who might be put in the scale against him, he had too high an opinion of himself, and too much despised others, in the judgment of the wise Gronovius.  Grotius’s wife being informed of the indiscreet stories published by Salmasius against the memory of her husband, gave him to understand, that if he would not forbear, the only answer she should make to his invectives would be the publication of his former letters to Grotius, filled with elogiums.  For the rest, Salmasius’s invectives injured only himself:  and it was said publicly, that he plucked the hairs of a dead lion.

Two medals were struck in honour of Grotius, which we find in the end of the first volume of the History of the United Provinces by Le Clerc, one of his greatest admirers.  The first has on one side the bust of that great man, with his name, HUGO GROTIUS, which is to him instead of an elogium:  and on the other a chest, on which are the arms of Sweden and France, to express his retreat into France, and his embassy from Sweden at that Court:  at the side of the chest is the castle of Louvestein, and opposite to it a rising sun, with these words:  MELIOR POST ASPERA FATA RESURGO; I rise brighter after my misfortune.  In the exergue is, natus 1583, obiit 1645.  The second medal, larger than the first, also represents Grotius on one side with the time of his birth and death.  HUGO GROTIUS NATUS 1583, 10 APRILIS, OBIIT 1645, 28 AUGUSTI:  on the reverse is this inscription in Dutch verse:  the Phoenix of his Country, the Oracle of Delft, the great Genius, the Light which enlighteneth the earth.

FOOTNOTES: 

[703] Ep. 22. p. 181.

[704] Vir magne, vir mirande, vir sine exemplo.  Ep. 100. p. 474.

[705] Ep. 68.  Cent. 2.

[706] Life, B. 2. p. 93.

[707] Life, B. 3. p. 182.  Anti Baillet. c. 3.

[708] Popo Blanet, p. 746.

[709] Ep. 277.

[710] 2 Lettre du xxi.  Livre, p. 831.

[711] Bibliotheque choisie, p. 461.

[712] P. 487.

[713] Ep. 13.  Praes. vir. p. 23.

[714] Du Maurier, p. 393.

[715] Ep.  Sar. p. 145.

[716] Ep.  Sar. 128. p. 143.

[717] Ep. 21. p. 24.

[718] Ep.  Vossi, 728. p. 38.

[719] Vind.  Grot. p. 446.

[720] Crenii Anim. phil. et hist.  Part 5. p. 95.

[721] In jugulo causa, c. 5.  Crenius, Anim. phil.  Part 5. p. 85.

[722] Lett. 265.

[723] Lett. 545.

[724] Lett. 538.

[725] Amb. l. 1. p. 95.

[726] Polihist. l. 1. c. 24.

[727] Pope Blount, p. 946.

[728] Supplement de Moreri.

[729] Ep. 21. p. 45.

[730] Ep. 229. p. 78.

[731] Ep. 697. p. 964.

[732] Ep.  Sarr. 165.  Ep. 163. p. 168.

[733] In Crenii Anim.  Phil. & Hist. t. 1. p. 23.