Olympia, Nemea, Pythia, Isthmia. Una cum Latina omnium Versione Carmine Lyrico per Nicolaum Sudorium.

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The first English edition of the Greek text of Pindar, edited by Richard West and Robert Welsted, both then young fellows at Magdalen College (and both of whom left Oxford shortly afterward, West for the priesthood and Welsted for medicine). It prints the Latin verse translation by Nicolas Le Sueur (1545-1594) along with the Greek text, plus a Latin prose paraphrase, the Greek scholia, Latin notes, a chronology of the Olympiads, multiple 'Lives' of Pindar, and, in a section at the end, a collection of Pindaric fragments. Dibdin calls it 'a beautiful and celebrated edition... on the whole, we must allow that the editors of this magnificent work have taken infinite pains to bring together every thing which could illustrate and improve the reading of the poet'. Provenance: Brinley Treby was born in January 1693 to George Treby of Plympton (1644-1700), and his fourth wife Mary Brinley. His father was Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and six times M.P. for the Rotten Borough of Plympton Erle, Devon.