsius, and his Lachrymae upon his death.  
Sir Philip Sidny, the Glory of the English Nation in his time, and Pattern of true Nobility, as equally addicted both to Arts and Arms, though more fortunate in the first; for accompanying his Uncle the Earl of Leicester, sent by Queen Elizabeth General of the English Forces into the Low Countries, he was there unfortunately slain: He was the great English Maecenas of Virtue, Learning and Ingenuity, though in his own Writings chief if not wholly Poetical; his Arcadia being a Poem in design, though for the most part in solute Oration, and his Astrophil and Stella, with other things in Verse, having, if I mistake not, a greater Spirit of Poetry, then to be altogether disesteemed.  
Philippus Porta, the next in the esteem of Thuanus, after Bellaqua, for excellency in French Poesy (though no native himself) that is the fourth after Ronsard.  
Phineas Fletcher, the Brother of George before mentioned, whom he rather exceeds, then comes behind in Poetic fame; for his Purple Island is yet memory, and mentioned by many with sufficient commendation: besides which he wrote a Poem in Latin against the Jesuits, but more enlarged in English.  
Pierre Le Moine, late French Writer of a Heroic Poem entitled St. Lovis,  
Pierius Valarianus, a Bellwensium Writer of a Latin Poem of the culture of Smilax or Ridnybean.  
Pompeo Torelli, his Italian Poem Vittoria, was printed at Parma an. 1605.  
Pompeius Hugonius, wrote a Latin Poem of the Victory of Lepanto, which is published with the selected works of several other Italian writers in Latin Poesy.  
Porcellius, a Neapolitan, who for his acute Wit; and rather quick and ready then sublime vein in Poetry, was in high favour with Frederik Duke of Urbin.  
Publius Faustus Andrelins, a Poet of Forli, a principal Town of Romania; the chief of whose Poems are his Elegies upon the two Neapolitan Victories, and the Captivity of Ludovico Sforza, his 4 Eclogues and his Book of Distiches.  
Publius Franciscus Amerinus, his Funeral Poems upon Baptista Platina, are printed with those of other Learned Men, at the end of Platina's works.   

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QVintius Aemilianus, a Cimbrian, or Dane, who wrote an Elegant Poem in praise of Love, in opposition to Petrus Hedaeus his Anterotica, also an Epicedium to the Emperor Frideric the third.  
Quintus Septimius florence Christianus, a Frenchman, so great a Master of the Latin and Greece tongues, that for what he wrote in either of them, whither in Prose or Verse, he stands comparable in the opinion of Thuanus, to most of the Ancients, besides what he wrote in both style in his Mother-Tongue: he is recorded Flourishing an. 1586.   

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Sir Ralph Freeman, the Author of a Tragedy, which by some is held in great esteem Entitled Imperiale.  
Raphael Thorius, a learned French Poet, whose elegant style in Latin Verse, discovers itself in his noted Poem entitled Hymnus Tabaci, or Encomium of Tobacco.  
Reinhardus Lorichius Hadamarius, a Germane writer of many elaborate works, among which not lest to be regarded 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 gained 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 2d place: he wrote many things in Latin, but most in the Mother Tongue: he is commonly chronologised 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 himself 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 Sesse 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 height, 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 Matched, the Ambitious Politic, the Court Beggar, the City wit; but especially his Northern Lass, 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 advanced him to the Bishoprie, first of Oxford, then of Norwich.  
Richard Crashaw, Fellow first of Pembroke-Hall, afterwards of St. Peter's College 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 Catholic, to betake himself to that so zealously frequented place called Our Lady's of Loretto in Italy, where he died.  
Sir Richard Fanshaw, heretofore Secretary to his present Majesty, when Prince of Wales, and after his restoration, his Ambassador into Spain, where he died. Besides his Translation of Guarini's Pastor Fido into English Verse, and of Spencer's Sheapherds Calendar into Latin Verse.  
Richard Rablet, and Richard Turner, two Contemporaries (and therefore perhaps worthy of mention for antiquities sake) with Drayton, with whose Owl and other old Pieces of Poetry, two small things of theirs, Rablets Cob's Prophecy, and Turner's Nosce te Humours, were published, and seem to be but the tract of other Poetical works, though now lost and forgotten.  
Richard Lovelace, an approved both Soldier, Gentleman & Lover, and a fair pretender to the Title of Poet; a Soldier, having Commanded a Regiment in the late King's Army; a Gentleman of a Viscount's 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 blazed 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 called The Swaggering Damsel, and Sicelides, a Pastoral.  
Robert Fleming, an English writer, recorded in History among those that Flourished in the Reign of King Henry the 6th; not only for his Dictionary in Greece 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 Surnamed of Gloucester, a not altogether obscure writer in the Reign of Henry the Third; and seeming to pass 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 Dr Lodge, with whom he was associated in the writing of several Comedies, namely The Laws of Nature, Lady Alimony, Liberality & Prodigality, and a Masque called 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 supposed to have been both the Inspirer and chief subject of them.  
Robert Herric, a writer of Poems of much about the same standing and the same Rank in fame with the last mentioned, though not particularly influenced 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 Landscapes.  
Sr 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 employed in his Majesty's 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, Enforced Marriage a Tragicomedy; and The Indian Queen a Dramatic History.  
Robert Mead, the Author of two not altogether obscure Comedies. The Combat of Love and Friendship, and the Costly Whore.  
Robertus Obricius, a writer of Latin Hymns.  
Dr 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 mentioned; this being upon Monk's Journey iuto Scotland, in order to His Majesty's Restoration, and looked 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.  
Sir De Roquigni, the Author of a late French Poem entitled Muse Chrestienne.  
Rodulphus Agricola, a most Famous writer of Groeningen in Friesland, 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 Laureate, the other of Wassenburg.  
Rodolphus Avincatius, his Poems dedicated to the Farnesis, 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 Monomachy, or Single Combat between David and Goliath, with the Allegorical Exposition thereof.  
Rodolphus Langius, a Germane writer, Prebend of Munster, who wrote a Poem of the 3 Magis 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 famed for his Latin Epistles and other things in Prose, yet mentioned with commendation by Balaeus, for Epigrams and other Latin Poems.  
Roger Boil, 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 Rhyming, and love and honour way of the French.  
Mr 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.   

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Mr Sabliquy, his Muse Dauphine published 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. etc. 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, remembered by his Comical History, When you see me you know me; and his Tragedy, The Noble Spanish Soldier.  
Samuel Woodford, a late commended Translator (if not rather Paraphrast) of David's Psalms; in the Pindaric, vulgarly so called, and other various sorts of Verse.  
Scoevola Samarthanus, a Learned Frenchman, who wrote in Latin Verse Eulogies 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.  
Mr De Scudery, Governor 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 than any of the old Romances could boast, & not without a pretty representing of the height of the French Gallantry & conversation: this way of writing will easily be allowed to be a sort of Poetry, but there are besides not very long since published his Poesy's diverses.  
Sebastianus Aerichalcus, a Polonian, who described 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 famed 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 Ionas, in Latin Heroic Verse, his Life of St. John Baptist, in Heroic Greece Verse, his Version of 40 of David's Psalms, and of two of Moses' Songs. He was Flourishing at Basil about the year 1540  
Sebastianus Titio, alias Brant, an Eminent Jurisconsult of Strasburgh, Professor 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 Emperor 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.  
Mr Segrais, his Poesies printed at Paris anno 1661.  
Sethus Calvisius, a Germane most learned Historian, Poet, and Musician; whose Opus Chronologicum and other Works, have their deserved same: He died at Leipsich, in the 60th 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, Distiches, etc.  
Simon Lemnius, a Germane, who besides his Translations of Dionysius Aser and Homer's Odysseys, into Latin Verse, hath left from the product of his own Genius, Episodes upon Joachimus Marquese of Brandenburg 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 Lions 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 rendered 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 Surnamed 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 days, 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 Lions: he was Flourishing at Lausanna beyond the year 1555.  
Theodorus Geza, a celebrated Writer of Thessalonica, particularly a great Master in the Latin & Greece Tongues, and not the least to be esteemed among the rest of his Works: for his Book of Latin Epigrams upon the most remarkable passages of Sacred Scripture. He deceased in the year of our Lord 1478.  
Theodorus Reysman, a Germane 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 obtained 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 named by Cambden with Spencer, Sidny, Drayton, and other the Chief of our English Poets.  
Thomas Carew, one of the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber to his late Majesty K. Charles the First; he was reckoned 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, published anno 1615; since the materials of it have been preserved 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 preserved.  
Thomas Craigius, one of the Muster Roll of Scotch Latin Poets, whose works are collected in a Book, called Deliciae Poetarum Scotorum.  
Thomas Deckar, a High flier in wit, even against Ben. Johnson himself in his Comedy called The Untrussing 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 bened 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.  
Sr 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 mentioned 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 Tragicomedy; and Cupid's Whirligig, a Comedy.  
Thomas Heywood, a great Benefactor no doubt to the Red bull, and the other common theatres, that flourished in those times, with many but vulgar Comedies, as the Brazen Age, the English 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, etc.  
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 travailed through so many Volumes of profounder Argument, in giving himself a vacancy to the Muse, especially where Invention is no otherwise exercised then in rendering the Inventions of others, which he doubts not to have done more truly than any of those that went before him in the same subject; from his Preface to which work I should choose rather to collect his judgement of Poetry, then from his Preface to Davenants Gondibert, where no wonder if Compliment and Friendly Compliance do a little bias and oversway judgement.  
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 famed Poets, as Spencer, Drayton, Daniel, Lodge, etc. with whom he was either Contemporary, or not much later: there is particularly remembered his Tragedy Cornelia.  
Thomas Killigrow, one of the Gentleman of the Bedchamber to his present Majesty; and besides the general esteem of his Lepid Vein of wit in conversation, the Author of divers Comedies, Tragedies and Tragicomedies, published together in a Volume, and therefore not needing to be particularised.  
Thomas Linacer, an Eminent Grammarian, who Flourished in the Reign of K. Henry the 8th; and who Verfifying on several subjects, had the repute also in those days of no mean Poet.  
Thomas Lodge, a Doctor of Physic, who Flourished 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 times.  
Tho. Manly, one of the crowd of Potical writers, of the late King's time; he wrote among other things the History of Job in Verse.  
Tho. May, the vulgarly admired Translator of Lucan into English Verse; but here chiefly to be mentioned for what he hath written propria Minerva, as his Supplement of Lucan in Latin Verse; his History of Henry the Second in English Verse, besides what he wrote of Dramatic, as his Tragedies of Antigone, Cleopatra, and Agrippina; the Heir, a Tragicomedy; the Old Couple, and the Old Wives Tale, Comedies, and the History of Orlando Furioso: as for his History of the late Civil Wars of England, though it were written in Prose, yet he is thought to have vented therein the speen of a Malcontented Poet; for having been frustrated in his Expectation of being the Queen's Poet, for which he stood Candidate with Sir William Davenant, who was prferred before him.  
Thomas Metellanus; the Author of a small parcel of Latin Poetry, which is to be found in a collection of the works of divers of the Chiefest, so accounted, of the Scotch Latin Poets.  
Tho. Middleton, a copious Writer for the English Stage, Contemporary with Johnson and Fletcher, though not of equal repute, and yet on the other side not altogether contemptible, especially in many of his Plays: his Comedies were Blurt Mr Constable, the chaste Maid in Cheapside, More diffemblers than Women, the Game at Chess; A mad World my Masters, Michaelmas Term; the Phoenix, A Trick to catch the old ones: His Tragedies The Mayor of Queenborough, besides what he wrote associated with W. Rowly.  
Thomas Moravius, a Scotchman, the Author of a Latin Poem entitled Naupactias, or the Description of the battle of Lepanto, in Heroic Verse.  
Sir Thomas More, a great credit and ornament, in his time, of the English Nation, and with whom the learnedest Foreigners of that Age were proud to have correspodence; for his wit and excellent parts, he was chosen Speaker of the House of Commons, and afterwards advanced to be Lord Chancellor of England by K. Henry the 8 ●h: however he fell unfortunately a victim to the displeasure of that Prince. His Utopia, though not written in Verse, yet in regard of the great Fancy and Invention thereof, may well pass for a Poem; besides his Latin Epigrams, which have received a general esteem among Learned Men.  
Thomas Nabbes, a Writer (for the most part Comical) to the English Stage in the Reign of K. Charles the First: the Comedies, he wrote are The Bride, Covent Garden, Totnamcourt, Woman hater arraigned his Tragedies, The Unfortunate Mother, and the Tragedy of King Charles the First; besides two Masques Microcosmus, and The Spring's Glory.  
Thomas Nash, one of those that may serve to fill up the Catalogue of English Dramaties Writers: his mentioned Comedies are Summers Last Will and Testament, and See me and see me not.  
Thomas Naogeorgus, or by the vulgar appellation Kirchmayor, a Germane Writer native of Straubing, a Town of Lower-Bavaria; his works were for the most part Poetical, namely 6 Tragedies, an Epitome of the Canons of the Church in Heroic Verse; as also 5 Books of Sacred Agriculture, in the same kind of Verse, with some other things.  
Thomas Newton, the Author of three Tragedies; Thebais, the first and second parts of Tamerlane, the Great Scythian Emperor.  
Thomas Preston, the Author of Cambyses King of Persia, a Tragicomedy.  
Thomas Randol, one of the most pregnant young Wits of his time, flourishing in the University of Cambridge; the quick conceit and clear Poetic Fancy discovered in his extant Poems, seemed to promise something extraordinary from him, had not his indulgence to the too liberal converse with the multitude of his applauders drawn him to such an immoderate way of living, as in all probability shortened his days; besides his two Comedies Amintas, and the Muse's Looking-Glass, and the Interlude Aristippus, printed with his other works: there are attributed to him, a Comedy called Hey for honesty; & down for knavery; and The Jealous Lovers, a Tragedy.  
Tho. Rawlins, the chief Graver of the Mint to King Charles the first, and also to his present Majesty, till the year 1670, in which died: he was indeed a more excellent Artist than Poet; yet his Tragedy called The Rebellion hath been acted not without good applause.  
Thomas Read, a Scotchman, whose happy Vein in Latin Verse renders him not unworthy to be remembered among the Learned Men and Poets of that Nation.  
Thomas Seghetius, another Scotch Poet, chiefly known by his Meletemata Hypogeia, in Latin Verse.  
Thomas Shadwel, a noted Dramatic Writer of the present Age; happy especially in several witty and ingewous Comedies; The Humorist, the Sullen Lovers, Epsom Wells; besides his Royal Sheapherdess▪ a Pastoral Tragicomedy; and his Tragedy of Psyche, or rather Tragical Opera, as vying with the Operas of Italy; in the pomp of Scenes, Machinry and Musical performance.  
Thomas Sprat, the commended Author, for his smooth and judicious style, of the History of the Royal Society; and in Verse a very much applauded, though little Poem entitled The Plague of Athens.  
Thomas Stanley, of Cumberlo Green in Hertfordshire; a Gentleman both well deserving of the Commonwealth of Learning in general, by his other writings, his Lives of the Philosophers, and his Learned Edition of Aeschylus; and also particularly honoured for his smooth Air and gentile Spirit in Poetry; which appears not only in his own Genuine Poems, but also from what he hath so well translated out of ancient Greece, and modern Italian Spanish and French Poets, as to make his own.  
Thomas Sternhold, an Associate with John Hopkins, in one of the worst of of many bad Translations the Psalms of David: yet in regard, as first made choice of, they have hitherto obtained to be the only Psalms sung in all Parochial Churches (it hath been long heartily wished a better choice were made) he hath therefore perhaps been thought worthy to be mentioned among the Poets that Flourished in Qu. Mary's, and the beginning of Queen Elizabeth's Rein.  
Thomas Storer, one of the Writers of Queen Elizabeth's time, of those Pastoral Airs and Madrigals, of which we have a Collection in a Book called England's Helicon.  
Thomas Thomasinus, a Vene●ian, who studying at Milan, grew Eminent in Philosophy, Logic and Poetry.  
Thomas Watson, a Contemporary imitator of Sir Philip Sidny, together with Bartholomew Young, Doctor Lodge, and several others, in that Pastoral strain of Poetry, in Sonnets and Madrigals, already mentioned.  
Sir Thomas Wi●t, of Allington-Castle, in Kent; a Person of great esteem and reputation in the Reign of King Henry the Eighth; with whom for his honesty and singular parts; he was in high Favour; which nevertheless he had like to have lost about the Buisiness of Anne Bullein, had not his prudence brought him safely off. For his Translation of David's Psalms into English Meeter, & other Poetical Writings, Leland forbears not to compare him to Dante and Petrarch; being sent Ambassador from K. Henry to the Emperor Charles the Fifth, then in Spain; he died of the Pestilence in the West Country, before he could take shipping an. 1541.  
Tobias Guthberlingius, a Hassian, Native of Crusbon, and Governor of the College of Leovardia; where his Latin Poems were printed an. 1667.  
Torquato Tasso, the Prince of Italian Heroic Poets, born at Bergamo, the Son of Bernardo Tasso, and Portia de Rubeis: His chief Poems are Gerusalemme Liberata, Rinaldo, Set Giornate, Gerusalemme Conquistata, Torrismondo, a Tragedy; Amintas, a Pastoral, elegantly translated into English by John Reynolds: he wrote also judicious Discourses in Prose.  
Sieur Du Tristan his Amours printed anno 1662.   

V.  
VAlentinus Boltzius, a Germane Writer, native of Rubeaqua, who wrote in Verse the Combat between David & Goliath; the History of Samson; the Tragedy of Susanna; the Comedy of the 7 Liberal Arts, and several others.  
Valentinus Pacaeus, a Writer of Latin Idyls and Epigrams.  
Victor Geselinus, a Writer of Latin Hymns.  
Victorinus Anxiginus Scuthius, the Author of a Poem entitled The Triumph of Christ's Resurrection, written in Elegiac Verse.  
Vidus Faber Pibracius, a French Gentleman, whose Learning and excellent abilities advanced him to be Precedent of the Parliament of Paris; besides his general knowledge in the Arts and Sciences, his Felicity in French Poesy, had been sufficient to recommend him to Posterity, he was flourishing in the year 1584.  
Vincentio Guidorci, his Rhyme Vary were printed at Milan an. 1634.  
Vincentius Barsius, a Carmelite of Mantua, whose Alba Labyrinthus was printed at Parma an. 1515. His Silua & Elegies at Bononia an. 1524.  
Vincentius Contarenus, a Venetian, not obscure writer in Latin Poetry.  
Vincenzo Martelli, a noted Man among the Italian writers of Rhyme or Sonnets.  
Vitus Amerbachius, a Germane Writer of divers learned Commentaries & other works in Prose, besides what he wrote in Verse, namely Epigrams and other various Poems, which were printed by Oporinus at Basil an. 1550.   

W.  
WAlter de Mapes, Archdeacon of Oxford, a Latin Rhymer in the Reign of K. Henry the Second, and may well be called a Pot Poet, for he shows his singular love to good Liquor, in a parcel of Latin Rhyming Verses, quoted by Cambden.  
William Alabaster, a considerable Poet so accounted, in the time he Flourished, which was under Qu. Elizabeth, the Chief Transactions, of whose Reign he began to describe in a Latin Poem entitled Elisaeis, which he left unfinished.  
William Brown, the Author of a Poem entitled Britain's Pastorals; which though not of the sublimest strain, yet for a subject of that nature, amorous and rural, containing matter not unpleasant to the Reader.  
William Bosworth, the Bringer forth of a small Poem, which was printed somewhat above 20 years since, under the title of the chaste and lost Lovers, or the History of Arcadius & Sepha; which from the very brink of oblivion, nor had the loss been very great, hath accidentally met with the good fortune to be here remembered.  
William Cartwright, Student of Christ-Church in Oxford, where he lived in fame & reputation, for his singular parts and Ingenuity; but most especially his excelling Vein in Poetry, which produced a Volume of Poems, which were published not long after his death; and among the rest his Tragedy, The Royal Slave hath been in principal esteem.  
William Cavendish, the present Duke of Newcastle, and the first advanced from Earl to that Title, for his eminent Service to his late and present Majesty: a Person accomplished according to the Nobility of his Birth and Quality, that is, equally addicted both to Arts and Arms, and particularly a friend to the Muses; for besides his splendid Treatise of the Art of Horse-manship, in which his experience was no less than his delight, he wrote two ingenuous Comedies, The Variety, and the Country Captain.  
Sir William Davenant, a very large sharer in the Poetic Fame of the present Age, of which he was a surviving over-hearer, till within these few years, and of no less a memory for the future, for the great fluency of his wit and Fancy; especially for what he wrote for the English Stage, of which having laid the Foundation before by his Musical Dramas, when the usual Plays were not suffered to be acted, he was the first reviver & improver by painted Scenes; after his Majesty's Restauration, erecting a new Company of Actors, under the Patronage of the Duke of York; his works since his death have been fairly published in a large Volume, consisting of many Comedies, which need not be enumerated, as being printed altogether, with several Tragedies, Interludes, Historical Dramas; his Poem entitled Madagascar, a Farrago of his Juvenile, & other Miscellaneous Pieces, and the Crown of all his Gondibert, the best of Heroic Poems, either Ancient or Modern, in the judgement of Mr Hobbs▪ a Learned Man indeed, but in some other of his opinions, supposed to have been proved fallible by those that have taken him in hand.  
William Drummond of Hawthornden, a Scotch Gentleman of considerable note and esteem, Flourishing in K. James his Reign; who imitating the Italian manner of Versifying, vented his Amours in Sonnets, Canzonets and Madrigals, and to my thinking, in a style sufficiently smooth and delightful; and therefore why so utterly disregarded, and laid aside at present, I leave to the more curious palates in Poetry.  
William Grace, an Elegant writer (if we may rely upon the testimony of Balaeus) of several things in English Verse, in the Reigns of King Edw. the Sixth and Qu. Mary.  
William Habington, the Author of Poems, which came forth above twenty years since, under the Title of Castara, (the feigned Name, no doubt, of that human Goddess that inspired them) but better known by his History of the Reign of King Edward the Fourth; in which also he hath a style sufficiently florid, and perhaps better becoming a Poetical than Historical subject; in respect of his Poems however they are now almost forgotten, he may be ranked in my opinion with those that deserve neither the highest, nor the lowest Seat in the Theatre of Fame.  
William Hammond, one of the forgotten Poem writers of the last Age.  
William Hemings, the Author of a well known Tragedy called The Fatal Contract.  
William Lily, of Odiham in Ha●t shire, a Grammarian of great note in the Reign of K. Henry the Eighth, and first School Master of Paul's School; who besides his Lat. Grammar, the oracle of Free-Schools of England, and other Grammatical works, is said by Balaeus to have written Epigrams and other Poetry of various subjects, in various Latin Verse.  
William Rowly, an Associate with Middleton, in the writing of several Comedies and Tragicomedies; as The Spanish Gipsies, the Old Law, the Fair Quarrel, the Widow, besides what he wrote alone, as The Woman never vexed, and the Match at Midnight, All's lost by Lush, a Tragedy, and joined with Webster, as the Thracian wonder, & A Cure for a Cuckold.  
William Samson, a Tragic writer, who wrote alone the Vow-Breaker and Valiant Scot; with Marsham, the Tragedy of Herod and Antipater; & How to choose a good Wife from a bad, a Tragicomedy.  
William Shakespeare, the Glory of the English Stage; whose nativity at Stratford upon Avon, is the highest honour that Town can boast of: from an Actor of Tragedies and Comedies, he became a Maker; and such a Maker, that though some others may perhaps pretend to a more exact Decorum and economy, especially in Tragedy, never any expressed a more lofty and Tragic height; never any represented nature more purely to the life, and where the polishments of Art are most wanting, as probably his Learning was not extraordinary, he pleaseth with a certain wild and native Elegance; and in all his Writings hath an unvulgar style, as well in his Venus and Adonis, his Rape of Lucrece and other various Poems, as in his Dramatics.  
William Slatyer, Compiler of the History of England, from the beginning to the Reign of King James, by the Title of Palae-Albion; but whether in Latin or English, I cannot certainly determine; for the Work, though of little Fame, is in both, and the one seems to have been done by Slatyer, the other by Samuel Purchas.  
William Smith, the Author of a Tragedy entitled Hieronymo, as also The Hector of Germany.  
William Wager, the Author of that Old Interlude, called Tom Tiler and his Wife; he wrote also two Comedies The Trial of Chivalry, and The longer thou livest, the more fool thou art.  
William Warner, a good honest plain Writer of Moral Rules and Precepts, in that old fashioned kind of seven footed Verse which yet sometimes is in use, though in different manner, that is to say, divided into two: he may be reckoned with several other Writers of the same time, i. e. Queen Elizabeth's Reign; who though inferior to Sidny, Spencer, Drayton and Daniel, yet have been thought by some not unworthy to be remembered and quoted, namely George Gascoign, Th. Hudson, John Markham, Thomas Achely, John Weever, Ch. Middleton, George Turbervile, Henry Constable, Sir Edw. Dyer, Thomas Church-yard, Charles Fits-Geoffy.  
Wolfangus Loriseca, a Writer of Latin Verse, Equal with those that are accounted of the Chief Modern Latin Poets of Germany.    

A Brief Supplement of some Persons and Things obmitted in the foregoing Treatises.  

Of the Ancients.  

A.  
ABlavius, a Great Man with Constantine the Great, by whom he was advanced to the Dignity of Consul, but was slain by his Son, as jealous of his too much power and greatness, and therefore might justly be styled, as he was, Pila Fortunae, the Tennis-Ball of Fortune: His Vein in Epigrammatic Poetry appears in two Epigrams, which are extant in Brietius, and the Parisian Collection; the one biting one upon Constantine, notwithstanding he was so great a Favourite; the other upon his Friend Greculus.  
Alcinous, a Poet of a uncertain time, but doutless not very ancient, of whom there is only extant in the foresaid collections, one very noble Epigram of Homer and Virgil.  
Saint Ambrose, one of the Ancient and most venerable Fathers of the Christian Church, being Bishop of Milan, in the time of Theodosius the Great, whom his Ecclesiastical authority and Censure, drove to a voluntary penance for his Bloody cruelty towards the Inhabitants of Thessalonica: besides his multitude of others Works in Prose, he left divers Inscriptions in Verse in the great Domo of Milan, besides several Hymns, which were anciently sung in the Church.  
Antiphanes Caristius, a very ancient Greece Comic writer, even Contemporary with Thespis, who Flourished in the 61th Olympiad, and therefore divers from him who in the foregoing Treatise by mistake Surnamed also Carystius, is said to have been conversant with Alexander the Great; besides whom there were several other Antiphanes', as is testified by Suidas, the Thebais of Antiphanes Colophonius, is cited by Athenaeus; of Antiphanes, probably Bysantius, (though that Cognomen be but once found) there are 7 Epigrams in the Florilegium of Planudes: and this some think to be the same, whom Stobaeus quotes very frequently, and Atheneus in no less than 105 Fables. Moreover Plutarch in his Life of Demosthenes alleges the testimony of Antiphanes a Poet, concerning Bataulus.  
Antiphilus, an Epigrammatic Poet, whose Name is to 27 Epigrams in the Greece Florilegium, and with the Surname Bysantius, if the same, as probably it is, to eight more in the same Book.  
Arabius, Surnamed Scholasticus, an Epigrammatic Poet, of whom there are 7 Epigrams in the fourth Book of Planudes his Florilegium.  
Ariboeus, a Macedonian Poet, not so much known by any thing mentioned of his writings, as by his envy at other men's writings, which doubtless, was the cause that conspiring with Cratevas, a Thessalonian (Poet also) he compassed in a most barbarous manner the death of that incomparable Tragedian Euripides, as hath been already mentioned in Euripides.  
Asclepiades and Asmenus; see Julianus, in the foregoing Treatise.  
Aulus Septimius Serenus, the reputed Author of a parcel of old Latin Verses upon Janus and Hercules, whereof some fragments are preserved in the Parisian Collection of Epigrams and old Poems; whether he were the same with the Roman Emp. Septimius Severus, (who either for these or some other Verses, hath a place among the Poets, supposing Serenus to be mistaken for Severus,) or some other Person, as might be inferred from the distinct appellation of Country; the one being written Falis●us, the other Afer; besides that the Praenomen of this Emperor is agreed upon to have been Lucius, rather than Aulus, as Brietius observes, who nevertheless agreeing with Pithoeus, disputes not so much whether this Aulus Septimius were the same with the Emperor, as he concludes the Emp. to have been the Author of a Distich, which is the only part preserved of a Poem, which seems to have been written of Country affairs, and not of those Verses of Janus, which he imputes to another Afer, who was a little superior in time to Terentianus Maurus, and therefore much ancienter than the said Emperor, viz. Cajus Septimius Afer.  
Aulus Turpilius; see Turpilius in the foregoing Treatise.   

B.  
Basilius, one of those Surnamed Scholastici, or Grammatici aforementioned in Julianus.  
Belisarius; see Liberius in the foregoing Treatise.  
Benedictus Paulinus, a Petracoriensian, who writing the Life of St. Martin in 6 Books, and another Poem, is probably mistaken by Authors of very good account and Authority as Franciscus Juretus, Fortunatus, and Gregory of Tours, for Paulinus the Bishop of Nola, to whom they ascribe those Poems, though Brietius agreeing with Jac. Sirmondus, makes it out very clear, that they were distinct Persons, and that Benedictus was the Author of those Poems.   

P.  
Caelius Lactantius Firmianus, the Christian Cicero, as he is generally stilled; Disciple of Arnobius, and Rhetoric Professor at Nicomedia: besides his Odoeporicon, which is lost, and his Verses of the Passion & Resurrection, etc. which are extant, and by some ascribed to Fortunatus; his is said to have been the Poem in Description of the Phoenix, which Vossius supposes to have been writ by some Ethnic Author. See also Rhemnius in the foregoing Treatise.  
Cajus Abronius Silo; see Abronius in the foregoing Discourse.  
Cajus Aurelius Romulus, not the Founder of Rome, no doubt, already mentioned; but some Poetical Writer of what time or place is uncertain, whose Name we find to a Tetrastich Epigram in Gillius his Parisian Collection, entitled Epigrammata & Poematia vetera.  
Cajus Caecilius Plinius Secundus, hath a Tetrastich Epigram upon Cupid and Bacchus, in Nicolaus Gillius his Parisian sian Collection of Epigrams and old Poems, who if he be the same with that Cajus Plinius, of Novocomo, who was the Son of Plinius Secundus of Verona: he hath from Brietius the esteem of a most excellent Poet, for only a Fragment of one Verse, which he quotes of him, viz. Lasciva est nobis pagina, Vita proba, besides that he was the Author of that so much commended Panegyric to Trajan.  
Caius Cassius, a Parmensian of the number of the Ancients, but of what time is uncertain; whose name we find to a Description of Orpheus in Verse, in Nicolaus Gillius his Parisian Collection of Epigrams and old Poems.  
Cajus Julius Solinus Poly histor, a Grammarian and Naturalist of sufficient note, though of what time, is not determined farther than that he lived beneath Alexander Severus, even by Salmacius himself that voluminous Exercitator upon his Plinian Epitome, besides which and other things in Prose; he is concluded the Author of a Poem entitled Pontica.  
Cajus Licinius Calvus, his Verses upon Cneus Pompeius, and several of the Caesars, are extant in Gillius his Epigrammata & Poematia vetera, printed at Paris an. 1580.  
Cajus Silius Italicus; see Silius in Petronius Arbiter in the foregoing Treatise.  
Cajus Sulpitius Apollinaris, a Grammarian of Carthage, who Flourished in the Reigns of the Antonini, and was Praeceptor to Helvius Pertinax, who before he attained the Empire over Men succeeded him in his Empire over Boys in his Grammar School; this Sulpitius is mentioned by Julius Capitolinus, and Aulus Gollius, with the Character of the Learnedest Man of his time, and that little touch we have of Poetry in his Verses upon Virgil's Aeneis, gives the greater sense of the loss of the rest.  
Callimachus, besides his extant works already mentioned, is said by Suidas to have written many other Poems, and among the rest one entitled Ibis, an obscure Poem, and full of satire against Apollonius, the Author of the Argonautics. Moreover, there is mentioned another Poem of his entitled 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, by the Scholiast of Homer, Priscian, & others: besides which others mention a Poem of his named Hecale.  
Cneus Naevius, the most Ancient of Latin Comic Writers after Livius Andronicus; he was Contemporary wi●h Scipio Africanus, and died at Utica, in the 144th Olympiad, being banished out of Rome by the Metelli. See Naevius in the foregoing Treatise.  
St Columbanus, an Englishman Abbot of Luxovia & Bobia; besides his several writings in Prose, there is extant a parcel of his Poetry set forth by Jacobus Sirmondus: he was the Master of St. Gallus, and died about an. D. 514.  
Corippus, an African, both Grammarian and Poet, who flourishing in the Reign of Justinus, the Second, sung his praises in 4 Books, which he dedicated to the Quaestor Anastatius; besides which Poem, which hath been set forth by Thomas Dempsterus the Scotchman, with laborious and prolix notes, much above what he deserves, in the opinion of many; he is said to have written many other things in Poetry, which have perished, & among the rest a Poem in praise of the Great Captain Belisarius.   

E.  
Epictetus, (not the Author doubtless of the Greece Enchiridion) his name is to two Distiches, in Gillius his Parisian Collection of Epigrams and old Poems.  
Epigenes, a Sicyonian, by some affirmed the first Inventor of Tragedy.  
Eugenius, (otherwise Evantius) Secundus or Junior, an Eminent Archbishop of Toledo, which seat he held from the year 647 to 657, in the Reign of Receswinthus, a Gothish King of Italy: some things of his in Verse are set forth by Jacobus Sirmondus, together with Dracontius, whose Verses he corrected.  
Euphorbius, one of those Surnamed Sholastici or Grammatici, of whom see more in Julianus, in the foregoing Treatise.  
Euphorbus Caelius Firmianus Symphosius, mentioned in the foregoing Treatise by the name of Symphonius only, a Poetical writer of an uncertain Age, of whom there are extant Hendecasyllables De Livore, by some attributed to Ausonius, Choriambics De Fortuna, and several Enigmatical Questions.  
Euryalus Moranius, a Poetical writer of Asculum, of an uncertain time, and of whom no other account can be given, but that his name is to 4 or 5 pleasant and not unelegant Epigrams in Gillius his Parisian Collection of Epigrams and old Poems.  
Eusebius, Surnamed Scholasticus, a Greece, the Author of a Poem entitled Gainia, or of the War against Gaina, the Gothish King, in four Books in Heroic Verse: there is also under the name of Eusebius, (but whether the same may be disputed, for there are several more of the same name,) in the Parisian Collection of Epigrams and Poematia vetera, a Decastich entitled Tumulus Veneris.  
Eusthemius, one of the forementioned 12 Scholastici; of whom see in Julianus in the foregoing Treatise.   

F.  
Felix, a Benedictin Monk of Crowland, whose Pathetical Description of the bugs of Crowland, in Latin Verse, is quoted by the Learned Cambden.  
Floridus, a Mimic writer of an uncertain Age, out of whose Fables, there are only extant two Sentences, but those so acute, so much to the purpose, that they excite in the Learned and Curious the greater desire of all the rest of him.   

G.  
Getulicus, an old Historian, cited by Suetonius; but of whom there are also several Verses to be found in Probus the Grammarian his Commentary upon Virgil's Georgics; also a Testrastich and Hexastich in the third Book of the Gr. Anthology, and Decastich in the 6th.  
Glaucus, an Athenian, whose name is to several Epigrams in the first, third and fourth Books of the Greece Anthology.   

H.  
Hercius, named to an Hexastich, in the Greece Florilegium.  
Herondas, a Comic Poet, out of whose Fable Synergazomeni, a Senary is cited by Athenaeus.   

L.  
Leo, an Ancient Grammarian, certain Greece Verses of whose writing were seen in Manuscript by Conradus Gesnerus, but the Pentastich in the Greece Florilegium, owns rather another Leo, viz. that Noble Greece Emperor Leo the Sixth, who whether a Poet or not, is certainly famed for a Philosopher.  
Lucilius, (not the Latin Satirist) a Greece Epigrammatic Poet, whose name hath a large jurisdiction in the Greece Florilegium.  
Lucius Annaeus Florus, the Good Fellow, who played so wittily and freely upon the Emperor Hadrian, in that vulgarly known Epigram Ego nolo Caesar esse, etc. which was as smartly answered by the Emperor; besides which and another neat one upon the growth of of Roses, several Fragments of him are collected by Salmasius, he may upon account of name be without difficulty mistaken for Lucius Julius Florus, the Epimator of the Roman History, who in some Editions is styled Lucius Annaeus Seneca Florus; as on the other side this Poet is written in Gillius his Collection, Julius Florus: but the difference of time makes the clearer distinction, the one appearing to have been Contemporary with the Emperor Adrian, the other, as is generally received, living about the time of Septimius Severus.   

M.  
Martinus Surnamed Dumensis, from the place of which he was Abbot, afterwards Archbishop 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 obscene 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 determined, among the twelve Surnamed 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 Hexastiches 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 judged 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 Flourished, is not certainly determined) whose Books of Agriculture are commonly published with those other Ancient 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 esteemed a Poet, though he were not of the Ancients.  
Phaedrus, a Thracian, who living in the Reign of Augustus (whose Freedman 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 li●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, Surnamed Domesticus, subscribed to an Epigram in the seventh Book of the Greece Anthology.   

S.  
Samius, a Name subscribed to an Epigram in the third Book of the Greece 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 jambic 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.  
simeon, an ancient Greece Presbyter, whose Sermons 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 ancient Epigrammatist remembered only by one Hexastich in the second Book of the Greece Florilegium.  
Theodoritus, an old Grammarian, of whom there is a Distich in the second Book of the Greece 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 sense 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 surnamed 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 remembered by a Tetrastich in the fourth Book, the second by an Octostich in the 3d d Book, of the Greece Anthology.   

Z.  
Zelotas, a Name preserved by only 2 Epigrams in the Greece Florilegium.  
Zenobius, a Grammarian, besides whose Distich in the fourth Book of the Gr. Flor. there are Verses of him cited in the Greece Cornucopia of Varinus Phavorinus Camers.  
Zonas, another Pillar of the Gr. Floril. named to a Octostich in the first Book, & two Hexastiches in the sixth.  
Zosimus, a Thasian Epigrammatist, but of whom there are only extant 2 Hexastiches in the first and sixth Book of the Greece 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 published with the selected Works of other Belgic Writers of Latin Poetry.  
Annibal Caro, noted for his Rhyme or Sonnets equal with several other Italian Writers of that kind.  
Alexander Necham, Prior of Cirencester, the Learnedest Englishman 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.  
alain Chartier, Secretary to King Lewis the Eleventh of France, by whose Queen the Lady Anne of Britain, he was so admired for his Poetry, that as she passed by one day to her Lodging, and saw him leaning on a tables end a sleep, she stooped 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 Courtesy pass 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 nevertheless is far surpassed 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 majesty's Restauration: There is also mentioned of his writing a Book of Latin Hymns.  
Benedetto del Wa, 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, remembered 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 7th, with the Battle of Bosworth; also the Battles of Cressy and Poitiers.  
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 Frenchman, 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 published 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 Aspasia, 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 Solomon.   

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 whitefriars weed, at the whitefriars Church in Nottingham, being quoted by the said Author.  
Dionysius Petavius, a learned French Jesuit, 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 Greece Verse; besides a Book of Latin Poems.   

E.  
Edw. Dier, a Poetical Writer, who seems formerly to have been in good esteem, being ranked 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 8th'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, remembered by his Margaretica, in Latin Heroic Verse.   

F.  
Francis Davison's Poetical Rhapsody, dedicated to W. Earl of Pembroke, Lord Steward of the Household to his late Majesty King Charles the First, appears to have been in those days 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, Conrector of the College of Elbing; his Epigrammatum Poeticum Colludium, or Lusuum. Epigr. Centuriae, was printed at Amsterdam an. 1665.   

G.  
Gandolpho Porrino, his Rhyme rank him with some others of the noted Sonnetiers of Italy.  
Gaspar Barlaeus; see Cornelius Boius.  
Gaspar Schetus Corvinus, an Antuerpian, whose Varia are published 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 than 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 Mentovato, and Girolamo Volpe, a Knot of Italian Poetisers, chiefly in their Lyric way of Sonnets, Canzonets, etc. only Bartolomei is chiefly mentioned for Tragedy.  
Godfrey, 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 several 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 satire in Latin Verse against the Exchequer Officers of that time; several passages are quoted by Cambden.  
Henry Constable; see Edw. Dier.  
Henry, Archdeacon 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 extolled 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 Archbishop of Tours; a borderer between the Ancients & Moderns, for he flourished about the year of our Lord 1090: his Exposition up● the Office of the Mass 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 citys 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 ●ame ad Merit.  
Hugh, Archdeacon 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 published with the collected works of other Belgic Writers of Latin Poetry.  
Dr James Duport, Master of Magdalen College in Cambridge, in which University he was for many years (most worthily in respect of his exquisite perfection therein) Professor of the Greece Tongue; and for Greece Verse how not inferior to the Chief of the Moderns? his so well esteemed Metaphrases of Davids' Psalms, Job, Ecclesiastes, and the Canticles, sufficiently testify.  
Joannes Callius, a Latin Hymnographer of Erford.  
Joannes Surnamed 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 Germane 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, than 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 Wether, the Play between Johan and his Wife, and the Play between the Pardoner and the Friar, 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 Lacie; one of the best and most applauded of our English Actors, in this present Age; but whose wit not wholly confined to Action, hath also produced two ingenuous Comical P●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 Laureate mentioned in the foregoing Treatise of the Moderns, lived in the time of King Henry the Eighth; and for his Satirical Invectives against Cardinal Woolsy, was forced 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 equally 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, lieth 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 showeth the conunterfeit action very lively and pleasantly.  
Nicolaus Stopius, a Fleming of the town of Alost; whose Varia are published 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 examine) he must not be forgotten, that was retained Poet Laureate 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 mentioned 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, pitched upon him to be the Celebrator of his Heroic Acts; when being taken prisoner by the Scots, he was forced 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 published 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 esteemed 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 published together with Tho. Nortons' Ordinal of Alchemy, John Dastins' dream, Bloomfeild's Blossoms, Abraham Andrew's Hunting of the green Lion, G. Reply ' s Compound of A'chymy, and other collected works of the choicest of our old Poetisers in the Mysteries of Chemical Philosophy, by my honoured Friend 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 remembered of what he writ in Poetry, and so much the more famous he is by being remembered to have been the Disciple of the most famed 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 expressed 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 Raleighs Vein most lofty, insolent and passionate.  
William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, Lord Steward of the Household to his late Majesty King Charles the First; not only a great favourer of Learned and Ingenious Men, but also of a Poetical Genius 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 published 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 Countess 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 Virtue Triumphant, or Lively Description of the four Virtue's 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 ANCIENTS Eminent for Poetry.  

A.  
ANYLE, an Epigrammatic Poetess, whose name is to 17 Greece 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 Wisdom and Learning; but most particularly recommended to Posterity for what she hath written in Poetry, several of her Verses being remembered 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 'tis supposed, in Verse, the Descriptions of more Spintrian pranks and Gambols, than perhaps her Mistress ever practised or understood; and which seem to have been a Pattern of those lewd inventions, which the witty ribald Aretine in after Ages, broached for the use of the Sons of Priapus; nor were there wanting in those times apt Scholars to such a Mistress, who prosecuted and enlarged upon the subject she had begun: Philenis, a strumpet of Leucadia, as unchaste, saith a late Author, in her Verses, as her life; and Elephantis, whose Molles Libelli are mentioned by Martial, as she herself by Pliny, Tatianus, Suidas and others.  
Athenais, the Daughter of Leontius, an Athenian Sophist; herself 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 virtue 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 Ru●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 prevailed with to alter many of his Verses, and who in many places extols this Lady to the skies for her Beauty, Learning, and transcendent Virtues: of her Poetic writings there are remembered 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 Enigmatical Sentences or Riddles, which she uttered or composed for the most part in Greece 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 famed for Poetry also, namely Corinna the Thespian, much extoll'ed by Ancient 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 Poetess, Sister to Cornificius▪   

D.  
Damophila, the Cousen-German, Associate and Em●latrix of Sapph, 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.  
Deborah, 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 Supreme Governess: her divine Hymn or Song upon the Deliverance of the Israelites from Jabin, K. of the Gananites, shows her to have been divinly inspired with a Poetic, no less than 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 19th 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.  
E●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 broke forth into a Hymn of thanksgiving.  
Hedyle, a Samian, or as some say, Athenian Poetess, of whom there are remembered 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 received from a Poetess her Mother, viz. M●schine, noted for jambic Poetry; so to have bequeathed to a Poet her Son, no less famous for Epigram.  
Helena Flavia, the Daughter of Coil King of Britain, and by him the Mother of the Emperor; Constantine the Great, among the rest of her works mentioned by Balaeus, is her Book of Greece Verses, she is said to have been the first finder out the real Wood of the Cross, upon which our Saviour was crucified.  
Helpis, the Daughter, as saith Ranulphus, of a King of Sicily; but for certain, Wife of the famous Philosopher Boethius Severinus, there are extant of her Composing, as Giraldus 〈◊〉, several▪ Hymns upon the Apostles; famous also and well known is her Epitaph upon her Husband.  
Histiaea, an Alexandrian Poetess mentioned by Aristophanes, and Strabo in his Homerica.  
Hypatia, the Daughter of Theon, the famous Geometrician of Alexandria, and the Wife of Ifidorus, the Philosopher; she flourished under the Emperor Arcadius, chiefly for what she wrote in Astronomy, but is also mentioned by Suidas and Volaterranus, for several Poetical works in various kind of Verse.   

L.  
Lucia, a Roman Poetess Surnamed Mima, from her Mimic or Cornical writings mentioned by Pliny.   

M.  
Manto, a very ancient Poetess, from whom Mantua is said to have been denominated, and who is delivered to have been the Daughter of Tiresias. Textor.  
Marry, the greatest and most exalted of her Sex, as being the Virgin Mother of the Saviour of Mankind; and though her Heavenly Muse hath produced but one single Hymn the Magnificat, yet in that Hymn, as being upon the highest of subjects, and the most celebrated in Christian Church, the most Divine and Seraphic of all P●ets.  
Megalostrate, the Mistress of the famed Lyric Poet Al●man, herself also of no mean repute in Poetry.  
Michaele, a she Centaur, or at least of that progeny or generation, so denominated, who as the story goes, instructed the Thessalians by an Elegiac Poem in the Art of Love; which Poem Ovid is said to have 〈◊〉.  
Maeroe, a Woman who seems to have been of the most considerable of the Antienos for Learning; bu● most particularly remembered by her Hymn to Neptune.  
Musca●, an ancient Lyric and Epigrammatic Poetess, whose Epigrams and Lyrics Nomis are mentioned by Caelius Rodiginus, in the first chapter of his ei●hth Book.  
〈◊〉 a Byzantian Elegiac and Meli● Poetess, whose M●emosyne is remembered by Athenaeus, lib. 11. of the same Myro most probably, for Suidas mentioned two of that Name, are those various Poems in Elegiac Verse, taken notice of by Pausanias in his Boeotica, as also an Hexastich in the Book of the Greece Anthology: she is delivered to have been the Wife of Andromachus, the Philosopher.  
Myrtis, an Anthedonian Poetess, of whom there is remembered Poem of the death of the Nymph Oc●ne, for whose Love 〈◊〉 died.   

N.  
Nic strata, or Carme●ta, the Mother of Enander, an ancient King of Italy, even before the arrival of 〈◊〉 into that Country. She is feigned, for it will be looked upon rather as affection then real Story, to have been the first Inventor of Verse, which thence 〈◊〉 to be called Carmey.  
Nossis, an Epigrammatic Poetess, & by Antipater numbered also among the Lyrics.   

P.  
●amphila, an Epidaurian, the Daughter of Soteridas, of whose writing several works as well in Verse as Prose, are reckoned up by Suidas, in all which so great was her Repute; that her Statue is said to have been erected by Cephisodorus.  
Perilla a Roman Lady, who living in the time of Augustus, was in general esteem for her Learning and virtue, and for her addiction to Poetry peculiarly admired and celebrated by Ovid, whose Scholar in Poetry, the 7 ●h Elegy of the third Book of his Tristia, whereof she is indeed the sole subject, intimates her to have been.  
Phemonoe, the first Priestess of Ap●llo (as she is delivered to be) and utterer of the Delphic Oracles; and also the first Inventress of Heroic Verse; in which she is said to have written many things, as Suidas and Volaterranus testify.  
Polla Argentaria, the Wife of the Poet Lucan, and as is generally believed his Grand assistant in the correction and polishing of a great part of his Pharsalia: she is much extolled by Martial, and also by Statius, in his second Book of Sylvae.  
Praxilla a Sycionian Dithy ambic Poetess, of whose writing there is a work entitled Metrum Praxilleum: she is said to have flourished in the 32d d Olympiad; and is reckoned by Antipater Thessalus among the ● most famous Lyrics.  
Proba Valeriae Falconia, the Wife of Adelphus the Roman Proconsul, in the Reign of Honorius & Theodosius junior: she composed a Virgilian▪ Ge● to upon the History of the Old and New Testament, which was 〈…〉 by Petrus Brub●●chi●●, an▪ 1541. 〈…〉 Epitaph also upon her Husband's 〈◊〉 is particularly remembers.   

S.  
Sapph, a Lesbian, (the Daughter of Scamandarus, and Wise of 〈◊〉, a ●ich Man of Andros, by whom she had a Daughter named Cle●) nor inferior in same to the best of Lyric Poets; and said to be the first Compose● of tha● sort of Lyric Verse, which from he is called Sapphic; in which some are extant under her name, besides which she is said to have written Epigrams, Elegies, jambics and Monodies, and to have flourished in the 42d d Olympiad, and invented the Plectrum. Moreover, being a Poetess herself, she is likewise the subject of Poetical Tradition, if at least it were the same Sapph (for there have been imagined others of the same name) who falling in love with Phao the 〈◊〉 Man, and finding herself slighted, was possessed with a worse than Poetic madness to throw herself headlong from the rock Leucas into the Sea. Ovid, Statiu●, and others of the Latin Poets acknowledge but one Sapph  
Sibylls, several Women whoever they were (for it is not certainty agreed on among Authors) vulgarly concluded to have been Divinely inspired with a Spirit, both of Prophecy and Poetry: Politian accounts them to have been 12 in number, under these Names, Am●lthea, Marpesia, Herophile, Sabbe, Demo, Phygo, Phaetnnis, Carmenta, Manto, Pythia. Phem●noe, and Deiphobe● Sebastianus Franc. 11, Martianus Capella but two: Aelianus in his Book de Varia Historia, reckons 〈◊〉 Erythraea, Samia, Egypt, and Sardinia. But the general received number of them is 10, according to Va●ro, Liactantius, Justin Martyr, St. Augustin, & others, & those entitled as followeth, viz. 1, Sibylla Agrippa, otherwise Persis or Chaldaea, by the name of Sambethe, and by some surmised to have been the Daughter of Noah: 2., Sibylla Lybica, remembered by Euripides in his Prologue of Lamia; who ha●h been conjectured to be the same 〈…〉 3, Sibylla 〈…〉 by 〈◊〉 in his Book of 〈…〉 4. Sibylla Italica or 〈…〉 notice of by 〈…〉 and Piso in his Annals 〈…〉 to have been the same with 〈◊〉 the Mother of E●ander: 5. Sibylla E●ythroea, who particularly 〈◊〉 the Destruction of Troy: 6▪ Sibylla 〈◊〉, by the name of Pytho, mentioned by ●●●tosthenes in his Annals of 〈…〉 Cumana, by some named 〈…〉 by others Damophila, by others Herophile; the same, as 'tis thought● that brought the 9 Books to 〈◊〉 Priscus: 8, Sibylla 〈…〉 who is delivered to have flourished in the time of Solon: 9, Sibylla 〈◊〉 10, 〈◊〉 Tiburtina, named Albun●●●, who is said to have lived in the time of Augustu●, and to have warned 〈◊〉 to worship a Child, that should 〈…〉 of a Virgin; to which purpose also 〈◊〉 those Oracles in Greece Verse● which whether the real work of those ancient Sibylls, to whom they are 〈◊〉, imputed, and under that motion's 〈◊〉 hath been the dispute and inquiry of many, and may very well; especially in respect of some of them, the 〈◊〉 of whose being in the number of the Sibylla, may easily be questioned, much more their being the Authors of those Greece Verses, considering either their time or Country.  
Sosipatra, a Lydian, the Wife of Aedesius, whom being of a Prophetic Spirit, and foretelling future events, in Verse no doubt, as the Ancients especially were wont to do, some have not doubted to place among the Poets. She is mentioned by Eugapius and Volater●●●us.  
Sulpitia, a most Learned Roman Lady, the Wife of Calenus: she is reported by Fulgosus l. 8. cap. 3. to have written many things in Heroic Verse; and is elegantly celebrated by Martial, in the 35 ●h Epigram of his tenth Book, and in the 38 ●h Epigram of the same Book to her Husband Calenus: under the name of this Sulpitia, there are some Fragments printed in some Editions of Ausonius, and a Fragment of two Epigrams in Gillius his Collection of Epig. & Po●matia vetera.   

T.  
Telesil●a, a Noble Poetess of Argo●, who upon consulting the Oracle about her health, being advised to betake herself to the Study of the Muses, grew in a short time so excellent, that animated by the charming power of her Verse, the Argive Women under her conduct were able to repel Cleomenes, the Spartan King, from the Siege of Argos, and afterwards King Demaratus from the Siege of Pamphiliacum, with shameful loss and retreat.  
Theano, a triple female name of considerable repute in Poetry: the first of this Name was Theano Locrensis, or Native of the City Locri, and Surnamed Melica, from the exact Melody, to which all her Lyric Airs and Songs were composed: the second a Cretan Poetess, and by some delivered to have been the Wife of Pythagoras: the third Theano Thuria, or Metapontina, said to have been the Wife of Carystius, some say Brantinus of Crotona, and the Daughter of the Poet Lycophron; they are all three mentioned by 〈◊〉: moreover, there are 3 Epistler of Theano probably one of these ● now mentioned; though which of them is not determined, published with the Epistles of several ancient Greece Authors at Venice by Aldus.  
Thymele, a Musical Poetess remembered by Martial, said to have been the first introducer into the Scene of a sort of Dance, which from her is called by the Greecs' 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉, from her also a sort of Altar anciently often used in theatres, is concluded to have taken its appellation.    

WOMEN Among THE MODERNS Eminent for Poetry.  

A.  
ANGELA de Nugarolis, an Italian Lady, the Daughter of Antonius de Nugarolis, of a very universal knowledge; but most especially accomplished in Grammar, Rhetoric, and Poetry.  
Anne Askew, the Daughter of Sir Wil●iam Askew, of Lincolnshire: she is is remembered among the English writers as well in Verse as Prose, for a Woman of singular beauty, Virtue and ingenuity; but above all for her constant assertion of the Protestant Faith she had embraced, even to the death, which she undauntedly suffered with many others, who upon the same occasion, in Queen Mary's Reign, were brought to the stake.  
Anne Broadstreet, a New-England Potess, no less in title, viz. before her Poems, printed in Old-England anno 1650; then The tenth Muse sprung up in America, the memory of which Poems consisting chiefly of Descriptions of the four Elements, the four Humours, the four Ages, the four Seasons, and the four Monarchies, is not yet wholly extinct.  
Anna Maria Shurman, an Hollandish Lady, of the most celebrated Fame for Learning of any of her Sex that I have heard of in Europe, at this day, by her Epistles to many of the most Eminently Learned Men of this Age, and other extant and generally known works, whereof part in Verse, both in Latin, Greece and Hebrew.  
Arabella, an English Lady, in the time of King James, whose near Kinswoman she was, and who upon her secret Marriage with Mr. William Seymour, afterwards Earl and Marquis of Hertford, was with her Husband committed to the Tower, where she died: she was a Lady of no less Eminence for Learning and ingenuous parts, then for her Quality; and as saith an English w●iter, who makes mention of her, She had a great facility in Poetry, and was elaborately conversant among the Muses. What correspondence Andrew Melvin, the Witty Scotchman, had with her in the Tower, being Prisoner there at the same time, hath been already mentioned.  
Astrea Behn a Dramatic writer, so much the more considerable as being a Woman, to the present English Stage, to which she hath contributed 2 Comedies, the Dutch Lady, and the Amorous Princess, the Forced Marriage, a Tragicomedy, and the Fatal Jealousy, a Tragedy.   

B.  
Lady 〈◊〉 one of the four Daughters of Sir Antony Cook, the other three were the Lady Burleigh; the Lady Russel; and Mis Killigrew▪ of whose Genius in Poetry, whatever hath been known extant, there is the testimony of a Grand Author, viz. Sir John Harringtor, who in his Allegory upon the 37th Book of Ariosto's O●lando Fu●ioso▪ gives them all a very large Character for Learning, and particularly for Poetry; and of one of them he cite; the Latin Verses sent from Cornwall, to her Sister the Lady Burleigh, being then at Court, to use her utmost interest, that her Lover might not be sent abroad upon an Embassy, which was intended.   

C.  
Cassandra Fedele, a Venetian Lady, born in the year 1465, the Daughter of Angelo Fedele and Barbara Leonia: she was for her excellence in the Latin & Greece Tongues, History, Philosophy, and the Arts, very much esteemed by Angelus Politianus, & remembered by Fulgosus lib. 1. c. 3. Rerum Morabilium, for a Volume of Latin Poems of various subject and kind.  
Catherine Philips, the most applauded, at this time, Poetess of our Nation, either of the present or former Ages, and not without reason, since both her Fame is of a fresh and lively date from the but late published Volume of her Poetical works, and those also of a style suitable to the humour and Genius of these times.   

E.  
Lady Elizabeth Carew, wrote the Tragedy of Mariam.  
Elizabetha Joanna Westoni●, an English Poetess of some repute in the esteem of Farnabie, who ranks her with Sir Th. More, Alabaster, Drury, and other English writers of Latin Poetry.   

H.  
Hildegardis, an Abbess of the Benediction Order, of the Monastery of St. Rupert, in the Earldom of Spanheim, in Germany: who besides the several Volumes she wrote in Prose, both in Theology and Medicine, is said to have written also a Book of Latin Poems of various argument and Vers.   

I.  
Lady Jane Grey, the Daughter of the Duke of Suffolk, far more happy in her Learning, wherein she took wonderful delight, and her sine Vein in Poetry, for which she is by many highly commended, then in her being proclaimed Queen of England; which honour after a very short time of enjoyment, brought her to an untimely end.   

K.  
Mis. Killigrew; see the Lady Bacon.   

L.  
Lucretia Marinella, an Italian Lady; who wrote a Poem of the Dignity and Pre-eminence of Women.   

M.  
Magdalena Acciniola, a Lyric Poetess, after the manner of the Italians in Sonnet, Canzon, and Madrigal.  
Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle, lately deceased, a very obliging Lady to the World; and withal not regardless of her own future Fame, by so largely and copiously imparting to public view her studious Endeavours in the Arts and Ingenuities, there being three ample Volumes of hers in Print; one of Orations, the other of Philosophical Notions and Discourses, the third of Dramatic and other kinds of Poetry.  
Marry Morpeth, a Scotch Poetess, and a friend of the Poet Drummond, of whom, besides many other things in Poetry, she hath a large Encomium in Verse.  
Marry, Countess of Pembroke, the Sister of the Incomparable Sir Philip Sidney, whose Arcadia was consecrated to her virtuous inclination to Poetry, and other Ingenuities, there is extant of his writing the Tr. of Antonius and Albion's Triumph, besides what other things she probably may be imagined to have writ, though now not known.  
Lady Marry Wroth, the Wife of Sir Robert Wroth, an Emulatress perhaps of Philip Sidny's Arcadia, by her Urania, a Poetical History of the same nature; but much inferior in Fame.  
Mildred●, one of the fo●e mentioned four Daughters of Sir Anthony Cook and Wife to the Lord 〈◊〉 who with the rest of her Sisters is equally commended by Sir John Harrington, and others, both for Learning in general and in particular for her Vein in Poetry.   

O.  
Olympi● Clara, an Italian Lady no less famous than her Name imports▪ for what she hath writ in Verse.   

R.  
Lady Russell, one of the four Daughters of Sir Anthony Cook, already mentioned.   

S.  
Madam 〈◊〉, the Sister of that most Famous of French Romancer● Monsieur Scudery; whose assistant she is said to have been in many of his works, and of Clelia to have had the principal share: she also writ a Book of Poems, which have the commendation of a more than feminine wit and Fancy.   

U.  
Valeria Miaina, an Italian Dramatic Poetess, whose Amorosa Speranza, I find peculiarly mentioned and commended.  
FINIS.     

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