Fernan Nunez, a Spanish scholar, born in Valladolid about 1470, died in Salamanca in 1553. He was knight commander of the order of Santiago; and being also a Greek scholar, he was called the " Greek commander." Cardinal Ximenes appointed him one of the Cretan professors of Greek in the university of Al-cahi, and also intrusted to him and to Lope de Astufiiga the Latin version of the Septuagint for the Complutensian polyglot. In 1521 he fought on the side of the commons in the " war of the comunidades." Being forced to leave Alcala, he went to Salamanca, and in the university there taught Latin, Greek, rhetoric, and the "Natural History " of Pliny, until his death. He restored the text of Seneca, and published a commentary upon his writings (Salamanca, 1543); also Observationes in Pomponium Me-lam, Obsewationes in Historiam Naturalem G. Plinii (1544), and Glosa sobre las obrasde Juan de Mena. At the end of his life he was engaged in making a collection of Spanish proverbs, which was completed and published after his death, with the title Refranes y ptroverbios glosados (4to, Madrid, 1555).