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PLAUTUS, Comoediae. Recognovit W.M. Lindsay. Tomus I. Amphitruo. Asinaria. Aulularia. Bacchides. Captivi. Casina. Cistellaria. Curculio. Epidicus. Menaechmi. Mercator. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1968. Not papginated. Original blue cloth. Spine gilt titled. Spine slightly bumped. Series: OCT. € 16.00 (Antiquarian)

PLAUTUS, M. ACCIUS, (PLAUTUS), Ex fide, atque auctoritate complurium librorum manuscriptorum opera Dionys. Lambini Monstroliensis emendatus: ab eodemque commentariis explicatus. Nunc denuo plurimis, quae in praecedentibus editionibus irrepserant, mendis, repurgatus: multisque in locis in gratiam antiquariorum illustratus. Additi quoque sunt duo indices copiosissimi: Prior, verborum, locutionum & sententiarum: Posterior, eorum quae commentariis D. Lambini continentur. Ex Typis Vignonianis, Aureliae Allobrogum, 1605. VI,920,(53)p. Half cloth. Modern bookbinder's binding. Last pages bit water stained. Pencil annotations from pp.31-66.'Denys Lambin, or Dionysius Lambinus (1520-1572), won a wide reputation by his great editions of Latin authors. (...) He had already completed his commentary on twelve of the plays of Plautus, and was beginning the thirteenth, when his life came to an end.'His knowledge of Cicero and the older Latin writers, as well as the Augustan poets, has never been surpassed and rarely equalled.' (J.E. SANDYS in A Short History of Classical Scholarship (...) (1915), pp.220-21). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 790.00 (Antiquarian)

PLAUTUS, T. MACCIUS, Bacchides. Nota introduttiva e testo critico di C. Questa. In appendice Menandrou 'Dis Exapaton'. Sansoni Editore, Firenze, 1975. New edition. 198p. Sewn. Loosely inserted: Some comments on the text and metre of Plautus Bacchides plus a note: MMW (M.M. Willcock on Questa's edition of Pl. Bacchicdes. 'Questa's new 'Bacchides' reprints Sandbach's Greek text in an appendix, with some minor changes. A much expanded introduction (from 36-80 pages) not only deals with the problems in this play which have engaged scholars' attention during the last century (...). In the text and the apparatus there are quite a number of changes from the first edition. Questa has evidently taken seriously the reviewers' criticisms, and in about half the cases adduced by Skutsch and Arnott this had led to alteration or correction. (...) In the filed of metre, Questa is an expert, not only on the technical facts about prosody and scansion, but on the question of the ancient colometry. (...) The good that he has done in this paly by removing the basis for oddities which have disfigured the metrical schemes of even such great editors as Leo and Lindsay is far greater than the harm caused by occasional small inaccuracies. Questa knows what he is talking about, and understands the problems of both text and metre.' (M.M. WILLCOCK in The Classical Review (New Series), 1978, pp.28-29). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 34.50 (Antiquarian)

PLAUTUS, T. MACCIUS, Rudens. Mit Einleitung und Eigennamenverzeichnis herausgegeben von A. Thierfelder. Glossar. Kerle Verlag, Heidelberg, 1949. 2 vols. 132,32p. Sewn / Wire stitched. Signature on half title. Pages yellowed. Series: Heidelberger Texte, Lateinische Reihe, Band 13 / 13a. € 11.50 (Antiquarian)

PLAUTUS, T.M., Asinaria. From the Text of Goetz and Schoell with an Introduction and Notes by J.H. Gray. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 18934. XXXIX,125p. Cloth. With signature on free endpaper. Some pen and pencil markings and annotations, some by WGA. From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 13.50 (Antiquarian)

PORRO, A. and G. MILANESE, (eds.), Atti del congresso internazionale 'Modelli testuali e prassi poetica: grecia ellenistica e roma, Milano, Università Cattolica, 27-29 aprile 1992. Vita e Pensiero, Pubblicazioni dell'Universita Cattolica, Milano,n.d.(>1992). 269p. Sewn. Seires: Aevum Antiquum, 5 - 1992. (Rare).A.o.: P.J. PARSONS: Poesia ellenistica: testi e contesti (pp.9-21); L. LEHNUS: J.U. Powell, Wilamowitz, e i 'Collectanea Alexandrina' (pp.21-55); R. PRETAGOSTINI: Tracce di poesia orale nei carmi di Tocriti (pp.67-89); C. MIRALLES: La poetica di Eroda (pp.89-115); W. GEOFFREY ARNOTT: Ancora sulle scene di apertura della commedia (pp.115-129); A. LA PENNA: L'autorappresentazione e la rappresentazione del poeta come scrittore da Nevio a Ovidio (pp.143-187); A. BARCHIESI: Riflessivo e futuro. Due modi di allusione nella poesia, ellenistica ed augustea (pp.207-245). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 39.50 (Antiquarian)

PÖSCHL, V., Die neuen Menanderpapyri und die Originalität des Plautus. Vorgetragen am 9. Dezember 1972. Carl Winter, Heidelberg, 1973. 41p. Sewn. Some pencil annotations from WGA. Review G. Maurach (Gymnasium, 1976, pp.479-484) and personal notes from WGA loosely inserted. Series: Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Klasse, 1973, 4.'Professor Pöschl's contribution is very interesting. After some stringent remarks on earlier assessments of Plautine originality, he concentrates on the relation between 'Dis Exapaton' 103 ff. and 'Bacchides' 536 ff, where Plautus has handled Pistoclerus' disappointment over Mnesilochus' behaviour with a dramatic motif that owes nothing to the Menandrean original: that of the fictitious parallel. As Pöschl shows, this motif is a favourite one in literature both ancient and modern (...). This essay adds a new perspective to an already popular picture.' (GEOFFREY ARNOTT in The Classcial Review (New Series), 1975, p.314). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 14.50 (Antiquarian)

PÖSCHL, V., Kunst und Wirklichkeitserfahrung in der Dichtung. Abhandlungen und Aufsätze zur Römischen Poesie. Kleine Schriften I. Herausgegeben von W.-L. Liebermann. Carl Winter, Heidelberg, 1979. 330p. Sewn. With signature from Prof. Carl Deroux on endpaper. Series: Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, Neue Folge, 2. Reihe, Band 66. A.o.: Probleme und Gefahren des Interpretierens in der klassischen Philologie (pp.11-21); Die neuen Menanderpapyri und die Originalität des Plautus (pp.37-74); Virgil und Augustus - Dichtung im politischen Kampf (pp.110-120); Horaz und die Politik (pp.145-178); Die dionysosode des Horaz (c.2,19) (pp.209-232); Die Erzähl;kunst Ovids in den Metamorphosen (pp.268-277); Kephalos und Prokris in Ovids Metamorphosen (pp.277-293). From the library of Professor Carl Deroux. € 34.50 (Antiquarian)

PRIMMER, A., Handlungsgliederung in Nea und Palliata: Dis exapaton und Bacchides. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, 1984. 109p. Sewn. Two reviews loosely inserted. Series: Österreische Akademie der Wissenschaften, philosophisch-historische Klasse, Sitzungsberichte, 441. Band.'As his title implies, Primmer is especially concerned with the structure of the Roman comedies and their Greek originals. He here publishes an acute and valuable analysis of Plautus' 'Bacchydes' as a test-case of his methods (...). He rightly stresses the importance of trying to discover in the Latin play the act-structure of its Greek model. The chief criterion is the time required for offstage action, the 'Webster-criterion'. (...) the other main strand of Pr.'s thesi is that Plautus divided his plays into varying numbers of actus, spearated in performance by music of the 'tibicen'. Here he fails to convince. He believes that each 'actus' contains a distinct plot-phase (yet without regard to lapse of dramatic time), coinciding with a more or less regular large-scale metrical pattern. Dividing a plot into phases, however, is rather arbitary, and although one may accept that 'sen.-cant.-sept.' is a common pattern, there are too many exceptions to attribute to this fact the significance which Pr. does.' (J.B. LOWE in The Classical Review (New Series), 1985, 396-97). From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 27.50 (Antiquarian)

PSEUDO-PLAUTE, (PSEUDO-PLAUTUS), Le prix des ânes (Asinaria). Texte établi et traduit par L. Havet et A. Freté. Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1925. LXII,79(x2),80-119p. Rebound. Library marks on tail spine and paste-down endpapers. Front joints a bit cracked. Series: Budé.From the library of the late Prof. W. Geoffrey Arnott. € 12.50 (Antiquarian)