[1] "State Papers of Henry the Eighth," vol. i. 589.
[2] We have Caxton's own confession in his preface to "The Book of
Aeneydos," or the Aeneid of Virgil, where, in soliciting the
late-created poet-laureat in the University of Oxford, John Skelton,
to oversee his prose translation of the French translation, he
notices the translations of Skelton of "The Epistles of Tully," and
the "History of Diodorus Siculus," _out of Latin into English_, and
as "one that had read Virgil, Ovid, Tully, and all the other noble
poets and orators to _me unknown_."