Classical scholar Robinson Ellis (1834–1913) studied at Balliol College, Oxford, under... Læs mere
This two-volume edition (with commentary in Latin) of the surviving fragments of the works of minor Greek historians was published by German philologist Ludwig August Dindorf in... Læs mere
Lucretius' poem On the Nature of Things is one of the great examples of Latin literature and Karl Lachmann's edition of the work from 1850 can be considered the... Læs mere
A. E. Housman's immensely erudite edition of Manilius' five-volume Latin poem on the influence of the stars and the zodiac on human affairs was published between 1903 and 1930, and remains the authoritative text. Volume 3 describes the working out of horoscopes.
This 1809 Latin work by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) offered a streamlined and sophisticated method... Læs mere
A. E. Housman's immensely erudite edition of Manilius' five-volume Latin poem on the influence of the stars and the zodiac on human affairs was published between 1903 and 1930, and remains... Læs mere
This edition of the so-called 'Collectio Avellana' was published in two volumes, with a... Læs mere
This edition of the so-called 'Collectio Avellana' was published in two volumes, with a... Læs mere
A description of the known world at the beginning of the Roman Empire, Strabo's great work is reissued here in the 1853 Didot edition prepared by the... Læs mere
Between 1835 and 1839, the philologist Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775–1853) published these analyses of the... Læs mere
This edition of a manuscript history in Latin, written by the monk John Flete (c. 1420–1465) and edited by the historian and Dean of Westminster, J. Armitage Robinson,... Læs mere
The most famous legal work of the ancient world was issued in the period 529–34 at the order of the emperor Justinian. This three-volume edition in Latin by Theodor Mommsen (1817–1903) and his colleagues was first published in 1872–95. Volume 3 contains the Novellae.