in 1606 (and playing on Suetonius's cognomen), ran: Phil: Holland with translations doth so fill us, He will not let Suetonius be Tranquillus Thomas Fuller, writing in the mid-17th century, included Holland among his Worthies of England, terming him "the translator general in his age, so that those books alone of his turning into English will make a country gentleman a competent library for historians." However, his colloquial language soon dated. John Aubrey, reading his translations of Livy and Pliny as an undergraduate in the 1640s, compiled lists of examples of what he saw as quaint and archaic terms. Edmund Bohun published a new translation of Livy in 1686, criticising Holland's version by saying that "our English Language is much refined within the last four score years", and in 1692–1693, Holland's edition of Britannia was described as "a very bad one, and the Translation very ill". Twentieth-century critics were more generous. It has been suggested that "Holland's Pliny is sometimes superior, despite the antiquated language he uses, to the 20th-century English translations commonly available", and that there are passages in his translation of Plutarch's Moralia which "have hardly been excelled by any later prose translator of the classics." Marriage and issue On 10 February 1579 Holland married Anne Bott (1555–1627), the daughter of William Bott (alias Peyton) of Perry Hall, Handsworth, Staffordshire, by whom he had seven sons and three daughters, including the poet Abraham Holland, the publisher and miscellanist Henry Holland, the print publisher Compton Holland (died 1622), the surgeon William Holland (1592–1632), whose treatise on gout, Gutta Podagrica, was published posthumously in 1633, and Elizabeth Holland, who married a London merchant, William Angell. Notes References External links The Romane Historie written by T. Livius of Padua. Also, the Breviaries of L. Florus: with a Chronologie to the whole Historie (compiled according to the tables and records of Verrius Flaccus, etc.): and the Topographie of Rome in old time (by J. B. Marlianus). Translated out of the Latine into English, by P. Holland, etc. (London: A. Islip, 1600), British Library copy. Retrieved 16 March 2013 The Historie of the World, commonly called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland. (London: A. Islip, 1601), British Library copy. Retrieved 16 March 2013 Holland's translation of Pliny's Natural History (in progress, Books I‑III, VII‑XIII), James Eason The Philosophie, commonly called, the Morals, written by the learned