BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY: CONTAINING AN HISTORICAL AND CRITICAL ACCOUNT OF THE LIVES AND WRITINGS OF THE MOST EMINENT PERSONS IN EVERY NATION; FROM THE EARLIEST ACCOUNTS PARTICULARLY THE BRITISH AND IRISH; À NEW EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED BY ALEXANDER CHALMERS, F. S. A. VOL. XXIV. State LONDON: OF W LIBRARY Historical Scotary WISCONSIN PRINTED FOR J. NICHOLS AND SON; F. C. AND J. RIVINGTON; T. PAYNE; ليا E 5C43 24 A NEW AND GENERAL BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. PAAS. See PASSE. PAAW (Peter), or in Latin PAVIUS, a physician and anatomist, born at Amsterdam in 1564, was educated in medical studies at Leyden, whence he proceeded to Paris for farther improvement. He afterwards spent some time in Denmark, and at Rostock, where he received the degree of doctor in 1587, and at Padua. On his return to Leyden, he was appointed professor of medicine in 1589, in which office he acquired the approbation and esteem both of the public and his colleagues, and died universally regretted, in August 1617, at the age of fifty-four. Anatomy and botany were the departments which he most ardently cultivated; and he was the founder of the botanic garden of Leyden. His works are, 1." Tractatus de Exercitiis, Lacticiniis, et Bellariis." Rost. 2. "Notæ in Galenum, de cibis boni et mali succi," ibid. These two pieces appear to have been his inaugural exercises. 3. "Hortus publicus Academiæ Lugduno-Batavæ, ejus Ichnographia, descriptio, usus, &c." Lugd. Bat. 1601. 4. "Primitiæ Anatomicæ de humani corporis Ossibus," ibid, 1615. 5. "Succenturiatus Anatomicus, continens Commentaria in Hippocratem de Capitis Vulneribus. Additæ sunt Annotationes in aliquot Capita Libri octavi C. Celsi," ibid. 1616. 6. "Notæ et Commentarii in Epitomen Anatomicum Andrea Vesalii, ibid. 1616, To these we may add some works which appeared after his death. 7. "De Valvulâ Intestini Epistolæ duæ." Oppenheim, 1619, together with the first century of the Epistles of Fabricius Hildanus. 8. "De Peste Tractatus, cum Henrici Florentii additamentis." Lug. Bat. 1636. 9. "Anatomica Observationes selectiores," VOL. XXIV. B Hafnia, 1657, inserted in the third and fourth centuries of the anatomical and medical histories of T. Bartholin. He also left in MS. a "Methodus Anatomica," which was in the library of M. de Vick of Amsterdam.' PACATUS (LATINUS DREPANIUS), a poet and orator, was born in the fourth century, at Drepanum in Aquitania, but, according to others, at Bourdeaux; or, according to Sidonius, at Agen. He discovered a remarkable taste for poetry from his youth; and Ausonius informs us, wrote love verses. Ausonius adds, that he was equal to Catullus, and surpassed all the Latin poets, except Virgil. Ausonius probably thought all this; for he certainly had a very high opinion of him, dedicated some of his own works to him, and paid the greatest deference to his judgment. Pacatus was sent to Rome in the year 388, to congratulate Theodosius the Great on his victory over the tyrant Maximus ; and on this occasion he delivered a panegyric on the emperor in the senate house, for which he was rewarded, in the year 390, with the proconsulship of a province in Africa, and, in the year 393, with the office of superintendant of the imperial domain. We have no farther particulars of his life. None of his poems are extant, and the only proof of his talents to which we can appeal is his panegyric on Theodosius, the second part of which is the most interesting, and gives some curious historical facts. In style and manner he is thought to resemble Seneca or Pliny rather than Cicero. The best edition is that by Arntzenius, Amst. 1753, 4to.* PACE (RICHARD), a learned Englishman, was born about 1482, at or near Winchester, as is generally supposed, and was educated at the charge of Thomas Langton, bishop of that diocese, who employed him, while a youth, as his amanuensis. The bishop, pleased with his proficiency, and particularly delighted with his early turn for music, which he thought an earnest of greater attainments, bestowed a pension on him sufficient to defray the expences of his education at Padua, at that time one of the most flourishing universities in Europe. Accordingly he studied there for some time, and met with Cuthbert Tonstall, afterwards bishop of Durham, and William Latimer, whom he called his preceptors. On his return, he studied for 1 Eloy Diet. Hist. de Medicine. 2 Biog. Univ. et Moreri in art. Drepanius. Fabric. Bibl. Lat. |