Third Edition.
London: Printed for
E. Dilly, at the Rose and Crown in the Poultry,
MDCCLVII. [1757.]
PA4037 .A2B5 1757
8vo. 216 leaves, portrait frontispiece by G. vander Gucht, engraving on the title-page, and engraved head and tail pieces by G. Scotin after Gravelot, large folded map, the last leaf with a list of books printed for T. Oswald at the Rose and Crown in the Poultry.
Old calf, gilt line borders on the sides; with the 1815 Library of Congress bookplate. Initialled at sigs. I and T by Jefferson,
who has written on the fly-leaf in ink:
A man who would enquire why such a particular poet as Homer existed at such a place, in such a time, would throw himself headlong
into chimaera, & could never treat of such a subject without a multitude of false subtleties & refinements. he might as well
pretend to give a reason why such particular generals as Fabius & Scipio lived in Rome at such a time, & why Fabius came into
the world before Scipio. for such incidents as those no other reason can be given but that of Horace.
Scit genius, natale comes, qui temperat astrum
Naturae deus humanae, mortalis in unum
--Quodque capuit, vultii mutabilis, albus & ater.
Thomas Blackwell, 1701-1757, Scottish classical scholar. The first edition of this
Enquiry was issued anonymously in 1735.
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Diogenes Laertius.
Gr.
Lat. Meibomii.
2. v.
4
to
.
1815 Catalogue, page 4. no. 107, as above.
DIOGENES LAERTIUS.
Diogenis Laertii de vitis, dogmatibus et Apophthegmatibus clarorum philosophorum Libri X
Græce et
Latine. Cum subjunctis integris annotationibus Is. Casauboni, Th. Aldobrandini & Mer. Casauboni. Latinam Ambrosii versionem complevit & emendavit Marcus Meibomius . . . Additæ denique sunt priorum editonum
[
sic
] Præfationes, & Indices locupletissimi. [In Diogenum Lærtium Ægidii Menagii Observationes & emandationes, hac editione plurimum auctæ. Quibus subjungitur Historia Mulierum Philosopharum
eodem Menagio scriptore . . .]
Amstelaedami: apud
Henricum Wetstenium,
cIɔ Iɔ c vIIIc. [1692.]
B168 .D4
2 vol.
4to. vol. I, 336 leaves, engraved frontispiece, plates with portraits of the philosophers; vol. II, 252 leaves; titles of both volumes printed in black and red, engraved emblematic device on each title-page;
Greek and
Latin text in parallel columns; at the beginning of vol. I is
Catalogus editionum Diogenis Laertii ab infantia Typographiæ usque ad annum 1663.
Graesse II, page 396.
Ebert 6176.
Dibdin, page 124.
Old calf, repaired. Initialled by Jefferson at sigs. I and T, and i and t. On the fly-leaf of vol. I are manuscript notes in the handwriting of Thomas Mann Randolph. The name
R. Rudyerd 1716. pret. £1:10s is written on both titles. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplates.
Diogenes Laertius, fl. A.D., 222-235, is known chiefly for his biography of the Greek philosophers, of which the first edition was published
at Basel in 1533. This edition of 1692 contains the Greek text after the edition printed in Rome in 1594 amended by Meibomius,
and the Latin version of Ambrosius. At the foot of each page are the notes of Stephanus, the Casaubons, Aldrobrandini
[
sic
] and Meibomius. Volume II contains the annotations of Ménage, and his Historia Mulierum philosospharum
[
sic
].
Marcus Meibomius, 1630-1711, German classical scholar and musician, lived for a time under the protection of Queen Christina of Sweden, and
eventually became librarian to the King of Denmark.
Aegidius Menagius [Gilles Ménage], 1613-1692, French scholar, lived for years in the household of Cardinal de Retz, and was immortalized by
Molière as Vadius in
Les Femmes Savantes.
Thomas Mann Randolph, 1768-1828, married Jefferson’s daughter Martha on February 23, 1790. He was a member of Congress, and from 1819 to 1822 was Governor of Virginia. He and his wife and family lived at Monticello during all but the first year or two of their married life.
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