Valerius Harpocration (Greek grammarian)

Lexicon Decem Oratorum

(Lexicon ten orators)

Greek and Latin parallel text

Bound with Notae et Animadveriones

[24], 432, 141, [11] pages.

4to.,contemporary vellum

1683 Lugduni Batavorum

Woodcut printer's mark on title: a turtle, with motto 'paulatim'

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Binding sound

Moderate external wear to attached boards

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Light scattered Foxing

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Valerius Harpocration, Greek rhetor and lexicographer from Alexandria, The lexicon contains the glosses of the Ten Orators of the Hellenistic canon, and is one of the first lexicographic works with lemmata in alphabetical order. The copious annotations to the glosses contain numerous citations from other authors and orators, like Aristotle and Xenophon. Harpocration was edited in 1614 by Ph.J. de Maussac. In 1683 the commentary of the French classical scholar Henri de Valois, 1603-1676, was added. De Valois was a contemporary of Mabillon and Du Cange; The editor of this edition of 1683 is the Dutch classical scholar Nicolaas Blanckaert, 1624-1703, since 1669 professor of Greek at the university of Franeker. He edited a number of Greek authors among who Arrianus and Thomas Magister

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