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PHAER (or PIAYET), THOMAS (151o?-156o)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 342 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHAER (or PIAYET), See also:THOMAS (151o?-156o)  , See also:English translator of See also:Virgil, was educated at See also:Oxford and at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn . He published in 1535 Natura brevium, and in 1543 Newe Boke of Presidentes . He says on the See also:title-See also:page of his version of the Aeneid that he was " See also:solicitor to the See also:king and See also:queen's majesties, attending their See also:honourable See also:council in the See also:marches of See also:Wales." He settled at Kilgarran in See also:Pembrokeshire, and combined the study of See also:medicine with his legal practice . He wrote several medical See also:works, and was admitted M.D. of Oxford in 1559 . He contributed to See also:Sackville's Mirrour for Magistrates, "See also:Howe See also:Owen See also:Glendower, being seduced by false prophecies, toke upon him to be See also:Prince of Wales." In 1558 appeared The Seven First Bookes of the Eneidos of Virgil converted into English See also:Meter . He had completed two more books in See also:April 156o and had begun the tenth, but he died in the autumn of that See also:year, leaving his task incomplete . The See also:translation was finished by See also:Thomas Twyne in 1584 . See also:Phaer's translation, which was in rhymed fourteensyllabled lines, was greatly admired by his contemporaries, and he deserves See also:credit as the first to See also:attempt a See also:complete version, the earlier renderings of See also:Surrey and See also:Gawain See also:Douglas being fragmentary although of greater poetic value .

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