Fabulæ Æsopi selectæ, or Select fables of Æsop
Subtitle: with an English translation as literal as possible, answering line for line throughout, the roman and italic characters being alternately used; so that it is next to an impossibility for the student to mistake. : With a compend of Latin prosody
By: by James Ross, professor of Greek and Latin languages in Fourth near Arch Street
Edition: The second edition improved
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 30638
Publisher: Printed by James Maxwell.
Published: 1814
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Translated from: lat
Number of pages: 155
Subjects: Children's stories; Latin language; Study and teaching
Other titles: Selectæ fabulæ Æsopi.; Running title: Select fables of Æsop.
Work titles: Aesop's fables Selections English
Notes: Edition statement transposed; precedes "With a compend" on title page.

Based on the translation by H. Clarke. "In this translation, much care and pains have been made to discover, and remove some obsolete words, inaccuracies, and errors in the Latin and English text of Mr. Clarke's Æsop ... Acknowledgments of obligation are justly due to Mr. James G. Thompson, the professor of languages in the University, for his assistance in revising the proof-sheets of this work."--Preface, p. [3], 1st count, dated: North Fourth-Street, no. 44, March, 1814.

Caption title: Selectæ fabulæ Æsopi. Select fables of Æsop.

Running title: Select fables of Æsop.

Copyright Mar. 7, 1813 by James Ross.

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Shaw & Shoemaker 30638

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