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Author: Martial. (M. VALERII MARTIALIS).
Title: Epigrammata. Cum notis FARNABII et variorum, Geminoque Indice tum Rerum tum Auctorum, Accurante CORNELIO SCHREVELI.
Language: Text in Latin.
Publisher: LUGD. BATAVORUM, Apud Franciscum Hackium, 1661.
Size: 7.5 " X 5 ".
Pages: 794 pages + index.
Binding: Attractive and good to very good original full vellum binding (front lower hinge cracked on less than 1" but still tight and secure - as shown, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a removable protective mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing and staining - as shown, the upper part of blank endpaper cut - has shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the very nice engraved title page.

The book: Rare and nice 17th-century edition of Martial's Epigrams.

The author: Marcus Valerius Martialis (known in English as Martial) (March, between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD) was a Roman poet from Hispania (modern Spain) best known for his twelve books of Epigrams, published in Rome between AD 86 and 103, during the reigns of the emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. In these short, witty poems he cheerfully satirises city life and the scandalous activities of his acquaintances, and romanticises his provincial upbringing. He wrote a total of 1,561 epigrams, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets.
Martial has been called the greatest Latin epigrammatist, and is considered the creator of the modern epigram.