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Entry | Conciones sive Orationes ex Graecis Latinísque historicis excerptae. Quae ex Gr…

Conciones sive Orationes ex Graecis Latinísque historicis excerptae. Quae ex Graecis excerptae sunt, interpretationem Latinam adiunctam habent, nonnullae novam, aliae iam antea vulgatam, sed nu[n]c demum plerisque in locis recognitam. Argumenta singulis praefixa sunt, lectori adiumento magno futura. Additus est index artificiosissimus et utilissimus, quo in rhetorica causarum genera, velut in communes locos, singulae conciones rediguntur

Typology: Translation | Language: Latin | Place of publication: Geneva | Publisher: Excudebant Henricus Stephanus | Year: 1570

Greek Text: yes

Content: Anthologies | Pericles’ Funeral Oration | The Debate on Mytilene

Henri Estienne (1531-1598), classical scholar, printer, and a prominent figure of the Estienne family of publishers. Son of Robert Estienne, he inherited and advanced the family press, producing scholarly editions of Greek and Latin authors. He is best known for his Thesaurus Graecae Linguae (1572), a monumental Greek lexicon that remained authoritative for centuries, and for publishing the Editio Regia of the Greek New Testament. DHS

Latin translation of Thucydides' speeches, except for The Melian dialogue (Thuc. 5.85-112) and the Speech of a Syracusan magistrate (6.41.2-4). Veratius composed a summary for each speech, and translated seven of them. The remaining translations derive from Valla, some revised by Estienne, as in Estienne 1564, as well as from Estienne himself. The volume collects speeches drawn from Greek and Latin historians – including Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, Arrian, Herodian, Sallust, Livy, Tacitus, Quintus Curtius, and Ammianus Marcellinus.

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