Luciani Samosatensis: Colloquia Selecta & Timon; Cebetis Thebani: Tabula; Menandri: sententiæ morales - Lucian of Samosata ca.125-ca.180; Menander c. 342/41-c.290 BC; Cebes Thebanus fl. 1st cent.; Hemsterhuis, Tiberius 1685-1766 (Amsterdam Wetsten; Smith, 1732)
Lucian of Samosata is a second-century Hellenized Syrian satirist, rhetorician and pamphleteer who is best known for his characteristic tongue-in-cheek style, with which he frequently ridiculed superstition, religious practices, and belief in the paranormal.
Cebes is a 1st century Neo-Pythagorean philosopher, disciple of Virgil
An admirer and imitator of Euripides, Menander resembles him in his keen observation of practical life, his analysis of the emotions, and his fondness for moral maxims. These (chiefly monostichs) were afterwards collected, and, with additions from other sources, were edited as Menander's One-Verse Maxims, a kind of moral textbook for the use of schools
Tiberius Hemsterhuis (1685-1766) is a philologist
Ex libris Coninck Westenberg (Plate)
Ex libris W. de Jongh 1840 (manuscript)
Keywords: Classical Antiquity (8th Century BC-6th Century AD); Moral education; Satire; Philosophy