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En.4.14(01)

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Disticha de moribus. Polyglot.

Title

Dionysii Catonis Disticha de moribus ad filium, : praeter sedulam variantis lectionis per omnia conlationem, lectissimis etiam adornata flosculis poëticis. Una cum singulis adposita Distichis, binorum quoque versuum, idiomatum vero diversorum, interpretatione quincuplice. Adjecta sunt Lemmata Cationiana, suis quaeque restituta Distichis.

Publication, distribution, etc.

Amstelaedami, : Apud Franciscum Houttuyn,, MDCCLIX. [1759]

Physical description

XVI, 347, [1] p., 6 leaves of plates : ill. (engr.) ; 8vo.

Language

Latin text with translations in Greek by J. J. Scaliger, English by Charles Hoole, German by M. Opitz von Boberfeld, and in Dutch and French.

Note

Signatures: *8 A-Z8, 2A8-2S8, 2T4.

Note

With an additional engraved frontispiece, signed: "S. Fokke"; illustrated with engraved plates also by Fokke.

Note

Title page printed in red and black; with woodcut printer's device.

Note

With a preliminary half-title: "Dionysii Catonis Disticha flosculis poëticis et interpretationibus adornata variis.".

Note

The attribution to Dionysius Cato is erroneous since the real author is unknown; it has also been attributed to Marcus Porcius Cato.

Citation/references note

ESTC, T145302

Provenance

Armorial stamp on binding: arms of city of Haarlem, with its motto: Vicit vim virtus.

Provenance

Armorial bookplate: Hugh Cecil, Earl of Lonsdale. I.e. Hugh Cecil Lowther, fifth earl of Lonsdale (1857-1944).

Provenance

Pencil inscription on front flyleaf: J. Cowell or Howell.

Binding

Contemporary Dutch stiff vellum; gold tooled double fillet frame with fleurons at corners and armorial device as centrepiece; gold tooled double fillet and lozenge stamp on spine; red morocco spine label with gold tooling; red and black speckled edges; traces of book ties.

Copy-specific note

Bound with: Historia critica Catoniana [...]. -- Amstelaedami, : apud Franciscum Houttuyn, MDCLIX.

Subject

Aphorisms and apothegms.

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Netherlands Amsterdam.

Language code

lat dut enk fre ger grc lat

Identifier

B32452
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