Julii Pollucis Onomasticum Graece & Latine = Louliou Polydeukous Onomastikon en Bibliois Deka

Julius Pollux; Wolfgang Seber; Gottfried Jungermann; Joachim Kuhn; Isaac Vossius

Amsterdam: Ex officina Wetsteniana, MDCCVI, 1706

[Onomasticon = Onomastikon] 2 volume set. Folios, 41 cm.  Bound in contemporary calf. Gilt ruled spine compartments, 5 raised bands.  Hinges cracked. Boards detached.  Early hand-written "Yale College Library" on front end page.  Later library book plates and blind stamps.   All edges red.    ([8], 48, 1388, [16], 178, [10] p.  Paged continuously. Page are generally clean, in very good shape, with wide margins.  Latin and Greek in parallel columns.   Engraved frontispiece.  Includes indexes.  BMC20:628.523.

Julius Pollux was a Greek scholar and rhetorician from Egypt (2nd century AD).  His thesaurus of Attic Greek was an important reference for understanding antiquity and had an influence on the Renaissance rediscovery and understanding of the classics.

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