To Oliver Wendell Holmes. The first lines, by Holmes, were rendered into Latin by Samuel Lee; the Greek version was made from the Latin by Geo. Augustus Sala, the second English version from the Greek by Andrew Lang, into French by Walter Herries Pollock, into Italian by S.G.C. Middlemore and into English again by Walter Herries Pollock

"To Oliver Wendell Holmes. The first lines, by Holmes, were rendered into Latin by Samuel Lee; the Greek version was made from the Latin by Geo. Augustus Sala, the second English version from the Greek by Andrew Lang, into French by Walter Herries Pollock, into Italian by S.G.C. Middlemore and into English again by Walter Herries Pollock"@en