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See also:PETER See also:SCHRIJVER (1576-166o)
, Dutch author, better known as SCRIVERIUS, was See also:born at See also:Haarlem on the See also:lath of See also:January 1576
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He was educated at the university of See also:Leiden, where he formed a See also:close intimacy with See also:Daniel See also:Heinsius
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He belonged to the party of See also:Oldenbarneveldt and See also:Grotius, and brought down the displeasure of the See also:government by a copy of Latin verses in See also:honour of their friend Hoogerbeets
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Most of his See also:life was passed in Leiden, but in 165o he became See also:blind, and the last years of his life were spent in his son's See also:house at Oudewater, where he died on the 3oth of See also:April 166o
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He is best known as a See also:scholar by his notes on See also:Martial, See also:Ausonius, the Pervigilium Veneris; See also:editions of the poems of See also:Scaliger (Leiden, 1615), of the De re militari of See also:Vegetius Renatus, the tragedies of See also:Seneca (P
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Scriverii collectanea veterum tragicorum, 1621), &c
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His See also:Opera anecdota, philologica, et poetica (See also:Utrecht, 1738) were edited by A
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H
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Westerhovius, and his Nederduitsche Gedichten (1738) by S
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Dockes
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He made many valuable contributions to the See also:history of See also: See See also:Peerlkamp, Vitae Belgarum qui See also:latina carmina scripserunt (See also:Brussels, 1822), and J . H . Hoeufft, See also:Parnassus lalino-belgicus (Amsterdam, 1819) . |
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