The lives of the noble Grecians and Romaines
By: compared together by that graue learned philosopher and historiographer, Plutarke of Chaeronea ; translated out of Greeke into French by Iames Amiot ... ; vvith the liues of Hannibal and of Scipio African, translated out of Latine into French by Charles de l'Escluse, and out of French into English, by Sir Thomas North knight ; hereunto are also added The liues of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon, of Dionysius the Elder, tyrant of Sicilia, of Augustus Caesar, of Plutarke, and of Seneca ; with The liues of nine other excellent chiefetaines of warre, collected out of Aemylius Probus, by S.G.S. and Englished by the aforesaid translator.
Contributors: North, Thomas, Sir, 1535-1601?; Acciaiuoli, Donato, 1429-1478.; Nepos, Cornelius.; Goulart, Simon, 1543-1628.; Field, Richard, d. 1624, printer.; Wight, Thomas, d. 1608?, bookseller.; English Printing Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: By Richard Field for Thomas VVight
Published: 1603
Place of publication: Imprinted at London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1103
Subjects: Greece -- Biography -- Early works to 1800; Rome -- Biography -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Biography; Early works to 1800.
Notes: LC copy has bookplate of John Coleman Malden.
STC (2nd ed.) 20068
Second pt. has special t.p.: The liues of Epaminondas, of Philip of Macedon ...
Signatures: A⁸(-A1?) B-5A⁶ a-n⁶ o⁸(-o8?). A1 and o8 possibly blank.
Includes index.