Authority Cited: Wase (misattributed to Wism. in Abstr. ed.)
Author name and dates: Christopher Wase (1625?-1690)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cambridge Fellow; Royalist; served in Spanish army against French; noted Latin scholar, lexicographer; translated Gratius
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Wase cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. One Wase cite identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below.]
BKG Gratius Bio-tweet: Augustan poet; mentioned by Ovid as among little-known authors; active 19 BCE to 8 CE; poem on tools of hunting
[BKG Note: for a recent treatment of Gratius and the poem, see Steven J. Green (ed.), Grattius: Hunting an Augustan Poet (Oxford, 2018; online edn, Oxford Academic, 18 Jan. 2018)]
Author name and dates: Christopher Wase (1625?-1690)
BKG Bio-tweet: Cambridge Fellow; Royalist; served in Spanish army against French; noted Latin scholar, lexicographer; translated Gratius
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: one Wase cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 1. One Wase cite identified as added in the 1773 Dict., indicated in bold italic below.]
- GratI Falisci Cynegeticon. Or, A poem of hunting by Gratius the Faliscian. Englished and illustrated by Christopher Wase Gent., Niess de Ort. & Occ. L L., Gratius aures & Latinissimi seculi poeta, 1654, London: Printed for Charles Adams, and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Talbot neare St. Dunstans Church in Fleet Street; invocation (1755 Dict.: "The proposition of Gratius is contained in a line, and that of invocation in half a line. Wase."; text, Preface, p.5, "After his proposition of the subject compris'd in one verse; and his Invocation in halfe a verse, . . ." ); talbot (new headword; 1773 Dict.: "A hound. It is so used in Wase’s translation of Grotius."; text, sig. B-3)
BKG Gratius Bio-tweet: Augustan poet; mentioned by Ovid as among little-known authors; active 19 BCE to 8 CE; poem on tools of hunting
[BKG Note: for a recent treatment of Gratius and the poem, see Steven J. Green (ed.), Grattius: Hunting an Augustan Poet (Oxford, 2018; online edn, Oxford Academic, 18 Jan. 2018)]