1541, and shortly after became secretary to Loyola. He contributed
to the establishment of the Society at Parma, Venice, and many towns
of Italy and Sicily. He was the first Jesuit who taught the Greek
language at Messina; he also gave public lectures on the Holy
Scriptures in Rome. He was appointed Rector of the German College at
Rome, shortly before his death, which occurred on the 25th of
October, 1556, three months and six days after the death of Loyola.
Frusius had studied, with equal success, theology, medicine, and
law: he was a good mathematician, an excellent musician, and made
Latin verses with such facility, that he composed them, on the
instant, on all sorts of subjects. But these verses were neither so
elegant nor so harmonious, as Alegambe asserts[1], since he adds,
that it requires close attention to distinguish them from prose.
Frusius translated, from Spanish into Latin, the _Spiritual
Exercises_ of Loyola. He was the author of the following works:--Two
small pieces, in verse, _De Verborum et Rerum Copia_, and _Summa
Latinæ Syntaxeos_: these were published in several different places;
_Theses Collectæ ex Interpretatione Geneseos; Assertiones
Theologicæ_, Rome, 1554; _Poemata_, Cologne, 1558--this collection
often reprinted at Lyons, Antwerp and Tournon, contains 255[2]
epigrams against the heretics, amongst whom he places Erasmus;--a
poem _De Agno Dei_; and, lastly, another poem, entitled _Echo de
Presenti Christianæ Religionis Calamitate_, which has been sometimes
cited as an example of a great _difficulté vaincue_. The edition of
Tournon contains also a poem, _De Simplicitate_, of which Alegambe
speaks with praise. To Frusius was also owing an edition of
Martial's _Epigrams_, divested of their obscenities.

EDW. VENTRIS.
Cambridge, Jan. 10. 1850.