Crossword-Solution: PHAER 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Dryden seems not to have traced it higher than to Chapman's Homer; but it is to be found in Phaer's Virgil, written in the reign of Mary; and in Hall's Satires, published five years before the death of Elizabeth.

The two first lines of Phaer's third Aeneid will exemplify this measure: When Asia's state was overthrown, and Priam's kingdom stout, All guiltless, by the power of gods above was rooted out.

Since him followed Maister _Arthure Golding_, who with no lesse commendation turned into English meetre the Metamorphosis of _Ouide_, and that other Doctour, who made the supplement to those bookes of _Virgils Aeneidos_, which Maister _Phaer_ left vndone.

Phaer and Golding for a learned and well corrected verse, specially in translation clear and very faithfully answering their author's intent.

Phaer, indeed, alleges as one of his motives for translating Virgil "defence of my country's language, which I have heard discommended of many, and esteemed of some to be more than barbarous."[299] Convinced, then, that his undertaking, though difficult, meant much both to the individual and to the state, the translator gladly set about making some part of the great field of foreign literature, ancient and modern, accessible to English readers.