Scaliger

[ skal-i-jer ]

/ ˈskæl ɪ dʒər /

Joseph Jus·tus

[juhs-tuh s] /ˈdʒʌs təs/,1540–1609, French scholar and critic.

his fatherJulius Caesar,1484–1558, Italian scholar, philosopher, and critic in France.

Example sentences from the Web for scaliger

Scaliger speaks of it with little respect; but he is habitually contemptuous towards all but his immediate friends.

Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 1 |Henry Hallam
Scaliger first excited his friend Gruter to undertake the task of giving an enlarged edition of Smetius.

Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2 |Henry Hallam
Virgil is a great poet indeed, though few will now agree with Scaliger that he is equal, far less superior, to Homer.

Bentley's Miscellany, Volume II |Various
Scaliger proposed to class titillation as a sixth, or separate, sense.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 (of 6) |Havelock Ellis

Scaliger, who disliked Lipsius very much, imputes to him plagiarism from the Italian antiquary.

Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 1 |Henry Hallam

Scaliger

/ (ˈskælɪdʒə) /

Joseph Justus (ˈdʒʌstəs). 1540–1609, French scholar, who revolutionized the study of ancient chronology by his work De Emendatione temporum (1583)

his father, Julius Caesar. 1484–1558, Italian classical scholar, and writer on biology and medicine