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POLYBIUS, DIODORUS SICULUS

Excerpta ex collectaneis Constantini Augusti Porphyrogenetae.
Paris
Mathurinus du Puis
1634
€160 - €200

4to, [14], 853, [19], 126 pp, title printed in red and black. Parallel text in GREEK and Latin. Age-toned, some tiny wormholes, tear repaired in p. 199. Contemporary vellum binding, title in ink on spine, new end-lvs in front

A scholarly edition by Henri de Valois, with a new translation from Greek into Latin. The excerpts include selections from Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, Nicolas Damascene, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Appianus, and John of Antioch, collected together at the behest of emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus.
Ref. Brunet IV, 792

Greek