Et male tornatos incudi redderè verfus. Quintilio fi quid recitares, Corrige fodes Dr. Bentley obferved about Sixteen Years ago, in his Notes upon Callimachus, that it was no unusual Thing among the Ancients to call good Verfes verfus tornati; but he added that the Poet fhould not have mentioned the Anvil with the turning Wheel in this Place, fince they are very different Things, and have no Affinity one with another. Which moved him to read the Verse thus: Et male TERNATOS incudi reddere verfus. That is, to ufe the Author's own Words, "Quereris, inquit Quintilius, te bis TER QUE fruftra conatum effe verfus iftos lambendo & fingendo me"liores reddere? Tu vero, qui TER male exierunt verfus prorfus abjice: Neque jam limam amplius adhibe ad eos fruftra poliendos, fed incude 68 potius utere formandis & fabricandis novis". Dr. Bentley quoted the following Verfes of the fame Poet to confirm his Correction. 166 Epift. II. 1. v. 233. Gratus Alexandro regi Magno fuit ille Choerilus, incultis qui verfibus & MALE NATIS, When this Conjecture came out, it was approved by feveral Perfons, and among others by the late Mr. Grævius, as it appears from one of his Letters to N 4 Dr. r Dr. Bentley, wherein he calls it, non conjecturam fed certam emendationem; quam qui videat & non probet, cum in his rebus caciorem effe quavis talpas Dr. Bentley undertakes to vindicate his Emendation, and to confute what has been objected against it. The Readers will find that Excellent Correction fupported by feveral new Proofs. I fhall only mention one. The Author maintains, that the Words Torna tus, Limatus, Politus, Expolitus, Rafus, when ufed metaphorically, do always fignify a Thing that is perfect in its Kind; and that therefore male torna.. tus would be as improperly faid, as male bonus mutile perfectus. Hence it is that we never read in any Ancient Author neither male tornatus, male limas tus, nor bene tornatus, bene limatus, in a metaphorical Senfe for it would be no lefs ridiculous than if one fhould fay bene abfolutus. Dr. Bentley en larges upon this Obfervation, and fets it in a full Light. To conclude. I fhall obferve that these Notes are written in a lively and elegant Stile; that the Author difcovers no lefs Wit than Sagacity and Eru dition, and that his Performance may be looked upon as a Mafter-Piece in point of Critical Learn ing an into a See a further Account of this Book, in Art. XXXIX: T HE Two following Books have been lately printed here. L'Art de tranfpofer toute forte de Mufique, fans être être obligé de connoitre de ton ni le mode ; avec des reflexions fur la neccffité de cet ouvrage. Paris 1711. in 12mo. Pagg. 29. Hiftoire Dogmatique de la Religion, fous la Loy écrite, contenant l'Hiftoire & Explication du Decalogue, des Loix Ceremoniales & politiques, & des Propheties des Ifraelites. Dediée à S. A. R. Monfeigneur le Duc de Lorraine & de Bar, Roy de Jerufalem. Par Meffire Jean Claude Sommier, Prêtre, Docteur en Theologie, Protonotaire Apoftolique, Confeiller, Predicateur ordinaire de S. A. R Monfeigneur le Duc de Lorraine, Curé de Champs. Seconde Partie, Tome I. Paris 1711. in 4to. Pagg. 844. I have mentioned the first Part of this Work in another Volume. TH HE Latin Tranflation of Mr. Stanley's Hi Story of Philofophy, &c. (mentioned in another Volume of thefe Memoirs) being come to my Hands," it will not be improper to inform the Readers wherein it differs from the Original. The Latin Title runs thus ་ Hiftoria Philofophie, vitas, opiniones, refq; geftas & dicta Philofophorum Sete cujufvis complexa, Authore Thoma Stanleio, ex Anglico Sermone in Latinum tranflata, emendata, & variis differtationibus atq; obfervationibus paffim aucta. Acceffit Vita Autoris. Lipfie, apud Thomam Fritsch. A. M DCC XI. in 4to. Pagg. 1222, Sold by Paul Vaillant in the Strand. · The Tranflator tells us, that he has carefully compared the Paffages of the Ancient Writers alledged by Mr. Stanley, and that he has quoted them more exactly: He adds, That whenever the Author mi stakes ftakes the true Senfe of a Paffage, he takes Notice of it in the Marginal Notes, wherein he alfo mentions feveral Things relating to the Hiftory of the Philofophers. Befides, the Tranflator has inferred a Differtation in the Life of Socrates, and another in the Life of Heraclitus. He has alfo added, at the End of the Book, feveral Obfervations concerning the Eclectick Philofophers, of whom Mr. Stanley fays nothing at all. Many confiderable Additions have been alfo inferted in the Text between Two Crotchets. The Tranflator has left out the Comedy of Aristophanes, entitled Nubes, and that Part of Sextus Empiricus's Hyporypofes, that are in the English Edition. As for what concerns the Hiftory of the Oriental Philofophy, he has infert. ed Mr. Le Clerc's Latin Tranflation of that Piece, and the Notes and Obfervations of that Learned Man. ARTICLE AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT. never before publish'd, of the Life and Trial of MICHAEL SERVETUS. In Several Letters to * * * *. By the Author of thefe Memoirs. 7. * Letter IV. - SIR, N the 23d of Auguft, Servetus being brought to the Bar, the Attorney General exhibited XXX, new Articles against him, and required that he should be interrogated upon each or them. Most of those Interrogatories concerned his Perfon, his Life and Converfation. Here follow fome of his Anfwers; That his Pa rents were not of Jewish, but of Christian and Ancient Extraction, and lived nobly (vivans noblement); That he compofed his laft Book (Chriftianifmi Refti tutio,) without looking into the first printed in Germany; That when he was in that Country, he im parted his Opinions to none but Oecolampadius, Bucer and Capito; That he publifhed his laft Book with a good Intention, following the Dictates of his Confcience; That Mr. Calvin, and Mr. Abel Poupin (alias Pepin) The Third Letter may be seen above, Art. XXVIII. |