HOLLAND, PHILEMOND, M. D. commonly called the tranſlator general of his age, was educated in the univerſity of Cambridge. He was for many years a ſchoolmaſter at Coventry, where he alſo practiſed phyſic. He tranſlated Livy, Pliny's Natural Hiſtory, Plutarch's Morals, Sextonius, Aminianus Marcellinus, Xenophon's Cyropædia, and Camden's Britannia, into Engliſh; and the geographical part of Speed's Theatre of Great Britain into Latin. The Britannia, to which he made many uſeful additions, was the moſt valuable of his works. It is ſurprising that a man of two profeſſions could find time to tranſlate ſo much; but it appears from the date of the Cyropædia, that he continued to tranſlate till he was 80 years of age. He died in 1637, aged 85. He made the following epigram upon writing a large folio with a ſingle pen:
With one ſole pen I wrote this book,
Made of a grey gooſe quill;
A pen it was when it I took,
And a pen I leave it ſtill.