The gnomic saying γνῶθι σεαυτόν and its use as a foundation for a good life are the basic principles on which Ján Weber, a renowned pharmacologist, doctor and mayor of Prešov, builds on in the prologue to the Lectio principium (1665), his Handbook on political thinking. The aim of the paper is to show to what extent, the author draws on the examples inherited from the Antiquity.
The present study analyses the lexicographic components in prints written in Latin in the 18th century, which, depending on the authorship, language, place of publication or content, concern Slovakia or Slovaks. It defines the form, method and meaning of their inclusion in the work in the context of intersection with vernacular languages as a starting point for the mediation of mostly technical vocabulary to the reader in conjunction with the practical context of the presented works.
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