Author: MACROBIUS (Aurelius Ambrosius Theodosius):
Title: Quæ Exstant Omnia, Diligentissime emendata, Et cum optimis editionibus collata, ut ex Prefatione manifestum.
Description: Patavii [Padua]: Excudebat Josephus Cominus, 1736. 8vo, pp. [viii], xxxix [xl permission], 640, 85 [86 colophon, 87 adverts, 88 blank], engraved vignette on title-page, contemporary sheepskin, gilt spine (rubbed); joints slightly cracked, top and base of spine chipped, corners slightly worn. With the autograph "J. G. Phillimore" on the verso of the front free marbled end-paper, and "Augustus Phillimore/ In Memoriam (J. G. P.)/ From R. M. P./ Shiplake/ May 22nd 1865." on the recto of the following leaf. John George Phillimore (1808 - 1865) published a number of works on Roman law and jurisprudence. He was elected M. P. in 1852. The presentation inscription to Augustus Phillimore is by J. G. Phillimore's wife, Rosamond Margaret, daughter of James Lewis Knight Bruce, later the lord justice. Augustus Phillimore is possibly the Vice-Admiral, Sir Augustus Phillimore (!822 - 1897). Macrobius (395 - 423) was a late Roman neoplatonic grammarian and philosopher whose best-known work is probably his commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio, though he also preserved a large number of earlier writings in his Saturnalia.

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