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Lives in the first volume were translated for Dryden's edition, as follows:—

, by R. Duke, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, (to whom two pages are given by Johnson in his Lives of the Poets).

, by Mr. James Smallwood, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

, by Knightly Chetwood, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

, by Sir Paul Rycaut, (the Turkey merchant, and author of the History of the Turks).

, by Thomas Creech, of Wadham College, Oxford, (the translator of Lucretius).

, by Mr. Johnson.

, by Edward Brown, M. D.

, by Michael Payne, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

, by Adam Littleton, D. D.

, by John Caryl, Esq.

The following notes may be added to those given with the text:

, page 1.—Beautiful and far-famed, or famed in song, are current epithets of Athens, originally given by Pindar. The two verses just above are from the scene in the Seven against Thebes of Æschylus, where Eteocles considers what captains he shall post against the assailants at each of the gates.

Page 2.—Both warriors, that by all the world's allowed, is from Iliad, VII. 281, said by the heralds of Ajax and Hector, when they come to part them after their single combat.

Page 4.—The Abantes of Eubœa wearing their hair long behind, are mentioned in the Catalogue, Iliad, II. 543; and Strabo speaks of Arabians, companions of Cadmus, who went into Eubœa.

Page 11.—The hamlets of Marathon, Œnoë, Tricorythus, and Probalinthus, formed the Tetrapolis or Four-towns, which is reckoned with Sphettus, Aphidna, Rh