Fast bound in Lethe's dull embrace, Betimes the sprightly traveller wakes: Lull'd in his fair one's gentle arms, His be the illusive joys of night; THE AMALTHEI VOS,VATUM STUDIOSA COHORS! VOS INCLYTA VIRTUS ATTOLLET, PRÍSCIS EMULA TEMPORIBUS. ZANCHIUS. HE AMALTHEI (HIERONYMUS, JoanNES BAPTISTA, and CORNELIUS) were brothers, who flourished in the earlier part of the sixteenth century, and distinguished themselves as men of letters. The place of their birth was ОDERZO, a city of the Venetian territory. Hieronymus, the eldest, united in his own person the characters of a skilful physician, and a pleasing poet. His Latin poems are in general written in a style of singular elegance and purity. The celebrated French critic and commentator, Marc-Antoine Muret, in his correspondence spondence with Lambin, classes them among the best productions of the Italians, in that species of composition. (a) In poems of (a) Marc-Antoine Muret, who ranks among the Latin poets of France, was born near Limoges, A. D. 1526. He is said principally by his own application to have attained the critical knowledge of the Greek and Latin languages for which he was distinguished. He taught in various colleges and seminaries of education, and was remarkable for the vivacity of his disposition, and a certain pointed quickness of reproof, which enabled him to repress the undue forwardness of his pupils. Charges of a serious nature, the justice of which is however disputed, obliged him to flee from his native country. It is related of him, that as he travelled towards Italy in dis guise, he fell sick at an inn; and the physicians of the place, ignorant of the quality of their patient, proposed to each other to try upon him a medicine, the effects of which had not been fully ascertained. "Faciamus experimentum in corpore vili," which words, being overheard by the professor, speedily operated his cure, without further medical assistance. This eminent scholar; who distinguished himself as a commentator on classic authors, a miscellaneous writer, and a Latin poet, died in 1585. in the 60th year of his age. Vide de Thou; Menage's Anti-Baillet; and Noveau Dictionnaire Historique. Denys Lambin, another celebrated commentator, was born at Montreuil sur mer, in Picardy. His profound erudition and scrupulous exactness, as a collector of various readings, are acknowledged; but some have of the light and epigrammatic kind, he particularly excelled. Of these the following, entitled "The Hour-glass" or "The Tomb of Alcippus," is amongst the most admired. De Horologio pulvereo. Perspicuus vitro pulvis qui dividit horas, Through that perspicuous vase the tiny shower This learned man is also much commended for his urbanity of manners, and the suavity of his disposition. (1) He cultivated blamed his unauthorized and frequently injudicious freedoms in correcting the text of his authors. He occasionally united his critical labours with those of Muret. Lambin was Greek professor in the College Royale, at Paris. He died iu 1572. (1) Thuanus. spondence with Lambin, classes them among the best productions of the Italians, in that species of composition. (a) In poems of (a) Marc-Antoine Muret, who ranks among the Latin poets of France, was born near Limoges, A. D. 1526. He is said principally by his own application to have attained the critical knowledge of the Greek and Latin languages for which he was distinguished. He taught in various colleges and seminaries of education, and was remarkable for the vivacity of his disposition, and a certain pointed quickness of reproof, which enabled him to repress the undue forwardness of his pupils. Charges of a serious nature, the justice of which is however disputed, obliged him to flee from his native country. It is related of him, that as he travelled towards Italy in dis guise, he fell sick at an inn; and the physicians of the place, ignorant of the quality of their patient, proposed to each other to try upon him a medicine, the effects of which had not been fully ascertained. "Faciamus experimentum in corpore vili;" which words, being overheard by the professor, speedily operated his cure, without further medical assistance. This eminent scholar, who distinguished himself as a commentator on classic authors, a miscellaneous writer, and a Latin poet, died in 1585. in the 60th year of his age. Vide de Thou; Menage's Anti-Baillet; and Noveau Dictionnaire Historique. Denys Lambin, another celebrated commentator, was born at Montreuil sur mer, in Picardy. His profound erudition and scrupulous exactness, as a collector of various readings, are acknowledged; but some have |