M. Tullii Ciceronis De Finibus Bonorum & Malorum (1741)
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M. Tullii Ciceronis De Finibus Bonorum & Malorum (1741)
by Marcus Tullius Cicero, edited by John Davies
Full Title: M. Tullii Ciceronis De Finibus Bonorum & Malorum Libri Quinque. Ex Recensione Joannis Davisii, Coll. Regin. Cantab. Praesidis. Cum Ejusdem notis Animadversionibus, Et Notis integris Petr. Victorii, P. Manucii, Joach. Camerarii, D. Lambini, ac Fulvii Ursini.
8 x 5. In Latin. Printed for Cantabrigiae (Cambridge): Typis Academicis, Sumptibus Corn. & J. Crownfield, & J. & P. Knapton, Bibliopolarum, 1741. Second Edition. Complete. Stiff vellum boards with a penned title to the spine. Previous owner’s book plate to the front pastedown. Externally lightly rubbed. Tightly bound throughout. The books commences with a Praefatio and concludes with an Index and Errata, with the book being structured into five chapters. The Praefatio and the concluding Index and Errata do not have sequential page numbering. In very excellent overall condition. New to our inventory. Detailed condition report coming soon. (The image of the author we included on our website is NOT in the book.)
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC) was a Roman politician and lawyer, who served as consul in the year 63 BC. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. John Davies (1679 – 1732) was an English cleric and academic, known as a classical scholar, and President of Queens' College, Cambridge. As a student of Bentley, he edited several Ciceronian texts in the early 1700s. This is the last of six editions of Cicero's philosophical works edited by Davies and printed at the Cambridge University Press, They were intended as a kind of supplement to the celebrated edition of Cicero's prose compiled by Graevius. "The last of these Cambridge editions by Davies (says Harwood) is the best printed and is very correct. Dr. Davies was a learned and judicious editor.” The title translated, "About the Ends of Goods and Evils.” It is a philosophical book dealing with ethics.
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