Thomas Erpenius as Metellus, 1791. In 1613, Dutch orientalist Thomas van Erpe was the first European to publish an accurate book of Arabic grammar. Roman statesman Quintus Caecilius Metellus Numidicus was exiled from Rome. Design for a stained glass window in the Reformed Orphanage in Gorinchem.

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