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mationes, ed. Wernsdorf, 1790 (Oratio iii. 3 6, and xxi. 5), The magnifi- 

 cent situation of Constantinople could not inspire the sophists (Orat. vii. 5 7, 

 and xvi. 3 8). The passages of Nonnus referred to in the text are found in 

 Dionys. ed. Petri Cunsei, 1610, Lib. ii. p. 70 ; vi. p. 199 ; xxiii. p. 16 and 

 619 ; xxvi. p. 694. Compare also Ouwaroff, Nonnos von Panopolis, der 

 Dichter, 1817, S. 3, 16 und 21. 



( J5 ) p. 13. JSliani Var. Hist, et Fragm. Lib. iii. cap. i. p. 139, Kuhn. 

 Compare A. Buttmann, Qusest. de Dicsearcho, Naumb. 1832, p. 32, and 

 Geogr. gr. min. ed. Gail. Vol. ii. p. 140 145. We find in the tragic poet 

 Chseremon, a remarkable love of nature, and especially a fondness for flowers, 

 which Sir William Jones has noticed as resembling that of the Indian poets : 

 see Welcker, griechische Tragodien, Abth. iii. S. 1088. 



( 16 ) p. 14. Longi Pastoralia (Daphnis et Chloe, ed. Seiler, 1843), Lib. i. 

 9; iii. 12; and iv. 13; p. 92, 125, and 137. See ViUemain sur les 

 romans grecs, in his Melanges de Litterature, T. ii. p. 435448, where 

 Longns is compared with Bernardin de St.-Pierre. 



O 7 ) p. 14. Pseudo-Aristot. de Mundo, c. 3, 1420, p. 392, Bekker. 



( 18 ) p. 14. See Stahr's Aristoteles bei den Romern, 1834, S. 173177; 

 and Osann, Beitrage zur griech. und rom. Litteraturgeschichte, Bd. i. 1835, 

 S. 165 192. Stalir conjectures (S. 172), as does Heumann, that the pre- 

 sent Greek is an altered version of the Latin text of Appuleius. The latter 

 says distinctly (De Mundo, p. 250, Bip.), " that in the composition of his 

 work he has kept in view Aristotle and Theophrastus." 



( 19 ) p. 14. Osaun, Beitrage zur griech. und rom. Litteraturgeschichte, 

 Bd. i. S. 194266. 



( 20 ) p. 14. Cicero de Natura Deorum, ii. 37 ; a passage, in which Sextus 

 Empiricus (Ad versus Physicos, Lib. ix. 22, p. 554, Fabr.) adduces an expres 

 sion of Aristotle's to the same effect, deserves the more attention, because he 

 has alluded a short time before (ix. 20) to another lost work, on divination 

 and dreams. 



( 2r ) p. 15. " Aristotelea flumen orationis anreum fundens" (Cic. Acad. 

 Qusest. ii. cap. 38.) (Compare Stahr, in Aristotelia, Th. ii. S. 161; and in 

 Aristoteles bei den Romern, S. 53.) 



f 2 ) p. 16. Menandri Rhetoris Comment, de Encomiis, ex rec. Heeren, 

 1785, i. cap. 5, p. 38 and 39. The severe critic terms the didactic poem 

 on Nature a " frigid" (fyvxpfcepov) composition, in which the forces of nature 

 are brought forward divested of their personality : Apollo is light, Hera the 

 whole of the phenomena of the atmosphere, and Jove is heat, Plutarch also 



