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The Emperor Marcus Antoninus, his conversation with himself : together with the preliminary discourse of the learned Gataker : as also, the Emperor's life, written by Monsieur D'Acier and supported by the authorities collected by Dr. Stanhope : to which is added the Mythological picture of Cebes the Theban, &c.
Meditations. English
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- Creator
- translated into English from the respective originals by Jeremy Collier ..
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- Pinax of Cebes. English
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- English, Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
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- London : Printed for Richard Sare ..., 1701
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- 10 unnumbered pages, 240 pages, 36 pages, cxxv, 3 unnumbered pages, 241-270 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 portrait (engraving) ; 20 cm (octavo)
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- ocm12134607
- Translation of: Tōn eis heauton biblia 12, commonly known in English as: Meditations.
- Pages [cxxvi] and [cxxviii] are blank, p. [cxxvii] is advertisement; p. [271-272] are publisher's advertisements.
- Signatures: A⁶ (A1, blank?, wanting) B-Q⁸, a-b⁸ c², ²a-h⁸, R-S⁸.
- Thomas Gataker's preliminary discourse first appeared in his edition and Latin translation of the Meditations (Cambridge, 1652); only the first part of it is included here, translated.
- The French original of André Dacier's life (La vie de Marc Aurèle Antonin) first appeared in his Paris 1690-1691 translation of the Meditations.
- The Mythological picture, incorrectly attributed to Cebes, is a translation of the anonymous Kebētos Thēbaiou pinax.