CORNELIUS NEPOS VITAE EXCELLENTIUM IMPERATORUM. Cum Versione Anglica, in qua Verbum de Verbo, quantum fieri potuit redditur: Notis quoque Anglicis, et Indice Locupletissimo. OR, CORNELIUS NEPOS'S LIVES OF THE EXCELLENT COMMANDERS. WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION, AS LITERAL AS POSSIBLE. WITH ENGLISH NOTES, AND, A LARGE INDEX. By John Clarke, Late Master of the Publick Grammar-School in Hull. In Pursuance of the Method of teaching the Latin Tongue, laid down by him in his Essay upon Education. The Fourteenth Edition.

CORNELII NEPOTIS. CLARKE, JOHN, translated and edited by.

Published by Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, T. Longman, B. Law, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, S. Bladon, R. Baldwin, J. Bew, W. Stuart, and G. and T. Wilkin., London, 1790

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8vo. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 280 pp. Main text in Latin and English parallel double columns. Bound in full calf; spine in compartments with raised bands. Gilt dentelles. Extremities worn, including corners and head and tail of spine. Joints starting to crack and some browning of flyleaves; otherwise a very good copy. Decorated by head and tailpiece vignettes and by initials. Teaching edition of the De Vita Excellentium Imperatorum of Cornelius Nepos (c.110-25 BC), a Roman biographer and historian, who came from near Verona. The only surviving major work of Cornelius Nepos, this is a work of collective biography, with accounts of twenty five political leaders, historians, orators, etc., principally Greek, and the addition of the Carthaginian generals, Hamilcar and Hannibal; only two Romans appear, Cato and Atticus. The text also includes the Life of Cornelius Nepos by Joannes Vossius, and some fragments from his other writings. A very popular textbook, first published in 1723, by John Clarke (1687-1734), schoolmaster and classical scholar born in York (ESTC T83015). CLASSICS LATIN CLASSICS LATIN HISTORY BIOGRAPHY- ANCIENT 17TH CENTURY CLASSICS.

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• Title: CORNELIUS NEPOS VITAE EXCELLENTIUM IMPERATORUM. Cum Versione Anglica, in qua Verbum de Verbo, quantum fieri potuit redditur: Notis quoque Anglicis, et Indice Locupletissimo. OR, CORNELIUS NEPOS'S LIVES OF THE EXCELLENT COMMANDERS. WITH AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION, AS LITERAL AS POSSIBLE. WITH ENGLISH NOTES, AND, A LARGE INDEX. By John Clarke, Late Master of the Publick Grammar-School in Hull. In Pursuance of the Method of teaching the Latin Tongue, laid down by him in his Essay upon Education. The ...
• Publisher: Printed for J. F. and C. Rivington, T. Longman, B. Law, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, S. Bladon, R. Baldwin, J. Bew, W. Stuart, and G. and T. Wilkin., London
• Publication Date: 1790