KING OF THE MOUNTAINS. _Tr_. L. Wraxall. 1862.
LAWYER'S NOSE. _Tr_. J. E. Maitland, 1878.
MAN WITH THE BROKEN EAR. _Tr_. H. Holt, 1867.
NEW LEASE OF LIFE AND SAVING A DAUGHTER'S DOWRY. _Tr_. 1860.
TOLLA: a Tale of Modern Rome. _Tr_. L. C. C. Constable's Miscellany of For. Lit., 1854.
=ACHILLES TATIUS. Fourth Century. Greek writer.=
CLEITOPHON AND LEUCIPPE. _Tr_. by Rev. R. Smith, 1855.
One of the decadent Greek novelists. An erotic novel of a conventional type.
THE CATHOLIC HOMILIES. _Ed_. with _tr_. B. Thorpe, Ælfric Soc., 1844-46.
LIVES OF SAINTS. _Ed. Text_ and _Tr_. W. W. Skeat, E.E.T.S., 1881.
Eminent Saxon prelate, one of the most learned of his time. His works, upwards of eighty in number, have been republished by the Ælfric Soc. (London, 1844-46).
=ÆSCHINES.= B.C. _b._ 389, _d._ 314. =Greek orator=.
THE ORATIONS OF ÆSCHINES AGAINST CTESIPHON AND DEMOSTHENES DE CORONA. _Tr._ with notes, Andrew Portal, 1755.
Only three orations of A. are extant, and they relate to charges of 'malversation and corruption against Demosthenes'. The 'De Corona of D.' (330 B.C.) is in reply to Æschines.
=ÆSCHYLUS.= _b._ 525, _d._ 456 B.C. =The first of the three great tragic poets of Greece.=
THE TRAGEDIES. _Tr._ by R. Potter, 1777-8.
The tragedies of Æschylus have affected English drama chiefly through French and Italian dramatists. 'Samson Agonistes,' by Milton, and 'Prometheus Unbound,' by Shelley, are unmistakable echoes, and the latter was intended to be a sequel to Æschylus' 'Prometheus Bound'. 'Manfred' and 'Cain', by Byron, are modelled upon A. Influenced also Racine and Corneille. The most famous speech in Swinburne's 'Atalanta in Calydon' is a translation from A.
Here begynneth the book of the Subtyl Historyes and Fables of Esope.... Translated out of the French into Englysshe by William Caxton, 1484.
The fables of Æsop are among the very earliest of their kind, and probably have never been surpassed for point and brevity.
Nearly all subsequent fables are based upon Æsop. Has affected all European literature. All educated or even intelligent Greeks were supposed to know Æsop, hence their important influence.
=ALAMANNI, LUIGI=, _The Elder_. _b._ 1495, _d._ 1556. =Italian poet.=
LA COLTIVAZIONE (1546). [Didactic poem on agriculture.]