[Footnote 70: Abulpharagius (Dynast. p. 26, 148) mentions a
Syriac version of Homer's two poems, by Theophilus, a
Christian Maronite of Mount Libanus, who professed astronomy
at Roha or Edessa towards the end of the viiith century. His
work would be a literary curiosity. I have read somewhere,
but I do not believe, that Plutarch's Lives were translated
into Turkish for the use of Mahomet the Second.]