8vo. 276 unnumbered leaves. 18th century red morocco. 19.5 cm (Ref: VD17 12:129968D; Brunet 4,833; Ebert 17828; Graesse 5,421) (Details: Back elaborately gilt with floral motives in the compartments, and with 5 raised bands. Boards with an elaborate wide gilt floral border. Inside gilt dentelles. Edges of the boards and of the book gilt. Marbled endpapers. Woodcut printer's mark on title, depicting a winged stag that jumps over an hourglass, on its back a man, who holds in his left hand a coiling serpent, and in his right a sickel, and above their head the word 'tempus'. Greek and Latin text printed in double column) (Condition: The back is restored in a most tasteful and skillful way, hardly visible for the naked eye. Some scratches on the boards, a bigger one on the upper board. 2 small wormholes in the lower margin of the first 75 leaves. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Partly with browning paper, else a very handsome copy) (Note: Aemilius Portus, 1550-1614, was a famous classical philologist of Greek-Italian descent. His father came from Crete to Italy to teach Greek. Aemilius was appointed professor of Greek at the University of Heidelberg in 1596. He published a great number of works, translations, commentaries and editions of Aristophanes, Thucydides, Xenophon, Dionysius Halicarnessensis, Homer. He even found time to do lexicographic work. In 1603 he published a 'Dictionarium Ionicum graecolatinum' and a 'Dictionarium Doricum graecolatinum', and in 1606 a 'lexicon Pindaricum'. No wonder that his works show signs of haste. Nevertheless, his editions and translations into Latin form a substantial progress compared to preceding editions. (Sandys II,271, and ADB 26 p. 447) (Provenance: Engraved armorial bookplate of Noel Thomas Ellison. Noel Thomas Ellison, born 16th February, 1791, sometime fellow of Baliol College, Oxford, rector of Whalton, Northumberland, and rector of Huntspill, Somersetshire, died 1858. The reverend is the author of 'Protestant errors and Roman Catholic truths', London 1829) (Collation: *2, A-2L8, M2) (Photographs on request)