MUSÆUS, a grammarian, supposed by the elder Scaliger to be the same as the preceding, is considered, from the internal evidence of his style, to have flourished in the later periods of the Roman empire. His only extant work, a poem on the famous love story of Hero and Leander, was first discovered in the thirteenth century; and ever since that time it has continued to be a great favourite with scholars. Among the many editions, those of Passow (Leipsic, 1810) and Schæfer (Leipsic, 1825) are the latest. It has been translated into English by Stapleton, into German by Stolberg and Passow, and into French by Marot. Marlowe's poem is rather a paraphrase than a translation of Musæus.