GREEK AND DUTCH

[Greek studies] Reitz, Willem Otto: Belga Graecissans. Quod si labori Belgica faverit meo, plures habebit, quos opponat Galliae: Si Livor obtrectare curam voluerit, Non tamen eripiet laudis conscientiam. Rotterodami, apud Joh. Hofhout 1730.

Latin-language study of Greek and Dutch by an eminent classicist. Willem Otto Reitz (1702-1769) makes the case for the parallels between the Greek and Dutch languages, and begins with discussion of 38 citations from authorities, which he believes show these.

Reitz became Rector of the Gymnasium of Middelburg in 1741. He is credited with an important edition of Theophilus’ Greek paraphrase of Justinian’s ‘Institutes’ (see David Irving, ‘An Introduction to the Study of the Civil Law’ (London 1837), 61).

Details

First edition. 8vo., pp. [2] 636. Title-page in red and black. Fold-out engraving of scripts after p. 28. Some light browning, foxing, and waterstaining, small inkstain to front pastedown and endpaper, very good, bound in contemporary vellum boards, title inked on spine, edges mottled red (some bowing to top cover with splitting at bottom of joint).

OCLC (10/16) shows copies outside mainland Europe in Keller, Penn, Wisconsin, Chicago; Oxford, Warburg Institute, British Library.