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and now into English, &c.
&c. by James Sandford. Lond. 12mo.

Alfo the Apothegmes,

1567

EUNAPIUS SARDIANUS*.

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 Statius, &c. by
W. B. 4to

M. ANTONINUST.

1597†

The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius, Emperour and elo-
quent 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, 2536, 1537, 1550.
1586, 1588.

DIONYSIUS.

Dionyfius's Defcription of the Worlde. Englyfhed by Tho.
Twine, 8vo. Lond.

EUCLID.

1572

Euclid's Elements of Geometry, tranfl. into Eng. by Rich.
Candifh, who flourished, A. D.

1556

* Thus entered in the books of the Stationer's company.
"Richard Jones. The Lives of divers excellente Orators and
Philofophers written in Greeke by Enapius of the city of Sardis in
Lydia, and tranflated into Englife by

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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 tuture catalogue of tranflated
claffics. It was a fraud of Guevara's, but not undetected; for
Chapman, in his Gentleman Ufher, 6cz, fpeaks of the book as
Guevara's own.
"It there be not more choice words in that let-
ter, than in any three of Guevara's Golden Epiftles, I am a very
afs." ee his article in Bayle. Our countryman Elyott did fome-
what 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.

Euclid's

Euclid's Elements, Pref. by John Dee. Lond.

HIPPOCRATE S.

1570

The Aphorifmes of Hippocrates, redacted into a certaine Order, and tranflated by Humfrie Llhyd, 8vo. 1585

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

1574 Certaine Workes of Galen, englyfhed by Tho. Gale, 4to.

HELIODORUS.

1586

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

1591 Heliodorus's Ethiopic Hift. tranfl. by Tho. Underdown, B. L. 4to. Lond.

VIRGI L.

1577 and 1587

The Boke of Eneydos, &c. by Caxton, fol. Lond. profe

1490

The thirteen Bukes of Eneados in Scottish Metir, by Gawain Douglas, 4to. Lond.

1553 Certain Bookes of Virgile's Æneis + turned into English Metir, by the right honourable Lorde, Henry Earle of Surrey, 4to. Lond.

1557

The firft feven Bookes of the Eneidos, by Phaer, Lond.

4to. B. L.

1558

This Tranflation is in rhime of fourteen fillables.
The nyne first Bookes, &c. by Phaer, 4to. Lond.' 1562
The thirteene Bookes of Eneidos, by Phaer and Twyne,
1584, 1596, 1607, &c‡.
The first foure Bookes of Virgil's Aneis, tranflated into

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4to. Lond.

A tranflation of the fame book is likewife entered at Statione's hall 602, and again twice in 1604, for different printers.

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.

Among the entries in the books of the Stationer's company, is the following. "Tho. Creede.] Virgil's neidos in Englishe verfe, 1595. Again in 1600. Again his Bucolics and Geor gics in the fame year.

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Engl.

1583

Engl. heroic Verfe, by Richard Stanyhurft*, &c. 12mo. Lond. The Bucolickęs of Publius Virgilius Maro, &c. by Abraham Fleming, drawn into plaine and familiar Englyfhe, Verfe for Verfe, 4to. B. L.

1575 Virgil's Eclogues and Georgicks, tranflated into blank Verfe, by the fame Author, Lond. 1589 The Lamentation of Corydon for the Love of Alexis, Verse for Verle, out of Latine.

This is tranflated into English Hexameters, and printed at the end of the Countesse of Pembroke's Ivychurch 1591. By Abraham Fraunce.

Virgil's Culex paraphrafed, by Spenfer. See his works.

HORACE.

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

1566

Horace his Arte of Poetrie, Piftles + and Satyrs Englished, by Tho. Drant, 4to. Lond.

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O VID.

1567

1480

The fifteene Bookes of Metamorphofeos. In which ben
contaynid the Fables of Ovid, by William Caxton,
Weftm, fol.
The four firft Books of Ovid, tranfl. from the Latin into
English Meetre, by Arthur Golding, Gent. 4to. B. L.
Lond.

1565

The fifteene Bookes of P, Ovidius Nafo, &c. by Arthur
Golding, 4to. Bl. I. Lond.
Another in 1575 according to Ames, and another earlier than ei-
ther, in 1567, if we may believe the Date of the Dedica

1576

[A former Edition was in 1572, in Rawlinfon's catal.]

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1587. D°. 1612.

Fable of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis. 8vo.

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1565

*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, 1582V

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There is an entry at Stationer's hall of the Epistles of Horace in 1591.

The

1560

The Fable of Ovid treating of Narciffus, tranfl. out of Latin into Eng. Mytre, with a Moral ther unto very plefante to rede, 4to. Lond. The Heroycall Epifties, &c. fet out and tranflated by Geo. Turbervile, Gent, &c. B. L. 4to. Lond*. 1507, 1569, and 1600 The three firft Bookes of Ovid de Triftibus, tranf. into English, by Tho. Churchyard, 4to. Lond. 1580 + 'Ovid his Invective againft ibis, tranflated into Eng, Meeter, &c. 12mo. Lond.

1569 t

And 157, by Tho. Underwood. Certaine of Ovid's Elegies by C. Marlow §. 12mo. At Middleburgh no date. All Ovid's Elegies, three Bookes. By C. M. At Middleburgh. 12mo. Somewhat larger than the preceding edition. Salmacis and Hermaphroditus, by Fra. Beaumont, 4to,

1602

He likewife tranflated a Part of the Remedy of Love. There was another Tranflation of the whole, by Sir Tho. Overbury, 8vo. without date

PLAUTUS.

Menæchmi, by W. W. Lond. ¶

MARTIA L.

1595

Flowers of Epigrams (from Martial particularly) by Tim. Kendall, 8vo**.

1577

* Among the Stationers' entries I find in 1594, "A booke entitled Oenone and Paris, wherein is defcribed the extremity of love, &c." This may be a tranflation from Ovid.

This book was enter'd at Stationers' hall by Tho. Eafte, July 1, 1577, and by Thomas Orwin in 1591.

Among the entries in the books of the Stationers' company is the following. Henry Bynneman] July 1, 1577, Ovid's Invective against Ibis. Bought of Tho. Eafte.

§ In the forty-firft of Q Eliz. thefe tranflations from Ovid were commanded by the archbishop of Canterbury and the bishop of London, to be burnt at Stationers' hall.

On the books of the Stationers' company, Dec. 23, 1599, is entered "Ovidius Nafo his Remedy of Love." Again, in the fame year," Ovydes Epiftles in Englyfhe," and "Ovydes Metamorphofis in Englyfhe."

This piece was enter'd at Stationers' hall June 10th 194. In 1520, viz. the 11th year of Hen. VIII, it appears from Ho. linfhed, that a comedy of Plautus was played before the king. *Entered at Stationers' hall Feb, 1576.

TE

TERENCE.

Terens in Englyfh, or the tranflacyon out of Latin into Engly of the first comedy of Tyrens callyd Andria. Suppofed to be printed by J. Raftell".

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Andria,

*As the following metrical introduction to this play, relates chiefly to the improvements at that time fuppofed to have been made in the English language, I could not prevail on myfelf to fupprefs it.

The Poet.

The famous renown through the worlde is fprong
Of poetys ornate that usyd to indyte

Of dyvers matters in theyr moder tong
Some toke uppon them tranflacions to wryte
Some to compile bokys for theyr delyte
But in our English tong for to ipeke playn
I rede but of few have take any gret payn.
Except mafter Gowre which furft began
And of moralite wrote ryght craftely
Than mafter Chaucer that excellent man
Which wrote as compendious as elygantly
As in any other tong ever dyd any
Ludgate alfo which adournyd our tong
Whofe noble famys through the world be fprong.

By thefe men our tong is amplyfyed fo
That we therin now translate as well may
As in eny other tongis other can do

Yet the Greke tong and Laten dyvers men fay
Have many wordys can not be Englyfhid this day
So lyke wyfe in Englyfh many wordys do habound
That no Greke nor Laten for them can be found.

And the caufe that our tong is fo plenteoufe now
For we kepe our Englyfh contynually
And of other tongis many wordis we borow
Which now for Englyfh we use and occupy
These thingis have gyven corage gretly
To dyvers and ipecyally now of late
To them that this comedy have tranflate.
Which all difcrete men now do befech
And fpecyally lernyd men to take no dysdayn
Though this be compylyd in our vulgare fpech
Yet lernyng thereby fome men may attayn
For they that in this comedy have take payn

Pray

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