FESTUS, SEXTUS POMPEII:S. A Latin lexi cographer of the second century of our era, and one of the most important ancient authorities we have on the Latin language. He made an epitome of the great work of Verrius Flaccus, De Verborurn Significatu. This compilation, which was arranged alphabetically in twenty books, was still further abridged in the end of the eighth century by Paul, son of \Varnefried, commonly called Paulus Diaconus. The great work of Flaccus has unfortunately entirely perished, and of the abridgment made by Festus only a single manuscript, and that in a deplorably imperfect condition, has survived. It came from Illyria, and fell into the hands of Pomponius Lfetus, a distinguished scholar of the fifteenth century. It ultimately passed into the library of Cardinal Farnese, at Parma, and is now preserved at Naples. The work, in spite of all its imperfec tions, is a storehouse of latowledge on points of mythology, grammar, and antiquities. All pre vious editions of Festus were of little value com pared with that of Muller (Leipzig, 1880), but this is now superseded by the later edition of Thewrewk de Ponor (Budapest, 1889).
FET, really SHENSIIIN, AFANSIY AFANSITE vurcii (1820-92). A Russian lyric poet. He was born in the Government of Orel. He entered first the faculty of law, and later that of philology, in the :Moscow University, but soon joined the army and served in the Russo-Turkish War of 1S53-56. Owing to difficulties with the family papers, he assumed his mother's name, Fet, under which he was known until 1875, when officially allowed to resume his real name, Shenshin. His first volume
of poems, the Lyric Pantheon (IS40), was high ly successful. In 1860 he became an agriculturist in a country place. Then for nearly two decades he only occasionally contributed articles on agriculture under the title From the Country. In 1877 he settled in the Government of Kursk, and published a series of masterly translations of the Roman poets (Horace. Vergil, Catullus, Ovid, Tibullus, Properties. Juvenal), translating also into Russian roust and Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Idea.
PET', fair., Domlisle° (called .MANTf:ANo, from the fact that his chief works were executed at Mantua) (1580-1624). Au Italian painter, born in Rome. Ile was a pupil of Lorenzo ( ardi, called Cigoli. Ferdinand Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, appointed 16111 Court painter. Ile painted a number of frescoes and works in oil in the cathedral there, and then went to Venice, where he died, the victim of his intemperance. Yeti had considerable ability, but his pictures, though in many cases powerful in coloring, pos sess little style, being often ill-managed as to light and shade; and the vulgarity of his nature prevented his religious works from being of a high class. his ilaintings are well distributed through the galleries of Europe; Dresden has eleven of them. The more notable are "David with the Head of Goliath," "The Flight into Egypt," "The Good Samaritan," "The Parable of the Wine," and "Meditation."