his fower against Philip of Macedon, &c. by Tho. Wylfon, Doctor of the Civill Lawes, 4to, ISOCRATES. $570 Ifocrates's fage Admonition to Demonicus, by R. Nutthall, 1534 8vo, Lond. 1557, 12mo. and 1585 Ifocrates's Doctrinal of Princes, by Syr Tho. Elliot, Lond. 8vo. Ifocrates's Orat. intitled Evagoras, by Jer. Wolfe, 8vo. 1581 Three Orations of moral Inftructions, one to Demonicus, and two to Nicocles, King of Salamis, tranflated from Ifocrates, by Tho. Forreft, 4to. LUCIA N. 1580 Necromantia, a Dialog of the Poete Lucyen between Menippus and Philonides, for his Fantefye faynyd for a mery Paftyme, in English Verse and Latin Profe. Toxaris, or the Friendship of Lucian, by A.O. Lond. 8vo. 1565 HERODOTUS. 1584 The famous Hyftory of Herodotus*, in nine Bookes, &c. by B. R. Lond. N. B. This Piece contains only the two firft Books, viz. the Clio and Euterpe. The Tranflator fays in his Prefachs "As thefe fpeede, fo the rest will follow." 4ta. THUCYDIDES. The Hystory writtone by Thucydides, &c. tranflated out of the Frenche of Claude de Seyffel, Bifhop of Marfeilles, into the Englishe language, by Tho. Nicolls, Citizeine and Goldsmyth of London, fol. POLYBIUS, 1550t Hyftories of the most famous and worthy Cronographer, * Among the entries in the books at Stationers-hall this appears to be one. John Denham.] The famous Hiftorye of Herodotus in Englyfhe, June 13, 1581." + On the Stationers' books in 1607 either this or fome other tranflation is enter'd, called "The History of Thucidides the Athenian tranflated into English." Polybius Polybius, by Chriftopher Watson, 8vo. This Work confifts of extracts only. DIODORUS SICULUS*. 1568 The Hiftory of the Succeffors of Alexander, &c. out of Diodorus Siculus and Plutarch, by ho. Stocker. Lond. 4to. APPIAN. 1569 An aunciente Hiftorie, &c. by Appiant of Alexandria, tranflated out of diverfe Languages, &c. by W. B. 4to. Lond. JOSEPH U S. 1578 Jofephus's History, &c. tranflated into English, by Tho. Lodge, fol. Lond. ÆLIAN. 1602-1609, &c. Ælian's Regiftre of Hyftories, by Abraham Fleming, 4to. HERODIAN. 1576 The Hiftorie of Herodian, &c. trans. oute of Greeke into Latin, by Angelus Politianus, and out of Latin into Englyfhe, by Nich. Smyth. Imprinted at London, by William Coplande, 4to ‡. PLUTARCH. Plutarch's Lives §, by Sir Tho. North, from the Fr. of Amyot, Bishop of Auxerre, fol, 1579, 1602, 1603 * Caxton tells us, that "Skelton had tranflated Diodorus Si"culus, the Epiftles of Tulle, and diverfe other Workes :" but I know not that they were ever printed. In the first volume of the entries in the books of the Station ers' company, Feb. 5, 1577, is the following: "Henry Binneman. Appianus Alexandrinus of the Romaine Civill Warres." by Oct. 1591, Herodian in English was entered at Stationers-hall § Thus entered in the books of the Stationers' company. April 1579-Vautrouller-Wright, a booke in Englishe called Plutarch's Lyves." Plutarch's Plutarch's Morals, by Dr. Philemon Holland 1603* Plutarch of the Education of Children, by Sir Tho. Elyott, 4to. The Preceptes of that excellent Clerke and grave Philofopher Plutarche, for the Prefervation of Healthe, 8vo. 1543 ARISTOTLE. The Ethiques of Ariftotle, &c. by John Wylkinson. Printed by Grafton, Printer to K. Edw. VI. 8vo. B. L. 1547 + The Secrete of Secretes of Ariftotle, &c. tranflated out of the Frenche, &c. Lond. 8vo. Ariftotle's Politiques, &c. from the Fr. by J. D. fol. Lond. 1528 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. 12mo. 1567 and 1569 D°. by Dr. Philemon Holland. Xenophon's Treatife of House-hold right, connyngly transl. 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. 1584 EPICTETUSS The Manuell of Epictetus, tranfl. out of Greeke into French, * On the Stationers' books in the year 1600 is the following entry. A booke to be tranflated out of Frenche into Englishe, and fo printed, called the Morall Woorkes of Plutarque." Again in 1602. Again in the fame year, "The morral worke of Plutarque, being tranflated out of French into English." Of the Ethicks of Ariftotle fome more early tranflation must have appeared; as Sir Tho. Elyot in his Boke named the Governour, 1537, fays, "they are to be learned in Greke; for the tranflations that we have, be but a rude and groffe fhadowe of the eloquence and wyfdome of Ariftotle." This tranflation is entered in the books at Stationers-hall. "Adam Iflip] Ariftotle's Politiques with expofitions; to be tranflated into Englyfhe by the Frenche copie, 1598." § In the books of the Stationer's company, Feb. 12, 1581, Tho. Eafte entered Enchiridion in English. and and now into English, &c. Alfo the Apothegmes, 1567 EUNA PIUS SARDIANUS* The Lyves of Philofophers and Orators, from the Greek of Eunapius, 4to. ACHILLES TATIUS. 1579 The most delectable and pleasant Hift. of Clitophor and Leucippe, from the Greek of Achilles Statis, &c. by W. B. 4to M. ANTONINU St. 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, 2536, 1537, 15591586, 1588. DIONYSIUS. Dionyfius's Defcription of the Worlde. Englyfhed by Tho. Twine, 8vo. Lond. EUCLI D. 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 Englishe by 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 tranflated claffics. 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 Epifiles, 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. Euclid's Euclid's Elements, Pref. by John Dee. Lond. HIPPOCRATES. 1570 The Aphorifmes of Hippocrates, redacted into a certaine Order, and tranflated by Humfrie Llhyd, 8vo. 1585 GALEN. 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 Æthiopical 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 1499 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 first feven Bookes of the Encidos, by Phaer. Lond. 4to. B, L. This Tranflation is in rhime of fourteen fyllables. 1558 The nyne first Bookes, &c. by Phaer, 4to. Lond. 1562 The thirteene Bookes of Eneidos, by Phaer and Twyne, 4to. Lond. 1584, 1596, 1607, &c. The firft foure Bookes of Virgil's Eneis, tranflated into * A tranflation of the fame book is likewife entered at Stationer's hall 1602, and again twice in 1604, for different printers. This is a tranflation of the second and fourth books into blank verfe, and is perhaps the oldeft fpecimen of that metre in the Englifh language. # Among the entries in the books of the Stationer's 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. Engl, 1 |