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man, by Wharton; the works of Horace, by 

 Smart, Creech, Francis, andBoscAWEN; Juve- 

 nal, by Mad an; Persius, by Brewster, Madan, 

 and Drummond; Livy, by Haye and Baker; 

 Tacitus, by Gordon and Murphy; Luc an 9 by 

 Rowe;" the Met amor piloses of Ovid, by Garth, 

 Davidson, and Clarke ; the Orations of Cicero,by 

 Guthrie; and selections from the same, by Dun- 

 can; Sallust, by Gordon; the Commentaries of 

 Cccsar, byBLADON; the Epistles of Pliny, by Or- 

 rery and Melmoth; the Epistles of Cicero, by 

 Mel moth; the Epistles of Seneca, by Morrell; 

 Terence, by Cooke and Colman; Tibullus, by 

 Grainger; Aldus Gellius, by Beloe; and P hia- 

 tus, by Warner. 



The translations made into several of the lan- 

 guages of the continent of Europe, during the pe- 

 riod under consideration, are numerous and re- 

 spectable. But of these too little is known to at- 

 tempt any thing like a discriminating selection. 

 The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer were ably trans- 

 lated into German, by Voss; into Italian, by 

 C.esarotti," and Ceruti ; into French, by Roche- 

 fort; and into Spanish, by ^Ialo. The Cyro- 

 piedia of Xenophon was translated into French, by 

 Dacier and Gail, and into German, by Wif.land ; 

 Tliucydides, into French, by Levesque, and Hero- 

 dotus, into the same language, by Larcker; the 

 Politics of Aristotle, into French, by Champagne; 

 Theocritus, into the same language, by Gail; De- 

 mosthenes, also into French 5 byTouRREiL; licsiod, 



v " The version of Lrcan" says Dr. Johnson, " is one of the greatest 

 productions of English poetry ; for there is perhaps none that so completely 

 exhibits the genius and spirit of the original. It deserves more notice than 

 it obtains; and as it is more read will be more esteemed." 



u Several of the translations above mentioned, made on the continent of 

 Europe, are said to possess first rate excellence. In particular those cf Voss 

 and CiESAROTTi, both poetical, are represented as having merit of a supe- 

 rior kind. 



