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LAMBINUS, DIONYSIUS

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LAMBINUS, See also:DIONYSIUS , the Latinized name of See also:DENIS LAMBIN (152o—1572), See also:French classical See also:scholar, See also:born at Montreuilsur-mer in See also:Picardy. Having devoted several years to classical studies during a See also:residence in See also:Italy, he was invited to See also:Paris in 165o to fill the professorship of Latin in the See also:College de See also:France, which he soon afterwards exchanged for that of See also:Greek. His lectures were frequently interrupted by his See also:ill-See also:health and the religious disturbances of the See also:time. His See also:death (See also:September 1572) is said to have been caused by his See also:apprehension that he might See also:share the See also:fate of his friend See also:Peter See also:Ramus (See also:Pierre de la Ramee), who had been killed in the See also:massacre of St See also:Bartholomew. Lambinus was one of the greatest scholars of his See also:age, and his See also:editions of classical authors are still useful. In textual See also:criticism he was a conservative, but by no means a slavish one; indeed, his opponents accused him of rashness in emendation. His See also:chief defect is that he refers vaguely to his See also:MSS. without specifying the source of his readings, so that their relative importance cannot be estimated. But his commentaries, with their See also:wealth of See also:illustration and parallel passages, are a mine of See also:information. In the See also:opinion of the best scholars, he preserved the happy mean in his annotations, although his own countrymen have coined the word lambiner to See also:express trifling and diffuseness. His chief editions are: See also:Horace (1561); See also:Lucretius (1564), on which see H. A. J.

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Munro's See also:preface to his edition; See also:Cicero (1566); See also:Cornelius See also:Nepos (1569) ; See also:Demosthenes (1570), completing the unfinished See also:work of See also:Guillaume See also:Morel; See also:Plautus (1576). See Peter Lazer, De Dionysio Lambino narratio, printed in See also:Orelli's Onomasticon Tullianum (i. 1836), and Trium disertissimorum virorum praefationes ac epistolae familiares See also:aliquot: Mureti, Lambini, Regii (Paris, 1579) ; also See also:Sandys, Hist. of Classical Scholar-See also:ship (1908, ii. 188), and A. See also:Horowitz in See also:Ersch and See also:Gruber's Allge, meine Encyclopadie.

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