um
Crownfield, Celeberrimæ Academiæ Typographum, apud quem etiam, Editoris Nomine, prostant Venales,
mdccxi.
[1711.]
PA4018 .A2 1711
2 vol. 4to. 594 and 426 leaves,
Greek and
Latin in parallel columns, with the annotations in the lower margins, engraved frontispiece to Volume I by B. Bernaerts after J. Goeree; separate title-page for the Odyssey at the beginning of Volume II.
Brunet III, 273.
Graesse III, 328.
Ebert II, 769.
Dibdin II, 54.
Not in Bowes.
Joshua Barnes, 1654-1712, Greek scholar and antiquary, became professor of Greek at Cambridge University in 1695.
For a note on Jefferson and the Iliad, see no. 4262 above, and on Jefferson and the Odyssey, see the next entry.
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9
Homeri Odysseus.
Gr.
2. v. in 1.
fol.
Foul.
1815 Catalogue, page 135, no. 35, as above, but omitting
fol.
HOMER.
Τ(’η)ς το(
~υ) ‛Ομ(’η)ρου ‘Οδύσσειας (‛ο) τόμος πρότερος [-δευτερος] . . .
Glasguae: In Aedibus Academicis, Escudebant
Robertus et Andreas Foulis Academiae Typographi,
mdcclviii
. [1758.]
PA4018 .A2 1756
Folio. 2 vol. in 1, 153 and 168 leaves, half-titles to both volumes,
Greek letter throughout, Index on the last leaf in roman letter, separate half-titles for the “Υμνοι ’Επιγράμματα and miscellaneous
poems, continuous signatures and pagination, engraved portrait frontispiece by Vertue.
Dibdin II, page 58.
Murray, page 26.
N. G. Dufief offered to Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin’s copy of this edition, but proof that he bought it has not been found, see no. 4267
above.
Jefferson quoted from the Odyssey in his
Notes on the State of Virginia
. His remarks on slavery occur in the answer to Query XIV,
The administration of justice and description of the laws? and contain the passage:
. . . That a change in the relations in which a man is placed should change his ideas of moral right and wrong, is neither
new, nor peculiar to the colour of the blacks. Homer tells us it was so 2600 years ago.
| ‘′Ημισυ, γάρ τ’ (’α)ρετ(
~‘η)ς (’α)ποαίνυται ε(’υ)ρύοπα Ζε(`υ)ς
|
| ’Αυερος, ε(’υ)τ’ (’ά)ν μιν κατ(`α) δούλιον ημαρ (‛έ)λησιν/ |
Od. 17. 323.
|
Jove fix’d it certain, that whatever day
|
|
Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away.
|
But the slaves of which Homer speaks were whites . . .
For further notes on Jefferson and Homer, see no. 4262, above.
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10
id.
[i.e. Homeri Odysseus
]
Gr.
Lat.
2. v.
4
to.
a Clarke.
1815 Catalogue, page 135, no. 28, Homeri Odysseus, Gr. Lat. Clarke, 2 v 4to.
HOMER.
Homeri Odyssea
Græce et
Latine, item Batrachomyomachia, Hymni, et Epigrammata, Homero vulgò ascripta. Edidit, Annotationesque, ex Notis nonnullis MS
tis a Samuele Clarke S.T.P. defuncto relictis partim collectas, adjecit Samuel Clarke, S.R.S. Vol. I. [-II] . . .
Londini: impensis
Johannis et Pauli Knapton,
m dcc xl.
[1740.]
PA4021 .A2 1740
2 vol. 4to. 190 and 224 leaves, continuous signatures and pagination, engraved folded frontispiece in each volume, Africa
Propria by W. H. Toms in Vol. I, Graecia Magna sive pars vltima Italiæ by R. W. Seale in Vol. II;
Greek and
Latin text in parallel columns, annotations in the lower margins. The title of the second volume omits the passage relative to
the editor and the quotation from Aristotle.
Entered by Jefferson in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
31.10.
This is Samuel Clarke’s first edition of the Odyssey, and was published by his son. See no. 4263.
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