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De Romanorum militia : et castrorum metatione liber utilissimus, ex Polybii historijs per A. Ianum Lascarem Rhyndacenu[m] excerptus, & ab eodem Latinitate donatus, ipso etiam Graeco libro, ut omnia conferri possint, in studiosorum gratiam adiuncto. Eivsdem A. Iani Lascaris Epigrammata & Graeca & Latina, longe eruditissima, lectuq[ue] dignissima. Item, Iacobi comitis purliliarum de Re militari lib. II. ad aetatis nostrae bellandi rationem apprime utiles ac necessarij.

Accession number
PML 39401.1
Creator
Polybius.
Published
Basileae : Per Balthasarem Lasium et Thomam Platterum, Mense Martio M.D.XXXVII [March, 1537]
Credit line
Gift of R.F. Seybolt, 1947.
Notes
Colophon: Basilaea, per Balthasarem Lasium et Thomam Platterum, mense Martio, anno M. D. XXXVII.
De Romanorvm Castram. has the Greek text of Polybius and the Latin translation by Lascaris on facing pages.
Fragment of Book VI of Polybius' "Historiae" in Greek with a Latin translation on opposite pages, by Johannes (Andreas Joannes or Janus) Lascaris (1445-1535). The first ed. was printed in Venice, 1529.
Head-pieces; initials.
Includes: De re militari in Latin, by Jacopo di Paricia.
Janus Lascaris's epigrams in Greek and Latin.
Presented in Oct. 1947 by Professor R. F. Seybolt of Harvard University.
Printer's device on title page.
References: Not in Brunet. British Museum catalogue.
Description
2 leaves, 248 p., [2] leaves ; 16 cm
Binding
Original vellum.
Classification
Department