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in. the syllable criticised: but allowing 
aus to be a typographical error, and that 
the gentleman originally wrote a, never- 
theless bis reasoning is thoroughly erro- 
neous; for though I have exaimiued se- 
veral patronymics, I have constantly 
found the vowel a mm the word derived, 
of the sane qtantity as in the primitive, 
whether long or short, e. g. from Alacus, 
his grandfather; Achilles is styled /a- 
cides; Jupiter, from his father Saturnus, 
is called Saturnius; and /Eolus, from bis 
mother Hippotd, bears the name of Hip- 
potades: now I have never seen these 
patronymics accentuated, /Bacides, Sa-— 
turnius, Hippotades, very evident proofs 
that the a 1s not common. 
_ The Jesuits, (who were foleruble scho- 
Jars) chose to latinize the Hebrew word 
Amram thus, Amramus, and made the 
penultima*® long, (for Ti think no one 
* Aaron is called ‘** Amra mo Patre editus 
Heros ;" ‘* Heros Amra mius;”’ and, ‘* Mo- 
sis Fiater Amra mo satus,” 
*~ 
MEMOIRS AND REMAINS OF EMINENT. PERSONS. 
PAULUS MANUTIUS, 
THESON OF ALDUS. 
HE fahours of the Aldine press, were 
not materially affected by the death 
of its founder. “Andreas Asulanus, who 
had undertaken the care of the four young 
children of Aldus, continued the business, 
which he conducted with great alacrity, 
assisted by his two sons Francis and Fre- 
deric. Filled with an ardent and lauda- 
ble emulation, they paid the greatest at- 
tention to their editions; they first un- 
dertook to complete those which were al- 
ready begun, and to produce the great 
number of revisals aud collections which 
Aldus had lett; they were also careful 
to notice in their prefaces those editions 
to which he had contributed by anticipa- 
tive labours. Although inferiorin know- 
ledge to Aldusand to his son Paulus Ma- 
nutius, most of their editions prove them 
to have been deficient heither in learning 
nor’ industry. In Greek, Pausanias, 
Strabo, the Greek Septuagint, different 
eommentaries on Aristotle, Mlutarch, Ay- 
temidorus, Apollonius Rhodius, Aschy- 
jus, Xenophon, Galen, Hippocrates, pub- 
lished for the first time; in Latin, Te- 
rence, Livy, Plautus, Pliny, Celsus, Ma- 
erobius, Priscian, Silius Italicus, Valerius 
Flaccus, Claudian, Justin, Qui Cur- 
tus, Suetonius, Ausonius, many 
Memoirs of Paulus Manutius.~ 
» who were celebrated in branch of 
"literature in that city, whichwas then the 
_ experienced ditliculties of another nature, 
Ag. 1, 
could be capable of so hideous a caco- 
phony as to call it Amrimits) ; conses 
quently his son call Aniramides, 
and accent the word according to its de- 
rivation, 
Qdly, with respect to words ending in 
m being short ; if Symtphorus had cons 
ed his Latin Grammar, he would have 
found the following rule in the p — 
“ Ecthilipsis est, quoties m cum K 
perimitur, proxima dictione, ali ex- 
orsa: ut 
Monstrum horrendum, informe, ingens, cui ze) 
lumen ademptum.” ? 
Hence, words ending in m raust me , 
be /ong before a consonant, by position, 
or entirely cut off and annihilated before 
a vowel. * e 
Hoping that what I have said may 
prove conclusive, 1 remain, 
Camden Town, Your's, &c. 
May 16, 1808, Cc. Wore, JUN. 
a] 
other works in Greek, Latin and Italian, — 
most of which were printed for the first 
time, employed their presses. 
During the management of Andreas 4 
Asulanus, the sons of Aldus passed their — 
childhood, and made some progress in 
their education, » The tine which) they 
spent at Asola with their mother, was 
not favourable to theit advancement ‘in 
literature; what they then learnt would, 
hare been rather injurious than useful 
“by vitiating their taste, had they not been 
early removed to Venice, where Paulus 
Manutius in particular, was kindly re~ 
ceived and assisted those .wh hale 
beer the sincere eno facher 
seat of learning and the arts. ‘The ard 
with which he applied) to the study of 
eloquence, greatly inj. his already 
feeble constitution, ‘elfect of which” 
was rendered doubly distressing, by his 
physicians prohibitimg him x use of 
books. “At length, after two years, his 
health was greatly restored, and he res 
suined his studies. ; 
Scarcely recovered from his illness, he 
not less afflicting, which’ he cails** do- 
mests-as controversias,” Ep. Saulio 1, $. 
He explains himself no further, but from 
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