Catonis disticha moralia
Subtitle: cum scholiis Des. Erasmi Rot.
Contributors: Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.; Gryphius, Sebastianus, 1493-1556, printer.; Gryphius Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Apud Seb. Gryphium
Published: 1540
Place of publication: Lugduni
Language: lat
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Maxims, Latin -- Translations into Greek.; Aphorisms and apothegms -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: A collection of Latin and Greek aphorisms.
The Catonis disticha is given in the original Latin, followed by a translation into Greek by Maximus Planudes.
Colophon: Sebastianus Gryphius Germanus excudebat anno MDXXXX. Baudrier's Bib. lyonnaise, VIII, lists a 1540 ed. with that date on t.p., but not a 1538 ed.
Signatures: a-h⁸.
Includes (p. [61-127]) other similar collections of aphorisms (an anonymous Greek collection, translated by Erasmus; a collection from Ausonius, with Erasmus' scholia; Sententiae attributed to Publilius Syrus, with Erasmus' scholia), Erasmus' Christiani hominis institutum, and Rodolphus Agricola's Latin translation of the Ad Demonicum attributed to Isocrates.
Source: Exchange with E.K. Schreiber, Mar. 3, 1987.