![POLLUX, Julius (c.130 - c.188, Polydeuces of Naucratis). Vocabularium, in Greek. Interpolated epitome of Arethas (ca. 900, Archbishop of Caesarea). Edited by Aldus Manutius. Venice: Aldus Manutius, [not before 11] April 1502.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1999/CKS/1999_CKS_06222_0089_000(122303).jpg?w=1)
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POLLUX, Julius (c.130 - c.188, Polydeuces of Naucratis). Vocabularium, in Greek. Interpolated epitome of Arethas (ca. 900, Archbishop of Caesarea). Edited by Aldus Manutius. Venice: Aldus Manutius, [not before 11] April 1502.
2 (296 x 198mm). Greek types 3:84 (text and index) and 4:79 (dedication), roman 10:82 (title and index), italic 1:80 (dedication). 55 lines and headline, numbered double columns. (First leaf mounted on recto with window for title, resultant browning on title verso.) 18th-century red morocco gilt, triple fillet on sides, spine gilt in compartments with green labels, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
EDITIO PRINCEPS. As Aldus points out in his preface, Pollux's vocabulary is arranged not alphabetically but by subject. For ease of use Aldus has added an invaluable index in Latin and Greek. 'Aldus' objective must have been to supplement the range of lexicographical works available to students. Pollux provided a wide survey of Attic usage, with a good deal of information about the culture of classical Athens. He wrote at the height of the Atticist movement in the second half of the second century, and his attempt to guide his contemporaries in the niceties of the Attic idiom which they all wished to write, besides being fine evidence of the archaising movement, has its uses for the modern scholar. But it is scarcely an instrument to put into the hands of beginners" (Wilson p. 137-38). Adams P-1787; Hoffmann III, 260; Ahmanson-Murphy 42; Renouard Alde, 32:1.
2 (296 x 198mm). Greek types 3:84 (text and index) and 4:79 (dedication), roman 10:82 (title and index), italic 1:80 (dedication). 55 lines and headline, numbered double columns. (First leaf mounted on recto with window for title, resultant browning on title verso.) 18th-century red morocco gilt, triple fillet on sides, spine gilt in compartments with green labels, marbled endpapers, gilt edges.
EDITIO PRINCEPS. As Aldus points out in his preface, Pollux's vocabulary is arranged not alphabetically but by subject. For ease of use Aldus has added an invaluable index in Latin and Greek. 'Aldus' objective must have been to supplement the range of lexicographical works available to students. Pollux provided a wide survey of Attic usage, with a good deal of information about the culture of classical Athens. He wrote at the height of the Atticist movement in the second half of the second century, and his attempt to guide his contemporaries in the niceties of the Attic idiom which they all wished to write, besides being fine evidence of the archaising movement, has its uses for the modern scholar. But it is scarcely an instrument to put into the hands of beginners" (Wilson p. 137-38). Adams P-1787; Hoffmann III, 260; Ahmanson-Murphy 42; Renouard Alde, 32:1.