Prof. EverettU account of Greek Manuscripts. 415 



auctorque ipsius, quicumque ille fuerit, negotium cum muUa fide 

 administraverit, ac ne verborum quidem ordinem variaverit, inde 

 se cognovisse Victorias narrat quam scripturam in suo exemplari 

 ille habuerit. Hoc autena cum in librum inciderim, adnotandum 

 hie censui ego Franciscus Victorias Petri Nepos, ut hoc etiani 

 nomine liber custodi BibliothecaB et iis qui iJlum legent commen- 

 datus sit, sententiamque meam laudaturos studiosos bonarum arti- 

 um speravi, cum vir maximi ingenii atque admirabilis doctrinse, 

 frater Vincentius Civitella, illam approbaverit."— The encomium 

 pronounced on this manuscript by Victorias, is entitled to consid- 

 eration from the character of this critic. He was among the best 

 Greek scholars of the sixteenth century. Buhle calls him " Aris- 

 totelicae philosophiae omninoque Graecarum et Latinarum literarum 

 scientia inter aequales insignis^i etsi contemtim de eo senserit 

 Scaligerus.''* The opinion of Scaliger concerning Victorias is 

 pronounced as follows. " Petrus Victorius bon homme mais 

 longus. On faisoit en Italic extreme estat de Victorius, mais ce 

 n'est pas grand cas : il escrit de miserables lettres cum magnisam- 

 bagibusJ' Victorius devoted his life to letters, and wrote com- 

 mentaries on the works of Aristotle at the age of eighty five.f 



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♦ Buhle Opera Arist. torn* i. p, S4T. 



t Harlesii Introd, in histor, Lins- Graec. i. 452 



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