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This is the Title page to the 1675 edition.


Tanaquillus Faber (Latin Fabri) is often quoted as an authority simply as ‘Faber’ in notes to early editions ( including by Creech himself in his 1714 translation) His real name was Tanneguy le Fèvre, a French classical scholar. Dyonysius Lambinus was another French classicist, Denis Lambin, who edited Lucretius in 1563. Obertus Gifanius was a professor of Philosophy at the University of Strasburg. So some important people worked on this book.