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illo, qui paucos ante annos Lutetiæ obtulisse Regi integrum Livium perhibebatur.

Pag. 89. cum Scaligero, adversus opinionem V. Clariss. Ezech. Spanhemii, statuitur reperiri omnino nummos, in quibus Cleopatræ, notissimæ Ægypti reginæ, adscribitur cognomen ΩΣΣΑΝΣΩΤΗΡΑ. Hoc verum esse confirmare possumus, ex scriniis aulæ cujusdam Illustrissimæ; nec indocta est Autoris conjectura de interpretatione vocis, de qua alii desperarunt docet enim ex Plutarcho de Ir. et Osir. Ossan apud Ægyptios plures significare. Id si verum est, eademque vox universos aut populum significare potuerit, sensu non incommodo interpretanda esset : servatrix populi.»

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ACTA ERUDITORUM (1684) vol. 1. pp. 313, 314.

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Geneva Allobr. apud Pet. et Jac. Chouet. ciɔɔcix.

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DEDICATION dated, Genev. Id. Feb. 1609.

ILLUSTRISSIMIS ET GENEROSISSIMIS PRINCIPIBUS
D. JOACHIMO ERNESTO

D. JOANNI CASIMIRO,

D. CHRISTIANO,

D. FRIDERICO MAURITIO,

Principibus Anhaltinis, Comitibus Ascania, Dominis Ser

vestæ et Bernburgi, etc.

In Poemata Cl. Jacobi Lectii 1C. et Senatoris sapientissimi, lectissimique Musarum Sacerdotis.

Lex quod amicitiæ, tua quod lectissima virtus,
Quod ipsa poscit veritas,

Conabar præstare tibi, quum noster Apollo
Sic me vocatus increpans,

Ecquid, ait, furiose, paras? Lucem addere Soli
Quis mente sanâ cogitet?

Sic ille At contrà, Ne me, inquam, Phæbe, putato
Furoris istius reum.

Obsecro, qui exorto gratatur lumina Soli,

Num Solis accendit jubar?

Hæc ille, hæc et ego: quæ dum versamus utrinque
En carmen hoc abortii:

Hanc tibi quo geminam gratatur Beza coronam

Vocis tuum communibus

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Quâ cinxere caput, Themis hinc, hinc dius Apollo,
LECTI, coëternâ tibi.

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mendatory l'oems in Latin, by Jacomot, etc. etc.

(Pag. 100)

In Scævolæ Sammarthani Francia Thesaurarii poëmata elegantissima.

Nos quoque, nos celsi qui cana cacumina Juræ,
Et scopulos ægrè scandimus Allobrogas,

Qui Rhodanum bibimus, prælabentemque Lemanum,
Quâ Rhodano et mistas Arvia volvit aquas,

Vidimus, ecce, tuas, O Sammarthane, Camænas,

Sacraque et in mediis seria multa jocis,
Accinuêre lyræ, si qua est en gloria, nostræ,
Et dedimus lætos ore favente sonos.
Omnia jam latè Sammarthanum arva resultant,
Jamque premit nostras mollior ira feras.
Panes, Hamadryades, Dryades, Pomonaque Virgo
Gestit, et in laudes it nemus omne tuas.
Ipse olim nostram Veselis qui prætulit urbem,
Maximus ingenio, maximus arte senex,
Et qui sæpe tenet doctas Jacomotius aures,

Dum regit in lyricos aurea plectra modos,
Attoniti pendent, cierit quæ virga Maronem,

Et Flaccum, et Clarii lumina prisca chori. Atque alius, dicunt pastores quèm quoque vatem, Scilicet aspersit laudibus ista suis.

Guilielmo Sallustio Barthasio, poetæ Gallo incomparabili, · Epicedium.

His fateor, nemo exsuviis inscribere honorem,
Aut pater Aonii debuit ipse chori.
Gratia sed quoniam taciti prope nulla doloris,
Nec videar mæstas non maduisse genas,
Audiat ecce gemens etiam me turba gementem;
Ecce meus vano munere peccet amor :

Et titulus saltem esto, Bonâ super æthera famâ
Notus eget nullo, qui jacet hic, titulo.

p. 120.

ART. LXXXII. ABBÉ PAPILLON.

Bibliothèque des Auteurs de Bourgogne par feu M. l'Abbé Papillon, Chanoine de la Chapelle au Riche de Dijon. A Dijon, chez Philippe Marteret, Imprimeur et Libraire, place du Palais. 2 vol. fol. 1742. (Portrait.)

The Author, born 1. Aug. 1666, died 23.th Feb. 1738. Eloge of the author prefixed. Son of Philip Papillon, Advocate of the Parliament, and of Anue-Ursule-Paressot. His family were derived from Tours.

Many particulars of this Family may be found in Mémoires de l'Abbé de Marolles, (p. 1, et 732,) l'Histoire Ecclésiastique de Beze, (I. p. 750, 774, 780, en 1561,) et l'Histoire du Collège de Navarre, (p. 268, 407, et 408, Part. I. Edit. in 4.o)

The Family was very ancient at Dijon; and allied to many Houses of distinction. Among these was Almague Papillon, of Dijon, Valet de Chambre to Francis I. and a good poet of his time, aged 72, 72, in 1559. He was a friend of the celebrated Poet, Clement Marot. There was also Thomas Papillon, a lawyer and Advocate of the

Parliament of Paris

author of a Commentary

on the Digest, Paris, 1624, etc.

The Arms of the Abbé were a single butterfly on a red field. (1)

This Work is full of the most copious and exact researches, and supports an high character. It is an handsomely printed LibraryBook.

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Omnia ab ipso Auctore in rum unum Corpus collecta et recognita. ( Apud Henricum Stephanum, et Jac. Stoer.) Anno M.D.XCVII. 4.° pp. 388. with Ded. etc. (RARUS.)

The Copy belonging to the Public Library at Geneva, from whence this was taken, has the following MS. Dedication:

ILLUSTRI BIBLIOTHECE GENEVENSI POEMATA TH. BEZE MEMORIE ET GRATITUDINIS ERGÓ OBTULIT GEORGIUS SIGISMUNDUS PRAKSCHICKY A ZASTRISEL.

(1) The Papillons of Kent, sprung from France, bear a chevron beween 3 butterflies on a blue field.

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