 The sixteenth century in western Europe was also an age of translations (except in Germany, where Horace wasn't translated into the vernacular until well into the seventeenth century).The first English translator was Thomas Drant, who placed translations of Jeremiah and Horace side by side in "Medicinable Morall", 1566.That was also the year that the Scot George Buchanan paraphrased the Psalms in a Horatian setting.