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4to, pp. [16], 695, [17]; printer's woodcut device on title page, woodcut initials; 20th-century full speckled calf, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine; light uneven fading on upper cover, else a very good, sound, and clean copy. Reprint of the edition of 1597 from the same press. The "commentator vetus" (known as Commentator Cruquianus) is a collection of scholia, published by Cruquius from various manuscripts, notably the 4 codices blandinii, which were destroyed by fire in 1566 with the Benedictine abbey Blandigny near Ghent. Johan van der Does (1545-1604) was a Dutch humanist scholar, philologist, and the first curator at the University of Leiden. Does published collections of text-critical commentaries on, and editions of classical authors such as Sallust, Catullus, Tibullus, Petronius, Plautus, Propertius, and this edition of Horace. Mills College Check List 271; Riedel-Horatiana A-74.