Wisdoms conquest [[electronic resource] ] : or, an explanation and grammaticall translation of the thirteenth book of Ovid's 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

• Record Nr.: UNISA996392774503316
• Autore: Ovid <43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : Printed for Philemon Stephens, and are to be sold at the signe of the Gilded Lyon in S. Pauls Church-yard, MDCLI. [1651]
• Descrizione fisica: [12], 32, 37-100, [4] p
• Altri autori (Persone): HallThomas <1610-1665.>
• Soggetti: Latin poetry
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Translated by Thomas Hall. "To the candid and courteous reader" signed: Tho. Hall.; Annotation on Thomason copy: "Septemb. 13".; Reproduction of the original in the British Library.; Text continuous despite pagination.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0018