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Logoi kai Epistolai [Greek] / Orationes et Epistolae Editio postrema
[Genève]
Samuel Crispin
1621
€160 - €240

8vo, [88], 844, [41] pp, woodcut printer's device. Dedicated to Marcus Fugger by Henri Estienne. The translator Hieronymus Wolfius has also written a biography of the author. Parallel text in GREEK and Latin. Full calf binding with gilt supra libros of Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne. All edges gilt, corners bumped, first hinge weak

Scarce edition. Among the most influential Greek rhetoricians of his time, Isocrates (436-338 BC) made many contributions to rhetoric. The work contains a.o. a collection of the orations directed to the rulers of Salamis on Cyprus, in which he advises rulers on how to rule best. Isocrates had a great influence on Cicero

Greek