becauſe he ſlew himſelfe in the Towne Vtica: he dyed before the Incarnation 44. yeares. D. Cooper.
Scipio Affricanus, was of a wonderfull towardneſſe: this draue Anniball out of Affrike: he ſubdued the citie of Carthage: he after many learned & wiſe perſwaſions, greuouſly tooke ye vnkinde dealing of the Senate, went from the Citie of Rome, to a maner place, which he had at Linternum, and ther ended his lyfe, when he had lyued 54. yeares, before the incarnation of Chriſt, about 145. yeares, that yeare was Corinth in Greece deſtroyed.
Conſtantine, a Phiſition, of ye name many, forth of diuers prouinces.
Chaldeus, an Aſtronomer of ye country of Aſſyria, Solmus and Plinie name that countrie Chaldae, where the great Citie of Babylon ſtoode.
Damaſcen a D. in Diuinitie verye famous, called Iohn, of Damacenum Monach, for his Angular wiſedome, was had in great eſtimation of Theodoſius, Emperour of Conſtantinople, the yeare of Chriſts incarnation 440. as ſaith the Author of Supplimentum ſupplimenti cronicarum, foli. 168. liber. 9. He wrote 4. bookes of ſentences, alſo a booke tituled, No man hath ſeene God at any time: De fide, of faith: of Chriſtian baptiſme: Item Cur Deus & Homo ſit: In two books, he wrote of Mettalls and Phiſicke. In the third part of Lanquets chronicle, fol. 242. is expreſſed of one Damacenus, a Philoſopher who flouriſhed 1352. The firſt of theſe, I take to be the Author to Glantuyle.
Damaſcius an hyſtoriographer, which in ye time of Herodotus, wrote of things done, before the warre of Peloponneſus, about Anno.452.
Demoſthenes a Prince among the Grecians, and a ſingular Philoſopher, about Anno.345. before Chriſt. He was diſciple to Plato: he ſtammered in his ſpeach, he put ſmall ſtones in his mouth, and inforceing to ſpeake treatablye, at laſt attained to pronounce very plainly. He was alſo an excellent Orator.
Dioſcorides called alſo Pedacius, and Phacas, a worſhipfull knight of Egypt, who ioyning learning with chiualrye' being in the Romanes Hoaſt in dyuers countryes, in times vacant from Battayle, made diligent ſearch for ye figures and vertues of diuers hearbs, and other things neceſſary for medicin, and wrote moſt truly of them in Greeke, as Galen teſtifieth. He liued vnder Cleopatra and Antonius, about Anno before Chriſt. 47.
Democritus, an excellent Philoſopher, being a childe, learned of the wiſe men of Chalda, Aſtronomie, and theyr Diuinitie: after he went into Perſia, to learne Geometrie. After, he returned to Athens, where he gaue his poſſeſſions and riches innumerable, vnto the weale publyke, reſeruing a lyttle garden, wher in he might at more libertie, ſearch out the ſecrets of nature. He wrought many wonderfull workes in naturall philoſophie and Phiſicke. When he beheld the Citizens of Athens, he continuallye laughed at their fooliſh diligence, which ſpared no paines to get authoritye and riches, that they were not ſure to kéepe: which laboured to get their children great poſſeſſions, who either died before their Fathers, or els ouer liuing them, ſhortly ſpent away, al yt their fathers left them. But the Athenians not perceyuing the cauſe of his laughter, thinking him mad, cauſed Hipocrates the Phiſition to goe vnto him, who perceiuing the occaſion of his laughter, ſayd: Democritus is not mad, but the Athenians be mad, at whom he doth laugh. He was before the Incarnation of Chriſt. 492. yeares.
Donatus, a Gramarian, Maſter to Saint Hierome. About Anno.350. another Donatus martired vnder Iulian the Apoſtate, or forſworne Chriſtian. Alſo Donatus a notable Heretike, that helde opinion Chriſtians to be no where but of their Congregation. Of the ſame opinion are the Heretikes of the Familye of loue: Donatus was a Numidian, about the yeare of our Lord thrée hundred fiftie and thrée. Another Donatus Aretinus Biſhoppe of Etruriae, a man of holye lyfe, perſecuted vnder Iulianus.
