Parte pp. 156–8 - ‘Cato’s Answer to Labienus, When he advis’d him to go and Consult the Oracle of Jupiter Hammon’, by John Ayloffe or Robert Wolseley(?): a translation of Lucan, Pharsalia, ix. 566–86

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Headed continues ‘Translated out of the 9th Book of Lucan. Beginning at, quid quæri Labiene Jubes etc.?’ First line: ‘What shou’d I ask my Friend? which best wou’d be.’

Printed in Lycidus, or the Lover in Fashion (1688), ‘A Miscellany of New Poems’, pp. 106–8. Attributed to John Ayloffe in Poems on Affairs of State (1697) (Wing P2719A), p. 172, and to Robert Wolseley in Sylvae (1702), p. 193. See ECS, p. 401.