JOHN ERIGENE a.d 



858. 



Carolo Calvo, & postea Ludovico Balbo acceptus, Dionysii 

 Areopagitae libros de coelesti Hierarchia, ex Constantino- 

 poli tunc missos Latinos fecit, Anno Dom. 858. Pro- 

 fectus postea in Britanniam, Alphredi Anglorum Regis, 

 & suorum liberorum factus est praeceptor, atque ipso 

 mox adhortante, inter ocia literaria e Graeco transtulit in 

 tres linguas, scilicet Chaldaicam, Arabicam, & Latinam, 

 Aristotelis moralia, de secretis secretorum, seu recto 

 regimine Principum, opus certe exquisitum. In Malms- 

 buriensi caenobio tandem, quo recreationis gratia se con- 

 tulerat, inter legendum a quibusdam discipulis malevolis 

 interimebatur. Anno Christi, 884. 



The same in English. 



John Erigene a Britane, descended of honourable 

 parents, and borne in the Towne of S. David in 

 Wales, seeing the Englishmen to be oppressed with 

 the warres and rapines of the cruell Danes, and all the 

 land in a hurlie burlie, he in the meane time under- 

 tooke a long journey, even as farre as Athens, and 

 there spent many yeres in the studie of the Greeke, 

 Chaldie, and Arabian tongues : he there frequented all 

 the places and schooles of the Philosophers, and the 

 oracle also of the Sunne, which Aesculapius had built 

 unto himselfe. And having found at length that which 

 he had with long travell searched, he returned againe 

 into Italic, and France, where for his singular learning, 

 he was much favoured of the two Kings Charles and 

 Lewes, and in his being there, he translated into 

 Latine the bookes of Dionysius Areopagita concerning 

 the Heavenly Hierarchic, which were sent from Con- 

 stantinople in the yeere 858. After this hee came 

 backe againe into his owne Countrey, and was schoole- 

 master unto Alphred then King of England, and his 

 sonnes : and upon his request, at his times of leasure, he 

 translated Aristotles Morals, of the Secrets of Secrets, 

 or of the right governement of Princes, out of Greeke 

 into these three tongues, Chaldie, Arabian, and Latine, 



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