Title: Antonii van Dale Poliatri Harlemensis De Oraculis Veterum Ethnicorum dissertationes duæ, Quarum nunc prior agit de eorum Origine atque Auctoribus; secunda de ipsorum Duratione & Interitu. […] 
Description: <p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> Antonii van Dale Poliatri Harlemensis De Oraculis Veterum Ethnicorum dissertationes duæ, Quarum nunc prior agit de eorum Origine atque Auctoribus; secunda de ipsorum Duratione &amp; Interitu. Editio secunda plurimum adaucta; cui de novo accedunt dissertatiunculae I. De Statua Simoni Mago, ut praetenditur, erecta: quâ occasione agitur de Chresto Suetonii. II. De Actis Pilati disseritur; illaque occasione, cur Augustus Cæsar Dominus appellari renuerit. III. Schediasma de Consecrationibus, plusquam dimidia parte auctius. Cum Figuris Æneis.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">4to-form 8vo (24 cm). f. [1] (blank), pp. [24], 694, [14], 8 folded leaves of plates, 8 illustrations (folded engraved plates). Signatures: <span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#212529;background:#FFFFFF;">*-3*⁴ A-4T⁴ 4V².</span> <span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Contemporary paper binding. <span class="marclinepart"><span style="color:#212529;">Originally published in 1683
under the title: De oraculis ethnicorum dissertationes duae.</span> Title
printed in red and black ink.</span> Engraved initials, tailpiece.</span> Printed
footnotes. Printed in Roman and Italic characters. Includes index.
In Latin, with some Greek. Plate of Graf von
Wintzingeroda. Stamp “A.J.F.” on title page. Stamp “Fideicommis Bodenstein.
Manuscript spine title.</span></p><p></p><p></p>

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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">The present work states that oracles are primarily
man-made and treats inter alia the Sibylline oracles and the Acta Pilati. On the
Dutch philosopher and classicist Antonius van Dale (1638-1708), best known for
his dedicated exposure of Aristeas, see J. Leclerc, who describes van Dale in
his Bibliothèque choisie, pour servir de suite à la Bibliothèque universelle
(Amsterdam, 1703, v. III, p.115 and v. XVII, pp. 309-312) as an ‘ennemi juré de
toute superstition.’ De Oraculis, first published in 1683, is also the direct
source of Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle’s Histoire des oracles (Paris, 1687).</span></p><p></p>

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