@r er 
commentaries, the Latin hiftorians Florns, Q. Curtius, ~ 
- 7 age oe ofed fupplements for the loft ‘books 
as author of many - yaa poems, Be 
differtatio Ass ate in his youth he wrote German poems, one 
of which mtroduced re to the cae of boar Mo- 
reri. 
Seagate in Geograph: 'y, a town vee Germany, in the 
palatinate o of the Rhine; 10 miles W. f Manheim. 
FREIRE, ps ANDRADA, Hyacix7n, in’ React 
was born about the year 1597, at Beja in Portugal. Fic 
was. educated at Coimbra, where he took the degree o 
doGtor in canon law, and applied to the ftudy of theology. 
He likewife engaged in a political queftion of confiderable 
intereft at that t time, and wrote a treatife, entitled «« Portugal 
ft 
rown, When na had eae 
prieft’s orders, he went to the court of Spain, and was pa 
nized : the firft mnie of Philip IV. who. confers oo 
him a valuable abbacy in the pro vince of Beira, The free- 
s iffu 
ut he fortunately feaped to ie a and there 
er till the acceffion = -~ IV. 
He was ed the appointment of prece 
which he saan as he did the nomination to a 
e pope would prebably refufe 2 vara 
his family affairs, and continued there till his a h in 1657. 
Her was a ar Esa ae and upright — _ liberal to 
armly attached to his whom he 
comm ne a to) 
pee ; ee ee the ereach in 17973 eight vies N. of St. 
Veit 
PREISCHBACH, atown of France, in the depart- 
ment of Mont a aaa lately belonging to the palatinate 
of ae Rhine ; taken by the French in 1794; fix miles 
N.E. of Landau 
SPREISHEIN, = town ‘of iia in the circle of 
Znaym; 20 miles W.N.W. of Zna 
FREIT 
at Nieder Wefel, in of Cleves, on the 
1581. is rc ae com - trou- 
bles of i 
Freitag began his claffical ftudies. He was afterwards fent 
to Cologne, but was aoe recalled by his parents from the 
maintained the right of t 
AG, Jon, in make by,  aphylician, was 28 oo 
th of © 
pe 
times, to eure to Ofnaburg, mr thers young tri¢t 
FRE 
fear — ag might ‘acquire ee eae in that oniverfitys, 
con o thofe of the proteftant religion which they 
profes. “After re tuly of! his claffical purfuits at Wedel, 
ud ophy at Helmftadt; bu 
n Liddell and of Francis Par~ 
adv antage from the le& 
giving priv _ inet 
ards Tedture od 
ee aad i "160 , that is, at ioe ag rears, he 
obtained the a eee oo aed in ne eae which 
office he filled during four yea A this time 
he obtained his degree o of do 
Philip Sigifmund, duk 
i bur 
ao or, to the court of 
e of Beanfwick “Lunenburg, 4 and 
hop fnaburg, who had appointed him his principa 
. phyfician. About the year 1622, Ernelt, d of ein 
and earl of Schawenburg, offered him the fame inthe with 
tron would no mit ae to accept it 
dying in io 3> ne nephew, duke Fre aa gave 
Freitag the option of being 7 chief Phy ee or of che 
7 profefforfhip at a He nued at Ofnaburg, 
retained him as his eels aa alfo 
ao a his chamberlains. Hea ved his 
fe ello i in the fame capacity, but was difmiffe ne, I, on 
account of his refufal to eecneae a catholic. "He found 
proteCtion and Patron age, howeve nder Erneft Caflimir, 
count of Naflau, and the counts - Bertheim, who procure 
ice him the vacant profefforfhip in aS univerfity . bie 
a ae ee fulfilled this new appointm nt with gre 
n, utinguifh himfelf by the fu nets of 
his pradice till the ie of his life, which was aie 
mplication of maladies. Dropfy, gout, gravel, and 
nae aed his exiftence on the 8th of Bebe uary, 1641, 
in the 6oth = of his age. 
Freitag was a follower of the chemical fe&, and alfo a 
 baene of ile philofophy of the ancients, to which indeed 
he retained his attachment with fo much bigotry, that no’ 
effort ts of his friends could ever prevail upon = to change 
his opinion. He publifhed feveral works. « Noétes | 
areas five Pe Abuf ze 'Tractatus, » Francfort, 
616. ra Medicorum Werner -chemicorum, feu 
de recta cael eae é lan fapientiz decretis poft- 
liminio in lucem redaéta,” Ibid. 1630.—3. “ Difputatio 
Medica de morbis a ees - eae teary calamari con- - 
t Paradoxologos,”” Gro 
or 
> 
> 
3 
t, 
: 
- 
=a 
> 
>I 
ae veteris Medicine & Philofo 
oppofita Neotericorum et Novatorum 
—5. “ De Offis natura et medicamentis opiatis 
fingularis, &c.’? Groningen 1 
hilofophica de Formarum on 
Ze ‘ Oratio panegyrica de perfona et officio Pharmacopzi,’® 
&e. Ibid, 1633.— 8. “ Detectio et oe Refutatio nove 
pee Sennerto- Paracelfice,” Amfterd dst ae 
E‘JUS, in Geography, a town of, Fra nce, in the de- - 
ped cae of the Var, chief place of a canton in the dif- 
of Draguignan. ‘The lace contains 22295 and the can- 
ton 7797 inhabitants, in a territor 497% kiliometres,' in 
6 communes. This wae formerly a confiderable place, See 
* For 
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