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 340 A R T A L I S. his adve.-fary. He faved himfelf by taking (belter in a church ; and it was owing to this accident that he afterwards applied himlelf to the ftudy of philofophy. His parents being dead, and himfelf much embarraflcd in his circurnftances, he >e- folved to quit his country, and feek his fortune elfewhere. He accordingly went to Candia, at the time when that city was befieged by the Turks; at ! gave there fo many proofs of his bravery, that he obtained the honour of knighthood in the military order of St. George. When he was upon his return for Italy, he was often obliged to draw his fword : he was fometimes wounded in thefe rencounters, but being an excellent fwordfman had often the advantage. He rendered himfelf fo formidable even in Germany, that they ufed to ftyle him Chevalier de Sang. Erncft duke of Brunfwic and Lunenbur^appointed him captain of his guards -, but this did jiot make him neglect the Mufes, for he cultivated tbefn amidfr the noife of arms. He was member of feverai acade- mies in Italy, and became highly in favour with many princes, efpecially the emperor Leopold. He died 1679 at Naples, where he was inteired in the church of the Domi- nicans, with great magnificence : the academy De gl* Intri- cati attended his funeral, and Vincent Antonio Capoci made his funeral oration [A]. [A] What he wrote was in Italian, 3. " Cuerra tra vivi e mcmi, tra- ss follows : " geJ';i." 1. " Dell' Encyclopedia poetica, parte 4. " Li Pafife, overo Pimpo/Tible 2. " 11 Cordimarte hifloria favoleggi- '' fica.*' " ata." Fabric. Bibl. ARTEMIDORUS, famous for his " Treatffe upon Gr. lib. iv. tc Dreams," was botn at Ephrfus, but took the furname of Daldianus in this book, out of refpect to the country of his mother : he ft ^ led himfelf the Ephefian in his other per- formancts. He lived under the emperor Antoninus Pius, as himfelf informs us, when he tells us that he knew a wreftler, Arremid. wno ' having drean'cd he had loll his fight, carried the prize Jib. i. in the games celebrated by command of that emperor. He ".' -S- not only bought up ail that had been writcen concerning the explication or dreams, which amounted to many volumes, but likcwife fpent many years in travelling, in order to con- tract an acquaintance with fortune-tellers : he alfo carried on an extenfive correfpondence with all the people of this fort inGuece, Italy, and the moft populous iflands, collecting at the 1 f^me time all the old dreams, and the events which are
 * ' prima, leconda, e terza." " fatto poflibile, dramma per mu-
 * faid