Ovid, Wisdom's Conquest (1651)

Full Text

Not available

EEBO/TCP

Not available

Date

1651

Author

Ovid

Translator

Thomas Hall

Book title

Wisdoms Conquest. Or, An explanation and Grammaticall Translation of the thirteenth Book of Ovids Metamorphoses, containing that curious and Rhetoricall contest between Ajax and Vlysses, for Achilles armour; where is set forth to the life the power of Valour, and the prevalence of Eloquence. In it you shall have Sentences both Morall and Divine, together with Grammar, Rhetorick, History, Etymologies, Criticisms, Phrases, Paraphrase, &c. No knot or difficulty but is untied and cleered, and Homer himself in many places Illustrated. Here you have the sum and substance of whatever is of worth (in reference to this Story) in the Annotations of Bersman, Sabin, Regius, Golding, Michyll, Placitus, Rhodiginus, Egnatius, Glarean, Longolius, Fanensis, Sandys, Farnaby

Publication place

London

Publisher

Philemon Stephens

Text type

printed book

Genre

Treatises

Subject area

Summary

A commentary on the poem, usually in three columns (on righthand pages, these often hold, respectively, rhetoric and etymology, and grammar, and paraphrase

Word-group

type: undifferentiated

Word-entry

type: gloss
sample: [col. 1] § Sigæum a town or promontory by Troy under which was the station of the Grecian fleet, where Ajax was buried. Littora littore. Polypt. [col. 2] And as he was. * Impatiens ir&ae;;* a Poet. phrase, one that cannot refraine, bridle, or suppresse his anger: So laboris impatiens; one that cannot abide to take pains. [col. 3] And being impatient with wrath, hee * views § Sygæum with a frowning countenance, and the § fleet [that lay at anchor] on the shoare. (p. 6)