"Elien - Variae Historiae. Text In Latin And Greek Published In 1609"
ELIEN (Claude) - Variae historiae libri XIIII. rerumpublicarum descriptiones ex Heraclides. Lyon, Chez Claude Larjot, 1609; in-12, XIV-460 pp. errata and index, contemporary full vellum binding, smooth spine. The author is a historian, philosopher who lived in Rome at the end of the second century and the beginning of the third. This text is none other than the varied stories which compile anecdotes taken from Aristotle, Pliny or Ctesias. Edition in Latin and Greek, of the fourteen books which constitute the entirety of this work.