supplicantes

Updated: May 8, 2025

"One of the most precious pieces, and which alone would have been sufficient to give value to this manuscript, is the entire translation of Euripides's piece, entitled Supplicantes, added at the end of the volume by way of desert: the whole is in excellent Iambic verses: we would cite some part, if we had not already trespassed too far on the complaisance of the reader."

M. de (Jean Lévesque) Burigny - The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius: Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works

He afterwards revised and corrected it, as appears by a letter to his brother, September 3, 1639 . His translation of the Iphigenia in Tauris is mentioned in several letters . He likewise turned into Latin the Supplicantes of Euripides, of which he speaks to his brother . The learned Father Berthier has lately informed us, that this translation still exists in the library of the Jesuits college at Paris.

M. de (Jean Lévesque) Burigny - The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius: Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works