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

, by William Croune, M. D., Fellow of the College of Physicians.

, by Miles Stapleton, Fellow of All-Souls College, Oxford.

, by the Honorable Charles Boyle, of Christ's Church, (the once famous editor of the Epistles of Phalaris, and unequal opponent of Bentley).

, by William Davies, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. , by Mat. Morgan, A. M., of St. Johns' College, Oxford.

, by Giles Thornburgh, A. M.

, by Thomas Rymer, Esq., (the critic and antiquary).

, by —— Amhurst, Esq.

, by some one unnamed.

, by Edward Browne, M. D.

Some notes in addition to those in the text are subjoined.

, page 4.—The affairs of Alexander, called Ægus, son by Roxana, and lawful heir of Alexander the Great, proved unfortunate, as did those of all the blood royal of the old Macedonian family, in the time of Cassander. Alexander and Roxana were both put to death by his orders. Olympias, with whom they had acted, was cousin to Pyrrhus's father, Æacides. For the great battle of Ipsus where all the kings, or as one reading has it, all the kings of the earth were engaged, see the life of Demetrius in Volume V.

Page 6.—The only peninsula or chersonese of Epirus that appears to be mentioned, is that on which Buthrotum stands. Niebuhr suggests the peninsula in the lake of Janina. Tymphæa and Parauæa are corrections of Niebuhr's for Nymphæa and Paralia. They are districts commanding the passage from Macedonia to the Greek city, Ambracia, which Strabo tells us became Pyrrhus's capital.

Page 10.—Not by the lot decide, But with the sword the heritage divide, is from the Phœnissæ of Euripides, (66). Rh