Veteres de re militari scriptores quotquot extant, . nunc primâ vice in unum redacti corpus. I. Flavii Vegetii Renati institutorum rei militaris libri V. II. Sexti Julii Frontini strategematum & strategeticôn libri IV. III. Claudius Ælianus de instruendis aciebus. IV. Modestus de vocabulis rei militaris. V. Polybius de militia & castrametatione Romanorum. VI. Æneæ Poliorceticus, seu de toleranda obsidione. VII. Incerti auctoris, de re militari opusculum, quod M. Tullio Ciceroni vulgò inscribitur. Accedunt I. Godescalci Stewechii ... in Fl. Vegetium commentarius. II. Eiusdem conjectanea, & Francisci Modii notæ in Sex. Jul. Frontinum. III. Petri Scriverii in Fl. Vegetium & Sex. Jul. Frontinum animadversiones.
Polybius (c.200 - 118 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1670
Materials
Place of origin
Netherlands
Collection
Montacute House, Somerset
NT 3023624
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2v.] (v.1: [48],510p.; v.2: [8],604,[50]p.) . ill.. . 8vo. Not indigenous.. Provenance: Foley's catalogue of Brockhampton Library 1883. Binding: Eighteenth-century red morocco, gold-decorated spines, gold-lettered. - [Dutch variorium editions].
Makers and roles
Polybius (c.200 - 118 BCE) Aeneas Tacticus Claudius Aelian (c.170 - c.235) Sextus Julius Frontinus (c. 40-103 AD) Julius Modestus Flavius Vegetius Renatus (fl.late 4th century) Franciscus Modius Pieter Schrijver (1576-1660) Godescalcus Stewechius (1551-1586)