The lives of the noble Grecians and Romanes, compared together by that graue learned philosopher and historiographer, Plutarke of Chæronea: translated out of Greeke into French by Iames Amyot, abbot of Bellozane, bishop of Auxerre, one of the kings priuy counsel, and great amner of Fraunce, and out of French into Englishe, by Thomas North.

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  • The lives of the noble Grecians and Romanes, compared together by that graue learned philosopher and historiographer, Plutarke of Chæronea: translated out of Greeke into French by Iames Amyot, abbot of Bellozane, bishop of Auxerre, one of the kings priuy counsel, and great amner of Fraunce, and out of French into Englishe, by Thomas North.
  • Lives. English. 1579
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Imprint
Imprinted at London: by Thomas Vautroullier and Iohn VVight, 1579.
Added name
North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?, tr. Amyot, Jacques, 1513-1593. Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.
Publication year
1579
ESTC No.
S1644
Grub Street ID
146062
Description
[16], 1175, [1] p. ; 2⁰
Note
First leaf is blank.

Signatures: *? A-5F?.

Contains "The lives of Annibal and Scipio African (attributed to Donato Acciajuoli) translated into French by Charles de la Sluce, and Englished by Thomas North" (p. 1131-1172) and "The comparison of Annibal with P. Scipio African" (p. 1173-1175) by Simon Goulart. Later editions contain still further interpolations.-- NUC pre-1956 imprints.

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