Homer Prince of Poets: tranflated according to the Greeke in Twelve Bookes of his Iliads: By Geo. Chapman; fmall folio. Lond. printed for Samuel Macham. No date.

[This, I believe, was published in 1609. There are several Sonnets at the end, addreffed to different noblemen; among them one, "to the Lord Treafurer, the Earle of Salisbury." See alfo the entry below.] Fifteen Books of Do. thin folio 1600 [The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets. Neuer before in any languag truely translated, with a Coment uppon fome of his chiefe places; Donne according to the Greeke. By George Chapman. At London, printed for Nathaniel Butter. William Hole fculp. [This edition contains the 24 Books.] [At the back of the engraved title-page (for the Head of Chapman was not placed there, till the edition of 1614,) in Mr. Steevens's copy is the following infcription in the hand-writing of the Tranflator: "In wittnefs of his best Loue, borne to his beft-deferuing freinde, Mr. Henrye Jones; Geo: Chapman giues him theife fruites of his beft Labors, and defires Loue betwixt us, as longe-liu'd as Homer."] [From the Stationers' Regifter it appears that this book, small folio, was printed in 1611. See note 7. The Prince of Wales, to whom the work is dedicated, died Nov. 6, 1612. In the republication (1614) it is infcribed, on an additional engraved frontispiece, to his Memory.] The whole Works of Homer; Prince of Poetts. In his Iliads and Odyffes. Tranflated according to the Greeke, by Geo. Chapman. De Ili; et Odifs:

Omnia ab his; et in his funt omnia: five beati
Te decor eloquii, feu reru pondera tangunt.

Angel. Pol.

At London, printed for Nathaniell Butter. William Hole, fculp.

[This book was probably printed in 1614.] The large head of Geo. Chapman is placed at the back of the engraved title-page.

The Crowne of all Homer's Works, Batrachomymachia, &c. *[By Geo. Chapman, with his portrait by W. Pafs, in the title-page.] thin folio; printed by John Bill. No date.

The ftrange wonderfull and bloudy Battel between Frogs and Mife; paraphraftically done into English Heroycall Verfe, by W. F. (i. e. William Fowldes,) 4to.

HESIOD.

1603

The Georgicks of Hefiod, by George Chapman; Tranflated elaborately out of the Greek: Containing Doctrine of Hufbandrie, Moralitie, and Pietie; with a perpetual Calendar of Good and Bad Daies; Not fuperftitious, but neceffarie (as farre as naturall Caufes compell) for all men to obferve, and difference in following their affaires. Nec caret umbra Deo. London, Printed by H. L. for Miles Partrich, and are to be folde at his Shop neare Saint Dunftans Church in Fleetstreet. [This title-page is given at full length, becaufe the existence of the book it belongs to (which

1618

9 In the firft Volume of the Entries of the Stationers' Company is the following:

"T. Purfoote.] The Battel of the Frogges and Myce, and certain orations of Ifocrates." Jan. 4, 1579.

is in Mr. Steevens's poffeffion) has been queftioned by the late Mr. Warton, History of English Poetry, Vol. III, p. 446.]

talia: MUSÆUS.

1

Marlowe's Hero and Leander, with the firft Book of Lucan, 4to. 1600 There must have been a former Edition, as a fecond Part was published by Henry Petowe, 1598 Mufæus's Poem of Hero and Leander, imitated by Christopher Marlow, and finifhed by Geo. Chapman, 4to. Lond.

EURIPIDES.

1606

Jocafta, a tragedy, from the Phoeniffe of Euripides,

This tranflation, or at least Marlowe's part in it, must have been published before 1599, being twice mentioned in Nafh's Lenten Stuff, &c. which bears that date. Leander and Hero, of whom divine Museus fung, and a diviner mufe than him, Kit Marlow." Again," She fprung after him, and fo refigned up her priesthood, and left worke for Mufeus and Kit Marlow."

Among the entries at Stationers' Hall I find the following made by John Wolfe in 1593, Sept. 8th." A booke entitled Hero and Leander, being an amorous poem devised by Chriftopher Marlow."

At the fame time, "Lucan's first book of the famous Cyvill Warr betwixt Pompey and Cæfar. Englished by Christopher Marlow."

Again, in 1597, "A booke in English called Hero and Leander."

Again, April 1598, "The feconde Parte of Hero and Leander by Henry Petowe." Andrew Harris entered it.

Again, in 1600, "Hero and Leander by Marlowe."

In 1614 an entire tranflation of Lucan was published by Sir Arthur Gorges, and entered as such on the fame books.

by Geo. Gascoigne, and Mr. Francis Kinwelmerfhe, 4to. Lond.

1556

PLATO.

Axiochus, a Dialogue, attributed to Plato, by Edm.

Spenfer, 4to.2

1592

DEMOSTHENES.

The three Orations of Demofthenes, chiefe Orator among the Grecians, in favour of the Olynthians, with thofe his fower against Philip of Macedon, &c. by Tho. Wylfon, Doctor of the Civill Lawes, 4to.

ISOCRATES.

1570

Ifocrates's fage admonition to Demonicus, by R. Nutthall, 8vo. Lond. 1557, 12mo. and 1585 Ifocrates's Doctrinal of Princes, by Syr Tho. Elliot,

Lond. 8vo.

1534

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. Forrest, 4to.

LUCIAN.

1580

Necromantia, a Dialog of the Poete Lucyen between Menippus and Philonides, for his Fantefye faynd for a mery Paftyme, in English Verfe and Latin Profe.

* This book was entered in May, 1592, at Stationers' Hall.

Toxaris, or the Friendship of Lucian, by A. O. Lond. 8vo.

1565

HERODOTUS.

The famous Hyftory of Herodotus,3 in nine Bookes, &c. by B. R. Lond.

1584 N. B. This Piece contains only the two firft Books, viz. the Clio and Euterpe. The Tranflator fays in his Preface," As thefe speede, fo the reft will follow." 4to.

THUCYDIDES.

The History writtone by Thucydides, &c. tranflated out of the Frenche of Claude de Seyffel, Bifhop of Marseilles, into the Englifhe language, by Tho. Nicolls, Citizeine and Goldfmyth of London, fol.

POLYBIUS.

15504

Hyftories of the most famous and worthy Cronographer, Polybius, by Christopher Watson, 8vo.

This Work confifts of extracts only.

1568

3 Among the entries in the books at Stationers' Hall this pears to be one:

ap

"John Denham.] The famous Hiftorye of Herodotus in Englyfhe, June 13, 1581."

✦ On the Stationers' books in 1607 either this or fome other translation is entered, called "The Hiftory of Thucidides the Athenian tranflated into English."