EMILUS, an accomplished Greek critic, was the son of the eminent philosopher Francis Portus, and was born at Ferrara about 1550. Like his father before him, he devoted his life to the promotion of polite learning. From 1581 to 1592, his time was occupied with the duties of Greek professor at Lausanne. He then discharged the same office at the university of Heidelberg. Meanwhile his mind, down to the time of his death in 1610, was also occupied with the composition of commentaries, translations, and original works, all bearing upon his favourite study. He published editions of the Iliad, Euripides, Pindar, Aristophanes, Thucydides, and Xenophon. He translated into Latin the De Theologia Platonis of Proclus, the Lexicon of Suidas, the History of Thucydides, and the Roman Antiquities of Dionysius of Halicarnassus. At the same time, he gave to the public the following works:—Oratio de Variarum Linguarum Usu, Ato, Cassel, 1611; Dictio- Portus, Francis, an eminent philologer, was born in the isle of Candia in 1511, and received his education at Padua. The classical attainments which he now showed were destined to be matured by a long and varied experience as a teacher. He began life by holding for some time the directorship of the school for young Greeks at Venice. He then occupied, for the space of six years, the chair of Grecian literature at Modena. His next post was that of tutor to the sons of the Duchess Renée of France, who was then living at Ferrara. At length, in 1562, he was found at Geneva, a refugee on account of his adherence to Protestant opinions, and the professor of Greek in the university of that city. It was about this time that Francis Portus became known as a philological writer. He published commentaries and annotations upon Pindar, some of the works of Xenophon, Thucydides, Aristotle's Rhetoric, Longinus, and some other writers. After his death in 1581, his posthumous works were published by his son Emilius, in 4to, 1584.