[I]t hath beene ordinarie vvith politique men to extenuate and diſable learned men by the names of Pedantes: […]

Masr, meaning both the capital and the land of Egypt

Though Aristotle claimed that a human being reaches his intellectual peak at age forty-nine (Rhetoric 1390b9), chronologists reckon a person's flowering—his floruit—at about age forty. The mists of time have made the precise reckoning of chronology quite difficult. Sometimes, when a birth is not known, a floruit can be estimated on the basis of what is known about an individual's career.

He thought the tumour was at first more nævoid in character, but that now it was a melanotic sarcoma.