Thomas Seget was a Scottish poet who wrote in Latin.

Seget is first recorded as a convert from Calvinism to Catholicism, attending the Scots College at Louvain in 1596, but did not stay long. Carrying a letter of recommendation from Justus Lipsius

Justus Lipsius

Justus Lipsius was a Southern-Netherlandish philologist and humanist. Lipsius wrote a series of works designed to revive ancient Stoicism in a form that would be compatible with Christianity. The most famous of these is De Constantia...

, the Flemish humanist, he travelled to Italy where he met Galileo in 1599. He travelled further through Europe, making the acquaintances among others of Kepler in Prague. He also corresponded with the Polish poet Szymon Szymonowic

Szymon Szymonowic

Szymon Szymonowic was a Polish Renaissance poet. He was known as "the Polish Pindar."-Life:Szymonowic studied in Poland , France and Belgium...

, and other Polish connections included his stay at the University of Altdorf

University of Altdorf

The University of Altdorf was a university in Altdorf bei Nürnberg, a small town outside Nuremberg. It was founded in the late 16th century, received university privileges in 1622 and was closed in 1809 by Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria....

 1614-1616 at the same time as the Socinian activity there around Samuel Przypkowski

Samuel Przypkowski

Samuel Przypkowski was a Polish Socinian theologian, a leading figure in the Polish Brethren and an advocate of religious toleration. In Dissertatio de pace et concordia ecclesiae, published in 1628 in Amsterdam, he called for mutual tolerance by Christians...

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Works

• poems (posthumous) in Delitiae poetarum scotorum huius aevi illustrium. Amsterdam 1637
• friendship album - Thomas Segeti Scoti Collectio plurium erga ipsum amicitiae monumentorum a Viris illustribus scripta. (Vatican library)
• appeal to King James for permission to return to Scotland.