De falsa legatione, oratio - Demosthenes; Aeschines (Oxford Sheldonian Theatre, 1721)
"On the False Embassy" (Ancient Greek: Περὶ τῆς παραπρεσβείας) is the name of two famous judicial orations, both delivered in 343 BC by the prominent Athenian statesmen and fierce opponents, Demosthenes and Aeschines.
Contains portraits of both authors
Ex libris Maclean of Ardgour (plate)
Bound in brown leather
Cum Latina Hier. Wolfii versione, plurimis in locis emendata, necnon Budaei aliorumque notis. His accedunt in Demosthenis orationem Ulpiani scholia, aliaque anonymi cujusdam in Aeschinis orationem nunc primum edita, & Indices praeterea necessarii
Keywords: Classical Antiquity (8th Century BC-6th Century AD); 18th Century (1701-1800); Rhetoric; Politics; Greece