Ariftotle's Politiques, &c. from the Fr. by J. D.

fol. Lond.

XENOPHON.

1598

The eight Bookes of Xenophon, containing the Inftitution, Schole, and Education of Cyrus, the noble King of Perfye, &c. tranfl. out of Gr. into Engl. by Mr. William Bercher, Lond. 1567 and 1569

12mo.

D°. by Dr. Philemon Holland. 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.3

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.

1567

CEBES.

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

out of Plutarche.

Tranflated

2 This tranflation is entered in the books at Stationers' Hall. "Adam Iflip.] Ariftotle's Politiques with expofitions; to be tranflated into Englishe by the French copie, 1598."

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

A Treatife perfwadyng a man paciently to fuffer
the Death of a Freend. Imprynted at Lon-
don, in Fleteftreete by Thomas Berthelet.

EUNAPIUS SARDIANUS.4

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

ACHILLES TATIUS.

1579

The most delectable and pleasant Hift. of Clitophon
and Leucippe, from the Greek of Achilles
Tatius, &c. by W. B. 4to.

M. ANTONINUS,"

15975

1553

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

Sir John

4 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 translated into Englishe by

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

• This book is only introduced, that an opportunity may be
obtained of excluding it from any future catalogue of translated
clafficks. It was a fraud of Guevara's, but not undetected; for
Chapman, in his Gentleman Usher, 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
somewhat of the fame kind. He pretended to tranflate the
Actes and Sentences notable, of the Emperor Alexander Seve-
rus (from the Greek of Encolpius). See Fabricius' and Tanner's
Bibliothec. &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.

EUCLID.

1572

Euclid's Elements of Geometry, tranfl. into Engl. by Rich. Candifh 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.
See Granger's Biographical Hiftory, Vol. I. p.270.

GALEN.

1585

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

1574

Certayne Workes of Galen, englyfhed by Tho. Gale, 4to.

1586

HELIODORUS.

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

15917 Heliodorus's Æthiopic Hift. tranfl. by Tho. Underdown, B. L. 4to. Lond. 1577 and 1587

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

ÆSOP.

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

1585

VIRGIL.

1553

The Boke of Eneydos, &c. by Caxton, fol. Lond. profe 1490 The thirteen Bukes of Eneados in Scottish Metir, by Gawin Douglas, 4to. Lond. Certaine Bookes of Virgiles Æneis turned into English Metir, by the right honourable Lorde, Henry Earle of Surrey, 4to. Lond. 1557 The first feven Bookes of the Eneidos, by Phaer, Lond. 4to. B. L.

1558

This Tranflation is in rhyme of fourteen fyllables. The nine first Bookes, &c. by Phaer,9 4to. Lond.

1562

8 This is a tranflation of the fecond and fourth books into blank verfe, and is perhaps the oldest specimen of that metre in the English language.

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 Fleteftrete 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 seemd to drop
" from out Mineruaies brayne.

The thirteene Bookes of Eneidos, by Phaer and Twine, 4to. Lond. 1584, 1596, 1607, &c.1 The first four Bookes of Virgil's Eneis, translated into Engl. heroic Verse, by Richard Stanyhurst,2 &c. 12mo. Lond. The Bucolickes of Publius Virgilius Maro, &c. by

"But wonder more maye Bryttayne great
"wher Phayre did floryfh late,

"And barreyne tong with fwete accord
"reduced to fuch eftate:

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

"The noble H. Hawarde once,

"that raught eternall fame,

"With mighty ftyle did bryng a pece
"of Virgils worke in frame,
"And Grimaold gaue the lyke attempt,
"and Douglas wan the ball,
"Whose famouse wyt in Scottyfh ryme
"had made an ende of all.

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

"That us amongst there fhuld remayn
"fo fyne a wyt as he:

"And in the midst of all his toyle

dyd force him hence to wende,

"And leaue a worke unperfyt so

"that never man fhall ende,"

1583

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

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