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Aesop's Fables as Romanized by Phaedrus, with a Literal Interlinear Translation, Accompanied by Illustrative Notes on the Plan Recommended by Mr. Locke
- Title
- en_US Aesop's Fables as Romanized by Phaedrus, with a Literal Interlinear Translation, Accompanied by Illustrative Notes on the Plan Recommended by Mr. Locke
- en_US Latin Series, Introductory Part
- Description
- en_US Language note: Bilingual: Latin/English
- en_US Apparent first edition
- Date
- 2022-10-13T19:19:22Z
- 2020-09
- en_US 1828
- Date Available
- 2022-10-13T19:19:22Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1828
- Abstract
- en_US Here is a second copy of this textbook. I keep it in the collection because it is a cleaner copy of the identical book already in the collection. I would guess that one reason I bid on it has to do with confusion of titles. As my description of the first copy points out, the cover and title-page have different titles. And the seller's "title" in this auction was neither of those. As I wrote there, we have a later printing of this book--the eleventh edition--from 1845. The publisher will change then to Taylor and Walton. For comments see Carnes. "The introduction to this literal translation of Phaedrus explains the usefulness of such a translation, provides an introduction to Phaedrus and defends the choice of fables presented. The choice of Phaedrus as the elementary text in a series of such texts is discussed. The editors/translators provide promythia to each of the fables. The fifty fables presented are followed by a short section on PhaedrusÔÇÖ meter followed by a reprint of the fifty fables without the interlinear translation." I underscore what Carnes says about the elementary character of this book. It is a student's absolute introduction into study of Latin. The method seems to be to create a good English translation of the particular poem selected from among Phaedrus' fables. Then the Latin is arranged to follow the English word order, with each word directly above the corresponding English word. Thus the Latin is in English word order. xxiv + 98 pages. This is one of those books whose cover looks like a title-page. The only problem is that the full title is different on cover and title-page! The cover starts with "A Popular System of Classical Instruction Combining the Methods of Locke, Ascham, Milton, &c." The title on the title-page rearranges the elements and adds "In Latin and English." Carnes confirms that this is indeed a first edition.
- Identifier
- en_US 12485 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US lat
- Publisher
- en_US Printed for John Taylor
- en_US London
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books