f>40 Classic Literature. [Chap. XIIL 



Uus^ by Beloc; and Plautus, by Warner and 

 Thornton. 



The translations made into several of the lan- 

 guages of the continent of Europe, during the 

 period under consideration, are numerous and re- 

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

 tempt any thing like a discriminating selection. 

 Tlie Jllad and Odyssey of Homer were ably trans- 

 lated into French, by Madame Dacier and ]\L 

 Ilochefort; into German, by Voss ; into Italian, 

 by CiEsarotti * and Ceruti ; and into Spanish, by 

 Malo. The Cyropcedia of Xenophon was translated 

 into French, by Dacier and Gail ; and into Ger- 

 man, by Wieland ; Thucydldes, into French, by 

 Levesque ; and Herodotus, into the same language, 

 by Larcher; the works o^ Plutarch, into French, 

 by Amiot and Riccard ; the Politics of Aristotle, 

 into French, by Champagne ; Theocritus, into the 

 same language, by Gail; Demosthenes, also into 

 French, by Tourreil ; Hesiod, into German, by 

 Schutze; and Plutarch, also into German, by 

 Penzel. 



Versions of Virgil were made, in the period of 

 this retrospect, into Italian, by Bendi ; and hito^ 

 Crerman, by Voss and Spitzenbergen ; of Horace. 

 into iTcnch, by Sanadon and Darcu ; oi Sallust, 

 into German, by Schlutcr ; and of Tacitus, into 

 French, by Guerrin, Bletteric, and Dotterville. 

 The translation of the Buculics and Gcorgics of 

 Virgil, into Greek hexameters, by Eugenius, a 



♦ Severn! of tlie translations abovomentioned, made on the con- 

 tinent of Europe, arc said to possess first-rate excellence. In par- 

 ticular those cf Voss and Cresarotti, both poetical, are represented 

 as having merit of a superior kind. 



