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Valerii Maximi Dictorum factorumque memorabilium libri IX: annotationibus in usum studiosae juventutis, instar commentarii, illustrate
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1681 ROME Valerius Maximus DictorumFactorum Tiberius Latin Dutch Minellius
A rare printing of Valerius's "Dictorum et Factorum" or Historical Anecdotes. This work is a collection of short stories, sayings, and phrases, memorial to Tiberius Caesar, who was reigning during Valerius's lifetime. These anecdotes depict ancient Greek life and philosophy as well as famous kings and Caesars. Many modern historians claim that Valerius's work was taken from Cicero, Livy, and Sallust, as well as other ancient historians and philosophers, rather than creating original works.
However, many of the topics he writes about were controversial and unusual for the time – he wrote on homosexuality within the Roman army and the aristocracy of ancient Greece. While homosexually itself was written on, it was only considered tolerable in a 'master-slave' relationship, not within a public and high-status sense. Other topics include omens, revenge, superstitious cults, women lawyers, modesty, crimes, and conflicting political views. Notable names mentioned in this famous work include Scipio Africanus, Gaius, and Tiberius Gracchus, and Alexander the Great!
This 1681 final Rotterdam edition was edited by Dutch Erasmus scholar Jan Minellius who published several Latin classics for the Erasmus School in Rotterdam.
Item number: #11543
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Valerii Maximi Dictorum factorumque memorabilium libri IX: annotationibus in usum studiosae juventutis, instar commentarii, illustrate
Roterodami: Ex officinâ Arnoldi Leers, 1681.
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· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [24], 554, [26]
o Signatures: *¹² A-2A¹² 2B².
· Language: Latin
· Binding: Leather; tight & secure
· Size: ~5.5in X 3.25in (14cm x 8.5cm)
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- Valerii Maximi Dictorum factorumque memorabilium libri IX: annotationibus in usum studiosae juventutis, instar commentarii, illustrate
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- Leather; tight & secure
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- officinâ Arnoldi Leers
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- 1681
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