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• Opera, cum integris & emendatioribus commentariis Servii, Philargyrii, Pierii (Sumptibus Jacobi Wetstenii, 1746), by Virgil, Jacobus Wetstein, Antonio Maria Basso, Pieter Tanjé, Louis Fabricius Dubourg, active 4th century Servius, Pierio Valeriano, Nicolaas Heinsius, Johann Jakob Wettstein, Antonio Maria Basso, active 16th century Erythraeus (Nicolaus), Petrus Burmannus, and Pieter Burman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Martini Antonii Delrii ex Societate Iesu Suntagmatis tragici Pars ultima, seu Nonus Commentarius in decem traedias, qua vulgò Senecae ascribuntus ... (Ex Officina Plantiniana Apud Viduam & Ioannem Moretum, 1594), by Martín Antonio Delrío, Jean Moreto, and Plantijnsche Drukkerij (Amberes) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ellenes Poietai Palacoi ... = Poetae graeci veteres tragici, lyrici, comici, epigrammatari : additis fragmentis ex probatis authoribus collectis nunc primum graece & latine in unum redacti corpus : [tomus primus-secundus] (typis Petri de la Rouiere, 1614), by Pierre de La Rovière, Colegio Menor de la Compañía de Jesús (Alcalá de Henares), Colegio Mayor de San Ildefonso (Alcalá de Henares), and Colegio Imperial (Jesuitas) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apuleivs Madavrensis Platonicvs (Apud Guilj. Cæsium, 1624), by Apuleius and Willem Janszoon Blaeu (page images at HathiTrust)
• ApvleI Madavrensis Platonici Opera omnia qvae exstant (in officina Wecheliana, apud Danielem & Davidem Aubrios, & Clementem Schleichium, 1621), by Apuleius, Gerhard Elmenhorst, and Officina Wecheliana (page images at HathiTrust)
• D. Iunii Iuuenalis Satirarum libri v. : Sulpiciae Satira. (ex Officina Rob. Stephani, 1616), by Juvenal, Nicolas Rigault, Robert Estienne, and Sulpicia (page images at HathiTrust)

• Petri de Riga Aurora seu Biblia versificata ([France?, 1250), by approximately 1140-1209 Peter Riga, Katharine Adams, Wilfred Merton, Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, W.J. Leighton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), Puttick and Simpson, Inc Martin Breslauer, and H.P. Kraus (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Epistolarum obscurorum virorum ad dom. M.Ortuinum Gratium,volumina duo... Accesserunt huic editioni epistola Benedicti Passavantii ad Petrum Lysetum et la Complainte de Pierre Lyset sur le trépas de son feu nez ad pidem editionis Londinensis (MDCCX) restituta. (in bibliopolio aulico Helwingiano, 1830), by Eduard Böcking, Hermann von dem Busche, Ulrich von Hutten, and Johannes Crotus Rubeanus (page images at HathiTrust)

• Thomae Reinesi, medici ac polyhistoris excellentissimi, Epistolae ad cl. v. Christianvm Davmivm. In quibus de variis scriptoribus disseritur, loca obscura multa illustrantur, corrupta emendantur, multaque alia ad historiam, philologiam & rem grammaticam pertinentia eruuntur ac discutiuntur. Accedunt alia ejusdem, & ipsius Davmii Epistolae ad Reinesium; tum argumenta singularum & appendice contentorum (sumtibus G. Schultzen, apud J. Janssonium à Waesberge, 1670), by Thomas Reinesius and Johann Andreas Bose (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ovid de Ponto: Containing Foure Books of Elegies, Written by Him in Tomos, a Citie of Pontus, in the Foure Last Yeares of His Life, and So Dyed There in the Seaventh Yeare of his Banishment From Rome (second edition; London: Printed by T. Cotes for M. Sparke Jr., 1640), by Ovid, trans. by Wye Saltonstall (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Liber Gricismi Ebrardi, poema, ms. 1404 ([Italy, 1404), by de Béthune Evrard, Leo S. Olschki, active 1404 Perus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), H.P. Kraus (Firm), and Italy) Palazzo Raffaelli (Cingoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petri de Riga Aurora seu Biblia versificata ([France?, 1250), by approximately 1140-1209 Peter Riga, Katharine Adams, Wilfred Merton, Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, W.J. Leighton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), Puttick and Simpson, Inc Martin Breslauer, and H.P. Kraus (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hypnerotomachia Poliphili ubi humana omnia non nisi somnium esse doce : atque obiter plurima scitu sane quam digna commemorat ... (In aedibus Aldi Manutii, accuratissime, 1499), by Francesco Colonna, da Trevino Eliseo, Aldo Manuzio, and Leonardo Crasso (page images at HathiTrust)

• Via Vitae Aeternae (2 volumes in Latin; Antwerp: M. Nutij, 1620), by Antoine Sucquet, illust. by Boëce van Bolswert
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathTrust
• Antonii Sucquet e Societate Iesu Via vitae aeternae (Apud Henricum Aertssium, 1630), by Antoine Sucquet, Boëce van Bolswert, and Hendrik Aertssens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thesavrvs precvm et exercitiorvm spiritvalivm (Apud Ioannem Moretum, 1609), by Thomas Sailly, Adam van Noort, Pieter de Jode, and Théodore Galle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antonii Sucquet è Societate Iesu Via vitae aeternae (Apud Hieronymum et Ioan. Bapt. Verdussen, 1665), by Antoine Sucquet and Boëce van Bolswert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Breviary leaf use of Autun ([Autun], [1472?], 1472), by Catholic Church, Gerald Lequyn, and Rare Book Collection (University of Missouri--Columbia. Libraries) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heures à l'usage d'Autun : vers 1507 ([Paris] : [Simon Vostre], [1507?]., 1507), by Catholic Church and Simon Vostre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Litany of the saints ([England, in the 14th century), by R. Leicester Harmsworth, Enoch Bailey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), and Inc C.A. Stonehill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Altera colloquia latina, adapted from Erasmus (University Press, 1908), by Desiderius Erasmus and G. M. Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colloquia. Selections (Londini : Apud Wynandu[m] de Worde calcographie prelis examinata nouiter: suaq[ue] in domo sub Solis intersignio vendu[n]tur, [1519]), by Desiderius Erasmus (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Terentius Christianus, sive Comœdiæ duæ, Terentiano stylo conscriptæ ad vsum scholarum seorsim excusæ. Tobaeus. Iuditha. His accessit pseudostratiotes, fabula iocosa ac ludicra. Authore Cornelio Schonaeo. (Londini : [Printed by Thomas Snodham] ex typographia Societatis Stationariorum, 1620), by Cornelis Schonaeus and Terence (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Liber Gricismi Ebrardi, poema, ms. 1404 ([Italy, 1404), by de Béthune Evrard, Leo S. Olschki, active 1404 Perus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), H.P. Kraus (Firm), and Italy) Palazzo Raffaelli (Cingoli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petri de Riga Aurora seu Biblia versificata ([France?, 1250), by approximately 1140-1209 Peter Riga, Katharine Adams, Wilfred Merton, Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, W.J. Leighton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Pre-1650 Manuscript Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library), Puttick and Simpson, Inc Martin Breslauer, and H.P. Kraus (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Virgilius Christianus ... (Sumptibus Joannis Caspari Bencard, 1696), by Laurent Le Brun (page images at HathiTrust)
• Act verses (Cantebrigiæ : s.n., 1586. Iuli. 3), by University of Cambridge (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Narcissus. Siue amoris iuuenilis et præcipue philautiæ breuis at que moralis descripto (Londini : Excudebat Thomas Scarlet, 1591), by John Clapham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Matthiæ Leij, Aruillarij vbij Germani, liber De triumphata barbarie ([London : W. Stansby], Anno Domini. 1621), by Matthias Leius (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Act verses ([London : s.n., 1577?]), by University of Cambridge and Henry Hawkins (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Querimonia Europæ diuisa in libros duos, quorum jam exit primus. (Londini : Per Guilielmum Stansby, M D cxxv. [1625]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The patterne of painefull aduentures Containing the most excellent, pleasant and variable historie of the strange accidents that befell vnto Prince Apollonius, the Lady Lucina his wife, and Tharsia his daughter. Wherein the vncertaintie of this world, and the fickle state of mans life are liuely described. Gathered into English by Laurence Tvvine Gentleman. (Imprinted at London : By Valentine Simmes for the widow Newman, [1594]), by Thomas Twyne and Laurence Twyne (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• De historicis latinis. libri III. (ex officinâ Ioannis Maire, 1651), by Gerardus Joannes Vossius (page images at HathiTrust)
• De historicis latinis. libri III (Gregg International Publishers, 1970), by Gerardus Joannes Vossius (page images at HathiTrust)

• De la nature des choses. (Alphonse Lemerre, Éditeur, 1869), by Titus Lucretius Carus and Sully Prudhomme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opera, cum integris & emendatioribus commentariis Servii, Philargyrii, Pierii (Sumptibus Jacobi Wetstenii, 1746), by Virgil, Jacobus Wetstein, Antonio Maria Basso, Pieter Tanjé, Louis Fabricius Dubourg, active 4th century Servius, Pierio Valeriano, Nicolaas Heinsius, Johann Jakob Wettstein, Antonio Maria Basso, active 16th century Erythraeus (Nicolaus), Petrus Burmannus, and Pieter Burman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Benedicti Ar. Montani Hymni et secula.. (Ex officina Plantiniana, apud viduam, & Ioannem Moretum., 1593), by Benito Arias Montano, Jan Moretus, Christophe Plantin, Pedro de Valencia, and Plantijnsche Drukkerij (page images at HathiTrust)
• A poetical translation of the works of Horace : with the original text, and critical notes collected from his best Latin and French commentators (W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Caslon, B. Law, T. Cadell, G. Robinson, W. Stewart, T. Becket, J. Murray, W. Domville, J. Bell, and T. Evans, 1778), by Horace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Publii Virgilii Maronis Bucolica, Georgica, et Aeneis. (sumtibus Bibliopolii Academici, 1785), by Virgil, Rich. Fr. Phil. Brunck, and Rich. Fr. Phil. Brunck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catulli, Tibulli, et Propertii Opera, ex optimis editiionibus sedula Recensione accurata. (Sumtibus Rodwell et Martin; J. Booker; Baldwin, Cradock, et Joy; G. et W. B. Whittaker; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, et Brown; T. Cadell; E. Edwards; et Simpkin et Marshall. Excudit T. Davison, 1822), by Gaius Valerius Catullus, Sextus Propertius, and Tibullus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opera omnia (Whittaker & Co. [etc.], 1869), by Horace, George Long, and A. J. Macleane (page images at HathiTrust)
• A common-place book of John Milton, and a Latin essay and Latin verses presumed to be by Milton. (Printed for the Camden Society, 1877), by John Milton, Alfred J. Horwood, and British Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Publii Ovidii Nasonis operum (L. Elzevir, 1652), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, Nicolaas Heinsius, and Officina Elzeviriana (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nugæ venales, sive, Thesaurus ridendi & jocandi Ad gravissimos severissimosque viros, patres melancholicorum conscriptos opus plane novum & necessarium; in quo quid contineator, quævis pagina docebit. ([S.l.] : Anno 1642. Prostant apud neminem; sed tamen ubique, [1642]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Oeuvres complètes de Sénèque le philosophe / avec la traduction en franc̦ais (Firmin Didot, 1877), by D. Nisard and Lucius Annaeus Seneca (page images at HathiTrust)

• De arte criticâ (J. Pluymer, 1662), by Kaspar Schoppe and Francesco Robortello (page images at HathiTrust)

• And. Schotti S.I. Obseruationum humanarum lib. V. : Quibus Graeci Latiniq[ue] scriptores, philologi, poeta, historici, oratores, & philosophi emendantur, supplentur, & illustrantur. Ejusdem Nodi Ciceron, variorumque lib. IV. Item Caroli Langi in Ciceron. annotat. Ejusdemq[ue] Carmina lectiora. Seorsim vero edita Procli Chrestomathia, poetica, (Typis Wechelianis, apud haeredes Johannis Aubrii., 1615), by Andreas Schottus, ca. 410-485 Proclus, Pedro Juan Nuñez, Carl Lange, and Louis Carrion (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joh. Alberti Fabricii Bibliotheca Latina (Apud B. Schiller, 1697), by Johann Albert Fabricius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliotheca Latina, sive, Notitia auctorum veterum Latinorum, qvorumcunqve scripta ad nos pervenerunt, distributa in libros IV. (Sumtu viduae Benjamini Schilleri & Jo. Christoph Kisneri, 1721), by Johann Albert Fabricius, Jo. Christoph. Kisner, and Vidua Benjamini Schilleri (page images at HathiTrust)

• Of the nature of things (Printed by J. Matthews for G. Sawbridge, at the Three Golden Flower de Luces in Little Britain; and sold by J. Churchill and W. Taylor in Pater-Noster-Row ..., 1714), by Titus Lucretius Carus, William Taylor, John Churchill, George Sawbridge, John Matthews, Michael Burghers, and Thomas Creech (page images at HathiTrust)

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