L. Annaei Senecae & P. Syri Mimi, Forsasn etiam Aliorum, Singulares Sententiae, Centum aliquot versibus ex Codd. Pall. & Frising, auctae & correctae, Studio & Opera Jani Gruteri. Cum Notis Ejusdem recognitis & cafligatis. Accedunt Ejusdem Notae Postumae; Ut & Nova Versio Graeca Josephi Scaligeri Jul. Caes. F.
Leiden: Isaacum Severinum, 1727.
8vo. (7 3/4" x 5").
Vellum with blocked gilt figure with spear, owl, and shield, and "Hagae Comitis" (city name in Netherlands); gilt to spine and handwritten title and date.
In Latin and Greek Languages.
Engraved frontispiece.
Very Good condition
Some soiling of vellum, but gilt is bright.
The bookplate on pastedown is for the library at Munden house in Watford, and is likely to have been commissioned by Arthur Holland-Hibbert, 3rd Viscount Knutsford (1855-1935) who inherited the house from his grandmother in 1874.
The Munden bookplate was engraved by Baron Henry John Fanshawe Badeley (1874-1951). The motto above is Respice, adspice, prospice (Look to the past, Look to the present, Look to the future). Below: Animum ipse parabo (I myself will provide courage).
================================ Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65), also known as Seneca the Younger, was a Hispano-Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and—in one work—satirist from the Silver Age of Latin literature.
Seneca was born in Corduba in Hispania, and raised in Rome, where he was trained in rhetoric and philosophy. His father was Seneca the Elder, his elder brother was Lucius Junius Gallio Annaeanus, and his nephew was the poet Lucan. In AD 41, Seneca was exiled to the island of Corsica under emperor Claudius, but was allowed to return in 49 to become a tutor to Nero. When Nero became emperor in 54, Seneca became his advisor and, together with the praetorian prefect Sextus Afranius Burrus, provided competent government for the first five years of Nero's reign. Seneca's influence over Nero declined with time, and in 65 Seneca was forced to take his own life for alleged complicity in the Pisonian conspiracy to assassinate Nero, in which he was likely to have been innocent. His stoic and calm suicide has become the subject of numerous paintings.
As a writer Seneca is known for his philosophical works, and for his plays, which are all tragedies. His prose works include a dozen essays and one hundred twenty-four letters dealing with moral issues. These writings constitute one of the most important bodies of primary material for ancient Stoicism. As a tragedian, he is best known for plays such as his Medea, Thyestes, and Phaedra. Seneca's influence on later generations is immense—during the Renaissance he was "a sage admired and venerated as an oracle of moral, even of Christian edification; a master of literary style and a model [for] dramatic art."
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