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See also:SECUNDUS, JOHANNES , whose real name was JoaANN EVERTS (1511-1536), Latin poet, was See also:born at The See also:Hague on the loth of See also:November 1511. He was descended from an See also:ancient See also:family in the See also:Netherlands; his See also:father, See also:Nicholas Everts, or Everard, seems to have been high in the favour of the See also:emperor See also:Charles V. On what See also:account the son was called Secundus is not known. His father intended him for the See also:law; but though he took his degree at See also:Bourges it does not appear that he devoted much See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to legal pursuits. See also:Poetry, See also:painting and See also:sculpture engaged his mind at. a very See also:early See also:period. In 1533 he went to See also:Spain, and soon afterwards became secretary to the See also:cardinal-See also:archbishop of See also:Toledo, in a See also:department of business which required no other qualification than that of See also:writing Latin with elegance; During this period he composed his most famous See also:work, the Basia, a See also:series of amatory poems, of which the fifth, seventh, and ninth Carmina of See also:Catullus seem to have given the hint. In 1534 he accompanied Charles V. to the See also:siege of See also:Tunis. After quitting the service of the archbishop, Secundus was employed as secretary. by the See also:bishop of See also:Utrecht; and so much did.hedistinguish himself by his compositions that he was called upon to fill the important See also:post of private Latin secretary to the emperor, who was then in See also:Italy. But, having arrived at St Amand, near Tournay, he died of See also:fever on the 8th of See also:October 1536.
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