Dictionarium historicum, geographicum, poeticum, authore Carolo Stephano, gentium, hominum, deorum gentilium, regionum, locorum, civitatum, æquorum, fluviorum, sinuum, portuum, promuntoriorum, ac montium, antiqua recentiora[que] ad sacras, & profanas historias, poetarumque fabulas intelligendas necessaria nomina, quo decet ordine complectens. Editio novissima; cui præter collium, silvarum, desertorum, ... aliisque libris typis excusis, calamo exaratis, chartis geographicis, marmoribus vetustis, nummis atque tabulis antiquis diligenter & fideliter excerptum, magna historiarum insignium, ac rerum copia adjicitur; multa quæ obscuriora videri poterant, exponuntur; quæ superflua fuerunt, amputantur; luxatis ac transpositis locus suus, quoad ejus fieri potuit, restituitur; totus denique liber tum emendationibus, tum additamentis ita adornatur, ut novus, ac plan alius videri possit. Recensuit, supplevit, locisque pen infinitis emaculavit Nicolaus Lloydius, Collegii Wadhami in celeberrimâ acad

People / Organizations

• Charles Estienne (Author)

Imprint

Oxonii: ex typographeo Guilielmi Hall; impensis ejusdem, & Guilielmi Downing, anno Dom. MDCLXX. [1670]

Added name

Lloyd, Nicolas, 1630-1680.

Publication year

1670

ESTC No.

R228785

Grub Street ID

101427

Description

8, 830 p. ; 2⁰

Note

This edition lacks the single rule borders above and below author statement and has a comma following "poeticum". Another edition has the single rule borders and a period following "poeticum".

A general dictionary of classical and Biblical proper names, with many quotations from classical poetry. Edited by Nicolas Lloyd, who so updated Estienne's original work that his claim to authorship is not unwarranted.