MORIN (Peter), was born at Paris, A. D. 1531: he went into Italy, and was employed by the learned Paulus Manucius in his printing-house at Venice.—He afterwards taught Greek and cosmography at Vicenza, whence he was called to Ferrara by the duke of that name. St Charles Borromaeus, informed of his profound knowledge in ecclesiastical antiquities, of his disinterestedness, of his zeal and piety, offered him his friendship, and engaged him to go to Rome in 1575. The popes Gregory XIII. and Sixtus V. employed him in an edition of the Septuagint, 1587, and in one of the Vulgate, 1595, in folio. He also spent much of his time on an edition of the Bible translated from the Septuagint, and published at Rome, 1588, in folio; on an edition of the Decretals to the time