DEDICATION.

unparalleled excellence of Plato’s writings, and not to my translation of them, I may be allowed to prophesy, time, while he blots from the page of history the names of great potentates, who were distinguished for nothing, while living, but the magnitude of their sway, will for this patronage inscribe your Grace’s name in the archives of Immortality.

Permit me, therefore, to add, my Lord, that however bright and however benign the star of the Medicean family might have shone on the labours of Ficinus Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499) was an Italian scholar and priest who was the first to translate Plato's complete works into Latin. His work was famously funded by the Medici family., I consider that of the most noble family of the HOWARDS to have beamed with a more splendid and auspicious light on those of mine.

Dec. 1, 1803,
Manor-Place, Walworth.