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De Antro Nympharum Graece cum Latina L. Holstenii Versione & Animadversionibus R.M. Van Goens. Eiusdem De Abstinentia Ab Esu Animalium…Cum Notis integris Petri Victorii Et Joannis Valentini, Et Interpretatione Latina Joannis Bernardi Feliciani. E

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De Antro Nympharum Graece cum Latina L. Holstenii Versione & Animadversionibus R.M. Van Goens. Eiusdem De Abstinentia Ab Esu Animalium…Cum Notis integris Petri Victorii Et Joannis Valentini, Et Interpretatione Latina Joannis Bernardi Feliciani. E

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Leyden: A. & J.Honkoop & Amsterdam: Pieter den Hengst, 1792., 1792. 2 Volumes in 1. 4to. pp. 1 p.l., xxxiv, xxxvi, [2], 122, [6]index, [2 leaves]incl. errata; 17 p.l., 398, [14]index. the separate titles to the 2 parts & in red & black, 1 with woodcut vignette. dedication & divisional title also in red & black. woodcut ornaments & initials. Greek & Latin text, mainly in 2 columns. contemporary blind-stamped vellum (covers bowed). A reissue, with new general title-page, of the important 1765 and 1767 Greek and Latin editions of these two works by the third century Neoplatonist philosopher Porphyry: On the Cave of the Nymphs, in which the description in Homer’s Odyssey (xiii. 102-112) is explained as an allegory of the universe, and On Abstinence from Eating Food from Animals, which appears to be the earliest treatise in favour of vegetarianism. Brunet IV 824. cfGraesse V 415. cfBitting p. 377. cfVicaire 704..

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De Antro Nympharum Graece cum Latina L. Holstenii Versione & Animadversionibus R.M. Van Goens. Eiusdem De Abstinentia Ab Esu Animalium…Cum Notis integris Petri Victorii Et Joannis Valentini, Et Interpretatione Latina Joannis Bernardi Feliciani. E
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Leyden: A. & J.Honkoop & Amsterdam: Pieter den Hengst, 1792.
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CLASSICS PHILOSOPHY VEGETARIANISM
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