ZUR RECHTFERTIGUNG DER BRIEFE DES CICERO AX BRUTUS. 



173 



da mm en sclieint; ja audi 



cli wo beide in ihren Verdammungsurlheilen lib 



eht der Eine Nachliissigk 



wo der Ande 



grosse P 



keit der Eine Ignoranz, wo der Andere Belesenheit und Absicht erblickt 12 ) 



d 



ah 



d Markland wenigstens noch einiges Lob far 



P 



una wanren 



behalt 13 ), l'asst sich Tun stall von seinem Eifer zu solchen Schmahung 



to convince an other, to whom perhaps they may not appear in the same 

 light. Of all of them, except the first and Vllth (liach gewohnlicher 



XV th 



f 



antiquity, 



fairest 

 age of 



it, and more 



For tho there are some objections to the language 

 to the matter and contents^ yet I think it comes 



nearer to 



the style and manner of the age of the declaimers, 



yf Cicero, than any other of 



tht? in reality 



* 



the mistakes are 

 that age. 



12) Vgl. Tunstall Ob 



such as could scarce have been made 



one of 



365: such a laboured and precise punctuality , 

 both in diction and sentiment, as plainly betray their scolastic origin*, 



V 



oder p. 382 : the 



>/ 



trivial exactness, and heavy, but 



unmeaning periods, are almost innumerable-, und dagegen Markland Re- 



marks p. 4 : 



>/ 



fullm 

 short 



in history and antiquity, 



>f 



__ a r unskill 

 reasoning or in 



f 



or 



other; p. 35: but is it possible, that a 



persons memory si 

 compass of one sh 

 writes hastily, or where . 



ifaithfull 



/< 



the 



sentence? it is very possible, where a man either 



. the ideas rise in the mind only at second 



hand and do not necessarily go along with the language-, p. 43: the 



\f 



wri 

 at 



iter, who not understanding the language in which he wrote aimed 



meth in 



t> 



not able to express 



left 



to make what we can of 



p. 73: if 



author is so 



Wt 



matters that are common and obvious, we ought not to expect that he 

 should be more knowing and accurate in those which require a more 

 dilioent observation; p. 131: the truth is, this author ought to have read 



all the works of the real Cicero more 

 i ft tied 



tfi 



or at least to have 



13) Remarks p. 9: notwithstanding his vivacity and ingenuity 



which in 



sojne places I readily allow him. P. 21 : 



if est 





