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A06421 Certaine select dialogues of Lucian together with his true historie, translated from the Greeke into English by Mr Francis Hickes. Whereunto is added the life of Lucian gathered out of his owne writings, with briefe notes and illustrations upon each dialogue and booke, by T.H. Mr of Arts of Christ-Church in Oxford.; Dialogi. English. Selections Lucian, of Samosata.; Hickes, Thomas, 1599-1634.; Hickes, Francis, 1566-1631. 1634 (1634) STC 16893; ESTC S108898 187,997 214

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