Extracts mainly from classical authors, compiled ca. 1600.

Virgil.

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Latin and parallel English translation. From the description of Virgil's Aeneis in Latin and English [manuscript], ca. 1715. (Folger Shakespeare Library). WorldCat record id: 704364944 ...

Terence.

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Demosthenes.

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Cicero, Marcus Tullius

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Epithet: Roman philosopher, statesman and orator British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001296.0x000145 The maker of the translation is unknown From the guide to the Laelius de amicitia, by Marcus Tullius Cicero, in English translation, ca.1700, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) Gilman received his A.B. from Harvard in 1811. From the description of Cicero's treatise on the decline of l...

Isócrates

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Hesiod

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Persius

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Castiglione, Baldassarre, conte, 1478-1529

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Italian author and diplomat. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Rome, to the Marquis Federigo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, [1521 Jan. 1]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270133672 The Sauli family were bankers in Rome. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Casatico and Mantua, to the Duke of Urbino, 1523 June 18 and 1523 July 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270138826 ...

Horace

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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.

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Robert Foxall was the son of a wealthy Southampton grocer. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1626. From the description of Translation of selections of Seneca's epistles [manuscript], 1624? (Folger Shakespeare Library). WorldCat record id: 676690718 ...

Clerke, Bartholomew, approximately 1537-1590

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Camden, William, 1551-1623

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English historian. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Westminster, to Abraham Ortelius in Antwerp, 1577 Aug. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132746 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Westminister, to Abraham Ortelius in Antwerp, 1578 Oct. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270132747 Epithet: historian and herald British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000834.0x000...

Baptista, Mantuanus, 1448-1516

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Italian poet, widely read in his day. Much of his work was required reading in the schools as late as the 17th century. From the description of De contemnenda morte, ad Jasonem Castellum patricium bononiensem, ca. 1500. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754866422 ...

Juvenal.

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Plautus, Titus Maccius

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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D

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