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DIDYMUS. Interpretationes et antiquae, et perquam utiles in Homeri Iliada, nec non in Odyssea [with PORPHYRY, Homericarum quaestionum liber and De nympharum antro in Odyssea opusculum]. Greek text. 319, [45] leaves, including blank R8 and final leaf with Aldine device on verso. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, 164x99 mm, 19th-century russet morocco gilt-tooled to panel design by Charles Lewis, with his ticket, spine faded; contents unobtrusively washed. (Venice: House of Aldus and Andrea of Asola, May 1521)
first aldine edition. Despite the title, this edition did not include the commentary on the Odyssey, which first appeared in 1528. Renouard, page 91(6); New UCLA 200.
