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ANCIENT CLASSICS. \Offices, %c.;
Offices. The reader will draw his own conclusion respecting the pro-
priety of such arrangement: or, at any rate, he will be disposed to
acquiesce in assigning to this impression tlie third place in point of
chronological order. My own opinion is in favor of its priority.
On consulting Panzer, and the authorities to which he refers, it is
clear that neither himself nor such authorities describe the edition now
under consideration. Meerman, in his note, i, vol. i. p. t>8-9, mentions
the Paradoxes and De Amicitia; and not the Offices exc-lusively. Schel-
horn speaks of the Offices and Paradoxes, but, as will presently be shewn,
in such a manner as proves that he could not mean to identify this
impression. Quirini, De Optimor. Scriptor. Edit. p. 23-4; Denis,
p. 541, refer only to the two preceding authorities. The account
of Braun, Notit. Hist. Lit. pt. i. p. 61, is material in ascertaining the
particular edition referred to by his predecessors. From him, it is
clear that the impression noticed by Meerman had 27 lines in a page;
and therefore could not be the present one. Schelhorn talks of the
verses of the xn wise men being added to the Paradoxes; but this
impression has neither the one or the other. Braun evidently de-
scribes the edition referred to by the three preceding authorities, and
speaks highly of its rarity and value: although it is greatly inferior,
in both points of view, to the one now about to be described; and
which, it may safely be admitted, has never hitherto been propeiiy
introduced to the reader’s acquaintance.
This singular impression commences on the recto of the first leaf,
without any prefix, with the following lines indented.
tnam# te matce fi\i amnin iani aubiete
cratipgu. itJ atijcni^ aMbare’ cpcrtct
pcejpti^ in£tituti£CB ptjilo^cptjic. ppter
Cftmam et boctcric auctorttate et forfcig.
There are 34 lines in this, and in every full, page. The chapters are
without prefixes, and spaces are left for the introduction of tlie initial
letter. Tlie spaces between the sentences, or sections, are sometimes
singular enough ; thus at. fol. 10 rev.
S^nino
fcuo gcncra iargorum. cjuoru aiteri proiii
And again, in the same page :
ANCIENT CLASSICS. \Offices, %c.;
Offices. The reader will draw his own conclusion respecting the pro-
priety of such arrangement: or, at any rate, he will be disposed to
acquiesce in assigning to this impression tlie third place in point of
chronological order. My own opinion is in favor of its priority.
On consulting Panzer, and the authorities to which he refers, it is
clear that neither himself nor such authorities describe the edition now
under consideration. Meerman, in his note, i, vol. i. p. t>8-9, mentions
the Paradoxes and De Amicitia; and not the Offices exc-lusively. Schel-
horn speaks of the Offices and Paradoxes, but, as will presently be shewn,
in such a manner as proves that he could not mean to identify this
impression. Quirini, De Optimor. Scriptor. Edit. p. 23-4; Denis,
p. 541, refer only to the two preceding authorities. The account
of Braun, Notit. Hist. Lit. pt. i. p. 61, is material in ascertaining the
particular edition referred to by his predecessors. From him, it is
clear that the impression noticed by Meerman had 27 lines in a page;
and therefore could not be the present one. Schelhorn talks of the
verses of the xn wise men being added to the Paradoxes; but this
impression has neither the one or the other. Braun evidently de-
scribes the edition referred to by the three preceding authorities, and
speaks highly of its rarity and value: although it is greatly inferior,
in both points of view, to the one now about to be described; and
which, it may safely be admitted, has never hitherto been propeiiy
introduced to the reader’s acquaintance.
This singular impression commences on the recto of the first leaf,
without any prefix, with the following lines indented.
tnam# te matce fi\i amnin iani aubiete
cratipgu. itJ atijcni^ aMbare’ cpcrtct
pcejpti^ in£tituti£CB ptjilo^cptjic. ppter
Cftmam et boctcric auctorttate et forfcig.
There are 34 lines in this, and in every full, page. The chapters are
without prefixes, and spaces are left for the introduction of tlie initial
letter. Tlie spaces between the sentences, or sections, are sometimes
singular enough ; thus at. fol. 10 rev.
S^nino
fcuo gcncra iargorum. cjuoru aiteri proiii
And again, in the same page :