[339] It was first printed in the Plato of Basle, 1534. There is an English translation by Thomas Taylor, The Commentaries of Proclus on the Timaeus of Plato, in 2 vols. (London, 1820). Proclus was also the author of astronomical works which helped to keep Grecian learning alive in the early Middle Ages.
[340] The works of L. Annaeus Seneca were first printed in Naples, 1475, fol., but the Questionum naturalium lib. vii. were not included until the Venice ed. of 1490, which also contained the first edition of the Suasoriae and Controversariae of M. Ann. Seneca. The Tragoediae of L. Ann. Seneca were first printed about 1484 by A. Gallicus, probably at Ferrara.
[341] Historiae naturalis libri xxxvii. The first edition was the famous and rare folio of Joannes de Spira, Venice, 1469. I find record of ten other editions and three issues of Landino’s Italian translation before 1492.
[342] C. Julii Solini Collectanea rerum memorabilium sive polyhistor. Solinus lived probably in the third century a.d. His book was a great favorite in the Middle Ages, both in manuscript and in print, and was known by various titles, as Polyhistor, De situ orbis, etc. The first edition appeared without place or date, at Rome, about 1473, and in the same year at Venice, and it was often reprinted with the annotations of the most famous geographers. The best edition is that by Mommsen (Berlin, 1864). See Vol. II. p. 180.
[343] First edition, Milan, 1471. 4to. The best is that by Parthey, Berlin, 1867. A history and bibliography of this work is given in Vol. II. p. 180.
[344] Commentariorum in somnium Scipionis libri duo. The first edition was at Venice, 1472. There has been an edition by Jahn (2 vols. Quedlinburg, 1848, 1852), and by Eyssenhardt (Leipzig, 1868), and a French translation by various hands, printed in 3 vols. at Paris, 1845-47.
[345] Descriptio orbis terrae; ora maritima. The first edition appeared at Venice in 1488, with the Phaenomena of Aratus. It is included in the Geogr. Graec. min. of Mueller. Muellenhof has treated of the latter poem at length in his Deutsche Alterthumskunde, i. 73-210.
[346] Astronomicon libri v. Manilius is an unknown personality, but wrote in the first half of the first century A. D. (First ed., Nuremberg, 1472 or 1473); Hyginus, Poeticon Astronomicon, 1st or 2d cent. A. D. (Ferrara, 1475).
[347] De nuptiis philologiae et Mercurii, first ed. Vicent., 1499.
[348] E. H. Bunbury, Hist. of Anc. Geog. among the Greeks and Romans (London, 1879), in two volumes,—a valuable, well-digested work, but scant in citations. Ukert, Geog. der Griechen and Römer (Weimar, 1816), very rich in citations, giving authorities for every statement, and useful as a summary.