A vindication of the Sibylline oracles. To which are added the genuine oracles themselves; with the ancient citations from them; in their originals, and in English: and a few brief notes. By William Whiston, M. A. Sometime Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge
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- A vindication of the Sibylline oracles. To which are added the genuine oracles themselves; with the ancient citations from them; in their originals, and in English: and a few brief notes. By William Whiston, M. A. Sometime Professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge
- Sibylline oracles. English and Greek
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London : printed for the author, in Cross-Street, Hatton-Garden: and are to be sold by J. Roberts near Warwick-Lane; and by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1715.
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- 1715
- ESTC No.
- T139723
- Grub Street ID
- 187565
- Description
- 86,[2];103,[1]p. ; 8°.
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- In two parts
Part 2 contains 'Hoi t=es Sibyll=es chr=esmoi = The Sibylline oracles.' with a divisional titlepage, the first four words of which are transliterated from the Greek, separate pagination and register; parallel Greek and English texts
The English translation of 'The Sibylline oracles' is by Sir J. Floyer, corrected by W. Whiston.
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- Gk entry at Sibyls NUC entry at Oracula Sibyllina