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