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AQUINO

Volume 2 · 112 words · 1797 Edition

(Philip d'), in Latin Aquinas or Aquinius, having turned from Judaism, had a pension from the clergy of France; and acquired much reputation by his knowledge of the Hebrew language, which he taught at Paris, in the reign of Lewis XIII. and by the books he published, among which is his Ditionarium Hebriaco-Chaldeeo-Thatnudico-Rubinicum. His grandson, Anthony D'Anquin, was first physician to Lewis XIV.

a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, and Terra di Lavora; a bishop's see, but ruined by the emperor Conrade, and now consisting of about 35 houses. It was the birth-place of the poet Juvenal, and of Thomas Aquinas. E. Long. 14. 30. N. Lat. 41. 32.