GUARINO

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GUARINO , also known as VARINUS, and surnamed from his birthplace FAVORINUS, PHAVORINUS Or CAMERS (e. 1450-
1537), Italian lexicographer and scholar, was born at Favera near Camerino, studied

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

and Latin at Florence under Politian, and afterwards became for a time the

pupil

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

of Lascaris. Having entered the

Benedictine

BENEDICTINE

order, he now gave himself with

great

GREAT

zeal to

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

lexicography; and in 1496 published his

Thesaurus

THESAURUS (Gr. B17o-avp6s)

cornucopiae et horti Adonidis, a collection of thirty-four grammatical tracts in Greek. He for some time acted as tutor to Giovanni dei Medici (afterwards Leo X.), and also held the

appointment

APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

of keeper of the Medicean library at Florence. In 1514 Leo appointed him

bishop

of Nocera. In 1517 he published a

translation

TRANSLATION

of the A pophthegmata of Joannes Stobaeus, and in 1523 appeared his Etymologicum magnum, sive

thesaurus

THESAURUS (Gr. B17o-avp6s)

universae linguae Graecae ex multis variisque autoribus collect us, a compilation which has been frequently reprinted, and which has laid subsequent scholars under

great

GREAT

though not always acknowledged obligations.

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