PORTUS, ÆMILIUS, an accomplished Greek critic, was the son of the eminent philosopher Francis Portus, and was born at Ferrara about 1550. Like his father before
him, he devoted his life to the promotion of polite learning. From 1581 to 1592, his time was occupied with the duties of Greek professor at Lausanne. He then discharged the same office at the university of Heidelberg. Meanwhile his mind, down to the time of his death in 1610, was also occupied with the composition of commentaries, translations, and original works, all bearing upon his favourite study. He published editions of the Iliad, Euripides, Pindar, Aristophanes, Thucydides, and Xenophon. He translated into Latin the De Theologia Platonis of Proclus, the Lexicon of Suidas, the History of Thucydides, and the Roman Antiquities of Dionysius of Halicarnassus. At the same time, he gave to the public the following works:—Oratio de Variarum Linguarum Usu, Ato, Cassel, 1611; Dictiona-
rium Ionium, 8vo, Frankfurt, 1603; Dictionaryum Doricum, 8vo, Frankfurt, 1604; Pindaricum Lexicon, 8vo, Hanau, 1604; De Prizea Græcorum Computatione, 8vo, Heidelberg, 1604; and De nihilis Antiquitate et multiplici Potestate, 4to, Cassel, 1609.