Orations of Demosthenes
By: translated by Charles Rann Kennedy; with a critical and biographical introduction by Robert Barber Youngman ...
Contributors: Kennedy, Charles Rann, 1808-1867, tr.
Series: The world's great books
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company
Published: 1900
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Demosthenes -- Translations into English.; Cicero, Marcus Tullius.; Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek -- Translations into English.; Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Translations into English.; Early works to 1800.
Notes: At head of half-title: Orations of Demosthenes--Orations and essays of Cicero.
The Orations and essays of Cicero have separate t.-p., half-title, and pagination, with signatures continuous to those of the Orations of Demosthenes.
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The present volume contains: The resurrection of the dead and the weighing of souls in the balance at the last judgment. Fac-simile of a miniature in the Psalter of St. Louis, a manuscript of the thirteenth century.