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A CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE MORE IMPORTANT BOOKS CONTAINING VERSE TRANSLATIONS FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY
1806. Translations, chiefly from the Greek Anthology, etc.
[By R. Bland ilnd J. H. Merivale.]
1813. Collections from the Greek Anthology and from the Pastoral, Elegiac and Dramatic Poets of Greece. By R. Bland and others.
[Many versions by J. H. Merivale.]
1833. ______ A new edition. By J. H. Merivale.
[Many versions by C. Merivale.]
1847. Specimens of the Poets and Poetry of Greece and Rome. By various translators. Edited by William Peter. Philadelphia.
1849. Anthologia Polyglotta. A selection of versions in various languages, chiefly from the Greek Anthology. By H. Wellesley.
[Wellesley was only the editor and author of some of the versions.]
1852. The Greek Anthology, as selected for the use of Westminster, Eton and other Public Schools. Literally translated into English prose, chiefly by G. Burges. To which are added metrical versions, etc.
[Bohn's Classics.]
[1864]. Greek Anthology, with Notes Critical and Explanatory. Translated by Major Robert Guthrie MacGregor.
[MacGregor, an Anglo-Indian soldier, produced advance instalments, as Specimens of Greek Anthology [1855] and Epitaphs from the Greek Anthology [1857]. His versions are rather dull, but close to the Greek.]