Vitae excellentium imperatorum; cum versione Anglicâ, in quâ verbum de verbo, quantum fieri potuit, redditus; notis quoquè Anglicis, [et] indice locupletissimo; or, Lives of the excellent commanders; . i De Cornelio Ne?ote. mum tabulas ederet Cbrono-grapbicas, in earn fententi-am pertraxit. Sed Nepo-tem eo ujque atatem pro-rogujje^ nemo temere dixerit,qui tanti eum in Uteris no-viinh; jam Tullii, Attiei*Catulii temporibus, fuijfe co-giidrit. and pretends to fays that whetherthat Traflation was Neposs, ornot, cannotwithanyDegreeofCer-tainty bedetermined. But all, thathave any thing of Tafte in
Vitae excellentium imperatorum; cum versione Anglicâ, in quâ verbum de verbo, quantum fieri potuit, redditus; notis quoquè Anglicis, [et] indice locupletissimo; or, Lives of the excellent commanders; . i De Cornelio Ne?ote. mum tabulas ederet Cbrono-grapbicas, in earn fententi-am pertraxit. Sed Nepo-tem eo ujque atatem pro-rogujje^ nemo temere dixerit,qui tanti eum in Uteris no-viinh; jam Tullii, Attiei*Catulii temporibus, fuijfe co-giidrit. and pretends to fays that whetherthat Traflation was Neposs, ornot, cannotwithanyDegreeofCer-tainty bedetermined. But all, thathave any thing of Tafte in thisKind of Literature, fee plainly,that Dares is afpurious Piece, andthat the Style is nothing like thatof the Age of Auguftus; but ismuch later. But Pliny informsus, B. 9, ch. 39. that Neposdiedin Auguftuss Reign. And it wasthis perhaps made Genebrardthink that Nepos was living at theBirth ofChrift,wholikewifedrewover James Gualterius, when hefirft publifhed his ChronologicalTables, to his Opinion. Butfcarcely any one fure will pretendto fay, that Nepcs lived till thatTime, whoconfiders, that he wasa Perfon who made a confiderableFigure for Learning in the Daysof Tully, Atticus, and Cornelii
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