Description
8vo, pp. 57, [1]. Disbound. A touch of faint spotting.
Certamen inter Ajacem et Ulyssem, de Armis Achillis. Ex Ovidii Metamorphoseon Lib. XIII. Translated into the Buchan Dialect.
- Edinburgh: Reprinted by A. Neill & Co 1801
£25
Notes
A scarce reprinting of this translation from Ovid into Scots, by Robert Forbes. Little is known of him - he seems to have been born in Buchan but plied his trade as a hosier in London. Evidently an educated man who 'possessed a large fund of the humorous,' he also published another excerpt from Ovid and a few original pieces (Walker, The Bards of Bon-Accord 1375-1860, 1887). This edition was also issued as part of a collection of macaronic verse and other translations between Scots and Latin.
