whose works, Fabricius has written in his Bibliotheca Græca, Vol. I. p. 493. Edit. Vet.

LUD. FRID. HEINDORFII ad H. C. A. Eichstaedtium Epistola Critica, in Platonis Theatetum.-Plato's Theaetetus offers abund ant opportunities for the genuine critic to display his skill, either by illustration or correction. M. HEINDORF's emendations, however, afford but slight marks of an active and vigilant reader of Plato :-sunt mediocri, sunt mala plura. The expression somniandum cum Stephano, p. 21. is coarse, and presumptuous in the extreme, when applied by L. F. HEINDORF to the immortal Henry Stephens.

PHILIPPI BUTTMANNI Critice Annotationes in locos quosdem Ciceronis These alterations are proposed in passages from Cicero's Epistles ad Famil. 4. 15.—Brutus. 16. 22. 40. 66. 79. 89.-Orat. in Verr.-Pro Lege Manil.-Pro Cluent.-De Lege Agraria.-They are trifling.

FRID. GUL. STURZII de Vocabuli vóns significationibus.—This is an ingenious essay. The writer of it has already appeared before the public, as the editor of the Fragments of Pherecydes.

De Friderici Sylburgii Vita et Scriptis, Oratio dicta in Electoris Hassiaci Natalitiis, 1803. Marburgi. A GEO. FRID. CREUZERO, Litterarum Græcarum et Eloquentia Professore.-An interesting memoir of a truly profound schol.r. We looked in vain, however, for some critical examination of his labours, and some account of his plans, as an editor. His erudition demanded such an investigation. Every scholar must hear with respect the honoured name of Frederick Sylburgius.

De Livii aliquot Codicibus Helmstadiensibus. Scripsit CHRIS. THEOPH. WERNSDORF, Professor Helmstadiensis.-These lections are not of high importance: but we are glad to see them published; and we recommend it to Professor WERNSDORF to complete these collations.

G. G. BREDOW, Professoris Historiarum Helmstadiensis in Ciceronis, Sophoclis, Plutarchi aliquot locos, Critice Observationes.

In the Electra of Sophocles, edit. Brunckii, Professor BREDow assigns v. 823. 4, 5, 6, to the chorus, 827 to Electra, and leaves the remainder of the Strophe as it stands in Brunck. In the antistrophe, he reads 843.

Chorus. Φεν δήτ' ὀλοὺ γὰρ ἐδάμη

844-8. Electra. Nal. i, d'.ȧvaçπastels.

We see little ingenuity in this proposed assignment of the verses 823-6 to Electra, and great disingenuousness in not

stating

stating that the old books, and Erfurdt, have so published them The change at the close of the antistrophe is very dis putable. In 837, the margin of Turnebus gives you for yaf, which will restore the true measure, as a long syllable is demanded.

The metres ought to stand thus:

The Ionica a Majore may be divided into tetrameters, instead of dimeters.

Some passages in Cicero and Plutarch are also criticized, for which the reader may consult the Acta themselves.

Carmen Seculare supremo Sæculi XVIII. die, dictum a FRIDER. ROTH, D.-This Carmen Sæculare is written in Hexameters, and fills above five pages:- but the verses did not merit publication.

Carmen Diogenis Laertii de Eudoxo, Lib. VIII. fin. Metro suo restitutum. A G. F. GROTEHEND, Prorectore Francefur tensis ad Moenum.-It is singular that these Galliambics of » Diogenes should have never been rightly arranged by any of the critics. Professor GROIEFEND has exhibited them very nearly according to the laws of that singular measure;

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Ἐν Μέμφει λόγος ἐστὶν προμαθεῖν τὴν 15 ην
Εἴδοξον ποτε μότραν παρὰ τοῦ καλλικέρω
Ταύρου. Κοὐδὲν ελεξεν· βοὶ γὰρ πόθεν λόγος ;
Φύσις οὐκ ἔδωκε μόσχῳ λάλον ̓́Απιδι στόμα.
Παρα δ' αυτὸν λέχριος στὰς ἐλιχμήσατο στολὴν,
Προφανῶς τοῦτο διδάσκων, απολύσει βιοτήν
Ὅσον ουπω. Διὸ καὶ οἱ ταχέως ἦλθε μόρος,
Δεκάκις πέντ' ἐπὶ τρισσᾶις ἐσιδόντι πλείαδας.

In the first line, the Professor gives is for iol, which injures the metre; as IIP can scarcely make a final iota long. He, however, doubtless imagines that it may; since he reads the last line thus:

Δεκακις πείτε γ' ἐπὶ τρεῖς ἐσιδίνει πλείαδας,

in which the last syllable of ii is lengthened before TP. This has an aukward appearance in Lyrics. The books have le πίνε ἐπὶ, and the old botcher ys or γ' looks queerly after πέντε. Δεκάκις y, if the metre had been sound, would have been more to the purpose. We have given the line above as corrected by a most learned friend.

FRID. AUG. BODE de Summa Poeseos Perfectione in Dramate Græcorum exhibita Disputatio.-The Greek stage is a subject highly interesting to all scholars. Little praise, however, can be bestowed justly on this oration, or essay, which contains no novelty, and in which the author has displayed little skill in his use of old materials. Who can be instructed by a page or two of Aristotle's Poetics, from a Latin translation : by a Blind reference to Plato, (in loco quodam Platonis), and by ac tation from the Ars Poetica, respecting the duties of the chorus?

HENR. CAROLI ABR. EICHSTADII Eloqu. et Poes. in Acad. Fenens. Professoris, in Plutarchea quædam e Poetis hausta Animadversiones.-Why will not these Professores labour to understand a little of Greek prosody, before they venture to meddle with Greek poetical fragments? The immolation of Jo. Clericus, after the publication of his Menander, at the altar of TRUE LEARNING, though Bentley was the Immolator, strikes no terror into this hardy race!-Let the critic mark, as he reads, these verses, published by Professor HENRY, CHARLES ABRAHAM EICHSTÄDT:

Menander. Αλεξάνδρου τοῦ βασιλίως πλέον πεπωκας,

and, Γέλων πρὸς τὸν Κύπριον ἐκθανούμενος,

which by chance will scan.-Again,

Τι δ ̓ οὐ πρὸς τοὺς ἐμοῦ κρείττους ἄπει,
Ειμοι δὲ μὴ παρέχεις πραγματα;

In

In Wyttenbach's edition of Plutarch, I. p. 322.
Προς τοὺς ὑποτυχὼν ἂν τις ἔιποι,

Θεός δέ σοι πήμ' ουδέν, ἀλλ' αὐτὸς αὐτῷ,
σύ σοι, καὶ ગેઝ ἀπαιδευσίαν ἄνοια καὶ

παραφροσνη.

την

"Quibus hoc dicto occurrere non ineptè liceat,
Non tibi Deus nocet, sed ipse tu tibi

Officis, et tua malè instituti cecordia."

Prof. EICHSTÄDT proposes for all to read a car; and he states that Plutarch alluded to Sophocles, Ed. Tyr. 387. (Brunck. 379.)

Κρέων δέ σοι πᾶμ' οὐδὲν, αλλ' αυτός σύ σοι.

This is of a better stamp; as is the reference to Simonides, on the same work of Plutarch, p. 315. where, however, Wyttenbach had observed, dictio poetam sapit.

In Plutarch's Amatorius, and in his de Tranquillitate, the Professor cleverly detects a reference to the Bacch. of Euripides, 66. He adds an emendation or two, and concludes his paper with asserting that a passage in Plutarch's de cohibenda ira may readily be reduced to trimeters, as it is taken from some comic writer.-It is to be regretted that he has favoured his readers with the Iambics.

Joh. Frid. Christii, Professoris quondam Lipsiensis, Anecdota quædam in gratiam Christiani Felicis Weissii, descripta a FRID. VOLGANGO REIZIO. These inedited extracts from Professor Christius's papers might have remained unpublished, without Occasioning any bitter lamentations in the literary world.

Alcai Hymnus in Mercurium, e fida Horatii (Od. 1. 10.) versione, quantum fieri poterat, restitutus a G. F. GROTEFEND, Gymnasii Francofurtensis Prorectore.-Horace's five Latin Sapphic Stanzas are here translated into what M. GROTEFEND pleases himself with supposing to be five Greek Alcaic Stanzas!This Prorector Gymnasii Francofurtensis will probably be surprised when he is informed that no one of these stanzas exhibits its third verse formed in the mould of Alceus:-" So Grecian, yet so Latin all the while!" In the fragments of Alceus, a sufficient number of these third verses is preserved, to assure us that there was invariably an Iambus in tertiâ sede, and never a Spondeus.

In the Monthly Review for January, 1798, p. 8. some remarks on this measure were offered to its learned readers; in which it was proved that in Horace the FIFTH syllable was always LONG, and in Alceus always SHORT; or that in the

latter

latter there was an Iambus in the third place, and in the former a Spondeus.

Let the reader now peruse the third verses of Prorector GROTEFEND's Alcaic Stanzas.

It surely cannot be denied that the Prorector had just grounds for prefixing ALCAUS RESTITUTUS to his composition!

GREG. GOTTL. WERNSDORF, A. M. et Scholas Numburg. Cathedralis Rectoris, Animadversiones Critice in Ciceronis Orationes, pro Ligario, pro Rege Dejtaro, et pro Lege Munilia.

In the Orat. pro Ligario. C. 7. for ita quidem aiebat,-opponebat, M. WERNSDORF would read e MSS.-ita quidem agebant, ita-opponebant.-Again, for Ernesti's illum voluisse-quam aliquam maluisse-he defends ullum, and aliquem se, the lections of our old friend GRAVIUS.-We must once more refer to the Acta, for a full indulgence in these critical animadversions.

Ciceronis locos nonnullos Libri I. de Officiis et Lelii emendavit atque illustravit AUG. GOTTH. GERNHARD, LL. AA. M. Schol. Cathedr. Numburg. Conrect. Soc. Lat. Jenens. Sod.--Frem p. 259. to p. 270.-Slight work this, and published, perhaps, for the use of Corrector GERNHARD's scholars!

10. CHRIST. WERNSDORFII, quondam Consiliarii Aulici et Eloqu ac Poes. P. P. O. in Academ. Helmstad. de Constantiniana Daphne in Numo Constantini M. Commentatis.—These remarks extend from p. 270. to p. 312.-The commentary will invite the attention of those readers who pursue the amusing and useful study of coins and medals.

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