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Ex Thucydide; institutum funebris orationis apud Athenienses; et Periclis oratio funebris; item pestis Atheniensis; omnia ordine ex libro secundo historiae

Typology: Translation | Language: Latin | Place of publication: Glasgow | Publisher: Excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis | Year: 1755

Greek Text: yes

Content: Pericles’ Funeral Oration | Athens’ Plague

Karl Andreas Duker (1670-1752), classical philologist and jurist. Duker studied law and classical philology in Harderwijk and Franeker, earning a doctorate in law. He taught History and Rhetoric in Herborn, The Hague, and later became Professor in Utrecht. His legal scholarship includes studies on Roman legal Latin and an edition of Justinian's Institutiones. As a philologist, he published critical editions and commentaries on authors such as Thucydides, Livy, Florus, and Aristophanes. DB

Joseph Wasse (1672-1738), classical philologist and clergyman. Educated at Cambridge, Wasse assisted Ludolph Küster in his edition of Suidas (1705), and in 1710 published a critical edition of Sallust. ODNB

Text and Latin translation of Thuc. 2.34-46 (Pericles' Funeral Oration) and 2.47-54 (Athens' Plague) from Duker-Wasse 1731.

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Thucydidis de bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo. Cum Adnotationibus integris Henrici Stephani, & Joannis Hudsoni. Recensuit, & Notas suas addidit Josephus Wasse. Editionem curavit, suasque Animadversiones adjecit Carolus Andreas Dukerus

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