It is not a Professorship of Greek, but of Sacred History, involving Greek only in so far as one might refer in one's lectures to Josephus or the Greek Fathers.

But he _had_ been a Professor of Greek--in Geneva, to wit, when little over twenty years of age.

Nor, in spite of all Milton's facetiousness on the subject of Greek, and his puns on _Morus_ in Greek, was he ashamed of the fact.

"For all learning whatever is Greek, so that whoever despises Greek Literature, or professors of the same, must necessarily be a sciolist." And here he detects the reason of Milton's incessant onslaughts on Salmasius.

Milton was evidently most ambitious of the fame of scholarship, as appeared from his anticipations of immortality in his Latin poems; and, though he might be a fair Latinist--not immaculate in Latin either, as he might hear some time or other from Salmasius himself, though that was a secret yet--he knew that he could never snatch away from Salmasius the palm of the highest, i.e.of Greek, scholarship.