AN ECLECTIC LIBRARY.

Classical Authors, B.

Bion

The Works of Anacreon, Sappho, Bion, Moschus, and Musaeus. Translated from the original Greek. By Francis Fawkes, M.A. Second edition, 1789.

Select Poetical Translations of the Classics of Antiquity. London: Printed for W. Plant Piercy by J. M‘Creery, 1810. —Includes eight “Idylliums from Bion.”

Boethius

Five Bookes, of Philosophicall Comfort, full of Christian consolation, written a 1000 yeeres since. By Anitius, Manlius, Torquatus, Severinus, Boetius; a Christian Consul of Rome. Newly Translated out of Latine, together with Marginall Notes, explaining the obscurest places. London: Printed by Iohn Windet, for Mathew Lownes. 1609. —The dedication is signed “I .T.” (we might guess that the I is a J). This translation remained in good enough repute to be printed in the Loeb edition three centuries later (see below).
Another copy.

Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy. Translated from the Latin, with notes and illustrations, by the Rev. Mr. Philip Ridpath. 1785.

The Theological Tractates, with an English translation by H. F. Stewart and E. K. Rand; The Consolation of Philosophy, with the English Translation of “I.T.” (1609) revised by H. F. Stewart. Loeb edition, 1918.