Title: Xenophon In hoc volumine continentur infrascripta opera Xenophontis. Pædia Cyri Persarum regis. De Venatione. De re publica & de legibus Lacedæmoniorum. De regis Agesilai Lacedæmoniorum laudibus. Apologia pro Socrate. Opusculum de Tryannide
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">12mo. pp. [429]. Signatures: a6 B-Y8 AA-EE8 FF4. Early calf. Apparently from the library at Brownsea Castle (sale, 1927). Bookplate of the Librairie ancienne et nouvelle, Douville Frères, Paris.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">This work is an imitation of the Aldine editions. The Cyropaedia, a semi-fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, and a model for all succeeding prescriptive accounts of the education of princes, was first printed in a Latin translation by Francesco Filelfo (Milan, 1477), preceding the Greek editio princeps in the Giunta Opera, 1516.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991038558969707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>