[Filipinos of Demosthenes]. Set of 3 manuscripts.... - Lot 317 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

[Filipinos of Demosthenes]. Set of 3 manuscripts. Father d'Olivet published a translation of the Philippics of Demosthenes in 1736. - Autograph manuscript, 1 p. in-folio, "1st Philippic woman", wetness, freckles and tear in the central fold: Essays on the translation of verses. - Manuscript from an unidentified hand "1st Philippine". 3 pp. ½ in-4. Remarks on the translation. "Page 37. I left parish before me. There are in this period two members who are not in Greek. After listening to them and If I thought it was the best. The Greek says more simply: if you, Athenians, had to deliberate on some new subject, I think I let several of your speakers speak before me; and I would have been silent if I had been pleased with their opinion; if not, I would then have been silent in telling you mine.... - Manuscript in the hand of Abbé d'Olivet: "Remarks by M. l'Abbé Massieu on the second Philippic translated by M. de Tourreil". 6 pp. in-4.