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jDe Vir. Illust.)
SUETONIUS.
387
456. Suetonius. De Viris Illustribus TVithont
Name of Printer, Place, or Date. Quarto.
This is a sing'ular and ratlier interesting little volume. It is edited
by Petrus Melleus, and dedicated to Petrus Posterula; each of them
residents, if not natives, of Milan; and the latter, a Senator of the
same city. What is extraordinary, it exhibits the identical preface
which Gaspar Lampugnanus prefixed to his own edition of the same
work, and dedicated to Boninus Mombritius. The editions of Lam-
pugnanus and Melleus are each without a date; and it may be doubtful,
therefore, which of these editors is to be taxed with plagiarism of no
ordinary occurrence. Saxius, as might be expected, is copious and
interesting: see the Hist. Lit. Typog. Mediol. p. dcxiii, note o; where
a reference is made to a material antecedent passage, at p. dxlvii-viii,
note a. Saxius arranges the edition of Lampugnanus as the first; but
adds that, to his knowledge, there is no other work extant with the
name of P. Melleus as the editor, or author, of it. ‘ Melleus was certainly
domesticated at Milan, when he dedicated this edition to Posterula
about the year 1480 : the latter dying about the year 1484, ‘ honoribus
et sapientia clarissimus.’ Panzer refers exclusively to Saxius.
Tbe first leaf comprises the address of Melleus, as before described.
The second and third leaves are filled by a table. On the recto of the
fourth, we read the opening of the text thus :—which will remind the
reader of a similar commencement in the account of the editions of
Aurelius Victor—who is probably the genuine author of the work: see
Fabric. Bibl. Lat. lib. i. ch. vi., lib. ii. ch. xxiii., lib. iii. ch. ix.
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SUETONIUS.
387
456. Suetonius. De Viris Illustribus TVithont
Name of Printer, Place, or Date. Quarto.
This is a sing'ular and ratlier interesting little volume. It is edited
by Petrus Melleus, and dedicated to Petrus Posterula; each of them
residents, if not natives, of Milan; and the latter, a Senator of the
same city. What is extraordinary, it exhibits the identical preface
which Gaspar Lampugnanus prefixed to his own edition of the same
work, and dedicated to Boninus Mombritius. The editions of Lam-
pugnanus and Melleus are each without a date; and it may be doubtful,
therefore, which of these editors is to be taxed with plagiarism of no
ordinary occurrence. Saxius, as might be expected, is copious and
interesting: see the Hist. Lit. Typog. Mediol. p. dcxiii, note o; where
a reference is made to a material antecedent passage, at p. dxlvii-viii,
note a. Saxius arranges the edition of Lampugnanus as the first; but
adds that, to his knowledge, there is no other work extant with the
name of P. Melleus as the editor, or author, of it. ‘ Melleus was certainly
domesticated at Milan, when he dedicated this edition to Posterula
about the year 1480 : the latter dying about the year 1484, ‘ honoribus
et sapientia clarissimus.’ Panzer refers exclusively to Saxius.
Tbe first leaf comprises the address of Melleus, as before described.
The second and third leaves are filled by a table. On the recto of the
fourth, we read the opening of the text thus :—which will remind the
reader of a similar commencement in the account of the editions of
Aurelius Victor—who is probably the genuine author of the work: see
Fabric. Bibl. Lat. lib. i. ch. vi., lib. ii. ch. xxiii., lib. iii. ch. ix.
SVETONIVS TRANQuILLVS
D E PRAECLARE GESTIS
ROMANORVM.
R O C A R E X Albanoru
Amuliura 8c Numitorem
filios habuit: quibus regnu
annuis uicibus habendum
reliquit. ut alternis impe*.
8cc 8cc. 8cc.