Imprinted at London, by William Copland, 4to.7

PLUTARCH.

Plutarch's Lives, by Sir Tho. North, from the Fr. of Amyot, Bishop of Auxerre, fol.

1579, 1602, 1603 Plutarch's Morals, by Dr. Philemon Holland, 16039 Plutarch of the Education of Children, by Sir Tho. Elyott, 4to.

The Preceptes of that excellent Clerke and grave Philosopher, Plutarche, for the Preservation of Healthe, 8vo.

ARISTOTLE.

1543

The Ethiques of Aristotle, &c. by John WylkinPrinted by Grafton, Printer to King

son.

15471

Edw. VI. 8vo. B. L. The Secrete of Secretes of Aristotle, &c. translated out of the Frenche, &c. Lond. 8vo. 1528

7 Oct. 1591, Herodian in English was entered at Stationers' Hall byAdams.

• Thus entered in the books of the Stationers' Company: "April 1579-Vautrouller-Wright, a booke in Englishe called Plutarch's Lyves."

9 On the Stationers' books in the year 1600 is the following entry :

"A booke to be translated out of French into Englishe, and so printed, called the Morall Woorkes of Plutarque." Again, in 1602. Again, in the same year, "The moral worke of Plutarque, being translated out of French into English."

1 Of the Ethicks of Aristotle some more early translation must have appeared; as Sir Tho. Elyot, in his Boke named the Governour, 1537, says, 66 they are to be learned in Greke; for the translations that we have, be but a rude and grosse shadowe of the eloquence and wysdome of Aristotle."

Aristotle's Politiques, &c.2 from the Fr. by J. D.

fol. Lond.

1598

XENOPHON.

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

12mo.

Do. by Dr. Philemon Holland. Xenophon's Treatise of House-hold, right con- . nyngly 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.

EPICTETUS.3

1584

The Manuell of Epictetus, transl. out of Greeke into French, and now into English, &c.

Also

1567

the Apothegmes, &c. by James Sandford, Lond. 12mo.

CEBES.

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

• This translation is entered in the books at Stationers' Hall. "Adam Islip.] Aristotle's Politiques with expositions; to be translated into Englishe by the French copie, 1598."

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

A Treatise perswadyng a man paciently to suffer
the Death of a Freend. Imprynted at Lon-
don, in Fletestreete by Thomas Berthelet.

EUNAPIUS SARDIANUS.1

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

ACHILLES TATIUS.

1579

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

M. ANTONINUS.6

15975

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

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

This book was entered in the same 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
classicks. It was a fraud of Guevara's, but not undetected; for
Chapman, in his Gentleman Usher, 1602, speaks 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 Epistles, I am a very
See his article in Bayle. Our countryman Elyott did
somewhat of the same kind. He pretended to translate the
Actes and Sentences notable, of the Emperor Alexander Seve-
rus (from the Greek of Encolpius). See Fabricius' and Tanner's
Bibliothec. &c.

ass.

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

DIONYSIUS.

Dionysius's Description of the Worlde. Englyshed by Tho. Twyne, 8vo. Lond.

EUCLID.

1572

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

HIPPOCRATES.

The Aphorismes of Hippocrates, redacted into a
certaine Order, and translated by Humfrie
Llhuyd, 8vo.
See Granger's Biographical History, Vol. I. p. 270.

GALEN.

1585

1574

Galen's Two Books of Elements, translated into
Engl. by J. Jones, 4to. Lond.
Certayne Workes of Galen, englyshed by Tho.
Gale, 4to.

HELIODORUS.

1586

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

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

7 A translation of the same book is likewise entered at Stationers' Hall, 1602, and again twice in 1604, for different printers.

ESOP.

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

1585

VIRGIL.

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

1490

prose The thirteen Bukes of Eneados in Scottish Metir,

1553

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 seven Bookes of the Eneidos, by Phaer, Lond. 4to. B. L.

1558

This Translation is in rhyme of fourteen syllables. The nine first Bookes, &c. by Phaer, 4to. Lond.

1562

This is a translation of the second and fourth books into blank verse, and is perhaps the oldest specimen of that metre in the English language.

9 The following "Epytaphe of Maister Thomas Phayre," is found in a very scarce 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 Fletestrete a little aboue the Conduit in the late shop of Thomas Bartelet."

"The hawtye verse yt Maro wrote

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

"That all men iudged Parnassus mownt

"had clefte her selfe in twayne,

"And brought forth one that seemd to drop
"from out Mineruaies brayne.