Fifth edition of this nice edition of the Phaedrus Fables in verse together with the French translation on facing pages [except for Fable Lib.IV, XIV (p. 153): "LHonȇteté ne permet pas non plus quon traduise cette Fable"], and the annotations by Tanaquillus Faber (1615-1672), a French philologist and Professor of Greek at the University of Saumur, edited by J. Scheffer, who also added the congenial Sententiae by Publilius (often wrongly Publius) Syrus (fl. 85-43 BCE), a Latin mime player and writer. All that remains of his books is this collection of Sententiae a series of moral maxims in iambic and trochaic verse. Each maxim consists of a single verse, and the verses are arranged in alphabetical order. In the course of time the collection was interpolated with sentences drawn from other writers, especially from apocryphal writings of Seneca the Younger. The Sententiae are published here with the preface by Faber, Testimonia, the few lines from Petronius Satyricon, ascribed to him, and the notes of Janus Gruterus (1560-1627), professor of History and librarian in Heidelberg.
With the bookplate of Arthur Young. Binding neatly restored. Cf. Landwehr, F171 (fourth edition: Amsterdam, Paul Marret, 1689); Schwabe/Barbier, 75-76.