JUNIUS, ADRIAN, one of the most learned men of the age in which he lived, was born at Hoorn, in Holland, in the year 1511. He travelled into all parts of Europe, and practised physic with reputation in England, where, amongst other works, he composed a Greek and Latin lexicon, to which he added considerably above six thousand words; an Epithalamium on the marriage of Queen Mary with King Philip of Spain; and Animadversa et de Como Commentarius, which is the most applauded of all his works. He died in 1575.