GENTILIS (Scipio), brother to the former, and as
celebrated a civilian as he, forsook his native country
that he might openly profess the Protestant religion.
He was counsellor of the city of Nuremberg, and pro-
fessor of law with uncommon reputation. He was a
great humanist; and in his lectures, as well as books,
mixed the flowers of polite learning with the thorns of
the law. He died in 1616.