Casaubon
[kuh-saw-buh n; French ka-zoh-bawn]
- I·saac [ahy-zuh k; French ee-zak] /ˈaɪ zək; French iˈzak/, 1559–1614, French classical scholar.
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Maybe this is hope for authors: you can start out a Casaubon, but you have to become a Sebald.
Historical Examples
Pattison was of the mind of Fra Paolo in a letter to Casaubon.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3)John Morley
We must turn to the volume on Casaubon for a fuller interpretation of the oracle.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3)John Morley
But if he bowed in all else to James, Bacon would not, like Casaubon, bow in this.
History of the English People, Volume V (of 8)John Richard Green
He boasted that he had occasioned the deaths of Casaubon and Scaliger.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)Isaac D'Israeli
Casaubon and others are inclined to the opinion that the MSS.
Casaubon
- Isaac (izaak). 1559–1614, French Protestant theologian and classical scholar
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