VERRII FLACCI DE VERBORUM SIGNIFICATIONE lib XX. LIB. XX. NOTIS ET EMENDATIONIBUS ILLUSTRAVIT ANDREAS DEACERIUS IN USUM SERENISSIMI DELPHINI. Accedunt in hac Nova Editione Notae integrae Josephi Scaglieri, Fulvii Ursini, & Antonii Augustini, cum Fragmentis & Schedis, atque Indice novo.

4to. Engraved frontis + engraved title page in red and black +[25] + 596 + [iv] + 96 pp. + [24] indices. Decorated with attractive head and tailpieces. Full, contemporary speckled calf, panelled in blind and ruled. Spine in compartments with raised bands and gilt decoration, with contrasting title label, gilt. Later book plate of John Ward. Spine repaired otherwise a very good copy indeed. SEXTUS POMPEIUL FESTUS, Roman grammarian, probably flourished in the 2nd Century A.D. He made an epitome of the celebrated work, DE VERBORUM SIGNIFICATU, of another, earlier (circa 10 B.C.) Roman grammarian and teacher, MARCUS VERRIUS FLACCUS. Festus' work is a valuable treatise, alphabetically arranged, giving the etymology as well as the meaning of every word and his work throws considerable light on the language, myogies and antiquities of ancient Rome. He made a few alterations, and inserted some critical remarks. He also omitted long obsolete Latin words, which he discussed in a separate work, now lost, entitled Priscorum Verborum cum Exemplis. Of Flaccus' work only a few fragments remain, and of Festus' epitome only one original copy is in existence. HISTORY/THEOLOGY LATIN HISTORY/THEOLOGY. …