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32 lies, the saint appeared to some Christians, and told them, if the primate himself did not come, they would never be found. Abul Faragius, hearing of this, would not believe it; and, feigning to be sick, shut himself up in his cell from Friday till the Sunday evening; when a glorified boy appeared to him, and told him, the relics were deposited under the altar of the old church. Upon this the primate went immediately with his brother and two bishops in quest of those holy remains, which they found according to the boy's direction.

The eastern nations are generally extravagant in their ap piaufe of men of learning; a circumstancre, which is either owing to the few learned men they have amongst them, or to the particular turn of their mines. They have accordingly bestowed the highest encomiums and titles upon Abul Faragius.

ACCIAIOLI, a Florentine of great learning, who lived in the fifteenth century. He was honoured with many considerable employments in his native country; but notwithstanding his public engagements, he found means to devote part of his time to study. He had been a disciple of Argyropylus the Byzantine; and he published commentaries on this professor's Latin translation of Aristotle's Ethics. He acknowledges, in his epistle dedicatory to Cosino de Medicis, that he collected these conmentaries from the lectures of Argyropylus; and that he had only enlarged the explications which he had heard.

Simen Simonius and Gabriel are therefore in the wrong, after such a declaration, when they accuse him of publishing in his own name a work of Argyropylus. He translated the lives of Alcibiades and Demetrius from Plutarch; to which were also added those of Annibal and Scipio, which some have imagined to be likewise from Plutarch; but this must be a mistake, since we find neither of these two generals in this author. He wrote an abridgement