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De Vita Excellentium Imperatorum: Ex Editione Quarta J. H. Bremi, accedunt notae anglicae atque index historicus et geographicus; editio secunda

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Title: De Vita Excellentium Imperatorum: Ex Editione Quarta J. H. Bremi, accedunt notae anglicae atque index historicus et geographicus; editio secunda
Author: Cornelius Nepos
Publisher: Uriah Hunt & Son, Philadelphia
Published: 1845
Binding: Hardcover
Language: Latin, English
Edition: 2nd edition
Number of Pages: 192
Catalogs: Latin, Biography
Description: Second edition from Hunt & Son. Original leather binding in poor condition. Front board has separated completely from binding and spine is warped and disintegrating. Water damage to boards and pages. Some light pencil notations in text and on rear flyleaf and pastedown. This is the only surviving work of Cornelius Nepos (c. 110BCE-25BCE), the first century BCE Roman biographer. This work, Lives of Eminent Commanders, discusses the lives of generals and commanders including Miltiades, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Lysander, Conon, Dion, Iphicrates, Timotheus, Datames, Pelopidas, Eumenes, Timoleon, Hamilcar, Hannibal and more. The text is in Latin; preface, notes, and index are in English. Hardcover, acceptable condition. 192 pages, 12mo.