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After his father's death he spent four years at the University of Paris, where he began the study of Greek under Adrianus Turnebus.

But after two months he found he was not in a position to profit from the lectures of the greatest Greek scholar of the time.

He read Homer in twenty-one days, and then went through all the other Greek poets, orators and historians, forming a grammar for himself as he went along.

From Greek, at the suggestion of Guillaume Postel, he proceeded to attack Hebrew, and then Arabic ; of both he acquired a respectable knowledge.