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learned preceptor of Melanclitlion. The first is properly Ilussgen, cor- 

 rupted from Hausscheio, Houselight ; the next is Kuhhorn, Cowhorn ; 

 and the last is Reuchlin, Smoke. Capito, a friend of Bucer's, was 

 really Koepstein, Headstone. Melissus, author of eight books of Mele- 

 temata, Studies, printed at Frankfort in 1595, is Paul Biene, Bee 

 (Melissa, bee). We have also a printer at Bern, named Apiariup. 

 Cochliaeus, author of a Historia Hussitarum, and an opponent of the 

 Reformation, was Wendlestein, Cochlsea, Periwinkle, Winkle. Perizc- 

 nius, author of Origines Babylonicae et j^gyptiacaa, was Voorbrock, 

 Apron, perizon-e. 



In the cloisters at Bale, not far from the resting-place of Erasmus, is 

 a tablet to his friend Episcopius; and near by are other more recent 

 memorials to members of the same family, whereon the vernacular 

 name of BischoflE" is resumed. Parens, author of three folio volumes of 

 divinity, in 1593, was Wangler, wange being cheek in German, and 

 pareia being cheek in G-reek. Macropediua, a writer of Dramatic 

 pieces for the young, was Langevelt, macro having reference to Lange, 

 and pedius to velte, field, campus, pedion. Opilio was Schaefer, Shep- 

 herd, opilio being shepherd, as though ovilio, from ovis. Lentilius 

 was Linsenbarht, a supposed progeny of linse, German for lentils. 

 Malleolus, a modest diminutive of Charles Martel's name, was Hem- 

 merlein, which is sufficiently English in sound to speak for itself. He 

 was a divine of Zurich : some of his treatises were printed at Bale in 

 1497. Jerome Bock, Anglic^ Buck, a naturalist, whose Kreuter-buch 

 was printed at Strasbourg in 1546, appears on the title page of the 

 Latin version of that work, as Hieronymus Tragus, the equivalent of 

 his name in Greek. Manneken, author of a Complete Letter Writer 

 in 1476, elevates his family-name by Latinising it Virulus, not Homun- 

 culus. Kammermeister, a distinguished commentator on the New Tes- 

 tament, was Camerarius, Chamberlain. (His family-name was once 

 Liebhard.) Loos, in Low-German, crafty, compiler in 1581, of Illus- 

 trium Germanise Utriusque Catalogus, is Callidius. Kallison, a pupil 

 of Melanchthon's, became Callistus and Calixtus, Formosissimus. Ulrie 

 Molitor in 1489 was doubtless a Mueller; as also Crate Mylius, a 

 printer at Strasbourg; and a Farinator in 1477. Vermeulen is Molanus, 

 and Walscemueller, Hylacomylus. The real name of Regiomontanus, 

 the great mathematician at the close of the fifteenth century, was 

 Mueller. Regiomontanus, Montrealer, is his designation as being a 

 aative of Konigsberg, Mont-real, in Franconia. Johannes de Tritten- 



