His dialogues on divorce and the Trinity were also obnoxious.
The first three eclogues, in the form of dialogues between Coridon and Cornix, were borrowed from the Miseriae Curialium of Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (Pope Pius II.), and contain an eulogy of John Alcock, bishop of Ely, the founder of Jesus College, Cambridge.
In connexion with the Greek professorship Jowett had undertaken a work on Plato which grew into a complete translation of the Dialogues, with introductory essays.
The Vendidad also merely gives accounts of the dialogues between Ormazd and Zoroaster.
Dialogues is reprinted in the Quarterly Series (Burns & Oates).