Βαβρίου μυθίαμβοι. Babrii fabulae iambiae CXXIII, iussu summi educationis publicae administratoris Abeli Villemain viri excell. Nunc primum editae Joh. Fr. Boissonade Litt. Gr. Pr. Recensuit Latine convertit annotavit

<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. xii, 269. Half morocco. Parallel Greek and Latin texts, the Latin translation by Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Includes the first printing of one forgery by the Greek-Ottoman manuscript dealer Konstantinos [Minoides] Menas (d. 1859), who succesfully corrupted the text of the post-Aesopian fabulist Babrius, with full-fledged impostures that deceived the French classical scholar Boissonade. In 1839, the French Education Minister Abel-François Villemain had sent Menas on a mission to find ancient Greek manuscripts. In 1842, Menas found a manuscript of Babrius at a monastery at Mount Athos, the Codex Athous, of which a copy was edited and published by Boissonade in 1844.