A Manual of the History of Greek and Roman Literature, Tr. from the 3rd Ed - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ... Lips. 1789, sqq. 8vo. 4 vols. Text and iv. Comm. gioss. Indd.--Pol. historiarum excerpta Vatic. (in Maji scr. veil. coll. t. ii. p. 369, sqq.) Rec. Jac. Geel. Lugd. B. 1829. Svo--P. et App. hist. exc. Vatic. recogn. a J. Fr. Lucht. Alton. 1830. 8vo. Fabric. B. Gr. t. iv. p. 313." (') Hipparchus, of Nicaeea in Bithynia, an astronomer (?) 01. cliv--clxiii. (160-124.) observed the JEquinoctia and left behind him a catalogue of fixed stars according to their longitude and latitude, and of the solar and lunar eclipses. There is extant a comment. upon the Phoen. of Eudoxus and Aratus in three books. ed. P. Victorius. Flor. 1567. fol. and Dion. Petavii Uranologium. Paris. 1630. foL Amstel. 1703. fol. (ck) Akistarchus, of Samothrace, about 01clvi. B.C. 154. a pupil of the grammarian Aristophanes, one of the most celebrated grammarians, who exercised his criticism upon Homer but in an arbitrary manner. From him and Aristophanes the selection of classical authors (canon) derives its origin. Fabric. B. Gr. t. vi. p. 357. Wolfproleg. ad Horn. p. 244. (cl) Crates, of Mallus (MoaAow) in Cilicia (Mallotes), a grammarian, preceptor of Pancetius. He made a recension of Homer. Being sent by Attalus II. to Rome, he introduced there the study of Grammar. Fabric. B. Gr. t. iii. p. 558. vi. p. 362. Wolf. proleg. ad Hom. p. 276. (cm) Pantius, of Rhodes, about 01. clviii. B.C. 145, preceptor and friend of the younger Scipio, and several other Romans, a Stoic philosopher, but with many distinguishing peculiarities. His treatise gi Tow xxlixotTof was adopted by Cicero as the basis of his book De Officiis.--de Pantetio Stoico diss. F. G. van Lynden. Lugd. B. 1802. 8vo. Fabric. B. Gr. t. iii. p. 567. 146 PT. PHYS. 145-117. CARTH. AND COR. DESTR....