12mo. 78 leaves; half title on G
6 for
Veteres Poetae Citati ad Petri Labbei De Anciptum
Graecarum Vocalium in prioribus Syllabis Mensura (ubi confirmanda esset) Confirmandum Sententiam: Necnon ad indicandum Quibus Vocibus
licet corripere Vocalem longam ante alteram in eadem dictione: Opera & Cura Edwardi Leedes, In Schola Buriensi Ad acuendos Adolescentium Animos, erga Poeseωs Studium (cum ipse Poeta non sit) Cotis Vice fungentis.
Editio
Secunda, Auctior.
This edition not in Lowndes (first edition 1755).
Not in Graesse.
Not in Ebert.
In October 1794 Jefferson lent his copy to George Wythe with an undated letter (October 23, 1794 in Jefferson’s own index):
“
I received a few days ago your friendly enquiries after my health. I have had a painful & tedious rheumatic complaint. it
has now nearly left me.
"
I enclose for your perusal a little treatise by Kuster on the use of the middle voice in Greek. I never saw a copy of it till
I met with this, nor had ever heard of it. I presume therefore it may be new to you; & if it gives you half the pleasure it
did me, mine will be doubled still. his position is that the middle voice is always intransitive, and is never confounded
with either the active or passive in it’s signification. according to my own observations, since his work suggested the idea,
I have found it almost always true, but I think not absoluately always . . .
”
Ludolph Kuster, 1670-1716, German scholar, was educated at Berlin and Frankfurt on the Oder. He afterwards studied at Utrecht, Paris and
Cambridge. He was a librarian and professor at Berlin for a short time, but spent most of his life in Rotterdam. This treatise
on the Greek middle voice was first printed in 1710.
Edward Leedes, 1626-1707, English schoolmaster, became a master at Bury St. Edmunds in 1663, and remained there until his death.
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Wetstenii orationes de linguae
Grecae pronuntiatione. &c.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 168, no. 64, Wetstenii Orationes de Linguae Graecae Pronunciatione, &c. 8vo.
WETSTEIN,
Johann Rudolf.
Joh. Rodolfi Wetstenii . . . Pro
Græca et genuina Lingvæ
Græcæ pronunciatione contra novam atque à viris doctis passim propugnatam pronunciandi rationem Orationes apologeticæ. Quibus adjectæ
sunt Orationes quædam miscellæ. Secunda hac editione accedunt I. Apologia pro fide Helvetica opposita Libello famosa La Suisse
Démasquée. II. Dissertatio Epistolica de Accentuum
Græcorum antiquitate & usu, ad ampliss. D. Anton. Magliabechium. III. Dissertatio Inauguralis de Fato Scriptorum Homeri per omnia
secula. Cum indicibus necessariis.
Basileæ: Typis
Jacobi Bertschi, prostat
Amsterodami apud
Henricum Wetstenium,
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clxxxvi
. [1686.]
8vo. 2 parts in 1, 256 leaves, title in red and black; a copy was not available for examination; the information as to title
and collation obtained from the National Union Catalog.
Not in Graesse, Ebert, Brunet.
This edition not in the Zürich Kantonsbibliothek Catalog.
Jefferson bought a copy from
Armand Koenig of Strassburg, ordered in a letter dated from Paris June 29, 1789, price
2.10. This and the other books in the same order were sent by Koenig on July 7.
Johann Rudolf Wetstein, 1647-1711, Swiss educator, was Professor of Greek at Zurich. The treatises in this book were originally published separately.
His literary work was stopped by the loss of his sight.
Antonio da Marco Magliabechi, 1633-1714, Italian bibliophile, was librarian to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, to whom he bequeathed his large private library.
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