1568 HISTORY by POMPEY TROGUE antique ILLUSTRATED w/ ROMAN EMPERORS PORTRAITS

Trogue Pompee ; Giovanni Baptista Egnatio Veneto


Iustini ex Trogi Pompeii historiis externis libri xliiii.

Accessit De vita & moribus omnium

Lugduni; 1568



Rare 16th century edition of Trogus Pompey's Philippics, published in Lyon by Barthelemy Vincent.

"Trogus Pompey's work is known to us only through Justin's famous abridgement of his Philippics, which covers all the countries conquered by Alexander the Great."

The Histories of Trogus Pompey are supplemented by Giovanni Baptista Egnatio Veneto's "De vita et moribus omnium imperatorum".

Illustrated with 12 portraits of emperors in medallions in "The Lives and Deaths of the Roman Emperors" of Veneto.

Period vellum binding, spine with raised bands used part of the medieval antiphonal vellum manuscript

 Solid and well-preserved volume. 

Some period ink underlining, occasional marginalia, dampstain to about ten leaves at the end.

Last printed leaf glued to the inside cover.

Small size: 3 by 4 3/4 inches

 Text in Latin
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Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus (fl.?1st century BC), also anglicized as Pompey Trogue, was a Gallo-Roman historian from the Celtic Vocontii tribe in Narbonese Gaul who lived during the reign of the emperor Augustus. He was nearly contemporary with Livy.

Pompeius Trogus's grandfather served under Pompey in his war against Sertorius. Owing to Pompey's influence, he was able to obtain Roman citizenship and his family adopted their patron's praenomen and nomen Gnaeus Pompeius. Trogus's father served under Julius Caesar as his secretary and interpreter. Trogus himself seems to have been a polymath.
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