In a message dated 11/13/2004 2:21:47 PM Mountain Standard Time, nwolcott2@kreative.net writes: I'm working on the 1616 translation of Suetonius by Philemon Holland, still regarded by some as the best translation. Alexander Thomson did the translation already posted. Obviously this is one of the cases in which the name of the translator is essential. It does bug me when an etext doesn't give me the original pub date, although I am able to look most of them up. Anne