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ANCIENT CLASSICS.
[1472.
385. Propertius. TVithout Name of Printer, or
Place. 1472. Quarto.
Editio Princeps ; but probably subsequent * to the (supposed
Spira) edition of 1472, folio, in which the united works of Catullus,
Tibullus, and the presentpoet, appear : seevol. i. p. 294-7- In making
the reader acquainted with this very uncommon, as well as elegant,
impression, I am not aware that I can do it more effectualiy than by
the following description ;—and the subjoined observations of the noble
Owner, written in the fly leaf of this copy : from which latter, it would
appear that the impression was almost unknown to critics and biblio-
graphers. On the recto of the first leaf, we read the opening, thus :
SEXTI. AVRELII. PROPERTII. NAV
TAE. VMBRI. INCIPIT. LIBER. AELE
gia^ uel raonobiblos Ad tullum
Inthia prima suis miseru me
cepit ocellis
Contactum nullis ante cupidinibus
Tu in costatis deiecit lumla fastus
Et caput impositis pressit amor pedibus.
Donec me docuit castas odisse puellas
Improbus : 8c nullo uiuere consilio :
8cc, 8cc. 8cc.
* Count Reviczky, in his MS. Memoranda relating to this edition, supposes, from the
month of February being incorporated in the colophon, that it must have been printed
before the folio impression of 1472 above referred to; but for the reasons advanced at
p. 200 ante, a diff'erent conclusion must be drawn from the insertion of this month in the
colophon; namely, that the edition was executed towards the close of the year 1472.
‘ Propertius (continues the Count) has been justly called leauned ; but wliy, as in this
impression (lib. n. eleg. xix. v. 24), and in many ancient MSS. he is called Nauta—does
not easily appear. The error, however, was sufficiently palpable to Beroaldus and Scaliger.
Instead of the verses, as thus printed,
quamvis nec sanguine avito
Nobilis et quamvis Navita dives eras,
the latter part of the second verse should be
non ita dives eras!
ANCIENT CLASSICS.
[1472.
385. Propertius. TVithout Name of Printer, or
Place. 1472. Quarto.
Editio Princeps ; but probably subsequent * to the (supposed
Spira) edition of 1472, folio, in which the united works of Catullus,
Tibullus, and the presentpoet, appear : seevol. i. p. 294-7- In making
the reader acquainted with this very uncommon, as well as elegant,
impression, I am not aware that I can do it more effectualiy than by
the following description ;—and the subjoined observations of the noble
Owner, written in the fly leaf of this copy : from which latter, it would
appear that the impression was almost unknown to critics and biblio-
graphers. On the recto of the first leaf, we read the opening, thus :
SEXTI. AVRELII. PROPERTII. NAV
TAE. VMBRI. INCIPIT. LIBER. AELE
gia^ uel raonobiblos Ad tullum
Inthia prima suis miseru me
cepit ocellis
Contactum nullis ante cupidinibus
Tu in costatis deiecit lumla fastus
Et caput impositis pressit amor pedibus.
Donec me docuit castas odisse puellas
Improbus : 8c nullo uiuere consilio :
8cc, 8cc. 8cc.
* Count Reviczky, in his MS. Memoranda relating to this edition, supposes, from the
month of February being incorporated in the colophon, that it must have been printed
before the folio impression of 1472 above referred to; but for the reasons advanced at
p. 200 ante, a diff'erent conclusion must be drawn from the insertion of this month in the
colophon; namely, that the edition was executed towards the close of the year 1472.
‘ Propertius (continues the Count) has been justly called leauned ; but wliy, as in this
impression (lib. n. eleg. xix. v. 24), and in many ancient MSS. he is called Nauta—does
not easily appear. The error, however, was sufficiently palpable to Beroaldus and Scaliger.
Instead of the verses, as thus printed,
quamvis nec sanguine avito
Nobilis et quamvis Navita dives eras,
the latter part of the second verse should be
non ita dives eras!