Wisdoms conquest. Or, An explanation and grammaticall translation of the thirteenth book of Ovids Metamorphoses, containing that curious and rhetoricall contest between Ajax and Vlysses, for Achilles armour; where is set forth to the life the power of valour, and the prevalence of eloquence. In it you shall have sentences both morall and divine, together with grammar, rhetorick, history, etymologies, criticisms, phrases, paraphrase, &c. No knot or difficulty but is untied and cleered, and Homer himself in many places illustrated. Here you have the sum and substance of whatever is of worth (in reference to this story) in the annotations of Bersman, Sabin, Regius, Golding, Michyll, Placitus, Rhodiginus, Egnatius, Glarean, Longolius, Fanensis, Sandys, Farnaby.

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  • Wisdoms conquest. Or, An explanation and grammaticall translation of the thirteenth book of Ovids Metamorphoses, containing that curious and rhetoricall contest between Ajax and Vlysses, for Achilles armour; where is set forth to the life the power of valour, and the prevalence of eloquence. In it you shall have sentences both morall and divine, together with grammar, rhetorick, history, etymologies, criticisms, phrases, paraphrase, &c. No knot or difficulty but is untied and cleered, and Homer himself in many places illustrated. Here you have the sum and substance of whatever is of worth (in reference to this story) in the annotations of Bersman, Sabin, Regius, Golding, Michyll, Placitus, Rhodiginus, Egnatius, Glarean, Longolius, Fanensis, Sandys, Farnaby.
  • Metamorphoses. Book 13. English
  • Wisdoms conquest Explanation and grammaticall translation of the thirteenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses
People / Organizations
Imprint
London: printed for Philemon Stephens, and are to be sold at the signe of the Gilded Lyon in S. Pauls Church-yard, MDCLI. [1651]
Added name
Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665, tr.
Publication year
1651
ESTC No.
R209294
Grub Street ID
85518
Description
[12], 32, 37-100, [4] p. 8⁰
Note
Translated by Thomas Hall. "To the candid and courteous reader" signed: Tho. Hall.

Annotation on Thomason copy: "Septemb. 13".

Text continuous despite pagination.Citation/references Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), O698

Thomason, E.1368[4]