Selectae e profanis scriptoribus historiae. Quibus admista sunt varia honeste vivendi praecepta, ex iisdem scriptoribus deprompta. Prioribus exemplar emendatius, quantitate syllabarum justa pleniùs notatum; atque in usum discentium meliùs accommodatum Ja. Ross, A.M. humaniorum literarum, nec non et Graecae Linguae in Academia Phil. professore.

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Title Selectae e profanis scriptoribus historiae. Quibus admista sunt varia honeste vivendi praecepta, ex iisdem scriptoribus deprompta. Prioribus exemplar emendatius, quantitate syllabarum justa pleniùs notatum; atque in usum discentium meliùs accommodatum Ja. Ross, A.M. humaniorum literarum, nec non et Graecae Linguae in Academia Phil. professore.
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Volumes 1
Pagination xii, 299
Date of Publication 1819
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Imprint Printed by Lydia R. Bailey, no. 10, North Street.
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Copyright Statement Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit: Be It Remembered, That on the sixteenth day of June, in the forty-third year of the Independence of the United States of America, A.D. 1819, James Ross, of the said District, hath deposited in this office the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, to wit: "Selectae e profanis scriptoribus historiae. Quibus admista sunt varia honeste vivendi praecepta, ex iisdem scriptoribus deprompta. Prioribus exemplar emendatius, quantitate syllabarum justa pleniùs notatum; atque in usum discentium meliùs accommodatum Ja. Ross, A.M. humaniorum literarum, nec non et Graecae Linguae in Academia Phil. Professore." In Conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intitled, "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned."—And also to the Act, entitled, "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, 'An Act for the encouragement of learning , by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." D. Caldwell, Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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Selected and translated by Jean Heuzet.
"I have made use of all ancient profane authors, Greek as well as Latin, ... I have sometimes even blended them, ... together upon the same fact or the same maxim ... I have generally preferred, ... the Latins to the Greeks ..."--Preface, p. [iii].
Copyright June 16, 1819 by James Ross.
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Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Nipps, K. Lydia Bailey,
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. Selectae e profanis scriptoribus historiae. Quibus admista sunt varia honeste vivendi praecepta, ex iisdem scriptoribus deprompta. Prioribus exemplar emendatius, quantitate syllabarum justa pleniùs notatum; atque in usum discentium meliùs accommodatum Ja. Ross, A.M. humaniorum literarum, nec non et Graecae Linguae in Academia Phil. professore.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 21035, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/21035. Accessed 2024-12-22. 

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