English historian, classicist, and cricketer (1812-1891)

The lives and opinions of eminent philosophers / by Diogenes Laërtius ; literally translated by C.D. Yonge.

The Deipnosophists, or, Banquet of the learned, of Athenæus / literally translated by C.D. Yonge, B.A. ; with an appendix of poetical fragments, rendered into English verse by various authors, and a general index.

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The lives and opinions of eminent philosophers / by Diogenes Laërtius ; literally translated by C.D. Yonge.

The Deipnosophists, or, Banquet of the learned, of Athenæus / literally translated by C.D. Yonge, B.A. ; with an appendix of poetical fragments, rendered into English verse by various authors, and a general index.