Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Works of Callimachus, Translated Into English Verse: The Hymns and Epigrams From the Greek; With the Coma Berenices From the Latin of Catullus; With the Original Text, and Notes Carefully Selected From Former Commentators, and Additional Observations
With a View to prepare himfelf for the tranflation of Callimachus, Dr. Tytler compared every line of the Iliad with Mr. Pope's tran?ation, whereby he put himfelf in a congenial train for undertaking to do juf'tice to Callimachus, and meditating a tranflation of Lucretius; he meant to have done the fame by the Ge'orgics of Virgil and Mr. Dryden.
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