A Very Good Copy With Engraved Frontispiece
Epistles of Phalaris. Translated from the Greek. To which are added, Some Select Epistles of the most eminent Greek Writers. By Thomas Francklin, M.S. Fellow of the Trinity-College, Cambridge.
London: Printed for R. Francklin, 1749.
. PHALARIS. The Epistles of Phalaris. Translated from the Greek. To which are added, Some Select Epistles of the most eminent Greek Writers. By Thomas Francklin, M.S. Fellow of the Trinity-College, Cambridge. London: Printed for R. Francklin, 1749.
Octavo (8 13/16 x 5 9/16 inches; 224 x 145 mm). [16], xxiii, [1, blank], [1]-224, [2, blank] pp. With engraved frontispiece, half-title and the eight page subscriber list.
19th Century half red morocco over marbled boards. Two brown morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt. Spine stamped in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Edges speckled in red. Two previous owner's bookplates to front pastedown. Perforated library stamp to title-page, no other library markings. Edges and corners slightly rubbed. Internally very clean. A very good copy.
Phalaris (570 BC-554 BC). Tyrant of Acragas (Agrigentum) in Sicily. He was entrusted with the building of the temple of Zeus Atabyrius in the citadel, and took advantage of it. He supplied the city with water, adorned it with fine buildings, and strengthened it with walls. On the northern coast of the island the people of Himera elected him general with absolute power, in spite of the warnings of the poet Stesichorus. According to Suïdas he succeeded in making himself master of the whole of the island. He was at last overthrown in a general rising headed by Telemachus, the ancestor of Theron (tyrant c. 488-472), and burned in his brazen bull. -NNDB
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