The First Printed Translations into English of the Great Foreign Classics / A Supplement to Text-Books of English Literature

by William James Harris

ARTAMENES; or, THE GRAND CYRUS. Tr. by F. G. 5 vols. 1653-5.

CLEILA. (1654-60.) Tr. by John Davies. 5 v. 1656-61.

IBRAHIM; or, THE ILLUSTRIOUS BASSA. (1641.) Tr. by Henry Cogan, 1652.

The interminable pseudo-romantic stories of M. de S.—the 'Grand Cyrus' or 'Clélie'—were exploited by Robert Boyle (Earl of Surrey), Sir Geo. Mackenzie, J. Crowne the dramatist, etc., as well as by Dryden and other post-Restoration dramatists.

SENECA, LUCIUS ANNÆUS. b. 4 B.C., d. 65 A.D. Roman stoic philosopher and dramatist.

THE EYGHT TRAGEDIES ... Entituled Agamemnon. Tr. by J. Studley, 1566.

THE LAMENTABLE TRAGEDIE OF ŒDIPUS. Tr. by A. Nevyle. [In verse.] 1563.

MORALS. Tr. by T. Lodge, 1614.

THE REMEDYES AGAYNST ALL CASUALL CHAUNCES ... A dialogue between Sensualyte and Reason. Tr. by E. Wyttynton, 1547.