Nicolas Rigault (Rigaltius; 1577-1654) was a French

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. Born in

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, he was educated by the

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. He was successively councillor of the

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, procurator general at Nancy, and

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of the province of

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. He prepared annotated editions of Phaedrus,

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, Saint Cyprian, and also some mixed collections: ''Rei accipitrariæ scriptores'', 1612; ''Rei agrariae scriptores,'' 1613. He acted as librarian to

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. He used a

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Selected works

* 1596 : — «''Asini aurei asinus, sive De scaturigine onocrenes''» (1596; экземпляр парижской национальной библиотеки считается uniсum), : — «''Satyra Menippea somnium''», * 1600 — «''Biberii Curculionis parasiti mortualia, accessit Asinus...''» (более известная под заглавием III изд.: "Funus parasiticum" (П., 1601), "Rei agrariae scriptores" (1613)).

Sources

*''Nicolas Rigault'', in Marie-Nicolas Bouillet et Alexis Chassang (eds), ''Dictionnaire universel d'histoire et de géographie'', 1878

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rigault, Nicolas 1577 births 1654 deaths Writers from Paris French classical scholars