l6' tnirodu^ion. 



tranflate a Treatife on any particular Art, 

 without being in fome degree verfed in that 

 Art himfelf. There is, however, perhaps, 

 no nicer point in the purfuits of Literature* 

 than to difcriminate nicely between adopt- 

 ing or rejediing modern phrafes in tranf- 

 lations from the Antieht Writers. It is 

 what we can hardly lay down rules for, 

 though perhaps we may feel the diftinition. 

 To draw inftances from the Military Art. 

 No tranilator would give modern names to 

 the divifions and officers of the Roman ar- 

 mies; he w^ould not call Legions and Co- 

 horts, Brigades and Regiments, or Tribunes 

 and Centurions, Colonels and Captains -, but 

 he would certainly, in defcribing a battle* 

 make ufe of all generally appropriated mi- 

 litary words, as front, rear, march, halt, 

 inftcad of the words ufually applied to the 

 purpofes of ordinary life. 



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