unto which place the Romanes ſent their ſonnes to learne, to disſcerne of lightening, and tokens in the firmoment, what it might ſignifie, ſuch affiaunce had they in theſe dayes to Prodiges, he was in the time of the Euangeliſtes about 47. or 55. yeares after Chriſt, he was buryed in Rome, at the age of 66. yéeres.
Plinius Minor, or ſecundus Veronenſis, a Philoſopher and Phiſition, the elder Plinie wrote ye moſt excellent work, called the Hiſtorie of Nature, the other wrote eloquent Epiſtles, ſuppoſed after Chriſt. 72. yeares: the young Plinie was alſo called Cecilius Plinius, nephew to the firſt Plinie by his ſiſter, who wrote an Oration to Traiane the Emperour, in his commendation, which Oration is named Panegericus. In the which he giueth thankes to Traian, who made him Conſull.
Percianus.
Pythagoras Samius, Philoſopher about Anno before Chriſt. 534. in the later end of the fourth age of the world, a famous Philoſopher in his time, whoſe Schoole was not occupyed in naturalls and Aſtronomie, as others, but in Arethmetike, Geometrie, and Muſicke, which he reduced firſt into ſciences, and albeit in his time none was comperable to him in wiſedome, yet would he not be called a wiſe man, but a Philoſopher, that is, a louer of wiſedome, his doctrine is ſaid to be diuine, thoſe whome he taught hée ioyned to kéepe ſilence fiue yeres, the occaſion ſuppoſed was, that in thoſe fiue yeares they might as well by experience of priuat practiſe, as reading, become the more able to teach in theyr common wealth. (It were not a miſſe if in the Church of England, thoſe gréene braines which come from the Uniuerſities at 18.19.20.21.22.23. and 24. yeares, hauing paſſed the Gramer, and procéeded Batchelers of Art, ſhould by and by be ſuffered to take the place of experienced and elder perſons (to become Preachers of the ſacred Goſpell of Chriſt) vntill they had farther ſtudyed priuatly, & had conference with the elders, the want of ſuch good order is the cauſe of ſo many contentions in the Church, as is to bée lamented,) he neuer woulde doe ſacrifice with any bloud, he woulde eate nothing that had lyſe, he continued his lyfe in wonderfull abſtinence. After the computation of Seb. Munſter hée liued aboute Anno. 590. before Chriſt.
Rabanus was a Monacke and Archbiſhoppe of Moguntinus, Mentes, a Germaine borne, but firſt he was Abbot of Fuldenzis, he wrote certain bookes in Diuinitie vppon the Chronicles and Machabees, beſide certaine Sermons: It ſéemeth that he wrote ſome feaſtiuall of Saints dayes, he flouriſhed about Anno Chriſti. 840.
Robertus Lincolne called Groſted,[1] in Henrie. 3. time, Anno Chriſti. 1253. a man ſo ſingularly learned, that of his owne coaſts and charges, hée ſent ouer ſea into diuers places farre and néere for Hebrue bookes, Gréeke bookes, & others, wherein conſiſted anie matter for the eſtabliſhing of chriſtian faith, and was able to tranſlate the ſame into Latine.
Richard de ſancto Victore, ordinis regularum, of Saint Auguſtine, a Doctour in Paris, the chiefe Citie of Fraunce, ſayd to be (as thoſe which deſerue praiſe of later times) he wrote. 39. ſeuerall books, as ſaith my Author Sipli. Cron. fol. 217. hée liued about Anno Chriſti. 1130.
Simon Corum.
Stephanus Strabus a Monacke of the Region of Fraunce, flouriſhed aboute Anno. 844. the Commentator of the workes of (Rabanus the Germaine monacke, Archbiſhop of Mentes) he wrote a booke De officijs Eccleſia, vnto Lodowick the Emperour.
Solinus an hiſtorian and Oratour, about the time of Iulius Caeſar, before Chriſt about fiftie yeares.
Symonides a Poet of Greece, borne in the Ile called Caea, who was the firſt that inuented the vearſes called Lyrici, he was about the yeares before Chriſt. 663.
Termegiſtus.
Theophraſtus the olde Philoſopher, a prndent perſon. 170. yeares before Chriſt.
Titus Liuius an excellent Hiſtorian, or writer of Hiſtoryes, about Anno. 180
- ↑ Did by an Epiſtle reproue Pope Innocent, affirming that the preching friers and minorit friers wer infected with hereſie.
