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Xenophon's Treatife of Houfe-hold right, connyngly tranfl. out of the Greke tongue, &c. by Gentian Hervet, &c. 8vo. Lond.

1532. 8vo. 1534

1544. 8vo. 1573

The Arte of Riding from Xenophon, &c. Lond.

4to.

EPICTETUS.

1584

The Manuell of Epictetus, tranfl. out of Greeke into French, and now into English, &c. Alfo the Apothegmes, &c. by James Sandford, Lond. 12mo.

CEBES.

1567

The Table of Cebes, the Philofopher. How one may take profite of his ennemies. Tranflated out of Plutarche.

A Treatife perfwadyng a man paciently to fuffer the Death of a Freend. Imprynted at London, in Fletestreete by Thomas Berthelet.

EUNAPIUS SARDIANUS.*

The Lyves of Philofophers and Orators, from the Greek of Eunapius, 4to.

ACHILLES TATIUS.

1579

The most delectable and pleafant Hift. of Clitophon

In the books of the Stationers' Company, Feb. 12, 1581, Tho. Eafte entered Enchiridon in English.

2 Thus entered in the books of the Stationers' Company. "Richard Jones.] The Lives of divers excellent Orators and Philofophers written in Greeke by Enapius of the city of Sardis in Lydia, and tranflated into Englishe by

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and Leucippe, from the Greek of Achilles Statius, &c. by W. B. 4to.

M. ANTONINUS.4

1597'

The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius, Emperour and eloquent Orator, 12mo. Lond. 1553 Tranflated out of Fr. into Eng. by Sir John Bourchier, Kt. &c. &c.

Other editions of this are in 1534, 1535, 1536, 1537, 1559, 1586, 1588.

DIONYSIUS.

Dionyfius's Description of the Worlde. Englyfhed by Tho. Twyne, 8vo. Lond.

EUCLI D.

1572

Euclid's Elements of Geometry, tranfl. into Engl. by Rich. Candish, who flourished, A. D. 1556 Euclid's Elements, Pref. by John Dee, Lond. 1570

HIPPOCRATES.

The Aphorifmes of Hippocrates, redacted into a certaine Order, and tranflated by Humfrie Llhyd, 8vo.

1585

3 This booke was entered in the fame year by. Thomas Creede, on the books of the Stationers' Company.

4 This book is only introduced, that an opportunity may be obtained of excluding it from any future catalogue of tranflated clafficks. It was a fraud of Guevara's, but not undetected; for Chapman, in his Gentleman Uber, 1602, fpeaks of the book as Guevara's own. "If there be not more choice words in that letter, than in any three of Guevara's Golden Epiftles, I am a very afs." See his article in Bayle. Our countryman Elyott did fomewhat of the fame kind. He pretended to tranflate the Actes and Sentences notable, of the Emperor Alexander Severus (from the Greek of Encolpius). See Fabricius' and Tanner's Bibliothec. &c. H

VOL. II.

GALEN.

Galen's Two Books of Elements, tranflated into Engl. by J. Jones, 4to. Lond.

1574 Certayne Workes of Galen, englyfhed by Tho.

Gale, 4to.

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1586

HELIODORUS.

The Beginning of Ethiopical History in Engl. Hexameters, by Abrah. Fraunce, 8vo. Lond.

15915

Heliodorus's Æthiopic Hift. tranfl. by Tho. Underdown, B. L. 4to. Lond.

ESOP.

1577 and 1587

Efop's Fables in true Orthography, with Grammar notes, tranflated out of the Latin by William Bullaker, B. L. 8vo.

VIRGI L.

1585

1490

1553

The Boke of Eneydos, &c. by Caxton, fol. Lond.
profe
The thirteen Bukes of Eneados in Scottish Metir,
by Gawain Douglas, 4to. Lond.
Certaine Bookes of Virgiles Encis' turned into
English Metir, by the right honourable Lorde,
Henry Earle of Surrey, 4to. Lond.
The first feven Bookes of the Eneidos, by Phaer.
Lond. 4to. B. L..

This Tranflation is in rhyme of fourteen fyllables.

1557

1558

A tranflation of the fame book is likewife entered at Stationers' Hall, 1602, and again twice in 1604, for different printers.

6 This is a tranflation of the fecond and fourth books into blank verfe, and is perhaps the oldeft fpecimen of that metre in the English language.

The nine first Bookes, &c. by Phaer," 4to. Lond.

1562

The following "Epytaphe of Maifter Thomas Phayre," is found in a very fcarce book entitled "Eglogs, Epytaphes, and Sonettes. Newly written by Barnabe Googe, 1563, 15 Marche. Imprynted at London by Thomas Colwell, for Raffe Newbery, dwelyng in Fleteitrete a little aboue the Conduit in the late shop of Thomas Bartelet."

"The hawtye verfe yt Maro wrote

"made Rome to wonder muche,
"And meruayle none, for why the style
"and weightynes was fuche,

"That all men iudged Parnaffus mownt
"had clefte her felfe in twayne,
"And brought forth one that feemd to drop
" from out Mineruaies brayne.
"But wonder more maye Bryttayne great
"wher Phayre dyd floryfh late,

"And barreyne tong with fwete accord
"reduced to fuche estate:

"That Virgils verfe hath greater grace
"in forrayne foote obtaynde,
"Than in his own, who whilft he lyued
"eche other poets staynde.

"The noble H. Harwarde once,

"that raught eternall fame,

With mighty ftyle did bryng a pece
"of Virgils work in frame,

"And Grimaold gaue the lyke attempt,
"And Douglas wan the ball,

"Whofe famoufe wyt in Scottysh ryme

"had made an ende of all.
"But all these fame dyd Phayre excell
"I dare prefume to wryte,
"As muche as doth Appolloes beames
"the dymmeft ftarre in lyght.
"The enuyous fates (O pytie great)

"had great difdayne to fe

"That us amongst there fhuld remayn

"fo fyne a wyt as he:

"And in the mydft of all his toyle

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dyd force hym hence to wende,

"And leaue a worke unperfyt fo
"that neuer man shall ende."

The thirteene Bookes of Eneidos, by Phaer and Twine. 4to. Lond. 1584, 1596, 1607, &c." The first four Bookes of Virgil's Æneis, tranflated into Engl. heroic Verfe, by Richard Stanyhurft, &c. 12mo. Lond. 1583 The Bucolickes of Publius Virgilius Maro, &c. by Abraham Fleming, drawn into plaine and familiar Englyfhe, Verfe for Verfe, 4to. B. L.

1575 The two firft Eclogues of Virgil. By W. Webbe; inferted in his Difcourfe of Englysh Poetrie.

1586. Virgil's Eclogues and Georgicks,, tranflated into blank Verfe by the fame Author, Lond. 1589 The Lamentation of Corydon for the love of Alexis, Verfe for Verfe, out of Latine. This is tranflated into English Hexameters, and printed at the end of the Counteffe of Pembroke's Ivychurch, 1591. By Abraham Fraunce, 4to. bl. 1. Virgil's Culex paraphrafed, by Spenfer. See his

works.

HORACE.

The fyrft twoo Satars or poyfes of Orace, Englifhed, by Lewes Euans, fchole-master.

1564 Two Bookes of Horace his Satyres Englyfhed, accordyng to the Prefcription of Saint Hicrome, 4to. B. L. Lond.

1566

8 Among the entries in the books of the Stationers' Company, is the following. "Tho. Creede.] Virgil's Eneidos in Englishe verfe, 1595.' Again, in 1600. Again his Bucolics and Georgics in the fame year.

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9 The copy which I have feen, was in 4to. printed at Leiden, and was entered as fuch on the books of the Stationers' on the 24th of January, 1582.

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