Lingua: Latino
Editore: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1973
Da: Champlain Valley Books LLC, Addison, VT, U.S.A.
Walter K. Sherwin, Jr., translator and editor. Deeds of Famous Men [De Viris Illustribus]. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1973. Hardcover with jacket. Condition: fine/fine. Cover has slight wear head and tail of spine; corners sharp; slight foxing head of text block. Jacket minor rubbing tail of spine; not price-clipped. 12mo; xviii+206 pp. White cloth binding; black lettering on spine; purple endpapers. Bilingual edition; Latin on verso, English on recto. Text includes Introduction, Appendix of Names, Index. Binding strong; text bright; no markings. *** From the jacket notes: "Deeds of Famous Men is a series of seventy-seven anonymous biographical sketches of men significant in Roman history from Proca to Pompey. The author of the puzzling text is not known, and there is no certainty about the date of composition. Nevertheless, the text is absorbing and significant in the study of Roman history. In this bilingual edition, Sherwin has made use of [a] reconstructed archetype [manuscript] to establish the most reliable Latin text.".