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ficiently disgusted with the notion of a monk's life, 

 turned physician. He received his doctorate at Pavia, 

 then bearing the name of Burden. In 1529 he ac- 

 companied the Bishop of Agen to his home, as medical 

 adviser, on condition that he should not be detained at 

 Agen longer than eight days. Within that time, how- 

 ever, at the age of forty-five, he fell in love ; it is said, 

 with a young woman of thirteen. Her youth must, I 

 think, have been maliciously exaggerated; at any rate 

 her charms were powerful; they detained the physician, 

 caused him to settle in the town, and very soon to marry 

 her. Julius Caesar Scaliger thus became fixed at Agen as 

 M. de 1'Escalle, an eminent practitioner who prospered 

 greatly. He and his wife had fifteen children, of whom 

 seven survived; and the boys seem to have been all 

 terrible, like their grandfather and their father. " My 

 father," said his son Joseph Justus, the scholar, in familiar 

 talk 1 "my father was honoured and respected by all 

 those court gentry. He was more feared than loved at 

 Agen; he had an authoritative way, a majesty, a presence 

 he was terrible ; when he cried out he frightened all of 

 them. Auratus said that Julius Caesar Scaliger had a 



1 The preceding sketch is amplified by reference to, and all the suc- 

 ceeding traits are taken from, the first good edition of the Table-Talk 

 of Scaliger the Younger: " Scaligerana. Editio altera, ad verum 

 Exemplar restituta, et innumeris iisque foedissimis mendis, quibus prior 

 ilia passim scatebat diligentissime purgata." Cologne, 1667. 



