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bank of the Lago di Garda, where he fpent part of his 
leifure. During this period he wrote a Latin paraphrafe 
of Ariftotle’s MetaphyH.es, printed at Bafil, in 1537. His 
health was at this time in a very delicate Hate ; and, after 
home changes of fituation, he went in 1538 to try the a~ir 
of Naples. In 1543, he was at Trent with cardinal Pole, 
who was appointed one of the legates to the council con¬ 
voked thither. The council did not at that time lake 
place; and when, in 1545, Marcantonio was offered the 
poft of fecretary to it, he declined that honourable em¬ 
ploy. He, however, again accompanied Pole to Trent, 
nor does he feern ever to have left his fervice ; though 
he was alfo under the patronage of cardinal Alexander 
Farne'e, from whom he received various benefits, as he 
alfo did from feveral other cardinals. His conftitution 
probably never became ftrong ; for, after a long illnefs, 
he died at the houfe of cardinal Pole in Rome, in 1550, 
when he had only completed his fifty-fecond year. His 
poems are what have gained him the greatefi: reputation, 
and they rank among the clioiceft products of the Latin 
fchool of Italy. A collection of them forms the greater 
part of the Carmina quinque illujirium Poetarum,Y\or. 1549. 
Befides thefe, are his elegant poetical paraphrafes.pf thirty 
Pfalms, publifhed four years before his death. He alfo 
publifhed, in profe, a fliort expofition of all the Pfalms ; 
and many of his Italian letters are difperfed in different 
collections. An edition of the poems of Marcantonio, 
which iffued front the Cominian prefs in 1743, has adjoined 
to them thole of Gianmtonio and Gabriello Flaminio. 
FLAMl'NIUS, or Flamininus (Titus QuinCtius), a 
celebrated Roman, railed to the confulfhip in the year of 
Rome 554. He was trained in the art of war againlt Han¬ 
nibal, and he fliewed himfelf capable in every refpeCt to 
difeharge w ith honour the great office with which he was 
entrufted. He was fent at the head of the Roman troops 
again!! Philip king of Macedon, and in his expedition he 
met with uncommon fuccefs. The Greeks gradually de¬ 
clared themfelves his firmed fupporters, and he totally 
defeated Philip on the confines of Epirus, and made all 
Locris, Phocis, and Theffaly, tributary to the Roman 
power. He granted peace to the conquered monarch, 
and proclaimed all Greece free and independent at the 
Ifthmian games. This celebrated aCtion procured the 
name of patrons of Greece to the Romans, and infenfibly 
paved their way to univerfal dominion. Flarr.inius be¬ 
haved among them with the greatelt policy, and by his 
ready compliance with their national cuftoms and preju¬ 
dices, he gained uncommon popularity, and received the 
name of father and deliverer of Greece. He was after¬ 
wards fent ambalfador to king Prufias, who had given 
refuge to Hannibal, and there his artifice haftened out of 
the world a man who had long been the terror of the 
Romans. See the article Carthage, vol. iii. p. 849. 
Flaminius was found dead in his bed, after a life fpent in 
the greatefi: glory, in which be had imitated with fuccefs 
the virtues of his model Scipio. Plutarch. —Lucius, the 
brother of the preceding, (ignalized himfelf in the wars 
of Greece. He was expelled from the fenate for killing 
a Gaul, by Cato, his brother’s colleague in the cenfor- 
fhip, a* aCtion which was highly refented by Titus. 
Plutarch. 
FLAMl'NIUS (Nobilius), a learned Italian, in the 
fixteenth century, native of Lucca, where he died in 1590, 
aged fifty-eight years. He was engaged by pope Sixtus V. 
to reftore the ancient vulgar tranftation from the Septua- 
gint, which was made ule of in the weftern churches be¬ 
fore it was fuperfeded by St. Jerome’s verfion from the 
Hebrew. On this work he bellowed much labour and 
care, and accompanied it with a number of notes, includ¬ 
ing fragments of the Greek interpreters, which refleCt 
credit on his erudition and critical Ikill. He publifhed it 
at Rome, in 1588, folio; and it was reprinted by father 
Morin, at Paris, in 1628, together with an edition of the 
Septuagint verfion, after the impreffion which was pub- 
liflied at Rome in 1587, under the aufpices of pope 
Vol. VII. No. 439. 
F L A 
Sixtus V. Flaminius was alfo the author of A Treatife 
on Predeflination, publifhed at Rome in 1581, quarto. 
FLAM'MAp/i in botany. See Ixora. 
FLAMMABPLITY, f. [flamma, Lat.] The quality 
of admitting to be fet on fire fo as to blaze.—In tlie fui 
phur of bodies torrified, that is, the oily, fat, and unCtu- 
ous, parts, confiff the principles of flammability. Brown. 
FLAMMA'TION, J. [flammatio, Lat.]'The aft of 
fetting on flame.—White or cryflplline arfenic, being ar¬ 
tificial, and fublimed with fait, will not endure flamma - 
tion. Brown. 
FLAM'MEOUS, adj. [flammeus, Lat.] Cpnfifiing of 
flame ; refembling flame.—This jlamrneous light is not 
over all the body. Brown. 
FLAMMPFEROUS, adj. [jlammifcr, Lat.] Bringing 
flame. 
FLAMMI'VOMOUS, adj. [ flamma and vomo, Lat.] 
Vomiting out flame. 
FI.AM'MULA, f. in botany. See Clematis, Pa- 
vetta, and Ranunculus. 
FLAM'STEED (John), an eminent Englifh aftrono- 
mer, born at Derby in Derbyfhire, in 1646. His claflical 
education he received at the free-fehool in Derby, of 
which he became head fcholar when fourteen years of 
age. A fliort time after he had quitted the grammar- 
fchool, he met with John Sacrobofco’s book De Sphara, 
which led him to engage in a train ot ftudy that was per¬ 
fectly fuited to his genius, and rendered him afterwards 
fo jufitly celebrated. Having read this aftronomical trea¬ 
tife with wonderful delight, he tranflated as much of it 
into Englifh as he thought neceffary for his ufe, and af- 
teru’ards procured more modern books of the fame kind. 
From this time he profecuted his aftronomical fludies 
with the utmoft vigour and fuccefs. In 1669, having 
calculated an eclipfe of the fun that was omitted in the 
Ephemerides for the following year, and alfo five appulfes 
of the moon to fixed (tars, he fent them, together with 
fome other aftronomical fpeculations, to lord Brouncker, 
prefident of the royal lociety, who laid them before that 
body, by whom they were greatly approved. Mr. Flarii- 
fteed for a long time afterwards kept up a correfpondence 
on fcientific and literary fubjeCts. In 1670, lie vifited 
London, and returned home by way of Cambridge, where 
lie entered himfelf a (Indent of Jefus-college. In 1672, 
lie extracted feveral obfervations from Mr. Gafcoigne’s 
and Mr. Crabtree’s letters, which he found of great ufe 
in improving his knowledge of dioptrics. In 1673, he 
wrote a fmall treatife on the true and apparent diameters 
of all the planets, when at their greatefi: and lead dis¬ 
tances from the earth, which was borrowed by Newton in 
1685, who made fome ufe of it in the fourth book of his 
Principia. In 1674, lie wrote an Ephemeris, to (hew the 
falfehood of aftrology, and the ignorance of thofe who 
pretended to it; and gave calculations of the moon’s 
rifing and fetting, together with occupations and appulfes 
of the moon and planets to the fixed (tars. To thefe, at 
fir Jonas Moore’s requeft, he added a table of the moon’s 
fouthings for that year; from which, and from Philips’s 
Theory of the Tides, the high waters being computed, 
lie found the times come very near the truth. In the 
fame year, likewife, he drew up an account of tiie tides, 
for the ufe of the king, on the fuggeffion of fir Jonas 
Moore that fuch a treatife would be acceptable to his 
majefty. 
Mr. Flamffeed, having taken his degree of mafier of 
arts at Cambridge, had now come to a determination to 
enter into orders ; upon which fir Jonas wrote to him to 
come to London, where he intended him for an appoint¬ 
ment in a different line than that of the church. Finding, 
however, that his mind was bent upon the ecclefialtieal 
profellion, he did not urge him to relinquifill his delign ; 
but he fliewed his friendfliip for him, by employing his 
good offices with the king to nominate him to an appoint¬ 
ment which lie could hold in connection with any clerical 
engagement. That was the new office of affronomer to 
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