NEPOS, Cornelius.: Cornelii Nepotis Vitae excellentium imperatorum cum integris notis Jani Gebhardi, Henr. Ernstii, & Jo. Andreae Bosii. Et selectis Andreae Schotti, Dionysii Lambini... , Lugduni Batavorum [ Leiden ] : Apud Samuelem Luchtmans, 1734.

A very good original vellum binding. 8vo. [32pp.]/pp.765/[186pp.] .19.8cm x 13.4cm x 6.2cm (7.75" x 5.25" x 2.5cm). Thin vellum boards, rather rubbed and bumped, with central gilt crest (faded) for Lugduni Batavorum (Utrecht). Spine with faded gilt banding. Hinges split at top & tail, but binding firm and tight. Engraved title-page signed; "J. Visscher Sculp." Followed by a printed title-page in red and black, with printer's device and motto; 'Tuta sub aegide Pallas'. Previous owner's name to top of title; "Manwill, Utrecht 1786. Clean Latin text throughout, illustrated with 11 engraved vignettes within the text. * Full title reads: "Cornelii Nepotis Vitae excellentium imperatorum cum integris notis Jani Gebhardi, Henr. Ernstii, & Jo. Andreae Bosii. Et selectis Andreae Schotti, Dionysii Lambini, Gilberti Longolii, Heironymi Magii, Jo. Savaronis, aliorumque doctorum: nec non excerptis P. Danielis. Hisce accedit locupletissimus omnium vocabulorum index, studio & opera Jo. Andr. Bosii confectus. Curante Augustino van Staveren. Qui & suas notis addidit." ** " Cornelius Nepos (c. 100 – 24 BC) was a Roman biographer. He was born at Hostilia, a village in Cisalpine Gaul not far from Verona. His Gallic origin is attested by Ausonius, and Pliny the Elder calls him Padi accola ('a dweller on the River Po, Natural History III.22). He was a friend of Catullus, who dedicates his poems to him (I.3), Cicero and Titus Pomponius Atticus. Eusebius places him in the fourth year of the reign of Augustus, which is supposed to be when he began to attract critical acclaim by his writing. Pliny the Elder notes he died in the reign of Augustus.... His only surviving work is the Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae, which appeared in the reign of Theodosius I, as the work of the grammarian Aemilius Probus, who presented it to the emperor with a dedication in Latin verse. He claims it to have been the work of his mother or father (the manuscripts vary) and his grandfather. Despite the obvious questions (such as why is the preface addressed to someone named Atticus when the work was supposedly dedicated to Theodosius), no one seemed to have doubted Probus's authorship. Eventually Peter Cornerus discovered in a manuscript of Cicero's letters the biographies of Cato and Atticus. He added them to the other existing biographies, despite the fact that the writer speaks of himself as a contemporary and friend of Atticus, and that the manuscript bore the heading E libro posteriore Cornelii Nepotis ('from the last book of Cornelius Nepos') At last Dionysius Lambinus's edition of 1569 bore a commentary demonstrating on stylistic grounds that the work must have been of Nepos alone, and not Aemilius Probus. This view has been tempered by more recent scholarship, which agrees with Lambinus that they are the work of Nepos, but that Probus probably abridged the biographies when he added the verse dedication. The Life of Atticus, however, is considered to be the exclusive composition of Nepos." - See Wikipedia (Book ref. 36990)  £140.00

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