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LILYE, or LILY, WILLIAM (c. 1468-1522)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 688 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LILYE, or See also:LILY, See also:WILLIAM (c. 1468-1522)  , See also:English See also:scholar, was See also:born at Odiham in See also:Hampshire . He entered the university of See also:Oxford in 1486, and after graduating in arts went on a See also:pilgrim-See also:age to See also:Jerusalem . On his return he put in at See also:Rhodes, which was still occupied by the knights of St See also:John, under whose See also:protection many Greeks had taken See also:refuge after the See also:capture of See also:Constantinople by the See also:Turks . He then went on to See also:Italy, where he attended the lectures of Sulpitius Verulanus and See also:Pomponius See also:Laetus at See also:Rome, and of Egnatius at See also:Venice . After his return he settled in See also:London (where he became intimate with See also:Thomas More) as a private teacher of See also:grammar, and is believed to have been the first who taught See also:Greek in that See also:city . In 1510 See also:Colet, See also:dean of St See also:Paul's, who was then See also:founding the school which afterwards became famous, appointed See also:Lilye the first high See also:master . He died of the See also:plague on the 25th of See also:February 1522 . Lilye is famous not only as one of the pioneers of Greek learning, but as one of the See also:joint-authors of a See also:book, See also:familiar to many generations of students during the 19th See also:century, the old See also:Eton Latin grammar . The Brevissima Institutio, a See also:sketch by Colet, corrected by See also:Erasmus and worked upon by Lilye, contains two portions, the author of which is indisputably Lilye . These are the lines on the genders of nouns, beginning Propria quae maribus, and those on the conjugation of verbs beginning As in praesenti . The Carmen de Moribus bears Lilye's. name in the See also:early See also:editions; but See also:Hearne asserts that it was written by See also:Leland, who was one of his scholars, and that Lilye only adapted it . Besides the Brevissima Institutio, Lilye wrote a variety of Latin pieces both in See also:prose and See also:verse .

Some of the latter are printed along with the Latin verses of See also:

Sir Thomas More in-Progymnasmata Thomae Mori et Gulielmi Lylii Sodalium (1518) . Another See also:volume of Latin verse (Antibossicon ad Gulielmum Hormannum, 1521) is directed against a See also:rival schoolmaster and grammarian, See also:Robert See also:Whittington, who had " under the feigned name of Bossus, much provoked Lilye with scoffs and biting verses." See the sketch of Lilye's See also:life by his son See also:George, See also:canon of St Paul's, written for See also:Paulus See also:Jovius, who was See also:collecting for his See also:history the lives of the learned men of See also:Great See also:Britain; and the See also:article by J . H . Lupton, formerly sur-master of St Paul's School, in the See also:Dictionary of See also:National See also:Biography .

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