HIEROCLES AND PHILAGRIUS

13 DECLAMATIONS original: "DECLAMATIONES XIII". Declamations were formal rhetorical exercises where a speaker would argue a specific, often hypothetical, legal or moral case.

OF WHICH TWELVE ARE UNPUBLISHED

BY FAR THE GREATEST PART IS UNPUBLISHED

EDITED BY

JEAN FRANÇOIS BOISSONADE

Boissonade (1774–1857) was a distinguished French scholar of Greek literature and a professor at the Collège de France.

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N. YEMENIZ (OF BYZANTIUM)

Nicolas Yemeniz was a wealthy merchant and famous book collector of Greek origin based in France.

MERCHANT OF LYON

original: "NEGOCIATORE LUGDUNENSI". Lugdunum is the Latin name for the city of Lyon.

DUMONT
AT THE INSTITUTE

A vertical line with double-headed arrows (pointing up and down) separates the addresses of the two publishers.

LELEUX
9 PIERRE-SARRAZIN STREET

1848

original: "M DCCC XLVIII".