Author: Festus
Title: Sex. Pompei Festi Et Mar. Verrii Flacci de Verborum Significatione
Description: 1700. SEX. POMPEI FESTI ET MAR. VERRII FLACCI DE VERBORUM SIGNIFICATIONE Lib. XX. Notis et Emendationibus Illustravit Andreas Dacerius, in Usum Serenissimi Delphini. Amsterdam, Sumptibus Huguetanorum, 1700. Quarto. [xxx]596, [iv]96 + [22]pp. Title in red and black. Copper-engraved frontispiece, title emblem, and headpiece to text. A handsome edition, "in usum delphini." A beautiful copy, internally very clean, in contemporary vellum boards with blind-stamped cartouche. Marcus Verrius Flaccus (ca. 55 BC - ca. 20 AD) the teacher of the Emperor Augustus' grandsons, completed an encyclopedic dictionary ("On the Meaning of Words"), the contents of which are known today only from a lengthy summary written about 150 years later by Sextus Pompeius Festus. Festus' work, although only the second half of the alphabet survives, contains a wealth of information on life under Augustus. Theodore Lyman Jr.'s copy. .

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