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| Holland, Philemon |
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| 15521637, English translator and scholar. Educated at Cambridge, he became director of the free school in Coventry, where he also practiced medicine. He was the first English translator of Livy and Septonius, of Plutarchs Morals and Plinys Natural History, and of Ammianus Marcellinus. |
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