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CICERO.
Pensées de Cicéron, traduites pour servir à l'éducation de la Jeunesse; par M. l'Abbé d'Olivet. Nouvelle édition, revue et corrigée avec soin.
Lyon, Chez Tournachon-Molin, 1804.
Reference : 120225
12mo. 317,(1) p. Calf 17.5 cm (Details: Back ruled gilt, boards with gilt borders. Marbled endpapers) (Condition: Binding scuffed, back rubbed, corners slightly bumped. Stamp on the verso of the front flyleaf. Paper slightly yellowing) (Note: This is a thematically organized anthology of texts of the Roman politician, rhetor and philosopher Cicero, 106-43 A.D, mostly taken from his philosophical works. It has 12 chapters: I, 'Sur la religion; II, Sur l'homme; III, Sur la conscience; IV, Sur les passions; V, Sur la sagesse; VI, Sur la probité; VII, Sur l'éloquence; VIII, Sur l'amitié; IX, Sur la vieillesse; X, Sur la mort; XI, Songe de Scipion; XII, Pensées diverses'. Opposite of d'Olivets French translation is the Latin text. The 'Pensées de Cicéron traduites pour servir à l'éducation de la jeunesse' was produced by the French scholar, grammarian and translator Pierre-Joseph Thoulier d'Olivet, also known as the 'abbé d'Olivet', 1682-1768. He wrote about French grammar and prosody, and translated speeches of Cicero (1726/27), his De Nature Deorum (1731) and Tusculanae Disputationes (1732). The 'Pensées de Cicéron', were first published in 1744. Voltaire observed about d'Olivet: 'Nous lui devons les traductions les plus élégantes et les plus fidèles des ouvrages philosophiques de Cicéron, enrichies de remarques judicieuses. Toutes les uvres de Cicéron imprimées par ses soins et ornées de ses remarques, sont un beau monument qui prouve que la lecture des anciens nest point abandonnée dans ce siècle. Il a parlé sa langue avec la même pureté que Cicéron parlait la sienne, et il a rendu service à la grammaire française par les observations les plus fines et les plus exactes'. (See for d'Olivet Wikipédia) (Provenance: On the verso of the front flyleaf the withdrawal stamp of 'Koninklijk Huis-Archief', which is the archive of the the Dutch Royal Family) (Collation: A-N12, O4 (minus blank leaf O4) (Photographs on request)
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