CLAUDIANUS. A. C. 400.

Fol Vicentiæ, 1482. E. P.

a Gefner, 2 vol. 8vo. Lipf. 1759. Ernefti beftows great praise on the critical abilities of Geiner, and the valuable contents of his edition. a P. Burman, Amft. 4to. 1760. An exceedingly good critical edition.

De Confolatione Philofophiæ, Lat. & Germ. cum Expofitione Thomæ de Aquino, fol. 1473, E. P.——— Vallini, 8vo. Lugd. Bat. 1656." This edition is very elegant and correct, and the notes of Vallini are learned and judicious." cum Notis Variorum, Lugd. Bat. 1671.-A neat edition was published at Glafgow in 1751.

SUETONIUS. A. C. 160.

E. P. fol. Romæ, 1470.

- Pitifci, 4to. 2

tom. Leovard, 1714. "No one better underfood Roman Antiquities, or more happily illuftrated them than Pitifcus." Oudendorp, 2 tom. 8vo. Lugd. Bat. 1751. "I have carefully read through this edition, and cheerfully pronounce it to be very correctly and judiciously published." Burmanni, 2 tom. 4to. Amft. 1736. editio optima.

COLLECTIONS IN VERSE AND PROSE.

Fragmenta Veterum Poetarum, Lat. a R. Stephan. 8vo. Paris, 1564.-Veterum Tragicorum, Lat. a Scriverio collecta, 8vo. L. Bat. 1620.-Poetæ, Lat. minores, Burman, 4to. L. Bat. 1713.-Anthologia, Poet. Lat. Burman, 2 tom. 4to. 1750.-Corpus Poetarum Latinorum, a Mattaire, 2 tom. fol. Lond. 1713.-Mythographi Latini, Van Staveren, 4to. Lugd. Bat. 1742.-Auctores Linguæ Latina Gothofredi, 4to. Geneva, 1585. De re militari Scriptores, 2 tom. 8vo. Vefaliæ cum figuris, 1670. Valuable and scarce.-Grammaticæ Latina Auctores Antiqui, a Putschio, 4to. Hanov. 1605.-Hifioriæ Romance Scriptores, 2 tom. fol. Genev. 1609, and 1653.— Panegyrici Veteres cum notis Schwartzii & Jægeri, 2 tom. 8vo, Norimb. 1779.-Iidem Arntzenii, 2 vol. 4to. 1790-97.

SELECT

SELECT TRANSLATIONS

OF

GREEK AUTHORS,

Pope's Homer.-Cooke's Hcfiod.-Potter's Efchylus.Franklin's Sophocles.-Weft's Pindar.-Fawkes's Theocritus, Anacreon, Bion, Mofchus and Apollonius Rhodius. Herodote traduit par Larcher. This is a moft accurate and well executed work. Beloe's Herodotus, 2d edition. Thucydides, by Hobbes and Sinith.-Xenophon's Expedition of Cyrus, by Spelman.-Hampton's Polybius.-Ariftotle's Ethics, by Gillies.-Ariftotle's Poetic, by Twining. A work of fingular tafte and erudition.-Smith's Longinus.-Tryphiodorus, by Merrick. The verfification is elegant, and the notes are replete with learning.

LATIN AUTHORS.

Colman's Terence.-Creech's Lucretius.-Dryden's Virgil; fee Elements, vol. i. p. 144.-Pitt and Warton's Virgil.Horace, by Francis.-Tibullus, by Grainger.-Lucan, by Rowe.-Juvenal by Gifford.-Cicero's Cato Major, Lælius, and familiar Epiftles, by Melmoth.-Tacitus de Moribus Germanorum, & Vita Agricolæ, by Aikin.-The works of Tacitus, by Murphy, with excellent notes.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

I. Fabricii Bibliotheca Græca, 4to. Hamburgh, 1718, &c, 14 vol. This elaborate work contains an account of all the Greek writers; and the reader is at a lofs which to admire the moft, the diligence or the accuracy of this profound fcholar. It is now republifhing by Harles at Hamburgh, (See p. 483) with a great variety of additional materials. II. Fabricii Bibliotheca Latina, Hamburgh, 3 vol. 12mo. 1721, republished by Ernefti at Leipfic, 1773. This work exhibits a difplay of erudition fimilar to the Bibliotheca Græca,

III. Morhoffi

III. Morhoff Polyhiftor Literarius, Philofophicus, & Practicus, 2 vol. 4to. Lubec, 1747, a work of multifarious learning and curious research, abounding with biographical and critical obfervations, on writers of various nations and ages.

IV. A View of the various Editions of the Claffics, by Dr. Harwood, 4to. Ed. 1790. It is not with more juftice than fatisfaction I advert again to this work, as it first suggested the idea of my Lift of Books.

V. Degli Autori Claffici facri, profani, Græci et Latini, &c. 2 vol. 12mo. Venezia, 1793. This is fomething better than a tranflation of Dr. Harwood on the Claffics. Each lift of Editions is preceded by a fhort account of the author, the editions of the Fathers and ecclefiaftical writers are very full, and it concludes with a Catalogue raisonnée of the writers who have illuftrated literary hiftory, &c. VI. Catologus Codicum, Sæc. 15. Imprefforum, qui in publicâ Bib. Magliabechianâ Florentia affervantur, auctore F. Foffio, tom. 3. fol. 1793. This is a fplendid work, and contains a minute defcription of almost all the Principes Editiones.

VII. Serie dell' Edizioni Aldine per ordine cronologico et Alfabetico, 12mo. in Pifa, 1790. The perufal of this work muft naturally increase our wonder at the numerous productions of the Aldine prefs, To the titles of some of the editions are added particular defcriptions of the copies. Sec Vol. i. p. 528.

VIII. Bibliographic inftructive, ou Traite des Livres rares & finguliers, &c. par de Bure, Paris, 8 vol. 8vo. 1763, &c. This work aufwers completely to its title, thews extenfive and accurate refearch, and is held defervedly in great repute. IX. A Guide to Parents and Tutors in the Choice and Use of Books in every Branch of Education, by J. Collins, 4th edi tion, 12mo. This lift of Books is preceded by fome ufeful remarks on education, and the pleafing felection is made with great propriety.

If the Reader fhould wish to extend his inquiries into the Editions of the Claffics, he is again referred to Mr. Dibdin's "Introduction," which is calculated to give him abundant information, and to direct him to the belt fources of this fpecies of literature