Price, John (1)

an English scholar of much renown, was born about the year 1600, and was educated at Christ Church, Oxford. He was of Protestant parentage, but after leaving college he joined the Romanists and went to Italy during the civil 'wars, as he found himself the object of much hatred and persecution. He settled in Florence, after having resided for a while in Paris; but when a professorship was offered him at Pisa. he removed thither, and there lived for some time. He subsequently retired to the St. Augustine Convent at Rome, where he died in 1676. He was the author of the following works: Notae et Observationes in Apologitam L. Apuleii Madcaurensis Philosophi Platonici (Paris, 1635, 4to; very rare, but republished in the Gouda ed. of Apuleius, 1650, 8vo): — Matthaeus ex Sacra Pagina, Sanctis Patribus, etc., illustratus (Paris, 1646, 8vo): — Adnotationes in Epist. Jacobi (1646, 8vo): Acta Apostolorum, ex Sacra Pagina, Sanctis Patribus, etc., illustrata (1647, 8vo): — Commentarii in Vaitios Novi Testamenti Libros; his accesserunt Adiotafiones in Psalmorun Librum (Lond. 1660, fol. The notes on the New Testament, or some of them, had been published before separately [suprac], and Orme says that those on the Psalms had also appeared before). Price brought to his expositions of the Scriptures an extensive knowledge of classical literature, and, imitating Grotius's method, frequently illustrated by profane authors, especially the Greek and Roman. See Orme, Bibl. Biblica. s.v.; Crit. Sacri, vol. 5; Allibone, Dict. of Brit. and Amer. Auth. s.v.: