From Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, 16 February 1787
To Philip Mazzei
Feb. 16. 1787.
| Anacreon. | Antoninus. |
| Sophocles. | Xenophon’s Cyropaedia. |
| Aeschylus. | ——’s Hellenics. |
| Euripides. | ——’s Anabasis. |
| Aristophanes. | Herodotus. |
| Seneca’s tragedies. | Thucydides. |
| Terence. | Quintus Curtius. |
| Plautus. | Justin. |
| Lucian. | Diodorus Siculus. |
| Horace. | Dyonisius Halicarnassus. |
| Epictetus. | Polybius. |
| Xenophon’s memorabilia. | Sallust. |
| Plato. | Caesar. |
| Aeschines’ Socratic dialogues. | Suetonius. |
| Cicero’s Philosophical works. | Plutarch’s lives. |
| Seneca’s philosophical works. | Cornelius Nepos. |
Will Mr. Mazzei be so good as to write to some friend in Italy to inform him whose translations into Italian of the above authors, are the best: and also to denote by the addition of the figures 1. 2. 3. &c. which are of the 1st. degree of merit, which are only 2d. rates, 3d. ra[tes] and which are the best of the small editions of them, for his very humble servt.,
Th: Jefferson
PrC (DLC).