392 Aster History: THE LONITZERS 
Rivius then repeats what Fuchs stated under the heads Locus, 
Tempus and Temperamentum, nearly verbatim, and there ends; 
omitting Fuchs’ “ Vires,” as that would have repeated the proper- 
ties Rivius had already stated in Dioscorides’ text on the same 
page. 
LXXVIII. Joun LoNITZER 
Johannes Lonicerus, the renowned philologist and theologian, 
professor in Marburg till about 1557, was, like his son Adam, a 
botanical writer as well as classicist. 
His Latin translation of Nicander with Scholia, was printed by 
Soter at Cologne, 1531. Another work followed, his Scholia on 
Dioscorides, based on Marcellus Vergilius’ translation. This work, 
printed by Egenolph, bears the imprint ‘‘ Marburg, Aug. 1543, 
with its own separate pagination, but bound in* with the Aznota- 
tions of Ryff on Dioscorides printed by Egenolph at Frankfort, 
and prefaced in Sept. of the same year.—Lonicerus’ notes, fol. 67, 
on Aster Atticus, Bk. IV., C. 115, are noteworthy only in their 
names. He heads them “ De Astere Attico, sive inguinali herba.” 
He, or Egenolph, uses two marginal headings, ‘‘ Asteris Attici 
vocabula,” and “ Stellae Atticae vires.” His notes are as follows: 
“ Aster Atticus, id est, stella Attica, asteriscus, id est, stellula, 
asterion, id est, stellula, bubonion, id est, inguinalis. Hyophthal- 
mon, id est, suillus oculus. Rathibis barbarum est, a foliolis 
stellae similibus nomen huic herbae est inditum stellaria. Ger- 
manice Sternkraut, Galenus Astera Atticum, sunt qui bubonium, 
id est, inguinalem nominent, quod non solum emplastri modo ap- 
posita haec herba inguina sanet, verumetiam alligata iisdem mede- 
atur.”’ 
LXXIX. Apam LoniITzER 
Adam, son of John Lonitzer, born in Marburg 1528, studied 
medicine at Mentz 1551, obtaining his doctorate there 1553, and 
marrying on the same day the daughter of Egenolph. After 
holding a professorship of medicine at Mentz he returned to 
Frankfort to live with Egenolph, where he died 1586. His prin- 
cipal + work is his Kreuterbuch, 1557,in German, with 708 figures 
(ex libr. Bu.), which repeated on folio 177, the figured Aster 
* So at least in my own copy and that of Prof. E. L. Greene. 
} Preceded 1551 and 1555 by his ‘* Naturalis Historia.” 
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