Anc'ieiil Munuscn[)is. 391 



. M. Mai has further discovered several speeches of Aristides, 

 seven books of the physician Oribarius, which will be of much va-* 

 lue to the physical sciences, fragments of Pliilo, a copy of Ver- 

 rines, &c. 



It has been also just announced, that in the MSS. of Hercula- 

 neuni, lately unrolled at Naples, some treatises of Epicurus have 

 been discovered of more importance than any we are yet in pos- 

 session of. In one of these MSS. there are quotations from a 

 treatise on Political Economy by Aristotle, very different from 

 the work which we possess under that title. 



M. de Niebuhr, Prussian minister at Rome, lias published 

 some fragments of the Orations of Cicero, of Titus Livius, and 

 of Seneca, accompanied with notes full of profound erudition. It 

 is a valuable present to philologists. 



M. Hasp, Professor of modern Greek to the School of Orien- 

 tal Languages at Paris, who has just returned from a literary 

 tour through Italy, has further increased the number of 

 these discoveries. He has found in the Ambrosian Library 

 at Milan a complete MS. of a Byzantine historian, George 

 Acropolite, of whom we have hitherto had nothing but an ex- 

 tract. . . 



Baron Niebuhr, Prussian ambassador to the Holv See, has 

 again discovered and published several manuscript works hitherto 

 imknown. They are chiefly fragijients of Cicero's 0»-ations Pro 

 M. Fonteio and Pro C. Rabirio; a fragment of the 91st book of 

 Livy; and two works of Seneca. He has dedicated the publi- 

 cation to the Pope, by whose favour he was enabled to discover 

 these literary treasures in the library of the Vatican. 



The Abbe Amadeus Peyran, professor of oriental languages in 

 the university of Turin, has discovered some fragments of Cicero 

 in a manuscript from the monastery of St. Colomlian de Rabbio, 

 a town on the Trebia, in the dominions of the king of Sardinia. 

 This MS. presents important new readings of orations already 

 known, and confirms the identity of several texts that have been 

 tortured by indiscreet critics. It contains also fragments of the 

 orations Pro Scauro, Pro M. TuUio, In Clodium, orations un- 

 fortunately lost. ~ 



A niaimscript of Eutropius's Roman History, supposed to 

 have been carried from Rome to Bamberg by the Euiperor Henry, 

 the founder of the bishopric of that place, 'has been found in the 

 Royal Library there by Mr. Jacks the librarian. It is more com- 

 plete than any of the printed editions, and will probably furnish 

 means for correcting many false readings. 



Professor Goeller of Cologne, had previously discovered in the 

 same library a MS. of Livy. 



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