Global Thucydides

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Project | Global Thucydides
Catalogue | Digital catalogue
Entry | Orationes Thucydidis

Orationes Thucydidis

Typology: Translation | Language: Latin | Place of publication: Rome | Year: 1546 (ante)

Greek Text: no

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

Translation of a selection of speeches from the History (Books 1-3) preserved in the ms. Vat. Lat. 14825, cc. 182r-245r, 284r-290v. The Thucydidean translations by Della Casa preserved in this manuscript and in BNF Magliabechiano II.I.100 remained unpublished during his lifetime. They were edited and printed only after his death by Pietro Vettori, who introduced a number of editorial interventions into the text – see Della Casa 1564.

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