Part of Lucian made English from the Originall. In the Yeare 1638.; Trans. Jasper Mayne and Francis Hicks

by Lucian of Samosata

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First edition

Oxford: Printed by H Hall for R Davis, 1663. First Edition. The Mayne translation and the 2nd edition of Hickes translation. This edition of Lucian is thus the first substantially complete edition in English. Prior to the publication of the 9 Dialogues translated by Hickes d. 1631 at Oxford in 1634, only two of Lucian's Dialogues had been translated into English and published in book form. Mayne's translation of fifty had

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