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THE

WORKS OF CLAUDIAN:

WORKS

OF

CLAUDIAN,

TRANSLATED INTO

English Verse.

BY

A. HAWKINS, ESQ. F.H.S.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

"He was endowed with the rare and precious talent of raising the
meanest, of adorning the most barren, and of diversifying the
most similar topics."

GIBBON.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J PORTER, NO. 81, PALL-MALL;
AND LANGDON AND SON, SHERBorne.

1817.

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CLAUDIAN, the latest of the Roman Clas

sicks, who flourished at the close of the fourth
and in the beginning of the fifth century, to
whom a statue of brass was raised in the Forum
of Trajan, even in his life-time, by the reigning
emperors, (Arcadius and Honorius,) at the re-
quest of the Senate, with an inscription which
styled him (to use the original expression) præ-
gloriosissimo poetarum, who has been allowed by
Strada to contend with the five heroick poets,
Lucretius, Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Statius, and
whose admirers are numerous and passionate,
has been suffered to remain without a transla-
tion in our language! It must be admitted,
however, that a few parts have received an Eng-
lish dress; but it is believed that no general ver-
sion has ever appeared: no industry at least on

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