Uranii Alexandrini de regibus aegyptiorum libri tres. Author and Forger: Constantine Simonides (Hydra, 11 November 1824 – September 1867, Alexandria, Egypt) || Editor and Dupe: Karl Wilhelm Dindorf (Leipzig, 2 January 1802 – 1 August 1883, Leipzig) ||...
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Uranii Alexandrini de regibus aegyptiorum libri tres. Author and Forger: Constantine Simonides (Hydra, 11 November 1824 – September 1867, Alexandria, Egypt) || Editor and Dupe: Karl Wilhelm Dindorf (Leipzig, 2 January 1802 – 1 August 1883, Leipzig) || Publication Data: Oxford, 1856 || Ex libris 1: Falconer Madan (Cam vicarage, Gloucestershire, 15 April 1851 – 22 May 1935, 94 Banbury Road, Oxford) || Ex libris 2: Francis Llewellyn Griffith (Brighton, 27 May 1862 – 14 March 1934, Sandridge, Boars Hill, Oxford) || Note: This is the text that Dindorf edited and published from specimens of the manuscript in palimpsest that Simonides had forged. In having made a fool of Dindorf, Simonides must have taken immense satisfaction. || For best viewing, download PDF.
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