Author: PHAEDRUS.
Title: Phaedri Fabulae, et P. Syri Mimi Sentantiae. Hac sexta editione auctiores, cum notis & emendationibus Tanaquilli Fabri. ...The Hague, Petrus Gosse, 1725 8vo. With a frontispiece in two compartments, title-page printed in red and black with printer’s device, some small woodcut initials and tailpieces. Calf over boards, ribbed spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title label lettered in gold, marbled endpapers.
Description: XXIV, 274, [6] pp.Sixth edition of this redaction of the Phaedrus Fables in verse together with the French translation on facing pages [except for Fable Lib.IV, XIV (p. 153): “L’Hon?teté ne permet pas non plus qu’on traduise cette Fable”], after the fourth edition (Amsterdam, for Paul Marret, 1689), together with the annotations by Tanaquillus Faber (1615-1672), a French philologist and Professor of Greek at the University of Saumur, edited by J. Scheffer, who also added the congenial Sententiae by Publilius (often wrongly Publius) Syrus (fl. 85-43 BC), a Latin mime player and writer. All that remains of his corpus is this collection of Sententiae a series of moral maxims in iambic and trochaic verse. Each maxim consists of a single verse, and the verses are arranged in alphabetical order. In the course of time the collection was interpolated with sentences drawn from other writers, especially from apocryphal writings of Seneca the Younger. The Sententiae are published here with the preface by Faber, Testimonia, the few lines from Petronius’ Satyricon, ascribed to him, and the notes of Janus Gruterus (1560-1627), professor of History and librarian in Heidelberg.With ownership’s entry on title: ‘M. Nobilleau, 1761’. Head of spine damaged, hinges weak.l Cf. Landwehr, F171 (fourth edition); Barbier, 81.

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