The word annales suggests a different idea of history from that entertained and exemplified by herodotus and Thucydides.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
An edition of the Greek text of Callimachus in 1755 was rewarded by an Edinburgh society with a gold medal, and other Greek and Latin texts followed, including the Iliad in 1756, Anacreon in 1757, Virgil and the Odyssey in 1758, and herodotus in 1761. Among the more notable later books of the firm were an edition of Gray's Poems in 1768, and a Paradise Lost in 1770. The younger brother died in 1775, and Robert, after a mortifying experience in London, where he sold the "old masters" he had bought as models for his Academy for less than a pound over the expenses incurred in the sale, followed him the next year.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
B. R.'s preface to his translation of herodotus, though its meaning is somewhat obscured by rhetoric, suggests a suitable regard for the original.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos