"New Latin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... burning. His friends procured for him the special favour that he should be beheaded before his body was burnt. The execution took place in 1561. The annals have been translated into Italian by Paschetti, and a new Latin edition was published at ...
— Books Fatal to Their Authors • P. H. Ditchfield
... The old Latin translation of St. Chrysostom's homilies on St. Matthew, is too full of words, and often inaccurate. Anian, the author, seems to have been the Pelagian deacon of that name, who assisted at the council of Diospolis in 415. The new Latin translation is far more exact, but very unequal in elegance and dignity of expression to ...
— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler |
