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fpent four years in his travels. In 15S3 he was made gentle- 

 man-ulhci- to the queen; and iiaving married, he entered into 

 pubUc Hfe, and was empUiyed in various foreign embalTies. 

 At the Hague, where he refided feveral years, his chief 

 biifincfi was tlie negotiation of money-concerns between the 

 States and queen Ehzabeth. After his final return to Eng- 

 land, in 1597, he found that his further advancement was ob- 

 ftruAed by the intrigues and jealoufies of perfons in power, 

 and he therefore formed a fixed purpofe of retiring from all 

 public alTairs, deroting the remainder of his life to the laud- 

 able employment of refouiidiiig the univtrlity library at Ox- 

 ford, furnilhing it with books, and enlarging the building. 

 See LiiiRARY. At the aeccflion of king James, Mr. Bodky 

 received tlie honour of knighthood. He died in 16 12, and 

 was buried in Merton college choir. An annual oration is 

 dill fpoken in his praife. Biog. Brit. 



CoDt-F.Y, John, who pratlifed phyfic in London, in the 

 beginning of the lall century, publilhed, in 1741, a critical 

 clfay on the works of various authors, particularly on thole 

 treating on medicine, with the view of fliewing that neither 

 Uiofe phylicians who wrote the moft correft and valuable 

 •treatifos on medicine, nor thofe who were the moll intelligent 

 practitioners, were ufually the moll encouraged : fame and 

 fuccefs being more commonly the appendages of craft and 

 pulicy, than of flcdl and judgment. A fimilar opinion was 

 held by the late Dr. Samuel Johnfon, who thought a judi- 

 cious hillory of the fate of phylicians might prove both an 

 entertaining and ufeful work. Something of this kind was 

 done by Pierius, in his book " De Literalorum Infelici- 

 tate," but on a larger fcale, embracing the whole commu- 

 nity of letters. Eloy. Diet. Hill. 



BODINC'OMACUM, in ylncient Ceogfaphy, the name of 

 a borough of Italy in Liguria, where, according to Pliny, 

 the river Eridanus was at its grcateft depth ; called in his 

 lime " Indullria." 



BODIONTICI, a people whom, according to Pliny, 

 Galba annexed to Galha Narbonnenlis ; but before tins 

 time they formed a part of the Ligurian,-. M. D'Anville 

 )ias placed them in the maritime Alps. Their capital was 

 Dinia. 



BODKIL, in Geogrnphy, one of the channels between 

 Flanders and Walchtren ifland, in Zealand, by which great 

 Ihips may fail in. 



BODMER, in Bio^rapliy, a celebrated profelTor and 

 writer of owiflerland, was born at Zurich in l6y8 ; and be- 

 came profeffbr of Helvetic hillory and politics in his native 

 place. In this ofhee he taught his pupils to think for them- 

 felves, and to make fuch obfervations on hillorieal fa£ls as 

 might render them intimately acquainted with the human 

 heart. He wrote the hillory of his own country in the form 

 of dramatic dialogius. Although he became one of the 

 moll voluminous of the German poets, and contributed in a 

 oreat degree to reform the talle of his contemporaries, and 

 to fiimiiiarize them to the fublime beauties ot Homer and 

 Milton, he had fcarcely written a verfe in the German 

 laiiguage before he was 50 years of age, when the firll canto 

 of Klopllock's Mcfiiah fell into his hands, and excited his 

 emulation. His firll cfTays were in epic poetry, the fubjefts 

 ot which he took from the Scriptures, but he afterwards de- 

 voted his niufe to other topics ; and it is oblervable, that old 

 age, which generally increafes aullerity of manners, had the 

 contraiy eflccl on Bodnier; infomuch that his lad pieces 

 were the moll gay, and that when he was 80 years old, he fre- 

 quertly amufed himielf with TibuUns and Petronius, andalfo 

 with Boecace ;;nd la Foritaine. At the age of 77, he began a 

 tranflation of Homer's Iliad and OdyfTey, which he finilhed; 

 he was 80, alfo, when he pubhflied his vcrfion of the Argo- 

 nautics of Apollonius llhodius. He died in 17S3, at the 



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age of 85 years. Bodmer has been dtfervedly ftyled by the 

 unanimous voice of his contemporaries, " the father of Ger- 

 man literature ;" whole jufl critieifms and correft judgment 

 animated the poetical genius of Klopllock, Haller, and 

 Gefner. Bildnilfe, &c. or Portraits of celebrated German 

 Literati, &c. Rome, i^iy-;. 



BODMIN, in Geovraphy, an ancient borough and market 

 town of Cornwall, England, is f.ated near the eallern bor- 

 ders of the county, on the confi\ies of Devonfliire. This 

 town appears to have been formerly the principal ieat of re- 

 ligion in the wellern diftrict, and contained a priory, a col- 

 legiate church, and, acoordi\ig to Hals, thirteen other 

 churches, or free chapels. The remains and loimdations of 

 fome of their religious llruftures Hill exill ; and the fites of 

 others are remembered by the old inhabitants. Among thefe 

 were the priory with its chapel, &c. vSt. Peter s cluirch, St. 

 Paul's church, on the northern fide of the town, of which a 

 folitary fquare tower remains ; St. Nicholas, or the friary. 

 The prefent town-hall and fcfiion houfc occupy the fite, and 

 are conllru6ted witii parts of the latter building. The firlt 

 religious foundation of Bodmin was removed to it from Pad- 

 (low, a town on the northern coall of the county, which 

 being much infefted by the .Saxons and D ines, was the re- 

 fort of the monks for greater protection and fafety. Here 

 they eitabhflied the priory, and its various dependent build- 

 ings ; all of which gradually decayed after the removal of 

 the fee. The town occupies the northern face of a hill, and 

 confills principally of one long llreet llretching call and wefl. 

 Near the eallern end of it is the parifh church, a large an- 

 cient ftrudlure, confilUng of three ailes, and a tower which 

 is attached to the north lide. The chancel part is certainly 

 the moll ancient, and was formerly connected with the 

 priory-building. An old chapel, now appropriated to a 

 fchool-room, llill remains near the eall end of the church, 

 and a little farther call is a neat modern manfion, occupy- 

 ing the lite of the domellic part of the priory. A mo- 

 nument richly and curioudy feulptured, of one of the prior* 

 of this houfe, is carefully prefei-ved in the chancel. This 

 was made to commemorate the name and official charafter 

 of Thomas Vivian, who w?.i bifhop of Megara, and died in 



1533- 



Bodmin is dillinguiflicd among the mmierous boroughs of 

 Cornwall, as being tlie only one free from the controul of 

 a patron. It was firll made a borough in the time of 

 Henry II. and its privileges were afterwards confirmed by 

 king James I. who incorporated it in the 15th year of his 

 reign. In 1799, .a new charter was obtained, which veiled 

 the government in a town clerk, twelve aldermen, and twenty- 

 four eoniinon council-men, who hold the lole privilege of 

 elefting two members for parliament. About half a mile 

 N.W. of the town is a regular, commodious county gaol, 

 which w^as begun building in 1779, from defigns by Sir 

 John Call, who plainud it according to the fyllem recom- 

 mended by the pliilanthropic Howard. 



Bodmin gave birth to Dr. Richard I>ower, an ingenious 

 phvfician and anatonnll, who made various experiments on 

 the transiufion of blood from one animal into another. This 

 town has a market on Saturday, is 23J miles fouth weft 

 from London, and contains 27S houles, and 1951 inhabi- 

 taiitti. 



BODOBRICA, in Jnaait Geography. See Baudo- 



BRICU M. 



BODODO, in Geography, a town of Africa, in the king- 

 dom of Benin, containing about 50 houfes, or little cabins, 

 built of reeds and covered with leaves. Here a viceroy has 

 his refidence, attended by a councd, whole jurifdiftion ex- 

 tends over this canton in all civil affairs, levying taxes, and 

 rating duties and impolh on merchandize. In criminal cafes 



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