This is true fame.

A man of genius belongs to no period and no country.

He speaks the language of nature, which is always everywhere the same.
The text of these volumes is taken from the first edition of Cotton's version, printed in 3 vols.

8vo, 1685-6, and republished in 1693, 1700, 1711, 1738, and 1743, in the same number of volumes and the same size.
In the earliest impression the errors of the press are corrected merely as far as page 240 of the first volume, and all the editions follow one another.

That of 1685-6 was the only one which the translator lived to see.