Thomas Forrest (translator)

Thomas Forrest was an English author and translator. He translated three orations of Isocrates in A Perfite Looking Glasse for all Estates, imprinted at London by Thomas Purfoote in 1580.

Works
Thomas Forrest was author of ''A Perfite Looking Glasse for all Estates: most excellently and eloquently set forth by the famous and learned Oratour Isocrates, as contained in three Orations of Morall Instructions, written in the Greeke tongue, of late yeeres: Translated into Latine by … Hieronimus Wolfius. And nowe Englished … with sundrie examples of pithy sentences, both of Princes and Philosophers, gathered and collected out of divers writers, Coted in the margent, approbating the Author's intent. … Imprinted in Newgate Market, within the new Rents, at the Signe of the Lucrece, 1580''. The volume is a quarto of forty-six leaves, and is dedicated by the translator, Tho. Forrest, to Sir Thomas Bromley. There are also prefixed:


 * "An Epistle to the Reader";
 * "The Author's Enchomion upon Sir Thomas Bromley";
 * "J. D. in Commendation of the Author";
 * "In Praise of the Author, S. Norreis";
 * "The Booke to the Reader".

The volume is probably 'certen orations of Isocrates' found in the Stationers' Register under date 4 January 1580. Ritson puts Forrest among the English poets because of the "Enchomion" above mentioned.