digestorum per Thomam Mitem, Nymburgenum, Pragae, 1570. His Epigramma in Thermas Caroli IV is p. 179. We possess also his Epistolae and his Lucubrationes oratoriae. His cotemporaries called him the Ulysses, the Pliny, the Horace of Bohemia; they might also have called him their Juvenal, for his satire on the nobility, gentry and people of his country, and for his very sharp letter on the morals of Prague. His works, formerly taught at Leipzic, among the roman classics, are now very rare; scarcely more than fifteen copies are extant in the principal public and private libraries of Bohemia and Austria. He is commonly called The Great Bohemian (Der grosse Böhme).
(³) A family seat, his Tusculum, where he was born, where he passed a great part of his life, and where he died, reduced now to venerable ruins, in the circle of Saaz.
(⁴) Augustus Pfitzmayer was born at Carlsbad, on the 16th March 1808, where his father, a native of Wirtemberg, keeps the Posthof, one of our best Restaurans. He received his first education at Carlsbad, but, when eleven years old, he was sent to Dresden (1819), to study under Mr. Philippi, director of a celebrated institution. Three years after he went to Pilsen (a small town in Bohemia), to attend his last philosophical classes. About that time he began to learn English, French and Italian, which he understands very well, and speaks as easily as can be expected from a young man, overloaded with other studies, and having few opportunities of conversation
