So Classic Literature. 



Many correct and magnificent editions of classic 

 authors have been given to the public, by learned 

 men, and literary institutions, in the course of the 

 last age. These editions not only present speci- 

 mens of great typographical elegance; but many 

 of them are also enriched with various readings, 

 faithfully collected from numerous manuscripts and 

 printed copies; and with learned annotations, of 

 great value to the student. To give a complete 

 list of these editions in the present brief sketch is 

 impossible. A few only of the most remarkable 

 can be noticed, and these in a very transient 

 manner. 



Of the Greek classics, the works of Homer were 

 edited, during this period, with great splendour, 

 by Wolfius and Clarke; Herodotus, by Grono- 

 vius and Wesseling; Thucydides, by Duker; 

 Xenophon and Poly 'bias, by Ernestus; Longinus, 

 by Toup; Demosthenes, by Reiske; Hesiod, by 

 Krebsius, Bodtni, and Loesner; Pindar, by 

 Heyne; Euripides, by Musgrave; Sophocles, by 

 Capperonier; Aristophanes, by Kuster ; Lucian> 

 by Reitzius, Hemsterhuis, and Gesner; Plu- 

 tarch, by Reiske; Theocritus, by Reiske and 

 Wharton; Epictetus, by Upton; Anacreon, by 

 Matt aire; JEschylus, by Pauw and Porson; 

 Diodorus Siculus, by Wesseling ; Dion Cassius, by 

 Fabricius and Reimarus; Lysias, by Taylor; 

 Isocrates, by Battie and Auger; and Callima- 

 chus, by Bentley and Ernestus. 



Of the Latin classics the following editions, 

 made, during the period under review, are worthy 



neum, that their contents might he ascertained. The authority was granted. 

 JVlr. Haiter entered on the task with great zeal and intelligence ; and soon 

 discovered a work of Epicurus, entitled, Of the Nature of Things, which 

 was known only from the mention made of it by some writers of antiquity, 

 and which appears to have served as the basis for the poem of Lucretius, 

 on the same subject. At the date of the account a copy of this manuscript 

 was preparing for the press. 



