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Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding lines by Theocritus on his origins and asserting the originality of his poetry; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding epitaph on the death of Callimachus, emphasising his family, part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding epigram by Propertius seemingly censuring Callimachus for an over-inflated style; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding lines on fishing, the beginning of Oppian's 'Halieutica', dedicated to the Emperor Antoninus; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding epitaph as inscribed on Oppian's tomb, lamenting his early death at the hands of Fate; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding lines, the beginning of Oppian's 'Cynegetica', praising the Emperor Antoninus and suggesting that the natural world is for his benefit; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716.
Part 1
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of the final lines of Oppian's 'Halieutica', requesting continued good fortune and tributes from nature for the Emperor Antoninus; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. 1716. Part 1 by Hugh
Wormingto
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding lines from Homer's 'Iliad', praising Linus and describing him as a boy singing; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. Part 2. 1716 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: On the inspirational effect of Tirtaus's poetry on the soldiers of Sparta; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. Part 2. 1716 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding lines by Horace commenting on his adoption of the form but not the bitter content of the poetry of Archilochus; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. Part 2. 1716 by Hugh
Wormington, Lim
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding epigram by Archilochus stating that his first allegiance is to war rather than poetry; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient Graecian poets. Part 2. 1716 by Hugh Wormington, Limerick'.
Title: [unknown]
Author: Wormington, Hugh
Date(s): 1716 (title-page)
Manuscript: Lt 80
Contents: Translation of preceding epitaph on the death of Archilochus, suggesting that he was directed towards his poetic form by the muses who wished to leave the epic form for Homer; part of 'A contraction of the lives and characters of the antient
Graecian poet