M. Anni Lucani Pharsalia. Recognovit, et ad Burmanniani textûs fidem revocavit, Joa. Aug. AMAR ... Addidit et Supplementum, auct. Thoma Maio, anglo; et Tit. Petronii Arbitr. Specimen Belli Civilis
by Lucan
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Parisiis: Augusti Delalain, 1816. Frontispiece. x, 444 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, red leather spine label, a.e.g. Extremities rubbed; Very Good. Frontispiece. x, 444 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Lucan (39-65 A.D.) ws born in Corduba Sapin and was grandson of Seneca the Rhetorician and nephew of Seneca the Philospher. Suetonius did his biography. Dante considered his "Pharsalia" the greatest Latin epic after the Aeneid." Its title in MSS. is "De Bello Civili" in ten books of hexameter verse; it chronicles the war between Caesar and Pompey with a bias towards the latter.
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- M. Anni Lucani Pharsalia. Recognovit, et ad Burmanniani textûs fidem revocavit, Joa. Aug. AMAR ... Addidit et Supplementum, auct. Thoma Maio, anglo; et Tit. Petronii Arbitr. Specimen Belli Civilis
- Author
- Lucan
- Format/Binding
- Frontispiece. x, 444 pp. 1 vols. 12mo
- Book Condition
- Used - Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, red leather spine label, a.e.g. Extremities rubbed; Very Good
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- Hardcover
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- Augusti Delalain
- Place of Publication
- Parisiis
- Date Published
- 1816
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