His principal historical works are :-1, Annales et Histories Belgicas usque ad Includes Anni 1609, lib. xviii.'—it appeared after his death, at Amsterdam, 1657, in fol. ; 2, De Antiquitate Reipublicas Batavicce; Leyden, 1810, 4to ; 3, 'Parallels Rerumpublicarum; which he left in manuscript, and of which only a fragment was published in 1801, at Leyden, by Barou Moorman; 4, ' De Origins Gentium Americanarum,' Paris, 1642 and 1643, 8vo ; 5, Historia Gothorum, Vandalorum, at Longobardorum,' published after his death, Amsterdam, 1655.
His Latin poems, which were collected and published for the first time by his brother, William Grotius, at Leyden, in 12 vole., went through ten editions before that of Amsterdam, 1670. Three tragedies: —1, Adamus Exul,' published at Leyden in 1601, on the same subject as the 'Paradise Lost ;' 2, Christ= Patiene,' printed at Leyden 1608, and translated into English by George Sandys under the title of Christ's Passion,' with annotations, London, 1640, a translation with which the author was much pleased; the third of his tragedies is entitled ' (which signifies in Egyptian 'Saviour of tie World'). The subject la the history of Joseph in Egypt. It wa
also translated Into English by Francis Goldsmith, L ondon, l652 Besides these tragedies he left many poetical compositions in Latin, o the lyrical. elegiac, and epigrammatie kind, as well as many tnuielattom from the Greek poets into Latin veree. Grotlus wrote some pieces o poetry iu Greek, and several Dutch poems, which are much esteemec by his countrymen. Ills letters have gone through many editions, o which the last is that of Amsterdam, 1809. ' The Llfe of the Trull Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius,' containing a copious and elreum stautial history of the several important and honourable negociation, in which he was employed, together with a critical account of hi, works, written originally in French by M. de Burigny, appeared at London in 1754. 'The Life of Hugo Grotlue, with Brief Minutes of the Civil. Ecclesiastical, and Literary history of the Netherlands,' bs Charles Butler, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, London, 1826, is not equal to Borigny's work.