8
Menandri et Philemonis reliquiae. notis Grotii et Clerici.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 151, no. 17, as above.
MENANDER
and PHILEMON.
Menandri et Philemonis Reliquiæ, Quotquot reperiri potuerunt;
Græce et
Latine, cum notis Hugonis Grotii et Joannis Clerici, Qui etiam novam omnium versionem adornavit, Indicésque adjecit.
Amstelodami: apud
Thomam Lombrail.
ci
ɔ
i
ɔ
cc ix
. [1709].
PA4245 .A2 1709
8vo. 208 leaves, title printed in red and black,
Greek and
Latin text on opposite pages.
Graesse IV, 484.
Dibdin II, 234.
Jefferson bought a copy from
Armand Koenig of Strassburg. In a letter dated from Paris, April 22, 1788, he wrote: “
Je viens de recevoir de Monsieur Prevost le Platon, l’Aristophane, et le Menandre que vous avez eu la bonté de m’expedier,
mais point de note de ce que je dois payer pour ça à Monsieur Prevost . . .
”
On June 29, Jefferson wrote again to Koenig: “
J’ai reçu en bon ordre les livres que vous avez eu la bonté de m’expedier, et aussi la lettre du 5. courant que vous m’avez
fait l’honneur de m’ecrire avec la catalogue. je ne trouve sur cette catalogue que deux articles que je vous demande c’est
á dire
"
Demetrius Phalereus de elocutione. Gr. Lat. Foulis. 1743. 3
ll.
"
Menandri et Philemonis reliquiae. Gr. Lat. Amstel. 1704
[
sic
--
Ed.
]
7
ll
10
”
A note from Koenig dated July 24, 1788, lists these three books without any price, and they are thus entered by Jefferson in his
undated manuscript catalogue.
Menander, c. 342-291 B.C., Greek dramatist, was the author of more than a hundred comedies. He was an imitator of Euripides even in
the writing of a number of maxims which have now become proverbial. These include Whom the gods love dies young, Evil communications
corrupt good manners, and others.
Philemon, c. 361-263 B.C., Greek poet, was a contemporary and rival of Menander.
Hugo Grotius, 1583-1645, Dutch scholar, published his first edition of Menander and Philemon in 1616. For other works by him or edited
by him see the Index.
This is the
first edition edited by Jean Le Clerc (Joannes Clericus), 1657-1736, Swiss philosopher, and was the cause of Richard Bentley writing
his
Emendationes in Menandri et Philemonis reliquas ex nupera editione Joannis Clerici, ubi multa Grotii et aliorum, plurima vero
Clerici, errata castigantur, auctore Phileleuthero, Lipsiensis
, printed in Utrecht in 1710.
For Le Clerc and Bentley, see the Index.
[4578]
9
Poetiche del Machiavelli.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 152, no. 1, as above.
MACHIAVELLI,
Niccolo.
Poetiche del Machivalli.
12mo. It is doubtful if this book were ever delivered to Congress, and there is no information as to the edition. It is marked
missing in the contemporary working copy of the 1815 Library of Congress catalogue, and the entry is omitted from all the later catalogues.
It is entered in the manuscript list of missing bokks
[
sic
--
Ed.
] made after 1815.
The book was apparently purchased by Jefferson while in Paris; it is entered by him in his undated manuscript catalogue, with the price,
4.0.
[4579]
10
Theatre Italien.
9. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 152, no. 2, as above.
Le Nouveau Théatre Italien, ou Recueil General des Comédies Representées par les Comédiens Italiens Ordinaires du Roi. Augmenté
des Piéces nouvellés, des
