PIGNIUS, Stephanus Vinand, a laborious antiquary, and the nephew of the preceding, was born at Kempen, in the province of Overijssel, in 1520, and completed his education at Cologne. Although a churchman, he gave himself up to antiquarian pursuits. Eight years in the early part of his life were devoted to the study of the ancient remains at Rome. During the rest of his career his attention was chiefly occupied in arranging and digesting the information he had collected. He had just published the first volume of his researches, under the title of Annales Romanorum, when he died in 1604. The two remaining volumes were entrusted to the editorial care of Andreas Schott, and the entire work appeared at Antwerp in 1615, in 3 vols. folio.