Xysti Betuleii Augustani in M.T. Ciceronis libros III. de Natura deorum, & Paradoxa Commentarij, multa ac uaria eruditione referti, nuncq primum in lucem editi. Accessit locuples rerum & uerborum in ijs memorabilium Index. 2 parts in 1 vol.
by CICERO. - BIRCK, Sixt
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Basel, Johannes Oporin, (1550). With text woodcut, and 4 folding tables. (14) leaves, 361 (=367), (1), 3 , (1) leaves, 55 pp., (1) p. (slight marginal soiling on first 3 ff. and light foxing on last 2 ff.). Small 8vo. Modern cloth (blind library stamps on first and last leaves). Basel, Johannes Oporin, (1550). Compact octavo edition of some of Cicero's philosophical works, finely printed throughout in Italics by Johannes Oporin. The first part consists of De Natura Deorum (The Nature of the Gods) and was written in 45 BC. It is laid out in three "books", each of which discuss the theology of different Roman and Greek philosophers, and concentrates on criticisms of Stoic and Epicurean theologies. The second part is the Paradoxa Commentarii. Xystus Betuleius (1501-1554) or Sixt Birck, humanist and later Augsburg rector, was a notable scholar of the New Learning. - VD 16 B 5565; Adams B 847; Index aurel. 119.671. CLASSICS ;
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- Xysti Betuleii Augustani in M.T. Ciceronis libros III. de Natura deorum, & Paradoxa Commentarij, multa ac uaria eruditione referti, nuncq primum in lucem editi. Accessit locuples rerum & uerborum in ijs memorabilium Index. 2 parts in 1 vol.
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- CICERO. - BIRCK, Sixt
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- Basel, Johannes Oporin
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- (1550)
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