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CONTENT AND FORM IN CELSUS’ DE MEDICINA

(p. 233) in its reflections on how the invention of gunpowder and firearms have changed the nature of the hunt. For Waller, at least, ‘the rapid progress of technology . . . has finally made Grattius look out of date’ (p. 233). Waters explores the circumstances that led Wase to undertake his translation project when he did. In addition, Waters describes and discusses the format of Wase’s edition. The translation consists of rhyming iambic pentameters and contains the same number of lines as the Latin. Such fidelity to the original text renders Wase an outlier among seventeenth-century English translators. Wase also composed notes, complete with citations, that explain the meaning of difficult words and obscure passages. Waters analyses some of Wase’s translation choices, outlines Wase’s procedures as a commentator and traces the fortunes of the translation into the nineteenth century. A brief appendix argues cogently against the relocation of lines 61–74 after line 23. This volume has much to recommend it. The text, translation and footnotes make the Cyn. accessible to English readers in a way that it has not been before, and the papers succeed admirably in conveying ‘a greater sense of [the poem’s] “Augustan flavour”, in terms of its imperial sensitivity, religious outlook, and engagement with contemporary literary aesthetics’ (p. 7).