C. Seutonius Tranquillus ad optimas editiones collatus praemittitur notitia literaria accedit index studiis societatis bipontinae. Editio secunda, emendiator et auctor. Strasbourg: Ex Typographia Societatis, Anno VIII [1800].
Important edition of the works of Seutonius, published in France during the first year of Napoléon’s rule. It contains his famous XII Caesares, perhaps his most illustrious work, which consists of a series of biographical essays on the twelve Caesars, including Julius, Octavius, Tiberius, Caligula and Nero. Also included are biographies from his De viris illustribus, a series written about a variety of famous men, which includes poets, philosophers, scholars and rhetoricians such as Horace, Pliny, Juvenal, Lucan, Persius and Terence.
Octavo. xliii, [i], 426, [44] pp., including index. Full contemporary vellum over boards, title in manuscript to spine, edges stained red; occasional faint foxing to a few leaves, manuscript notes to last leaf, modern ownership inscription to fly-leaf (in same hand as notes) as well as a contemporary ownership inscription to title. Overall a very good copy.
C. Seutonius Tranquillus (c. 75-160 A.D.), was the private secretary to Hadrian as well as an advocate under Trajan. He spent the majority of his later years writing encyclopaedic works on the history of language and literature. He is best known for the two works which appear in the present volume. Much of the early portions of his work exist only in excerpts.
Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, I, pp. 209-10
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