390 NOTES. 



Plinius Secundus, surnamed the Elder, was born at Verona, and 

 was celebrated as a soldier, a statesman, and a scholar. He 

 wrote 160 volumes of remarks on the authors which he had 

 read ; but his Natural History, in 37 books, is the only one of 

 his works now extant. He perished in that eruption of Mount 

 Vesuvius which overthrew Herculaneum, a.d. 79, in his 56th 

 year. Decimus Magnus Ausonius was a Latin poet born at 

 Bordeaux in Gaul ; and preceptor of Gratian, the son of the 

 Emperor Valentinian, which occasioned him to be made Consul. 

 His compositions are chiefly Epigrams from the Greek, Epi- 

 taphs, and poetical Epistles. He died about a.d. 390. Aris- 

 toteles, the celebrated philosopher, was born at Stagira, and 

 studied at Athens under Plato. He wrote above 400 literary 

 and scientific volumes, and Alexander the Great magnificently 

 patronised his Natural History of Animals. He died at the 

 age of G3, b.c. 322. 



Page 3 1 . Divine Du Bartas. 



Guillaume De Salluste, Sieur Du Bartas, was the son of a 

 Treasurer of France, and was born in 1544, at Montfort in Ar- 

 magnac. He served in the army of Henry IV. as the com- 

 mander of a company of cavalry, in Gascony, under Marechal 

 De Matignon ; and the King also employed him in various 

 commissions to England, Denmark, and Scotland. His works 

 are numerous, and written both in French and Latin verse ; 

 but his principal production is entitled "A Commentary of the 

 " Week of the Creation of the World," in seven books. In six 

 years, it passed through upwards of thirty editions ; and an 

 English translation of it in verse, by Joshua Sylvester, mer- 

 chant-adventurer of London, was published in 1605. Du Bartas 

 held the doctrines of Calvinism ; he was a modest and reserved 

 man, a brave soldier, and he died in 1590, at the age of 46. The 

 passage quoted in the text, will be found in the Fifth Day of the 

 First Week, line33, but it is considerably varied from theoriginal: 

 see No. 7 in the list of Authorities, and p. 39, col. 2, of that 

 volume. In the quotation from Du Bartas in the text, the 

 word Stares is put for Starlings : it is derived from the Saxon 

 Staer or the Teutonic Sterre, ultimately from the Latin Sturnus. 

 The Two Ecclesiastical Fishes mentioned by Bu Bartas, are de- 

 scribed by Rondeletius, and delineated in the Posthumous 

 Works of Mr. John Gregory. Lond. 1683. 4to. pages 121, 122. 

 Hawkins. 



Page 31. The Cuttle-fish, etc. 



The margin in all the editions refers to Montaigne's Essays, 

 see No. 29 of the preceding list; and in the Apology for Ray- 

 mond De Sebonde, book ii. chap. xii. p. 256, is the passage 

 alluded to. 



