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Title

Authors

• Luscinius, Ottmar, 1487-1537
• Ammianus Marcellinus
• Ausonius, Decimus Magnus
• Lucullus, approximately 117 B.C.-approximately 56 B.C
• Lucilius, Gaius, ca. 180-ca. 102 B.C

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9943688173503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/234380910
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4368817

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Language

Summary

Five epigrams of Ammianus, Lucullus, Lucilius, and Ausonius, seemingly translated from the Greek by Luscinius, with the overall title Epigrammata quedam auditu jucunda de pigmeis vel nanis. Written on verso of printed broadside, on which is printed part of a German poem by Johann Setzer from ca. 1523-1532. The epigrams are about 4-5 lines each, and feature jokes about dwarves and pygmies.

Extent

Subjects topical

• Epigrams, Latin

Genres

• Epigrams
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Literature -- Prose

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