ABSTRACT
Date and publication. Printed in 1685 in Sylvae: Or, The Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies (SR 10 January; advertised in The Observator 1 January); reprinted 1692; reprinted, along with the part of the Preface to Sylvae discussing Lucretius, as an appendix to Creech’s Lucretius … and Manilius … Translated (1700). D.’s five translations from Lucretius were probably composed in the summer and autumn of 1684 (see Letters 23, Poems ii 234).
