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Manilius · Thomas Creech (1700)
Prefixed by Creech to his translation (1700), in the form of a letter. SIR, THE Campaign being over, and Councils not yet begun, the World is very much at quiet; nor can I find News enough to fill a Letter: But to keep up our usual Correspondence, I send you an Account of an old Latin Poet, very little known, tho' as worthy your Acquaintance, as many of those who are in Credit. He lay buried in the German Libraries, not heard of in the World, till Poggius Publish'd him from some old Manuscripts found there; and tho' Burde Cotzus, thinks Lucian consulted this Poet when he wrote his little Treatise of Astrologie; tho' Julius Firmizus is accus'd as an ungrateful Plagiary, for not acknowledging from whom he Transcrib'd the chiefest parts of his Books; yet there is no good Evidence, that any one Writer mention'd this Author before Poggius. Pliny is suppos'd to speak of him as a …
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