This is a photographic reprint of the original to preserve accuracy. IN More's dedicatory letter to Thomas Ruthal of his. translation into Latin of three of Lucian's dialogues, he complained that writers of the lives of saints some-. times indulge in falsehoods: "They have scarcely left a life of martyr or of virgin without foisting into it something untrue-piously, no doubt for of course there was a danger lest truth, left to itself, should not be able to stand upright; so that it was necessary to prop it up with lies I may say that my first anxiety in composing this Life of the...