Catholic Jesuit philologist. Born 1643; died 1719. Had a masterly knowledge of classical Latin. Edited many school editions of Latin authors. Wrote a lexicon Novus apparatus graeco-latinus, cum interpretatione gallica, and an important work on philology which became an official text-book of the Society of Jesus.
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