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The liues of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the Elder, and of Octauius Cæsar Augustus: collected out of good authors. Also the liues of nine excellent chieftaines of warre, taken out of Latine from Emylius Probus, by S.G. S. By whom also are added the liues of Plutarch and of Seneca: gathered together, disposed, and enriched as the others. And now translated into English by Sir Thomas North Knight.
Van Pelt - Microtext STC I Reel 1114:5.
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Series:
- Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1114:5.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Classical biography--Early works to 1800.
- Classical biography.
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 136 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : portraits (woodcuts)
- 35 mm
- monochrome
- service copy
- positive
- Other Title:
- Lives of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the Elder, and of Octavius Cæsar Augustus
- Lives of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the Elder, and of Octavius Cæsar Augustus.
- Place of Publication:
- Imprinted at London : By Richard Field, 1602.
- Notes:
- A translation of a compilation by Simon Goulart of Senlis supplementing Amyot's French translation of Plutarch's "Lives". The nine lives attributed to Emylius Probus are in fact from the "Vitae excellentium imperatorum" of Cornelius Nepos.
- The last two leaves are blank. In a variant, issued with STC 20068-20068b, the imprint date is 1603 and the last two leaves begin an index.
- Reproduction of the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
- Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1967. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1475-1640; 1114:5). s1967 miun a
- Cited in:
- STC (2nd ed.) 20071.
- OCLC:
- 55174313
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