Note 064
From Chapter 61 of the Decline & Fall

A short and superficial account of these versions from Latin into Greek is given by Huet (de Interpretatione et de claris Interpretibus (p. 131 - 135.) Maximus Planudes, a monk of Constantinople (A.D. 1327 - 1353) has translated Caesar's Commentaries, the Somnium Scipionis, the Metamorphoses and Heroides of Ovid, etc., (Fabric. Bib. Graec. tom. x. p. 533).

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