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Antonini Liberalis Transformationum congeries. Phlegontis Tralliani De mirabilibus & longaeuis libellus. Eivsdem De Olympijs fragmentum. Apollonii Historiae mirabiles. Antigoni Mirabil. narrationú congeries. M. Antonini philosophi imp. romani, De vita sua libri XII ab innumeris quibus antea scatebant mendis repurgati, & nuno demum vere editi

Phlegon, of Tralles, Apollonius, Antigonus, of Carystus, fl. 240 B.C, Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, 121-180, Xylander, Wilhelm, 1532-1576 · 1568 · Basileae, per Thomam Guarinum · 15 pictures

A 1568 Basel compilation printed by Thomas Guarinus, gathering Greek and Roman texts on metamorphoses, marvels, and Marcus Aurelius's Meditations for a scholarly readership. The pictures are small woodcut initials with figures set inside letter forms, framed by foliage and simple landscape backgrounds, offering a designer compact models for figure-in-letter lettering and early modern decorative framing.

Mythology, Greek · Paradoxes · Greek literature · Latin literature · Ethics

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