DAURAT, or DORAT, JEAN (1507-1588), a French poet, born in the Limousin. He studied at the University of Paris, and succeeded Stracellus as professor of Greek. He had an excessive fondness for anagrams, and his enthusiasm led him to write a French and Latin commentary on the centuries of the prophet Nostradamus. His rage for verse-making amounted almost to a disease. Scaliger, who entertained a high opinion of his learning and abilities, and ranked him with Cujas as a critic, informs us that Daurat spent the latter part of his life in endeavouring to find all the Bible in Homer. In the reign of Henry II. he was preceptor to the king's pages; and Charles IX., who took great delight in his conversation, honoured him with the title of his poet.