Fragmenta poetarum veterum Latinorum, quorum opera non extant: : Ennii, Accii, Lucilii, Laberii, Pacuuii, Afranii, Naeuii, Caecilii, aliorúmque multorum: / vndique à Rob. Stephano summa diligentia olim congesta: nunc autem ab Henrico Stephano eius filio digesta, & priscaru[m] quae in illis sunt uocum expositione illustrata: additis etia[m] alicubi uersibus graecis quos interpreta[n]tur. Haec in gratiam studiosorum carminis: propediem autem & amatoribus orationis solutae in simili labore (Deo fauente) gratificabimur.
Quintus Ennius (c. 239 BC – c.169 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1564
Materials
Place of origin
Geneva
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3192923
Summary
Bibliographic description
433 [i.e. 432] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 4961. Provenance: manuscript old shelfmark: "R.1.9". Binding: seventeenth-century calf; single gilt fillet border, with triple blind fillets along spine-edge; gilt wreath centrepiece stamp; gold-tooled spine with fillets and small floral stamps, and with gilt title on brown leather label. Pale yellow burnished edges.
Makers and roles
Quintus Ennius (c. 239 BC – c.169 BC) Henri Estienne (1531-1598) Lucius Accius (170 BCE - c.86 BCE) Robert Estienne (1503-1559) Gaius Lucilius (c.180-c.102 BC) Decimus Laberius (c.107-43 BC) Marcus Pacuvius Lucius Afranius (c.150 - c.90 BCE) Gnaeus Naevius (c.270-c.200 BC) Calactinus Caecilius (b.49 BC)