1585 DIONIS CHRYSOSTOMI ORATIONES antique VELLUM BOUND FOLIO 16th CENTURY

DIONIS CHRYSOSTOMI

Orationes octoginta in latinum conversae, aurea eloquentia refertae.


Venetiis: Zenarum & Fratres; 1585

Printer's mark on the title page, woodcut headpieces, initials and tailpieces

Original limp vellum (with some wear), with manuscript writing on the spine.

Hinges broken.

Very good interior.

Folio: 9 by 12 1/4"

332 pp

 Provenance:

Collegii (?) Jesu (ownership note on the title page). 

Text in Latin
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Dio Chrysostom (Dion Chrysostomos), Dion of Prusa or Cocceianus Dio (c. 40 – c. 115 AD), was a Greek orator, writer, philosopher and historian of the Roman Empire in the 1st century AD.
Eighty of his Discourses (or Orations) are extant, as well as a few letters, a mock essay Encomium on Hair, and a few other fragments. His sobriquet Chrysostom comes from the Greek chrysostomos, which literally means "golden-mouthed".
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