ON THE LIBRARIES OF GREECE. 
Yet if we meet with only few of which we 
shall be able to say, as Casaubon* once said to 
J. Scaliger, that they are " ^oXy-n^ra, et vere 
Xgvffov avraf/a," the trouble of research will be 
well requited \ 
A List of Theological Manuscripts in the 
Library of PATMOS has been given by Possevin*; 
their number amounting, according to his state- 
ment, only to fifty-five. The present Catalogue, 
containing the titles of ninety-two Manuscripts 
and about four hundred printed volumes, and 
of which an account is here subjoined, by 
no means precludes the necessity of further 
examination. The Greek compiler of it has not 
stated any circumstance relating to the Manu- 
scripts, by which we can form an estimate of 
their value : he gives no information respecting 
the form of the letters or that of the spirits, or 
(4) On receiving a Manuscript of the unpublished Mechanics of 
Athenaus. 
(5) Some exertions on the part of the Government would, without 
doubt, be attended with success. Let us hear what was done in 
France, so late as in the time of Flmry : " II a envoi dans le Levant 
quelques savans qui en sont revenus avec une riche moisson de Manu- 
scrits ou Grecs ou d'autres langues Orientales." Bib. Rais. Juillet, 
1739. 
(6) See the Appar. Sacr. 
