Fabulae Selectae Auctore Joanne Gay Latine Redditae

Title

en_US Fabulae Selectae Auctore Joanne Gay Latine Redditae

Description

en_US Language note: English/Latin

en_US Joanne Gay, Interprete Chr. Anstey

Creator

en_US Anstey, Christopher See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T16:49:35Z

en_US 1999-12

en_US 1798

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:49:35Z

Date Issued

en_US 1798

Abstract

en_US Here is a curiosity of the first order! This book presents and renders into Latin elegiac couplets seventeen of Gay's fables. I tried one, and found the Latin moving along splendidly. It is also quite faithful to the English. What I read is the last here: The Hare and many Friends or Lepus et amicorum copia (130/131). What a hoot! I was at first confused by the 1777 dedication by the Intepres (which must be Chr. Ansley), right beside the preface, signed C.A. in Bathoniae, 1798. From a cursory reading of the preface, I gather that he wrote these translations twenty years earlier and gave them over into the patronage of the Prince of Wales and published them, though with no name and plenty of errors. Now he has had time, before leaving life, to review his life's works, and he has published this translation as a source of useful fun to his descendants. He takes pride in having learned sixty years earlier at Eton the Latin that he uses here. Marbled paper wraps.

Identifier

en_US 3557 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78923

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Cadell et Davis

en_US Londini

Subject

en_US PR3473.A3 L3 1798 See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole