AELIANUS (AELIAN), CLAUDIUS.

Varia Historia et Fragmenta. Cum integro Commentario Iacobi Perizonii aliorumqve Virorum doctorum Notis Gronoviana nondum comprehensis Editione. Curavit Editionem indicemqve graecitatis adiecit Carolus Gottlob Kuehn. 2 Vols.

Leipzig, Engelh. Beniam. Svikerti, 1780. 8vo. Bound in one contemp. hcalf. Gilt back. Slightly rubbed. A small nick to top of spine. Small stamp on title. Engraved frontispiece. LIV,428;(1),452 pp. Some engraved textillustrations (mostly portraits on coins). Internally clean and fine. Geek text with extensive Latin commentaries and notes.


Aelianus' (A.D. 170-235) Varia deals with human life and history with excerpts and anecdotes of moralizing character. - His Fragments is a collection designed to illustrate the workings of providence and divine justice. - Dibdin I:231. - Brunet I:p. 63. - Graesse I: p. 24.

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