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[ANCIENT GREEK ORATIONS]. AESCHINES and DEMOSTHENES. [Greek text]. Aischimnou Ho peri stephenou logos. Interpretationem Latinam, et vocum difficilioru

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[ANCIENT GREEK ORATIONS]. AESCHINES and DEMOSTHENES. [Greek text]: Aischimnou Ho peri stephenou logos. Interpretationem Latinam, et vocum difficiliorum explicationem adjecerunt P. Foulkes, J. Freind, Aedis Christi alumni. [Oxford]: Johan. Crooke, 1696 [date in Greek]. 8vo. [16], 151, [1], 182, [2], [18, index] pp. With three engraved portraits, of the two orators and of Cicero, by M. Burg; these are included in the pagination. The Latin translation is printed at the bottom of each page. Contemporary calf. Gilt spine with red morocco label. FIRST EDITION OF THIS PREFERRED TRANSLATION BY OXFORD STUDENTS PETER FOULKES AND JOHN FRIEND.

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Some rubbing, soiling, light scuffing to binding, text with occasional foxing. Very good. 

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"This was for many years a popular edition; and was reprinted in 1715 if not oftener: but the first is the preferable edition, and is considered very correct. The explanation of the more difficult Greek words at the end, was among the principal causes of its popularity" (Dibdin I, 487). 

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