Johnson's dictionary of the English language in miniature : to which are added, an alphabetical account of the heathen deities, a list of the cities, boroughs and market towns in England and Wales.

Samuel Johnson

Date:: 1822

Credit: Johnson's dictionary of the English language in miniature : to which are added, an alphabetical account of the heathen deities, a list of the cities, boroughs and market towns in England and Wales. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Democritus, the Greek philosopner Xenophon, the Greek philosopher and historian—Smith, Spelman, Ashlv, Fielding Flato, the Greek philosopher and disciple of Socrates—Sydenham Isocrates, the Greek orator—Dimsdale Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, and disciple o; Plato—Holmes Demosthenes, t:ie Athenian orator,poisoned himself— Lekrnd, Francis Theophrastus,the Greek philosopher,and disciple ot Aristotle—Budget Theocritus, the first Greek pastoral poet, fl.—Fawkes Euclid, of Alexandria, in Egypt, the mathematician, fl.—R. Simson !, Epicurus, founder < ft he Epicure m philosophy in Greece—Digby Xemo, founder of the Stoic philosophy in ditto Callimachus, the Greek elegiac poet Archimedes, tiie Greek geometrician Plautus, the Roman comic poet—Thornton Terence, of Carthage, the Latin comic poet—Colman Diogenes, of /.abvlon, the Stoic philosopher Polybius, of Greece, the Greek and Roman historian—Hampton Lucretius, the Roman poet—Creech Julius Ca*sar, the Roman historian and commentator, killed—Duncan Diodorus Siculus, of Greece, the universal Historian, tl.—Booth. Vitruvius,the Roman architect,fl Cicero, the Rom m orator and philosopher, put to death—Guthrie, Melmoth Cornelius Nepos, the Roman biographer, tL—Rowe * Sallust, the Roman historian—Gordon, Rowe Dionysius of Halicarnassus, the Roman historian—Spelman .*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*! Virgil, the Roman epic poet—Drydcp, Pitt, Warton Catullus, T ibullus, and Propertius, Roman poets—Grainger, Dart...., Horace, the Roman lyric and satiric poet—Francis .3 • 3 .3 .3 .3 .3 .2 . .2. .2 .2 .2 .2 .2 . 1 . 1 . 1 . 1 i i _ After Chris i Livy,the Roman histomn—Ray Ovid,the Roman elegiac poet—Gaith Celsu8,theRoman philosopher and pltvsican, tl.—Giieve ’ ’ ’ Strabo, the Gieek geographer * , , Ph.Tdrus, the Roman fabulist—Smart !!!!!!!!!!!!! Paterculus, the Roman historian,fl.—Ncwcombe *.' Perseus,the Roman satiric poet—Brewster !!!!!!!!*! *i ( Quiutius Curtins, a Roman, historian of Alexander the Great, fl. Dighv ii Seneca, of Spain, the philosopher and tragic poet, put to death L'Est range i Lucan,the Roman epic poet, ditto— Rowe .... Winy the elder, the Roman natural historian—Holland .*’*• Josephus, the Jewish historian—Whist on Epictetus, the Greek Stoic philosopher, fl.—Mrs. Carter i Quinctilian, the Roman orator and advocate—Guthrie Statius, the Roman epic poet—Lewis ..!!.!. t Lucius Plorus, of Spain, the Roman historian, fl i\ Tacitus, the Roman historian—Gordon Martial, of Spain, the epigrammatic poet—Hay \\ Valerius, Flaccus, the Roman epic poet ] Pliny the younger, historical letters—Melmoth, Orrerv’.’.V.V.V. Suetonius, the Homan historian— Huees. Plutarch of Greece, the biographer,-Uryden.L nghorne.7.\7.7.7 , Juvenal, the Unman satiric poet—Dtyden ' ,, Insrfn r,’ ,'K-Vl1',n S^Pfhphcr, mathematician, ami astVommur, tiV.I Justin,the Roman historian, (1.—Tutnhul , Arrian, the Roman historian and philosopher, tl --Rookc Justin, of Samaria, the oldest Ohnsrian author arc, r iVpwhil'. 7!! 7. l uian. the Roman phlh 'opa -Ihmsdde, hr, , , pmUin „ ‘'aim ,thc trieck philnsophet and physiciat •$