Thomas Phaer

Thomas Phaer (c. 1510 – 12 August 1560) was an English lawyer, paediatrician, and author. Quotes Translations I that my slender oaten pipe in verse was wont to soundOf woods, and next to that I taught for husbandmen the ground,How fruit unto their greedy lust they might constrain to bring,A work of thanks: Lo now of Mars, and dreadful wars I sing,Of arms, and of the man of Troy, that first by fatal flightDid thence arrive to Lavine land, that now Italia hight. Beginning of the first Book of the Aeneidos of Virgil, as quoted in The Oxford History of Poetry in English, Vol. IV (Oxford University Press, 2022), p. 269 External links The Thirteene Bookes of Aeneidos, by Phaer and Twyne, 1607 – available at Google Books Category:1510s births Category:1560 deaths Category:Translators from England Category:Physicians from England Category:Politicians from England Category:People from Norwich