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Venice; 1470 ]
LIVY.
131
text of the historian terminates; followed by the date of the printing,
and 44 hexameter and pentameter verses;—the whole of which have
been eopied by De Bure; Bibliogr. Instruct. vol. v. p. 528-9: and by Fossi
in the Bibi Magliabech. vol. ii. col. 83. The date, and a few only of
the succeeding- verses, may be acceptable to the reader.
.M.CCCC.LXX.
P roderat haud multum Liui abs te scripta fuisse
Maxima si romp facta pari eloquio :
Q’ seu desidiis : alio seu crimine quouis:
Siue 8c temporibus cuncta fere occiderant:
Q upq; superfuerant opera : hpc tam rara uideri:
Vt pene ipsorum copia nulla for8c:
E t Vindelino debebis tu quoq; formis
Egregie impressit has modo qui decadas:
Beneath, there are 4 verses—then, on the recto of the following
leaf, 32 : from which I extract these, as the more worthy of the biblio-
grapher’s attention:
Siue eius formam : siue alia aspicias.
I pse hanc effingit: polit hanc : atq; induit ipse :
Ipse anima tanq: sensibus instituit.
A n natos igitur seruanti cuncta putares
Te debere : hihil hpc opera eximia :
A dde q? 8c ppulchra effinxit: 8c optima: cunctis
Hoc etiam ut placeant: haec monumenta tua:
A tq; tot impressit: totum his iam possit in orbem
Diffundi atq; puum nomen in omne tuum.
8cc. 8cc. 8cc.
How many copies of this splendid edition may be supposed, from
these verses, to have been struck off, is a question not easily to be
answered; but the inference is rather in favour of a large than a small
impression. His Majesty possesses the beautiful copy which is de-
scribed in the Bibl. Smith, p. cclxxiii ; and Mr. Knight was the
LIVY.
131
text of the historian terminates; followed by the date of the printing,
and 44 hexameter and pentameter verses;—the whole of which have
been eopied by De Bure; Bibliogr. Instruct. vol. v. p. 528-9: and by Fossi
in the Bibi Magliabech. vol. ii. col. 83. The date, and a few only of
the succeeding- verses, may be acceptable to the reader.
.M.CCCC.LXX.
P roderat haud multum Liui abs te scripta fuisse
Maxima si romp facta pari eloquio :
Q’ seu desidiis : alio seu crimine quouis:
Siue 8c temporibus cuncta fere occiderant:
Q upq; superfuerant opera : hpc tam rara uideri:
Vt pene ipsorum copia nulla for8c:
E t Vindelino debebis tu quoq; formis
Egregie impressit has modo qui decadas:
Beneath, there are 4 verses—then, on the recto of the following
leaf, 32 : from which I extract these, as the more worthy of the biblio-
grapher’s attention:
Siue eius formam : siue alia aspicias.
I pse hanc effingit: polit hanc : atq; induit ipse :
Ipse anima tanq: sensibus instituit.
A n natos igitur seruanti cuncta putares
Te debere : hihil hpc opera eximia :
A dde q? 8c ppulchra effinxit: 8c optima: cunctis
Hoc etiam ut placeant: haec monumenta tua:
A tq; tot impressit: totum his iam possit in orbem
Diffundi atq; puum nomen in omne tuum.
8cc. 8cc. 8cc.
How many copies of this splendid edition may be supposed, from
these verses, to have been struck off, is a question not easily to be
answered; but the inference is rather in favour of a large than a small
impression. His Majesty possesses the beautiful copy which is de-
scribed in the Bibl. Smith, p. cclxxiii ; and Mr. Knight was the