English Translations from the Greek: A Bibliographical SurveyFoster, Finley Melville Kendall
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English Translations from the Greek: A Bibliographical Survey
Foster, Finley Melville Kendall
Greek literature -- Translations into English -- Bibliography; Thesis (Ph. D.)
6. A perfite looking Glasse for all Estates: Most excellently and
eloquently set forth by the famous and learned Oratour Isocrates, as
contained in three Orations of Morall instructions, written by the Authour
himselfe at the first in the Greeke tongue, of late yeeres. Translated
into Lataine by that learned Clearke Hieronimus Wolfius. And now Englished
to the behalfe of the Reader, with sundrie examples and pithy sentences
both of Princes and Philosophers gathered and collected out of diuers
writers, coted in the margent approbating the Authours intent, no less
delectable then profitable. 1580. 8o BL [Epistle dedicatorie signed Thomas
Forrest, translator]
7. Oration intitled Evagoras by Jer. Wolfe. 1581. 8o
8. The good admonition of the Sage Isocrates, to young Demonicus;
translated from the Greek by Richard Nuttall. 1585. 8o
9. Archidamus, or, the Councell of Warre. Being 2000 yeares old, and
written by Isocrates the couragious Orator, translated by Tho: Barnes.
1624. 4o
10. Advice to a young Gentleman. Writ in Greek by Isocrates, the famous
Athenian Oratour; and lately made English for the use of schools. 1696. 8o
11. Epicurus’s Morals. Translated from the Greek [or rather from the
French] by J. Digby. With comments and reflections taken out of several
authors [or rather by J. Parrain] Also Isocrates, his advise to Demonicus,
done out of Greek by the same hand. To which is added an essay on
Epicurus’s Morals ... by ... St. Evremont ... made English by Mr. Johnson.
1712. 8o
_Reprinted: [Edited by J. Tela] 1822._
12. The Advice of Isocrates to Demonicus a Nobleman.—His discourse to a
Prince on Kingly Government.—Translated from the Greek. [In the Prince’s
Cabala; or Mysteries of State. Written by King James [I] 1715.] 12o
13. The Duty of a King and his People, being two Orations of Isocrates.
[Translated by J. Brown] 1735. 8o
14. Orations and Epistles of Isocrates translated from Greek by Joshua
Dinsdale. Revised by Rev. Mr. Young. 1752. 8o
15. Isocrates’s Oration to Demonicus. S. Toulmin, A.M. [Published with
Sermons principally addressed to Youth] 1770. 8o
16. Orations out of Lysias and Isocrates, translated from the Greek by
John Gillies, LL.D. 1778. 4o
17. The Panegyric of Isocrates translated by James Rice. 1882.
_Reprinted: 1898._
18. The Panegyric of Isocrates translated by George Wilkins. 1881.
19. The Orations of Isocrates, translated by John Henry Freese. 1894.
_Reprinted: [Panegyricus. University Tutorial Series] 1900._
Longinus
1. περι Υψους. Or, Dionysius Longinus of the Height of Eloquence, Rendered
out of the originall by J. H(all). 1662. 8o
2. A Treatise of Loftiness or Elegancy of Speech. Written originally in
Greek ... and now translated out of French by Mr. J[ohn] P[ulteney]. 1698.
8o
3. An Essay upon sublime Style, translated from the Greek of Longinus, the
Rhetoritian; compared with the French of Sieur Boileau‐Despréaux. 1698. 8o
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