CANTERUS, WILLIAM, an eminent linguist and philologist, was born at Utrecht, in 1541. He studied at Louvain and Paris; and gave surprising proofs of his progress in Greek and Latin literature. He afterwards visited the several universities of Germany and Italy; and died at Louvain, in 1575, aged 33. He understood six languages, besides that of his native country; and, notwithstanding his dying so young, wrote several philological and critical works, among which are, Notæ, Scholæ, Emendationes, et Explanationes, in Euripidem, Sophoclem, Eschylum, Ciceronem, Propterium, Ausonium, &c. and many translations of Greek authors.