in Eur. Or. 1524. Rh. 69. Iph. T. 1352. Heracl. 141. Soph. Aj 1285. Ariftoph. Acharn. 1187. It should be dpaπelas.

334. Kaunhaos, Epgaïu.] Mr. G. in his fecond lift of errata, corrects this word into Kaulaev, which renders any comment on the original reading unneceffary.

334.-Davμ εOT ws-miris modis.] Is this in imitation of Efch. Agam. 1203 —τοξόλης τις ὡς. Ως is to be found at the end of lambics, but we know not, whether the examples will quite reconcile us to θαυμ' εστιν ὡς

336 Maxxs TOT EXVOGTVTα-revertentem.] What authority is there for Exvodie?-Aπrovoolav is good Greek. Eur. Hel. 482. Λακεδαίμονος γης νοσησασ' απο. - So Iph. Taur. 737. and Homer.

338. ovyxorλrosita, confcribatur.] This firft future middle, paiâ fignificatione, like lovno tla, is without authority.-It was our intention to have given a complete lift of the Futura Media, which are used by the Attic poets, but we are prevented by want of room.-No writer fhould venture thus to change the voice of a verb, unless it be defended by the practice of the ancients.-Konala occurs in Efch. Agam. 1575. Ariftoph. Equit. 463. 470. aglimonnos. Efch. Choeph. 578. Sept. Th. 379. χρυσοκολληλος. Eur. Ph. 2. The metaphoric fenfe alio of συγκολ Aasta can only be defended from the facred writings.

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339. Εγωγ' αλήρος οίδα και παρηορος. Ego confcius jum me peccatorem effe et ftolidum.] Should it not be axilgos wv?-but whence

• In verse 343 of this comedy, Equites, we must read,

Τῳ και πεποιθως αξίοις λέγειν εναντιον με

inftead of alio que, as Brunck has published the line. In the first place a tribrachys cannot be admitted, before the Catalectic syllable, in lamb. Octon. Catale. and in the fecond, fuch a tribrachys, as-rov S could never have been formed by Ariftophanes, for a reafon, which the learned reader may find in Dawes Mifc. Crit. p. 211. 1. 12. The ideas of Mr. Brunck on thefe two points are not correct. —In V. 416. read-σίωμενος κυνοκεφαλω μαχει συ, inftead ofμάχει συ κυνοκεφαλῳ, 28 it is in Brunck's text, though, in his note, he would read-μaxa ou ye mustang, and adds: “quâ ratione confiant versûs numeri, fi quidem tribrachys loco Iambi ante fyllabam catalecticam ponitur."-How emphatical is this! How harmonious is the rhythm of the verfe!Quanti feciffet iftud re vir doctiffimus, fi ex Heathii, vel Angli cujusdam fodinis effet effoffum! Again, in V. 463. for roupeμera yo ta maila nat *, read Toμpener aula mana-The Junte edition of 1515. omits Y.-In V. 465. for Ovxev pi', ev Apyet once parle, read Ovev v Afgel με ένα πρατίει λανθάνει. In V. 891. read-συ δ' οίμωζ', ω πονης .-ΔΗΜ. Jabo. inftead of -w Hornet. alb-which leaves an hiatus non tolerandus. Iaco occurs in Vefp. 1338. But we are reviewing Glaffe's Samfon, not the Strasburg Ariftophanes !

Much as Brunck has contributed to restore the text of the Comedies, a future Editor will find fufficient employment for his acutenefs, talte, and erudition.

comes

comes algos? From Homer, 11. V. 595, et alibi.-Efchylus, indeed, ules airpwv, Eum. 317. and nλlev, 269.- Apex is in Arift. Acharn. 967.-Axingios Soph. Oed. C. 371, where we prefer Toup's reading, in Suid. II. 168. to Brunck's, who may delight himself Anapaflis fuis in paribus Senariorum fedibus.— Confult about Axpos, Spanheim in Call. p. 8o. and the Commentators on Hefychius.

For magogos, which is Ionic and in Homer, I. 603, et alibi, we would read magasgos, which an Oxford MS. and Aldus give, in Eich. Prom. 363.-See on this word the Commentators on Hefychius, Toup in Theocr. ad Warton. 328. Valken. in Theocr. fel. Idyll. p. 241.

340. Όμως δ' εκείνες εκ αποτρυειν έχρην την ελπιδ— Tilos non oportuit abjeciffe fpem.] This lAMBIC is imitated from a CHORUS in Soph. Trach. 124. φαμι γαρ εκ αποτρυειν ελπίδα των αγαθαν χρηναι σ'.

342. This verfe begins an Antiftrophical Chorus, which concludes the Act, at V. 381.

344. To Kpetlovos, Divini numinis.] This does not feem to be tragic language?

346. ομμασ' for ομμασι. This is inadmiffible. See the note on 254.-In V. 348. autoyvale ou opya is properly taken from Soph. Antig. 875. σε δ' αυτογνωίος ωλεσε οργα, but εθελόσιος in the following verfe is a profaic word. Xenophon, K. II. p. 254.The Tragic writers ufe θέλων.

352. BuGoodoμEVOTES is an Homeric word. Od. p. 66, et alibi.— Hefiod Scut Here 30. Efchylus ufes Burooppav, Choeph. 650. 359. deoμal] This is alfo Homeric Greek. The Attic poets ufe doua in the plural. See note on V.

302.

367. πgowgioεv, defignaverit-] This is a fcriptural word. AЯ. IV. 28. Roman. VIII. 29, 30. Ephef. I. 5. 11. 1 Corinth. II. 7. -Can any Attic authority be produced?

369. auurloga, defenforem.] In V. 715. we find auvringes. — There are feveral words, which have nominatives terminating either in ng or ag; as others do in ng and ns; but on examination, it will be found, that the Tragic poets very rarely use both ne and ως, in the fame word, whatever may appear in other writers. To add a few examples:

Auniwp. Eur. Or. 1621. Ho- | Auuving. No authority occurs. mer. Helych.

Kaning. Efch. Sept. Theb. 580. Suppl. 630. Ariftoph. Velp. 189. 1408. Demofth. 11. 542. III. 91.

Kaniwe. Demofth. I. 244. III.

1147. Helychius.

Aung. Eur. El. 136. Efch. Awg. Epigramma Archiæ in

Choeph. 157.

Anthol. H. Steph. p. 19.
Πλώτης,

Пang. Eur. Iph. T. 450. He- | Hawlwg. Lexica, fine auctoritate. len. 109. Helych. Mufæus 2. fi qua demum auctoritas, as Toup fays on Longinus, p. 280.

Eichylus ufes Ixing in Suppl. 488. but inlag 661. which paffage Mufgrave cites in Eur. Heracl. 465. where and in V. 767, he would read izlogas for innp2s;-though in 102. he permits innpas, to país unnoticed. Ing, indeed, is the word, which Euripides always ufes: Suppl. 10. Cycl. 371.—as Sophocles does, 0. Tyr. 143. 186.

Some words end in ng or ns, of which Dorville, in Charit. 363. has enumerated a few, θεραπεύης, αρμοστης, λυμαίλης, κολασίης, xoruning, ayguævning, which have alfo the termination in ns, and Το εργαστηρ, εργαλης. Το there may be added : Ευθυνης, Efch. Suppl. 725. and suburing-Apoing. Eur. El. 104. and agolns.-Argomg, Eur. El. 161, and aygons,-Lycoph. 479.

So we find, Arming, et compof. Efch. Suppl. 190. Soph. Aj. 565. apud Suid. V. armiingoco. Eur. Heracl. 278. but Aomising et Compof. Eur. Ph. 1200. lon. 201. Homer, Il. d. 90.-and aomiolog, in Lexicis-So Пpaxing, Actor. Hom. II. I. 443. Пpanns, in Lexicis. Пpaulwg, Vindex, Eich. Suppl. 655. Soph. Trach. 251. 862.— Kriolug. Eur. Ion. 74. Arift. Av. 926. Hefych. V. Kríla.Kriens alfo in Hefychius-Telag. Efch. Suppl. 214. Eur. I. Taur. 580. Ion. 747. Twins. Soph. O. Tyr. 1015.-Eurniwg. Eich. Suppl. 672. Sept. Theb. 299. Eur. Andr. 1042.- Euvens Eur. Med. 161. El 808. Or. 1399 -Euvans. Efch. Perf. 137. -fed de bis fatis fuperque. We would recommend auurlag as the genuine and tragic word.

375. Bagouvai, temeraria] @apouros. Homer, II. IV. 823. II. 70.-out do the Attic poets uie this adjective?

377. μoixaris, adultera: this is a fcriptural word, and may be found in the Septuagint, and in Matth. XII. 39. but in no Tragic poet.

377.- yag Aaresλa-Eupeln-Nam si Dalila EVASIT] Hy f, with an Indicative Mode, is a manifeft folecifm. Sophocles, Trach. 411. ἣν εὑρεθης ες τηνδε μη δικαιος ων. As Et never governs a Subjunctive Mood, fo Hy never governs an Indicative. -In Ariftoph. Thesmoph. 936.-deias, eg Pines, is the ufual reading, but by Dawes's correction, E.TER OXES, propofed in his Mifc. Crit. 275. it fhould feem as if he had found ŵvπeg Os, which he might juftly term folaca locutio; but we know not where ήνπερ appears.

379. dia Talo, ob hac.] This is furely the language of profe. H Steph. in Thefaur V. Aix.-Aia cum Accufativo in foluta oratione, Propter, Ob.-ut, dia tulo-dia Taula, quæ paffim funt bvia,-propter hoc-propter hæc.

380. T8

380. το πανεπισκοπε θες-DEI omnia perfpicientis.] Παντεπιστ XOTOS is quoted from Gregory Nazianz. Orat. II. by H. Steph. in Ind. ad Thefaur.-Sophocles has, Zɛuçò mave' opwv aɛi, Ant. 184. and such a model ought to have been followed by Mr. Glaffe.

Here we must conclude our remarks.-That fome of them may be liable to objections, we can eafily believe; " Boni ac cordati, fays Lipfius, femper ita fentiunt, fallacem effe Criticam, et ignofcendum effe-viris, fi labantur interdum in proclivi ifta via.”— If any of our errors are pointed out, they will be readily acknowleged; as our fole with, in publishing thefe obfervations, is to promote the cause of ancient literature. Some of them may prove, perhaps, not unferviceable to future Correctors and Editors of the Attic poets; who ought to remember, that all Greek is not Attic Greek, and that all Attic Greek is not fuited to Attic poetry.

The infertion of poetic, comic, familiar, profaic, and recent words into these authors, can only ferve to give a motley ap pearance to Tragedy, in which very few licenfes were allowed, and to destroy the beauty and uniformity, which the ancients carefully obferved in the fcenic language.

Could any reader tolerate a modern tragedy, in which the phrafeology of ancient and modern writers of every various kind, was mixed indifferently, and poetic and profaic words blended indifcriminately?-In Greek compofitions, though the cafe is exactly fimilar, our imperfect knowlege of the language renders defects of this nature lefs glaring and lefs offenfive.

To conclude. In defiance of the errors, which we have thus freely mentioned in the Greek Samfon, we are ftill ready to bear teftimony to the great general merit of the tranflation, and to commend highly the erudition, and applaud loudly the diligence, of the Author. At the fame time, we wish, that fo much industry and fo much learning had been devoted to the publication of an ancient writer. Compofitions of any length, in Greek Iambics, who can hope to fee faultlefs? We icarcely know the fcholar, in thefe degenerate days, who could have accomplished an undertaking to arduous, with equal skill, or fewer, mistakes: yet we are tempted to believe, that those, who might have been more fuccefsful, would have fhrunk from a task, attended with fuch a numerous train of almost unconquerable difficulties. Ημαξτε μεν, ωρέχθη δε μεγάλων.

PLUTARCH. Compar. Nic. & Craffi. Vol. III. p. 5c3*.

* Ex emend. du Soul, confentiente Toup. in Longin. p. 279.

In the last Review, p. 100. 1. 3. del. for.

ART.

ART. XII. Extra Official State Papers, addreffed to Lord Rawdon, and the other Members of the two Houfes of Parliament, affociated for the Prefervation of the Conftitution, and promoting the Profperity of the British Empire. By a late Under Secretary of State. Švo. PP. 174. 4s. Boards. Debrett. 1789.

MR

R. Knox, the author of this publication, was Deputy Secretary of State for the American Department, from the time of the inftitution of the office, to that of its late abolition. He appears to be a man of much political obfervation, and official experience, in regard to the eminent fphere in which he fo long moved,-with credit to himfelf, and, we doubt not, with advantage to the Public.

In this work, we meet with fome anecdotes relative to the late American war, and to the great revolution which it produced. Much, however, of what the Author has here communicated, relates to his own fituation, to the fuppreffion of the office, and to the flight which he met with, when difmiffed the fervice; for, it feems, he had not the recompence which others received: being overlooked, when the reft of the officers of that department obtained a compenfation for the lofs of their places. It must, however, be obferved, that he was, at the time when the office was abolished, in the actual enjoyment of a penfion of 600l. per ann. with the like fum for Mrs. K. And this was deemed compenfation fufficient, though it was nothing more than what he poffeffed before the fuppreffion of the office: by which event he was certainly a great lofer, with the aggravation of being, as he bferves, the only perfon on whom nothing was beftowed on that occafion. Yet he produces the strongest teftimonies, from his fuperiors in office, of the entire fatisfaction given by him, in the difcharge of his duty, during his continuance in the fervice. But this gentleman's cafe cannot be fingular, in a country, and in times, in which party-revolutions are fo frequent, and on which the fortunes of those who depend on the uncertain ebbs and flowings of the political tide too frequently depend.

Mr. K. has augmented his work with feveral proposals, and plans, relative to various matters of public concern, and which appear to have been fuggefted by a truly patriotic spirit. Among thefe, we particularly diftinguifh his obfervations relative to a due provifion of timber for the conftruction of ships of the line. It is much to be wished that proper encouragement were given for promoting the mature growth of timber-trees, for the ufe of the royal dock-yards. Our author is of opinion, and he feems well informed on the fubject, that, unless better care be taken than hath been, there will not, in another century, be a tree to be purchafed in this country, fit for the conftruction of a first rate hip: and he gives what appear to us to be good reafons for this ill-boding prediction.

REV. Sept. 1789.

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