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The Worthye Booke of Old age otherwyse entituled the elder Cato, contayning a learned defence and praise of Age, and Aged men: writen in latine by that father of eloquence Marcus Tullius Cicero, and now englished. Whereunto is annexed a Recitall of diuerse men that liued long. With a declaracion of sundrye soortes of yeares, and the diuersitie between the yeres in the old time, and our yeares nowe adayes.

1569

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The Worthye Booke of Old age otherwyse entituled the elder Cato, contayning a learned defence and praise of Age, and Aged men: writen in latine by that father of eloquence Marcus Tullius Cicero, and now englished. Whereunto is annexed a Recitall of diuerse men that liued long. With a declaracion of sundrye soortes of yeares, and the diuersitie between the yeres in the old time, and our yeares nowe adayes.

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Title-page Attribution: As above
A translation of Cicero’s Cato Major de senectute
Other Copies: 5 (British Library, Glasgow, Harvard, Huntington, Elizabethan Club)

1569

Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Title: The Worthye Booke of Old age otherwyse entituled the elder Cato, contayning a learned defence and praise of Age, and Aged men: writen in latine by that father of eloquence Marcus Tullius Cicero, and now englished. Whereunto is annexed a Recitall of diuerse men that liued long. With a declaracion of sundrye soortes of yeares, and the diuersitie between the yeres in the old time, and our yeares nowe adayes.
Publication Location: London
Editor: Imprinted at London by Thomas Marshe.
Date: 1569
Language: English
No of scans: 168
Type: Print
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  • AuthorsCicero, Marcus Tullius
    Newton, Thomas
  • Author Years(106-43 BC)
    (1544/5-1607)
  • TitleThe Worthye Booke of Old age otherwyse entituled the elder Cato, contayning a learned defence and praise of Age, and Aged men: writen in latine by that father of eloquence Marcus Tullius Cicero, and now englished. Whereunto is annexed a Recitall of diuerse men that liued long. With a declaracion of sundrye soortes of yeares, and the diuersitie between the yeres in the old time, and our yeares nowe adayes.
  • Varying form of TitleWorthy Book of Old Age
  • Language(s)eng
Publication, distribution
  • Publication LocationLondon
  • PublisherImprinted at London by Thomas Marshe.
  • Publication Date1569
Edition
Description material
  • TypePrint
  • Volume8° ; 14.75 x 10 cm
  • Collation158 p.
  • BindingHalf-calf, contemporary
  • Signature‡8 A-H8 I4 χ4 (-χ4)
Remarques
  • General NotesTitle-page Attribution: As above
    A translation of Cicero’s Cato Major de senectute
    Other Copies: 5 (British Library, Glasgow, Harvard, Huntington, Elizabethan Club)
  • AnnotationFront flyleaf densely annotated with list of words (18th c.) Occasional English finding notes for proper nouns
  • Citation Source NameSTC (2nd edn.) 5294
Identification
  • ConstellationLittérature élisabéthaine
  • PID724
  • DOI10.13097/BodmerLab/1072056467
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