A I E N JE U S.
- r, j t ,, , :Kit this author is more valued by us
'lis contemporaries, who rould confult the or j , . .-. i quotations were taken. .;t a conn Her or" the preterit age, however mean and t . if d, may (it hi-, v/orkscsn v. n J the worms and tlie (. sits) poiTVn'v be admired a rboufand years hence, nay, ami rtrtainly will be, if there {h. ;i happen in the republic (which who c:;n fay th^re will not ?) the fame re- x .'lutions, which occafioned the lofs of the greateft part of Greek and Latin authors. Athc:'.2w!S is fuppofed to have been extremely abufed by tranfcribers ; the omiffions, tranf- poliiions, and falie readings in him being extremely nurne- rous. The work confifts of fifteen books, the two firft ancl beginning of the third of which are wanting; hut, with i. . >ny hiatus's in the reft, have been fupplied from an abridge- nt which is extant. It was firft printed in 1514, by Aldus jtuitius, who was affilied by Marcus Mufiirus in the pub- lication of it ; but the beft edition is that of Ifaac Cafaubon itJ7, in two volumes folio. ATKERTON (JOHN), a protcftant bifhop, certainly in hi elf not worthy of being recorded, but yet of a character ' i-i i r i too fingular to be omitted, was born in the year 15-48, at Bavviirio, near Bridgewacer, in Somerfetfhire ; his ..her, Mr. John Atherton, being then rector of that pariih. n 1614, he was fen t to Gloucester hall, in Oxford, where he commenced bachelor of arts. Being afterwards tranf- planted to Lincoln college, he there took the degree of er ; and entering into holy orders, was inducted to the ry of Huifti-Combflower, in Sornerfetfaire. Fie married, "while young, a moft agreeable woman; neverthelefs it is net! that lie committed inceft with her fitter : upon tho clifcovery of which unlawful commerce, he appears to have been forced to make fuit for his pardon. This being pro- cured, he went over to Ireland; and, either by recommend- ations he carried with him, or by his afiiJuous addiefs, ob- -d the parfonjge of St. John's church, Dublin, and be- v.me chaplain to Adam Loftus vifcount Lide, lord chan- ir ; to whofe favour he likewifeowed his being made a nitary of Chnit-church. He ungratefully^betrayed this in- ron into difgrace with the earl of btrafford, lord ol iitlitnd ; between v^hom and the chancellor there n open contention, Atherton changed his fide, after
- ut what he could from the latter, and, infinuating
to t:ic cli-puty's good graces, was by this lord, ia confide ration
