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Thomas Forrest (translator)

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Thomas Forrest (fl. 1580) was an English author and translator.[1] He translated three orations of Isocrates in A Perfite Looking Glasse for all Estates, imprinted at London by Thomas Purfoote in 1580.[2]

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Thomas Forrest was author of A Perfite Looking Glasse for all Estates: most excellently and eloquently set forth by the famous and learned Oratour Isocrates, as contained in three Orations of Morall Instructions, written in the Greeke tongue, of late yeeres: Translated into Latine by … Hieronimus Wolfius. And nowe Englished … with sundrie examples of pithy sentences, both of Princes and Philosophers, gathered and collected out of divers writers, Coted in the margent, approbating the Author's intent. … Imprinted in Newgate Market, within the new Rents, at the Signe of the Lucrece, 1580.[2] The volume is a quarto of forty-six leaves, and is dedicated by the translator, Tho. Forrest, to Sir Thomas Bromley.[2] There are also prefixed:

  • "An Epistle to the Reader";
  • "The Author's Enchomion upon Sir Thomas Bromley";
  • "J. D. in Commendation of the Author";
  • "In Praise of the Author, S. Norreis";
  • "The Booke to the Reader".[2]

The volume is probably 'certen orations of Isocrates' found in the Stationers' Register under date 4 January 1580.[2] Ritson puts Forrest among the English poets because of the "Enchomion" above mentioned.[3][2]

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  1. ^ Botley 2004.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Bayne 1889, p. 3.
  3. ^ Ritson 1802, p. 209.

Sources

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  • Ritson, Joseph (1802). Bibliographia Poetica: A Catalogue of Engleish Poets. London: C. Roworth, for G. and W. Nicol. p. 209.
  • Botley, P. (2004). "Forrest, Thomas (fl. 1580), translator". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9890. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  • Forrest, Thomas (1580). A Perfite Looking Glasse for all Estates. London: Thomas Purfoote.

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