Author: SMETIUS (Henricus or Hendrik):
Title: Henrici Smetii Alostani Prosodia in Novam Forma Digesta: In qua voces plurimae de novo additae: pleraeque etiam ad similia remissiones, novis exemplis suppletae: Singularum vero syllabarum quantitas, in rudiorum gratiamnotulis productionem brevitatemque earum indicantibus, ad marginem notatur.
Description: Amstelodami, Apud Jodocum Jansonium, 1648. 8vo, 160 x 105 mms., pp. [xvi], 526, engraved printer's device on title-page, contemporary vellum (very slightly worn). A very good copy. Smetius (1535 - 1614) published this very popular anthology of Latin quotations and their authors as a kind of students' dictionary of phrases that could be quickly traced to a classical author.

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