Author: Theognis, Megarensis; Just, H.G. (ed.):
Title: Sententiae Elegiacae Graeco Latinae, notis philologicis, ex probatissimis quibusdam autoribus excerptis...
Description: Francofurti & Lipsiae [Frankfurt and Leipzig]: apud Michelem Keyserum, 1710. 8vo, pp. [16], 85, [89], 314, [30]. Facing Greek and Latin text. A couple of gatherings slightly browned (poorly dried paper), small paper flaw to lower outer blank corner of 2A2. Contemporary vellum, yapp edges, title inked to spine, shelfmark label, a.e.r. A trifle soiled. Early bibliographical note to ffep; autograph of Johann Augustin Groebel to title; illegible modern library stamp to p.85. A scarce Greek-Latin edition, unrecorded in major bibliographies, of Theognis of Megara's (6th century B.C.) gnomic and elegiac poetry. Its moralising tone ensured its continuous transmission throughout late antiquity and the middle ages. It was edited by Heinrich Gottlob Just, professor of Greek at Erfurt. This copy belonged to Johann Augustin Groebel, who edited a work by Agapetus, Bishop of Constantinople, in 1733. WorldCat locates only 1 copy in the US. Hoffmann, Lexicon bibliographicum, p.704. Not in Ebert, Moss or Schweiger.

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