See also:JOHN [OVENUS Or AUDOENUS] See also:OWEN (c. 1560-1622)
, Welsh epigrammatist, was See also:born at Plas Dhu, See also:Carnarvonshire, about 156o
.
He was educated under Dr Bilson at See also:Winchester School, and at New See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford
.
He was a See also:fellow of his college from 1584 to 1591, when he became a schoolmaster, first at Trelleck, near See also:Monmouth, and then at See also:Warwick, where he was See also:master of the school endowed by See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry VIII
.
He became distinguished for his perfect mastery of the Latin See also:language, and for the See also:humour, felicity and point of his epigrams
.
The See also:Continental scholars and wits of the See also:day used to See also:call him " the See also:British See also:Martial." He was a staunch See also:Protestant besides, and could not resist the temptation of turning his wit against the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church
.
This practice caused his See also:book to be placed on the See also:Index prohibitorius in 1654, and led a See also:rich old See also:uncle of the Roman Catholic communion to cut him out of his will
.
When the poet died in 1622, his countryman and relative, See also:Bishop See also:Williams of See also:Lincoln, who is said to have supported him in his later years, erected a See also:monument to his memory in St See also:Paul's See also:cathedral with a Latin See also:epitaph
.
See also:Owen's Epigrammata are divided into twelve books, of which the first four were published in 1606, and the See also:rest at four different
times
.
Owen frequently adapts and alters to his own purpose the lines of his predecessors in Latin See also:verse, and one such borrowing has become celebrated as a See also:quotation, though few know where it is to be found
.
It is the first See also:line of this See also:epigram:
" Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis:
Quo modo? See also:fit See also:semper tempore pejor homo."
(See also:Lib
.
I. ad Edoardum See also:Noel, epig
.
58.) This first line is altered from an epigram by See also:Matthew Borbonius, one of a See also:series of mottoes for various emperors, this one being for Lothaire I
.
Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis:
Illa vices quasdam res habet, ilia vices."
There are See also:editions of the Epigrammata by See also:Elzevir and by See also:Didot; the best is that edited by Renouard (2 vols., See also:Paris, 1795)
.
See also:Translations into See also:English, either in whole or in See also:part, were made by Vicars (1619); by Pecke, in his Parnassi Puerperium (1659); and by See also:Harvey in 1677, which is the most See also:complete
.
La Torre, the See also:Spanish epigrammatist, owed much to Owen, and translated his See also:works into Spanish in 1674
.
See also:French translations of the best of Owen's epigrams were published by A
.
L
.
See also:Lebrun (1709) and by Kerivalant (1819)
.
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