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Philemon Holland 1552-1637, English translator and scholar. Educated at Cambridge, he became director of the free school in Coventry, where he also practiced medicine. He was the first English translator of Livy and Septonius, of Plutarch's Morals and Pliny's Natural History, and of Ammianus Marcellinus.

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Holland, Philemon (1552–1637), celebrated for his translations of Livy (1600), Pliny's Natural History (1601), Plutarch's Moralia (1603), Suetonius (1606), Ammianus Marcellinus (1609), Camden's Britannia (1610), and Xenophon's Cyropaedia (1632). His knowledge of Greek and Latin was accurate and profound, and his renderings are made in a vivid, familiar, and somewhat ornamented English.

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