Philemon Holland (1551-1637)
One made this epigram on him:—
‘Philêmon with ’s translations doeth so fill us, He will not let Suetonius be Tranquillus.’
Notes
1699Philêmon Holland was schoole-master of the free-schoole at Coventrey, and that for many yeares. He made a great many good scholars. He translated T. Livius, anno 15—, with one and the same pen, which the lady... (vide at the end of his translation of Suetonius) embellished with silver, and kept amongst her rare κειμηλια1700. He wrote a good hand, but a rare Greeke character; witnesse the MS. of Euclid’s Harmoniques in the library belonging to the schoole. He translated severall Latin authors,—e.g. Tit. Livius, Plinii Hist. Natur., Suetonius Tranquillus: quaere +.