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A03094 The history of Herodian, a Greeke authour treating of the Romayne emperors, after Marcus, translated oute of Greeke into Latin, by Angelus Politianus, and out of Latin into Englyshe, by Nicholas Smyth. Whereunto are annexed, the argumentes of euery booke, at the begynning therof, with annotacions for the better vnderstandynge of the same historye.; History. English Herodian.; Smyth, Nicholas, fl. 1556. 1556 (1556) STC 13221; ESTC S104002 157,783 244

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