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The troubles of the Spanish war drove his parents to settle first at Veere in Zeeland, then in England, next at Ryswick and lastly at Flushing. In 1594, being already remarkable for his attainments, he was sent to the university of Franeker to perfect himself in Greek under Henricus Schotanus . He stayed at Franeker half a year, and then settled at Leiden for the remaining sixty years of his life. There he studied under Joseph Scaliger, and there he found Marnix de St Aldegonde, Janus Douza , Paulus Merula and others, and was soon taken into the society of these celebrated men as their equal.

His proficiency in the classic languages won the praise of all the best scholars of Europe, and offers were made to him, but in vain, to accept honourable positions outside Holland. He soon rose in dignity at the university of Leiden. In 1602 he was made professor of Latin, in 1605 professor of Greek, and at the death of Merula in 1607 he succeeded that illustrious scholar as librarian to the university. The remainder of his life is recorded in a list of his productions. He died at the Hague on the 25th of February 1655.

The Dutch poetry of Heinsius is of the school of Roemer Visscher, but attains no very high excellence. It was, however, greatly admired by Martin Opitz, who was the pupil of Heinsius, and who, in translating the poetry of the latter, introduced the German public to the use of the rhyming alexandrine.

He published his original Latin poems in three volumes--Iambi (1602), Elegiae (1603) and Poemata (1605); his Emblemata amatoria, poems in Dutch and Latin, were first printed in 1604. In the same year he edited TheocritusTheocritus the creator of bucolic poetry, flourished in the 3rd century BC. Little is known of him beyond what can be inferred from his writings. We must, however, handle these with some caution, since some of the poems (" Idylls") commonly attributed to, BionBion Greek bucolic poet, was born at Phlossa near Smyrna, and flourished about 100 BC. The account formerly given of him, that he was the contemporary and imitator of Theocritus, the friend and tutor of Moschus, and lived about 280 BC, is now generally re and MoschusMoschus Greek bucolic poet and friend of the Alexandrian grammarian Aristarchus, was born at Syracuse and flourished about 150 BC. He was the author of a short epic poem, Europa and a pretty little epigram, Love, the Runaway imitated by Torquato Tasso and, having edited HesiodThis article discusses the Greek poet. Alternative article: Hesiod (computer system . Hesiod Hesiodos was an early Greek poet, believed to have lived around the year 700 BC. From the 5th century BC literary historians have debated the priority of Hesiod o in 1603. In 1609 he printed his Latin Orations. In 1610Events January 7 Galileo Galilei discovers the Galilean moons of Jupiter. March 12 Swedish troops under Jacob de la Gardie take Moscow May 13- 14 Francois Ravaillac assassinates Henry IV of France July 5 John Guy sets sail from Bristol with 39 other colon he edited HoraceQuintus Horatius Flaccus ( December 8, 65 BC 8 BC) known in the English world as Horace was the leading lyric poet in Latin. Horace was the son of a freedman, but himself born free. His father spent considerable money on Horace's education, sending him to, and in 1611 AristotleAristotle ( Greek Αριστοτλης Aristotelēs) ( 384 BCE March 7, 322 BCE) was a Greek scientist and philosopher. Along with Plato, he is often considered to be one of the two most influential philo and SenecaLucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Seneca or Seneca the Younger (c. 3 BC AD 65) was a Roman philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work, humorist, of the " Silver Age" of Latin literature. Seneca the Younger Seneca was born in Cordoba, Sp. In 1613 appeared in Dutch his tragedy of The Massacre of the Innocents; and in 1614 his treatise De politica sapientia. In 1616 he collected his original Dutch poems into a volume. He edited Terence in 1618, Livy in 1620, published his oration De contemptu mortis in 1621, and brought out the Epistles of Joseph Scaliger in 1627.

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