1st c. Greek literary criticism translated into Latin
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Author: Longinus
Title: ????????? ???????? ???? ????? ????????. Dionysii Longini de Sublimitate Commentarius, Quem Nova Versione donavit, Notis illustravit, & partim Manuscriptorum ope, partim conjectura emendavit (additis etiam omnibus ejufdem Auctoris Fragmentis)
Place Published: Londini
Publisher:Jacobi Tonson & Johannis Watts
Date Published: 1732
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xxviii, 301, [22] pp. Translated into Latin from the Greek by Zachary Pearce. Frontispiece portrait of Longinus engraved by Gerard Vandergucht after a painting by Louis Chéron. Engraved head and tail pieces and initials. (8vo) contemporary marbled calf, gilt stamped spine, brown leather spine label, raised bands; marbled endpapers. First Octavo Edition.
The Latin translations appears alongside the original Greek with Pearce's notes and commentary. Pearce's translation was first published in 1724 in a quarto edition.
Thomas Dibdin notes, "Bishop Pearce is rightly called by Harles 'Longini Sospitator.' In the first elegant quarto edition he has presented us with the true text of his author, a new Latin version, and some elegant and erudite notes. The octavo editions, were published for the sake of general circulation, and they have propagated universally the critical talents and fine taste of their editor."
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