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infert the Word Homericum in his Verfe; and therefore he had recourfe to Homereum, which is a Greek Inflexion from Ounge, as Orefteus, Achilléus, from Opise, Axine. The God of Gardens fpeaks thus, (Epigram in Catalectis LXVIII)

Rufticus indocte fi quid dixiffe videbor,

Da veniam: Libros non lego, poma lego.
Sed rudis hic dominum toties audire legentem
Cogor, HOMEREAS edidicique notas.

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The Author quotes fome other Greek and Latin Palfages, to confirm and illuftrate his Emendation, Laftly, he obferves that the Ancient Scholiafts read in all Probability Homereum in their Copies. These are their Words. Reponis, fay they; itidem fcribus. Si ergo Achillem, de quo femel HOMERUS fcripfit, v Lis fcribere; talem debes fcribere, qualem HoMERUS oftendit. Aut reponis, ad imitationem HoMERI defcribis. Thele Words, fays our Author, plainly allude to fcriptor HOMEREUM: To which he adds, That the Scholiafts fay nothing, that concerns the Word Honoratum. This ingenious Emendation will doubtless be very much approved by all those who are able to judge of this Sort of Critical Remarks. 135170H &

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LIBANII Sophiftæ Epiftolarum adhuc non editarum Centuria Selecta, cum Verfione & Notis Jo. CHRISTOPH. WOL-j FII, Prof. P. Philof. Extraord. in Acad. Wittenberg. Appendicis loco fuppletur ex MS. lacuna, que deprehenditur in Oratione Libanii in Necem Juliani Imp. dicta. Lipfiæ, apud Jo. Frider. Gleditfch & Filium. Anno AMDCCXI.

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A HUNDRED choice Letters of Libanius, (never before published,) tranflated into Latin, and illuftrated with Notes by JOHN CHRISTOPHER WOLFIUS, Profeffor of Philofophy in the University of Wittemberg, &c. Wittemberg. 1711. in 8vo. pagg. 310.

HIS Volume contains a Hundred Letters of Libanius never before published: They have been printed from the Manufcripts of the Bodleian Library, M. Wolfim informs us, That he will puc

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out Two other Centuries of Libaniu's Letters, if this First Collection be acceptable to the Publick. He gives us in his Preface à fhort Account of the Perfons, to

whom thofe Leters were written, Thefe

Epiftles run upon common Subjects, and contain nothing that is very remarkable; but the Author writes in a polite and agreeable Style. The Editor has added feveral Notes, wherein he illuftrates thofe things that relate to Hiftory and Antiquity, and clears the Sense of his Author.

The late Baron de Spanheim had above a Thou fand and Twenty Letters of Libanius transcribed from

us, That he has feen in the Library of M. Frede rick Roftgaard, above a Thousand and Six Hundred Epiftles of the fame Author, collected by that Curious Gentleman in his Travels into the East, and WONT TO 9 咯 into France and Italy.

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THE LIVES and Characters of the most Eminent Writers of the SCOTS NATION; with an Abstract and Catalogue of their Works; their various Editions; and the Judgment of the Learned concerning them. By GEORGE MACKENZIE, M. D. Fellow of the Royal College of Phyficians in Edinburgh. Edinburgh Printed by James Watfon in Craig's-Clofe, on on the NorthSide of the Cross

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Folio. Vol. I. Pagg. 488. Vol. II.
Pagg. 618.

THO' that Part of Great Britain, called Scotland, has produced a great Number of Men Eminent for their Learning; yet no Care was taken to make a Collection of their Lives, before Dr. Mackenzie went about fuch a useful Work. The Lord Bishop of Carlifle expreffes his Amazement at it in the following Words. To one that

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ny great Men of Letters, oin all Faculties, the Kingdom of Scotland has produced, and what a "Figure the Gentlemen of that Nation have, fre "quently made in the Univerficies of Italy, Franca, "and Germany it must appear very ftrange, and "unaccountable, that fo few softhefes have been "the particular Subjects of other Mens Pens and "that fuch mighty Heroes in Learning, to whom "the old Romans and Athenians would have erected 46 Altars, fhould want even the cheap Acknowledg ment of a Paper Monument ".

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Dr. Mackenzie has undertaken, out of Love for his Country, and for the Publick Good, to put out a large and complete Hiftory of the moft Learned Men of Scotland from the Year 500, to the Year 1700. John Lefty, Bishop of Rofs, who died in the Low-Countries in 1596. is the laft Author mentioned by him at the End of the Second Volume The Author defigns to go on with this Hiftory, and sto publish a Third Volume, that will contain many Cu, rious Facts and valuable Obfervations. To give the Readers a juft Notion of this Work, I must obferve, That they will find in it a prodigious Num ber of Things, hardly to be expected in a Collecti on of this Nature. Our Author, not contented to give us the Hiftory of the Lives of the Scotch Wris ters, an Abstract and Catalogue of all their Works, an Account of their various Editions, and the Judg 'ment of the Learned concerning them, has allo thought fit to infert a great many Digreffions, and to treat occafionally feveral Subjects, whereby this Work will be the more useful to the Readers. Whenever he finds an Author engaged in a Controversy of any Moment, he gives a compendious Account of that Controverfy from its Rife to the Time of that Au!

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