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of particular notice : Virgil, by Burmann, Heyne, 

 and Wakefield; Horace, by Baxter, Gesner, 

 and Zeunius; Cicero, by Verbergius, Olivet, 

 and Lallemand; Livy, by Mattaire, Drak- 

 enborch, Ruddiman, and Homer ; Tacitus, by 

 Gronovius, Ernestus, Brotier, Grierson' and 

 Homer; Sallust, by Homer; 2uintilian, by Bit r. 

 mann, Rollin, Gesner, and Homer; Lucretius, 

 by Havercamp and Wakefield; Ovid, by Bur- 

 mann; Lucan, by Burmann, Bentley, and Cum- 

 berland; Per sius, by Casaubon and Homer; 

 Terence, by Bentley ; Justin, by Gronovius; 

 Ccesars Commentaries, by Clarke; Phcedrus and 

 Petronius Arbiter, by Burman; Pliny, senior, by 

 Brotier; Pliny, junior, by Longalius ; Tibullus, 

 Catullus, and Propertius, by Vulpius; Suetonius, 

 by Pitiscus, Burmann, and Oudenorp; Eutro- 

 pius, by Havercamp; Claudian, by Gesner ; 

 Florus, by Duker and Fischer ; 2aintus Curtius, 

 by Snakenburg; Aldus Gellius, by Gronovius; 

 and Silius Italicus, by Drakenborch. 



From the above very imperfect list it appears 

 that classic literature has been cultivated, during 

 the last century, with most zeal and success in 

 Germany and Holland; Great-Britain is, per- 

 haps, entitled to the next place; and afterwards, 

 in succession, come France and other countries on 

 the continent of Europe. Greek literature in 

 France was at a low ebb during the greater part of 

 the period of this retrospect, and is still but little 

 cultivated in that country. 



But the eighteenth century is especially distin- 

 guished by the number and value of the Transla- 



r Mrs. Grierson, an Irish lady, who was "possessed of singular eru- 

 dition, and had an elegance of taste, and solidity of judgment, which 

 justly rendered her one of the most wonderful as well as amiable of her 

 sex. Her Tacitus is one of the best edited books ever delivered to the 

 world." See Harwood's Vievi of the Classics, 



