Re: LOEBs

While many still dride the use of Loebs, I have found them very handy in geing  txts therwise hard to find in a nown university town.  For instance, the 2015 edition of Fragments of Sallust or the three volumes of Rmains of Old Latin.  I have gotten real bargains on Lorbs on eBay---I got 4 volumes of Quintillian for a song, practically.

---- Original Message -----
From: Arthur Robinson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 17:17:49 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: [CLASSICS-L] LOEBs

Sorry, this is anecdotal rather than helpful...

A few years ago I tried to sell many Classics commentaries (Cambridge green
and gold, Oxford, etc.) on this list, plus about 55 Loebs.  I was able to
sell only a fraction of the commentaries.  But every single Loeb found a
new home.

My graduate school adviser tried to persuade us that nobody above the
undergraduate level used Loebs.  I learned a lot from him, but I found
little evidence of this.  I'm now a librarian, and have been repeatedly
asked to purchase Loebs for our collection--or order them on interlibrary
loan for faculty.

Arthur Robinson

On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 3:17 PM david meadows <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Why not just point him/her to the loebulus online versions ...
>
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 3:15 PM Rick LAFLEUR aka Dr Illa FlOra <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > A former student wants to buy a set of LOEBS, or a substantial partial
> > set, used: can anyone assist?
> > Rick LaFleur
> >
>