Chriftianæ adverfus Atheos, Epicureos, Deiftas feu Naturaliftas, Idololatras, Judæos et Mohammedanos lucubrationibus fuis afferuerunt. Hamburg, 1725. 4to. This performance, very valuable in itself, is yet more fo, on account of the Proemium and first chapters of Eufebius's Demonftratio Evangelica, which are wanting in all the editions of that work, and were fuppofed to be loft; but which are here recovered by Fabricius, and prefixed to the Delectus, with a Latin tranflation by himself. 6. Salutaris Lux Evangelii, toti orbi per Divinam Gratiam exoriens: five Notitia Hiftorico-Chronologica, Literaria, et Geographica, propagatorum .per orbem totum Chriftianorum Sacrorum Delineata. Hamburg, 1731. 4to. This work is very curious and interefting to the hiftorian, as well as divine. It contains fome Epiftles of the apoftate emperor Julian, never before publifhed. By thefe, and many other works of a smaller nature, Fabricius has laid the whole learned world under the greatest -obligations; fince he has contributed more, perhaps, than any other man ever did, to abridge and fhorten the fatigue and drudgery, which scholars are obliged to undergo, in order to be acquainted with the materials of their profeffion. FABROT (CHARLES HANNIBAL), a very celebrated French lawyer, was born at Aix in Provence, in the year 1580. His skill in the civil and canon law, and also in the Belles Lettres, procured him many friends; and he became advocate, doctor, and profeffor of law, at Aix; where he continued to the year 1617, and then went to Paris, at the follicitation of the prefident du Vair. After the death of this prefident, he returned to Aix; but went again to Paris in the year 1637, and was detained there by the chancellor Sequier, who fettled on him a confiderable penfion, by way of encouraging him to compleat an edition of the Bafilicæ, or Conftitutions of the Eaftern Emperors. This work he executed to the approbation of all, and published it in 1647, in feven volumes folio. He added a Latin tranflation of his own to the Greek original, and illuftrated the whole with notes. Two years after he published Cedrenus, Nicetas, Anaftafius Bibliothecarius, Conftantine Manaffes and Glycas, in two volumes folio; all which he illuftrated with curious notes, and differtations of his own. In the year 1652, he began to revife the works of Cujacius, writing notes upon him, and adding fome tracts of that author from manufcripts unpublished before. The revifing this great work, which we have in ten volumes folio, was finished by him in the year 1656: and his too great application to this talk, threw him into a diftemper, which put an end to his life the year after. Befides the works above-mentioned, he published notes upon fome part of the Theodofian Code, in the year 1618. He likewife wrote a treatise against Salmafius, upon fome cafes in the civil law, entitled, Replicatio adverfus Claudii Salmafii Replicationem, &c. Juftellus and Voel, who publifhed their Bibliotheca Juris Canonici in the year 1661, inferted in their fecond volume a collection of Ecclefiaftical Conftitutions of Theodorus Balfamon, which they found in Fabrot's study, with learned notes of his own. FAERNUS (GABRIEL), a native of Cremona in Italy, was a very excellent Latin poet and critic, and flourished in the fixteenth century. He was fo fkilled in every thing re lating to polite literature, that the cardinal de Medicis, afterwards pope Pius IV. was particularly fond of him. He was the author of fome Latin Elegies, a hundred Latin Fables felected from the ancients, and written in Iambic verfe; and of feveral things in the way of criticifm, as, Cenfura Emendationem Livianarum, De Metris Comicis, &c. He was remarkably fkilled in decyphering manufcripts, and reftoring antient authors to their purity. He took great pains with Terence, in particular; and the celebrated Dr. Bentley thought his notes upon that fine author fo important, that he has given them intire in his edition of him. He died at Rome upon the 17th of November, 1561, as Thuanus re- Hist, ad lates; who wrote his eloge, and fays, that the learned world ann. 1561. was greatly obliged to him, yet had been more fo, if instead of fuppreffing, he had been content with imitating the Fables of Phædrus. If we believe Thuanus, Faernus dealt very unfairly with the public in regard to Phædrus, who was then unknown; having a manufcript of that author, which he concealed from the world, for fear of leffening the value of the Latin fables, he had made in imitation of fop, if it fhould be known that fuch an author as Phædrus was in being. Mr. Perrault however, who publifhed a translation of Faernus's fables into French verfe at Paris, in the year 1699, has defended his author from Thuanus's imputation. His words in the preface are, as follow: "Faernus has been "called a fecond Phædrus, by reafon of the excellent ftile of "his fables, though he never faw Phædrus, who did not come to our knowledge, till above thirty years after his "death; for Pithoeus, having found that manuscript in the 66 C3 "duft Melchior "duft of an old library, publifhed it in the beginning of this century. Thuanus, who makes a very honourable " mention of our author in his hiftory, pretends, that Phæ"drus was not unknown to him; and even blames him for having fuppreffed that author, to conceal what he had "ftolen from him. But there is no ground for what he fays; "and it is only the effect of the ftrong perfuafion of all "thofe, who are fo great admirers of antiquity, as to think "that a modern author can do nothing that is excellent, unlefs he has an ancient author for his model. Out of the "hundred fables which Faernus published in Latin verfe, "there are but five that have been treated on by Phæ ❝ drus; and out of those five, there is but one or two that have been treated on almost in the fame manes ner: which happened only, because it is impoffible that "two men, who treat on the fame fubject, should "not agree fometimes in the fame thoughts, or in the "fame expreffions." FAGIUS (PAUL), alias Buchlin, a learned proteftant minister, was born at Rheinzabern in Germany, in the year 1504, and laid the foundation of his learning in that town. He was fent to Heidelberg at eleven years of age, and at eighteen to Strafburg; where not been properly supported, by reason of his parents narrow circumstances, he had recourfe to teaching others, in order to find himself books and neceffaries. The ftudy of the Hebrew growing into vogue in Germany, Fagius applied himself to it; and by the help of Elias Levita, a learned Jew, became a great proficient in it. In the year 1527, he took upon him the care of a school at Ifna; where he married a wife, and begat children. Afterwards quitting the schoolmafter, he entered into the ministry, and became a zealous and fedulous preacher. Petrus Bufflerus, one of the fenators of Ifna, being informed of his perfect knowledge in the holy tongue, and of a natural biafs which he had to the arts, erected a printing-house at his own coft and charge, to the end that Fagius might publish, whatever he should deem ufeful to religion in that way: but the event did not anfwer the charges Bufflerus had been at. In the year 1541, the plague began to fpread at Ifna; when Fagius understanding, that the wealthieft of the inhabitants were about to leave the place, without having any regard to the poorer fort, rebuked them openly, and admonished them of their duty; that they fhould either con tinue in the town, or liberally beftow their alms before they went, for the relief of thofe they left behind; adding that, during the time of their vifitation, he would himfelf in perfon vifit those that were fick, would adminifter fpiritual comfort to them, pray for them, and be prefent with them day and night: all which he did, and yet escaped the distemper. At the fame season the plague was hot in Strafburg, and among many others took off Wolfangus Capito; upon which Fagius wascalled by the fenate to fucceed him; and here he continued preaching, till the beginning of the German wars. Then Fredericus Secundus, the prince elector Palatine, intending a reformation in his churches, called Fagius from Strafburg to Heidelberg, and made him the public profeffor there but the emperor prevailing against the elector, the reformation was put a stop to. During his refidence here, he published many books for the promotion of Hebrew learning; which were greatly approved by Bucer and others. His father dying in the year 1548, and the perfecution in Germany threatening pains and penalties to all, who did not profefs the doctrine of the church of Rome, he and Bucer came over to England, upon receiving letters from archbishop Cranmer, in which they had affurances of a kind reception and a handsome stipend, if they would continue here. They arrived in the year 1549; were entertained for fome days in the palace at Lambeth; and were deftined to refide at Cambridge, where they were to perfect a new tranflation and illustration of the fcriptures, Fagius taking the Old Testament, and Bucer the New, for their feveral parts. But this was all put an end to, by the fudden illness and death of both these profeffors. Fagius fell ill at London of a quartan fever, but would be removed to Cambridge, upon a prefumption of receiving benefit from the change of air. He died there upon the 13th of November, 1550; and Bucer did not live above a year after. Both their bodies were dug up and burnt in the reign of queen Mary. Fagius wrote a great number of books. FAIRFAX (EDWARD), an English poet, of whom less mention seems to have been made by biographers, than he deferved. He flourished in the reigns of queen Elizabeth and king James I. and dedicated a tranflation of Taffo to the former. He was natural fon of fir Thomas Fairfax, and natural brother of that fir Thomas Fairfax, who was created baron of Cameron. His younger brother was knighted, and flain at the memorable fiege of Oftend in 1601, of C 4 which ry, P. 343. Mufe's libra which place he was fometime governor. When he marrieds or in what circumftances he lived, is not on record: but it is very probable, that his father fupported him in a manner fuitable to his own quality, he being always ftiled Edward Fairfax, efq; of Newhall in Fuyitone, in the forest of Knaresborough. The year, in which he died, is likewife uncertain; and the last account we have of him is, that he was living in 1631. He was the author of feveral things in the poetical way. He wrote alfo a book, intitled, " Daemonologie," in which he fhews a great deal of ancient reading and knowledge. It is ftill in manufcript; and, in the beginning of it, he gives this character of himself. "I am Ibid. p. 3:4. in religion neither a fantastic puritan, nor fuperftitious papift; but fo fettled in confcience, that I have the fure "ground of God's word to warrant all I believe, and the "commendable ordinances of our English church, to ap"prove all I practife: in which courfe I live a faithful chriftian, and an obedient fubject, and fo teach my family." All who have mentioned Mr. Fairfax, have done him the juftice to allow, that he was an accomplished genius. Mr. Dryden introduces Spencer and Fairfax almoft on a level, as the leading authors of their times: nay, feems to give the preference to the latter in point of harmony, when he obferves, that Waller owned himself indebted for the harmony of his numbers to Fairfax's "Godfrey of Bulloign." - FAITHORN (WILLIAM), an ingenious English pain. ter, that flourished in the feventeenth century. After the civil wars broke out, he went into the army; when being taken prifoner in Bafing-house, and refusing to take the oaths to Oliver, he was banifhed into France. He ftudied feveral years under the famous painter Champagne, and arrived to very great perfection in correctness of drawing. He was also great proficient in graving, as likewife in painting; efpecially in miniature, of which there are many fpecimens now extan: in England. He died in Black-fryars about the beginning of king William's reign, when he was near seventyfive years of age. He wrote a book, " Upon Drawing, Graving, and Etching," for which he was celebrated by his friend Mr. Thomas Flatman the poet, in the following copy of verfes: "Should I attempt an elogy, or frame The |