Thomas Phaer

Thomas Phaer (c. 1510 – 12 August 1560) was an English lawyer, paediatrician, and author.

Quotes

Translations

• I that my slender oaten pipe in verse was wont to sound
  Of woods, and next to that I taught for husbandmen the ground,
  How fruit unto their greedy lust they might constrain to bring,
  A work of thanks: Lo now of Mars, and dreadful wars I sing,
  Of arms, and of the man of Troy, that first by fatal flight
  Did thence arrive to Lavine land, that now Italia hight.
  • Beginning of the first Book of the Aeneidos of Virgil, as quoted in The Oxford History of Poetry in English, Vol. IV (Oxford University Press, 2022), p. 269

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Thomas Phaer on Wikipedia
• The Thirteene Bookes of Aeneidos, by Phaer and Twyne, 1607 – available at Google Books