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Loukianos van Samosata - Opera cum nova versione ... - Amsterdam, Jacobus Wetstein, 1743 - 3 vols. 4to - [12], lxxii, 882 ; [4], 953 ; [4] 860 pp.

Condition: allegorical frontispiece (Tanjé), engraved title vignette on each title page. Text in two columns (left Latin, right Greek). Text edited by Tiberius Hemsterhuis and Joannes Fredericus Reitz. Some minor foxing. Bound in contemporary full-calf, some imperfections on the boards, spines richly decorated with gold, red edges, marbled endpapers. Crisp bookblocks, solidly bound. Despite the imperfections to the bindings, these are attractive and beautiful volumes in a very solid binding.

Lucian of Samosata (on the Euphrates river) (120-190 AD):

Greek writer. Main representative of the Second Sophistic, lawyer in Antioch, travelled throughout the Mediterranean basin (Greece, Asia Minor, Italy, Gaul...), settled around 160 in Athens: after having been a rhetorician, he became a satirist-moralist. Eventually he was a high official of the imperial administration in Egypt.

Main works: Dialogues of the Gods, Dialogues of the Dead, Dialogues of the Courtesans, The Dream, etc.

His had a great talent for satirical art; he ridiculed various excrescences, especially in the field of religion.

In his language he pursued the purity of the classical Attical period (of the orators of the 4th century BC)
This non-Greek wrote the purest Greek of his century.

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