LA!SCARIS, ANDREAS JOHANNES, of the same family, but some what younger than CONSTANTINE LASCARLS, was called IttivxuACENIIS, because he came from some place in Bithynia, near the banks of the Rhyndacus. Andreas Lascaris left Greece at the time of the Turkish conquest, and repaired to Florence, where Lorenzo de Medici took him under his patronage, and afterwards sent him to Greece in order to collect valuable mauuscripta, of which Lascaris brought back a considerable number to Italy. After the death of Lorenzo he went to France, and gave lessous in Greek at Paris. Butheus was one of his pupils. In 1503 he was sent by Louis XII. on a mission to Venice; after fulfilling which he went to Rome, where Leo X. gave him the direction of the Greek college which he had just founded. In 1518 Lascaris returned to Paris, and was employed, together with Budseus, in collecting and arranging the royal library of Fontainebleau ; after which Francis I. sent him again to Venice as his ambassador. At last
Popo Paul IIL having pressed him very urgently to come to Rome, Lascaris set out, notwithstanding his advanced ago and his infirmi ties; but a few months after his arrival at Rome he died, in 1535, being about ninety years of age. Lascaris published or edited tho following Greek works :—' The Hymns of Callimachus; with scholia; ' Commentaries on Sophoeles :' a Greek Anthology, foL, 1494; 'Scholia on the Iliad,' and a dissertation, with the title, ' Homericarum Qures tionum et de Nympharuni antro in Odysstea Opusculum; Rome, 1518. Some other works are also attributed to Lascaris, etieh as 'De vcris Grmearnm Literarum fermis ac causis apud Antiques,' Paris, 1536, and a collection of epigrams in Greek and Latin, Paris, 1527.