Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: had voted him a gratuity of 100 florins, 'l vu le grand nombre des livres qu'il est oblige d'avoir.' He was the only man in Geneva who could give any sympathy to Casaubon in his classical studies. When Casaubon removed to Montpellier, Lect felt himself alone in his native city 2. ' Would that we could be again together, and see the suns down, as we used!' writes Casaubon to him3. ' My dearest wish is either to have you here (Montpellier) or to be there (Geneva) with you, so that we may spend together what remains of life. Without you life to me is no life.' With Pacius, the other law-professor, Casaubon was on friendly but not intimate terms. Pacius was a reader and editor of Aristotle, and Casaubon had been his pupil in civil law and philosophy4. Pacius always impressed upon his pupils the importance of classical reading, and in a letter to Casaubon5, regrets the tendency of the law students to neglect the classics. ' I wish,' he writes,' you had not quitted Montpellier before my arrival. I flatter myself you never would have done so. Our professions, though different, are allied, and aid each other.' Next to his colleagues came his pupils, among whom a few could value his vast acquirements, and none could be insensible to his amiable and affectionate disposition. Besides, the metropolis of calvinism drew pilgrims,' religi- onis ergo,' from all the reformed countries. And travellers, without religious objects, already began to take Geneva as a desirable halting-place en route from Italy. Others,who came not to Geneva, men of rank and influence, began to offer him their friendship or their patronage. 1 Registre du conscil, ap. Grenus, 1585. 3 Burney Mss. 365, p. 52: ' Dolens moerensque vixi ego; postquam sine te, mi Casaubone ... in hac solitudine.' 3 Ep. I12: ' Uti...