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PLUTARCHUS

Plutarchi Chaeronensis Omnium, Quae Exstant

Frankfurt
Daniel & David Aubry / Clemens Schleich
1620

€200 - €300

2 vol. in-folio (38 x 24 cm), [xliv], 1076, 114, [32]; [viii], 1164, 72, 80, [34] pp, title printed in red and black, large woodcut printer's device. Parallel text in GREEK and Latin. Age-toned, small marginal wormholes in some lvs., partially heavily browned, especially in the second vol. (due to the German quality of the paper). Contemporary vellum bindings, with blind tooling, soiled, hinges torn, but not loose

Ref. VD 17, 23:000486H. Plutarchus, a Greek biographer and essayist, is known primarily for his Parallel Lives (comparing for ex. Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar ; Desmostenes and Cicero) and Moralia. The entire first volume is dedicated to the Parallel Lives. In the second volume we find a.o. ""On the Cessation of Oracles"", a dialogue, discussing the reasons why divine inspiration seemed to be withdrawn from the old seats of prophetic lore. In ""de Stoicorum repugnantiis"", Plutarch sets out to show that the Stoics involve themselves in self-contradiction if they claim that their philosophy allows them an intelligible notion of providence

Greek