ALFRED THE GREAT
\ˈalfɹɪd ðə ɡɹˈe͡ɪt], \ˈalfɹɪd ðə ɡɹˈeɪt], \ˈa_l_f_ɹ_ɪ_d ð_ə ɡ_ɹ_ˈeɪ_t]\
Definitions of ALFRED THE GREAT
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- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 1910 - Warner's dictionary of authors ancient and modern
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By Princeton University
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King of England, translator of several works of antiquity into the English tongue of his day (849-901). One of his biographers credits him with having translated into Saxon nearly the whole extant Latin literature: it is certain that he did, himself, translate many of the monuments of the Christian religion, as Gregory the Great's "Pastoral Care", selections from the writings of St. Augustine, and Boethius's "Consolations of Philosophy"; he also translated Bede's "Church History of the English Nation".
By Charles Dudley Warner
