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SEP 19 1884
Salisbury fund.
This English text and the date stamp indicate when the book was acquired by a library, likely in the United States or Great Britain, using a specific endowment known as the Salisbury fund.
original Latin: "Apulei de deo Socratis liber." Apuleius (c. 124 – c. 170 AD) was a Roman philosopher and rhetorician. This specific work is a treatise on the "daimonion" or divine voice that Socrates claimed guided his actions, interpreted through a Middle Platonic lens.
original Latin: "Ad optimos codices recensuit et emendavit." This is a standard academic phrase used in critical editions. It means the editor compared various historical handwritten copies (codices) to correct previous errors and restore the text to its original form.
Christian Lütjohann (1846–1886) was a German classical philologist and a teacher at the Gymnasium in Greifswald. It was common for highly educated schoolteachers in the 19th century to publish original research in their school's annual reports.