FAERNUS, GABRIEL, a distinguished modern Latin poet and critical scholar, was born at Cremona early in the sixteenth century, and died at Rome in 1561. His claims to distinction as an original author depend chiefly on his Fabula Centum ex antiquis auctoribus delecta, which have been greatly admired for the purity and elegance of their diction and the skill which they show their author to have possessed in imitating the classical tone and modes of thought. Faernus rendered good service to literature by his edition of Terence, his notes on which were esteemed by Bentley so highly, that he incorporated them bodily in his own edition of that poet. His other works are not possessed of much intrinsic value.