[2 Tomi] J. Arntzenius; P. Drepanius - Antiklotzius / Panegyricus - 1753-1762

Panegyricus of Latinius Pacatus Drepanius with complete notes… edited by Joannes Arntzenius… Amsterdam, Widow & Son S. Schouten, 1753; bound with Petrus Burmannus Secundus Antiklotzius, Amsterdam, Gerardus Tielenburg, 1762.

Quarto volume (size 20.7 × 26.2 cm), contemporary parchment binding, smooth spine with manuscript title.

Two title pages (the first printed in red and black, with a copper-engraved vignette).
Pages: [10], XV, [1] blank, 178, [33], [1] blank; [10], 146.

The first text is the critical edition of the Panegyricus of Latinius Pacatus Drepanius (Gallo-Roman orator, late 4th century), a speech delivered in Rome in 389 before Emperor Theodosius I after the victory over the usurper Maximus. It is regarded as one of the finest examples of late antique Latin panegyric in terms of style, dignity, and historical value.

The edition by Joannes Arntzenius (Dutch jurist and philologist) gathers the full notes of the principal earlier commentators (Claudius Puteanus, Franciscus Juretus, Joannes Livineius, Valentinus Acidalius, Conradus Rittershusius, Janus Gruterus, Joannes Schefferus, Christianus Gottlieb Schwarz and others), the Animadversiones criticae by Thomas Wopkens (here printed for the first time) and Arntzenius’s own annotations, along with Pacatus’s Vita by Scheffer and an analytic index.

The second text is Petrus Burmannus Secundus’s Antiklotzius (1713–1778), a famous philologist and professor of eloquence and history in Amsterdam, a literary polemic and satire in defense of the Dutch philological tradition against Christian Adolf Klotz, with a figurative title page and “Catalecta Antiklotziana.”

A seventeenth-eighteenth-century reference edition of Pacatus’s panegyric, still consulted for the breadth of its critical apparatus; rare on the antiquarian market, especially in original binding and complete with both texts (Burmann’s piece is a polemical pamphlet with limited print run).

A well-preserved copy, with the two title pages and the engravings intact, a typical product of Dutch classical philology in the late eighteenth century.