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Title: 1566 AELIUS ARISTIDES ORATORIS CLARISSIMI antique VELLUM BOUND FOLIO rare

Description: [Aristides, Aelius]
AELII ARISTIDIS ADRIANENSIS
ORATORIS CLARISSIMI
Orationum tomi tres,
nunc primum latine versi a Gulielmo Cantero Ultraiectino. Huc accessit orationum tomus quartus […]
item De ratione emendandi scriptores Graecos, eiusdem Syntagma.
Basel, Peter Perna and Heinrich Petrus, 1566 (dated in colophon)
First edition in Latin
The translation was prepared from the Greek by the German scholar Wilhelm Canter (1542 1575), author of an acclaimed Syntagma, a systematic study of the most frequent errors to be found in Greek texts, here published as an appendix.
Aelius Aristides's Orations, particularly the Panathenaic, a historical celebration of classical Athens, enjoyed much appreciation in the Renaissance, having first been published in Greek in 1517.
Original full vellum, spine decorated in gilt, with raised bands and manuscript title
Folio. Size 8.5 by 13 inches
650 pp plus Index at the front and back
faded dampstain on the margins, pld repair at first 2 leaves, very good otherwise

Publius Aelius Aristides Theodorus (117–181 AD) was a Greek orator and author considered to be a prime example as a member of the Second Sophistic, a group of celebrated and highly influential orators who flourished from the reign of Nero until c. 230 AD.
More than fifty of his orations and other works survive, dating from the reigns of Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius.
His early success was interrupted by a decades-long series of illnesses for which he sought relief by divine communion with the god Asclepius, effected by interpreting and obeying the dreams that came to him while sleeping in the god's sacred precinct;
he later recorded this experience in a series of discourses titled Sacred Tales (Hieroi Logoi).
In his later life, Aristides resumed his career as an orator, achieving such notable success that Philostratus would declare that "Aristides was of all the sophists most deeply versed in his art."
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