BENITO ARIAS MONTANO (1527-1598)
, See also:Spanish Orientalist and editor of the See also:Antwerp Polyglot, was See also:born at Fregenal de la Sierra, in See also:Estremadura, in 1527
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After studying at the See also:universities of See also:Seville and See also:Alcala, he took orders about the See also:year 1559 and in 1562 he was appointed consulting' theologian to the See also:council of See also:Trent
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He retired to Pena de Aracena in 1564, wrote his commentary on the See also:minor prophets (1571), and was sent to Antwerp by See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip II. to edit the polyglot See also:Bible projected by See also:Christopher See also:Plantin
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The See also:work appeared in 8 volumes See also:folio, between 1568 and 1573
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Le6n de See also:Castro, a See also:professor at See also:Salamanca, thereon brought charges of See also:heresy against Arias Montano, who was finally acquitted after a visit to See also:Rome in 1575-1576
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He was appointed royal See also:chaplain, but withdrew to Pena de Aracena from 1579 to 1583; he resigned the chaplaincy in 1584,
t This has generally been supposed to be the See also:place referred to by See also:Horace (Sat. i
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5
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87), as one which the See also:metre would not allow him to mention by name; but H.•Nissen (Halische Landeskunde, See also:Berlin, 1902, ii
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845) proposes Ausculum instead.and went into See also:complete seclusion at See also:Santiago de la Espada in Seville, where he died in 1598
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He is the subject of an Elogio hist8rico by Tomas Gonzalez See also:Carvajal in the Memorias de la Real Academia de la Historia (See also:Madrid, 1832), vol. vii
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