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printers refused tlieir consent, unless he added a Latin trans- 

 lation; a desideratum which was afterwards supplied by 

 Holstein in the first edition. Henry Stephens, however, had 

 previously perused the unpublished treatise, and given to the 

 world, in his Schediasmata, some observations on different 

 passages. 



Holstein, the first editor, was a celebrated scholar of his 

 day, and is commemorated in the Sept. Illustr, Vir. Poemata 

 as — 



Poem. Ferdin. Graia3 Latiffique Minervas 



Lib. Baron de Artibus, Eois notus et Hesperiis. 



Furstenberg. 



His edition issued from the Paris press of Sebastian and Ga- 

 briel Cramoisy in the year 1644. The Greek text, and version 

 attached to it, were amended by Blancard in his Amsterdam 

 edition of 1 683 ; which contains also the minor works of Ar- 

 rian, and the pertinent schediasmata of Henry Stephens above 

 mentioned. My library affords no editions but the above two, 

 and the accurate reprint of Schneider by the University of 

 Oxford in 1817. The last is certainly the best edition of the 

 Cynegeticus of Arrian which I have seen. The Clarendon 

 press also published in the same volume the Cynegeticus of 

 the elder Xenophon, and his Opuscula Politica; the same 

 collection of the minor works as Zeune comprehended in one 

 volume, printed at Leipsic, 1778. 



M. Gail is reported to have published a French translation 

 of the work, with critical notes and dissertations, at Paris, 

 in 1801 : but, notwithstanding repeated applications to the 

 Parisian booksellers, I have not been able to procure a copy. 

 Equally unsuccessful have been my endeavours to obtain from 

 the same source Defermat's version, published by Hortemels 

 of Paris, in 1690. The latter, however, in consequence of the 

 literary character given of its author by Belin de Ballu, in his 

 prolegomena to Oppian, I do not much regret. It accompa- 



