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Lambertus Danaeus. Politicorum Aphorismorum Silva. Ex optimis quibusque tum Graecis, tum Latinu scriptoribus (...) collecta.

With printer’s device on title. 482, (44) pp. 16mo. Contemp. full vellum with ms. spine title. – (Leiden), Officina Plantiniana Raphelengii, 1612.

Collection of sentences by Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, Herodotus, Sallustius, Titus Livius, Cornelius Tacitus, Philippus Commnius, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Isocrates, Agapetus, Cicero, and Plinius Secundus. The Calvinist theologian Lambert Daneau (c. 1530-1595) teached at the Protestant Gent Academy, when he first published this collection in 1583. – Browned throughout. – Best.-Nr. 27161