of XFO^p^S Hl%E> gg 



of this Effay) concerning the healthy fituation of Oxford, and its 

 fele&ion by Students, for the feat of the Mufe s : Notanda, inquit, 

 funttria, quod Civ kzsfana eft in Borea is in Oriente fiplantata eft 

 aperta, is in Auftro is Occident^ montofa ; propter pur it at em Bo- 

 reae, is Orientis, is putrefaclionem Auftri is Occidentis : ficut 

 Oxonia, qu<pe.: induftriam Philofophorum de Grxciz fuerat ordina- 

 ta 8 , i. e. that a healthy City mull be open to the North and Eaft, 

 and mountanous to the South and Weft ; by reafon of the purity 

 of the two former quarters, in refped of the latter : juftas Oxford 

 is feated, which was fele&ed by the Philofophers that came from 

 Greece. 



6$ . And that according to the rules of their great Mafter Hip- 

 pocrates, who requires no other, but the very fame fituation for 

 a healthy City h . But about what time it was thefe Philofophers 

 arrived, though I dare not be too confident, yet in all probabili- 

 ty they might be fomeof thofe Grecians brought over by Theodo- 

 rm the Greek Arch-bifliop of Canterbury, about the year 66S\ 

 ^whom 'tis like he placed here to inftruft the Saxon youth ; for we 

 find Venerable ZWe,and St. Johnde Beverlaco (alwaies reputed of 

 this Vniverftty) to have been his Scholars ; and fo Tobias Bifhop of 

 Eocbefter,znd Albinws Abbot of St. Auguftins Cant, who are faid to 

 have underftood the Greek. Tongue as well as their native 



one k . 



66. Not to mention that Britan was known to the Greeks be- 

 fore the arrival of the Romans ; for otherwife Polybiws could ne- 

 ver have hoped to have defcribed Britan, or the method there ufed 

 in ordering Tin, as we find he defigned, having promifed to 



Write, *%* % 'Bfsrta.piHcip vttmv, ^ irit TV wfliiipii wm,mAi*i \ A Which 



Book though loft, yet Strabo * bears us witnefs, that therein hfi 

 refuted the Errors of Vic^archut, Pytbiatand Eratofthenes, con- 

 cerning the magnitude of Britan, who were alfo Greek Authors 

 (that it feems had written fomthing concerning this Ifland) and 

 much ancienter than himfelf. Nor to note fecondly, that the 

 French Druids (who had their Learning out of Britan') in things 

 of common concern; ufed the Greek Cbarafter; which how 



Inproblematibtu Arifot fecudumJaboremMagiftriWz\terBar]ey, ad ordinem<LAlphabeti. MS.6^. in 

 Bib. Coil. B. M- Magdal.Oxon fol. 12 b. * Mn5f tufjxutT^e/iiat t* hMH . xj I s *'thPi{ <? '^^"it- Hip- 

 pocrat Oper. feci. 3. cap. fe< tcipui i/'Ajt, -riimi. ' Godwinus de Tr*fulib-Ang.in'vitaTheodori. h Mattb. 

 Parker de Anttqtiitate Ecclef. Briton- in vita Theod. ' ptlybii Megal- Hifloriar. lib. 3./*. 209 Edit. If. Ca- 

 faub. An. 1619. * Strabon Gtograpb. lib. 2- pat,. 104. Edit. Cafaub, parti, An, 1620. m "}ul.C<e(arii 

 Comment, de bello Gallic, lib, 6. 



T t 2 they. 



