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GUARINO , also known as VARINUS, and surnamed from his birthplace See also:

FAVORINUS (2nd century A.D.)

FAVORINUS, PHAVORINUS Or CAMERS (e. 1450- 1537), See also:

ITALIAN

Italian lexicographer and See also:

SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP

scholar, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Favera near See also:

CAMERINO (anc. Camerinum)

Camerino, studied See also:

Greek and Latin at See also:

Florence under See also:

POLITIAN (1454–1494)

Politian, and afterwards became for a See also:

time the See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of See also:

Lascaris. Having entered the See also:

BENEDICTINE

Benedictine See also:

order, he now gave himself with See also:

GREAT

great zeal to Greek lexicography; and in 1496 published his See also:

THESAURUS (Gr. B17o-avp6s)

Thesaurus cornucopiae et horti Adonidis, a collection of See also:

THIRTY

thirty-four grammatical tracts in Greek. He for some time acted as See also:

TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor to Giovanni dei See also:

Medici (afterwards See also:

Leo X.), and also held the See also:

APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment of keeper of the Medicean library at Florence. In 1514 Leo appointed him See also:

bishop of Nocera. In 1517 he published a See also:

TRANSLATION

translation of the A pophthegmata of Joannes See also:

STOBAEUS, JOANNES

Stobaeus, and in 1523 appeared his Etymologicum magnum, sive thesaurus universae linguae Graecae ex multis variisque autoribus collect us, a compilation which has been frequently reprinted, and which has laid subsequent scholars under great though not always acknowledged obligations.

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