Chapter XVIII

HISTORY OF ANCIENT LITERATURE IN EUROPE FROM 1600 TO 1650.

Learning of 17th Century less Philological 409
Popularity of Comenius 409
Decline of Greek Learning 410
Casaubon 410
Viger de Idiotismis 411
Weller’s Greek Grammar 411
Labbe and Others 411
Salmasius de Lingua Hellenistica 412
Greek Editions--Savile’s Chrysostom 412
Greek Learning in England 413
Latin Editions--Torrentius 413
Gruter 413
Heinsius 413
Grotius 414
Rutgersius--Reinesius--Barthius 414
Other Critics--English 414
Salmasius 415
Good Writers of Latin 415
Scioppius 416
His Philosophical Grammar 416
His Infamia Famiani 416
Judicium de Stylo Historico 416
Gerard Vossius, de Vitiis Sermonis 417
His Aristarchus 417
Progress of Latin Style 418
Gruter’s Collection of Inscriptions 418
Assisted by Scaliger 419
Works on Roman Antiquity 419
Geography of Cluversius 420
Meursius 420
Ubbo Emmius 420
Chronology of Lydiat--Calvisius 420
Petavius 421
Character of this Work 421