whole bokes although by iniurye of the tyme, were not of long extant, yet at the last beyng founde at Athenes, haue sins by dewe conference ben founde hooly to agre, in all the dyscourse of y ^e sayd warres, which the labores aswel of Darete as Dyte, at the laste came to the syght & handes of the lerned and dylygent Guydo of Columpna, who hath syncerelye and pythely digested the same in one latyne volume. And so by these degrees, hath bene at the last by y ^e diligence of John Lydgate a moncke of Burye, brought into our englyshe tonge: and dygested as maye appere, in verse who estranayle as well in other his doynges as in this hathe wythout doubte so muche preuayled in this our vulgare language, that hauynge his prayse dewe to his deseruynges, may worthyly be numbred amongest those that haue chefelye deserued of our tunge. As the verye perfect disciple and imitator of the great Chaucer, y ^e onely glorye and beauty of the same . . .”

Anton Maria Salvini, 1653-1729, Italian scholar, was a professor of Greek at the age of twenty-three. The first edition of his translation of Homer was published in Firenze in 1723.

Angiol Maria Ricchi, fl. 1740, Italian scholar, was the author of the nuova Traduzione de la Batracomiomachia in this edition, first published in 1741.

James Macpherson, 1736-1796, Scottish poet, and the alleged translator of the Ossianic poems, first printed his translation of the Iliad in London in 1773, in two volumes, quarto. A second edition appeared in London in the same year. The bibliographers do not record the Dublin edition of 1773 in 3 volumes, duodecimo, which was probably a pirated edition, and which does appear in John Jones’s list of books printed in Dublin in 1791, under the heading School Books, Prose Translations, etc. The authorized third edition was printed in Dublin in this format in 1818. The 1839 and later editions of the Library of Congress Catalogue describe the book as 2d edition.